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ILLINOIS CENTRAL IS ACCUSED . OF HIRING EX-CONVICTS AS SPIES Working in Chicago factories and railroad shops today arejiundreds of land at one time had 280 men known4 as inside and cover-up, men. Each had spies and spottef s hired to join unions of them carried a card, of member- and carry cards of membership, ac cording to A. O. Wharton, president ofthe American Federation of Labor! railway department. Her testified tje-f fore the federal industrial relations commission and put into the commis sion's record photographs of ex-con victs employed a& spies in labor unions. f A "Here is a picture from the rogues' gallery of the St 'Louis .police depart ment, of A. E, Strang, -who joined the machinists' union in Pittsburgh' said Wharton. J'He was a member five years, until during the Illinois Central strike we caught him making reports to be sent to a postoffice box for use by a detective agency. "There's a iot of yelling about vio lence by labor unions. Look at the record pf some of the men used against jmions. ThiS'fellow,,Strahg, has a ten-year recorYbas criminal. Qne of his crimes was' throwing a bottle of muriatic acid into the face of a woman, fte operated as a con fidence man, generally with a woman as his pal. When arrested recently by the St. Louis police he was living with a shoplifter, a woman not his J wife, one or tne many ne nas had stealing -with him or" for him. I 'If the life records of the Pinker ton agency, the-Thiel agency, private detectives and labor union spies could be learned you would find 'among their gunmen and sluggers a' high percentage of murderers; thieves and thugs. "In the shopmen's strike we had toT fight these creatures," Twothat were active against us-hadbeen-ap-pointed special agents-of the Missouri Pacific. Both of them, Bernard Kelly and Leonard Crews, were re cently sentenced to 10 years in Leav- i enwDrth. for robbery of freight cars. ship, in a labor union. Sonre cards m'several unions. , J ''When trouble is, suspected one of these card men is sent to (he gcene. Many of the riots you read about are started by these men, , . - , "Think it over for yourself. Sup pose you are an employer. You want a labor union to get' in bad with the public. Why wouldn't you have some of these ex-convicts and. I cover-up men ge? into .the' union find start blodd running and destroy" property?" "It is not only a double cross game. Sometimes there is a triple cross game. Agencies must have trouble in order to make money. Therp,afe no strikes "unless somebody starts, a strike. So they have thehv cover-up men go to shons where there is un rest and , make.it, , worse so. the em ployer will-need 'to hire an, agency - O Oi , TELEGRAPH BRJEFS Quakertown, Pa. Alfred - Got schall, 70, Bhot and 'fatally 'wounded by unknown assailant. ' Washington. Sec'y Bryan In structed Minister Gonzales at Havana not to issue passport to. Jack John son, as he is fugitive from1 Justice. ' oaraooo, vviss. fire aesrroyea Frank Herfort canning "factory? loss, $75,QQ0. j ; New York- Mania for robbing maii boxes caused arrest df Joseph Goldsmiths 52 'Heidelberg graduate. vSinceJ.896Tie served eight Sentences aggregating -20 years for samefQt fense. ' J . St Paui, Minn. Fire sorting in pjant of Katz'v& Hertz, packers, did ?25;000 damage. - s Washington. MemberTof Wash ington's police "vice squad" sued for $10,000 for breaking into rooming nouse ana uarrasslne" oecit- "I'MA .1. K 'iiirnnr ftCpnnvrtrr'riMrflTo'no .. sr - ';&.-. --- t-- t't" trTr9Am.fts& . .-..'. -mL. At