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q to relatives of New York Jews, or to Q@frange to transport immigrants © hie country on » commission basis. “CONTRACT” THAT CATCHES MANY DUPES. One big immigration bureau whicb fm its advertisements claims to bave contracts for bringing “hundreds of thousands” of immigrants from Po- Jand and Galicia to New York, charges ‘@ commission of 10 per cent, payable ‘advance, on all moneys puie W It nd guarantess omy to transport im- migrants from their home towne to & port of embarkat.on—the immigrants to_pay railroad fare. contract specifies that if the immigrants a 2 shipped eee four mon: money paid by Th New. York is Wo. be re- Firned--ieaa actual t the 20 per cent. ia to be re- tained. This ete untll a few weve ago erect tore the wo! “Authorised Fore’ Exchange “ Com- piaint to the State Banking Depart- Ment led to an investigation which re- sulted In the immigration re erasing from their literature the claim ‘bat they are authorized bankers of exportation, relief and immi- business has so many angles, methods of the men engaged in isos are so devious, that the enter; Public of submitted result of investiga: throw their hands. The: Bay the laws eo elastic’ that it is them by going ha form of compliance, “However, the evil is one that calls for correction. It calls for tmme- diate action on the part of the State Dan! officials, the Federal Govern- ment and the State Legisiature and “the Congress. rangemenis ty bring over the hundreds and thousunds of Immi- grants for which we have already contracts, You tmve still oppor- tunity to make the same contracts to bring over your relatives and friends to send money over, and we will notify our representative the name and address of your relatives and be will advance alt moneys and brin: your relatives over” Frociamation. “To all my irieuus and fellow countrymen, Our representative, Mr-——-buge to notify that on Oct. 80 be will eave for Burope where he will visit Galicia, Poland, Au tria, Roumania, Canerowils all cities wround the section of Bu- covania and Houmania. Everyone has now the opportunity to come to my office and give the a ¢.en9 of their relatives, Mr, will be in Europe and will bring them the regards and different things with him. mi foes to Europe for the Purpose of establisiing branches on all the above mentioned cities to make |t easier for the immi- grants Lo journey bere—to Ameri~ ca, “All who want to buy steam- ship uckets for their relatives op the other side can do it through our office, and Mr. ——_ wil promptly pay the amount which they give him; and Mr — under bis persona) supervision. wil) be on the porte of the outgoing steamers and will ty his best for those who want to come to America, with all accom- modations. It will not be peces- wary for them to go through all the trouble of waiting around tho ports for months, waiting for the steamers. “Everyone who wants to do that shall persoma..y come to my office.” iclals to whom have been EXPLOITATION OF FOREIGNERS GOING ON FOR MANY MONTHS. Kenneth L Roberta, a writer who as travelled over every part of Cen- (ral Burope within a few months and spent all of last spring in Poland and the territory that was Austria-Hun- wary before the war said, in an article yubliabed in the waturday: Evening t: “Americans In Warsaw ex; ted @ tremendous emigration ex~ New York, be- ploitation on the part of uuscrupulous wi cause of its vast foreign populatn, persons.” da the hotbed of the swindlers, they operate throughout the United States ~and no town with foreign residents is go emal! that !t does not number ite victims. He was writing as from Wasaw, Poland, in April, 1920. Already Cen- tral Burope was overrun by immigra- tion agents and ‘the agents of private bankers from the United States, Mr. Here are a few canes which are On Roberta a careful, experienced inves- 3 records gathered by The "s id in an investigation which ~enly opening and dally developing a smoothly working tachine for thé Satate of affaire be: yond the conception -of anybody who is not familiar with the growing activities of the «.:ploite:s persons who had alread: ‘and were making money “ef hunger and hope: Evening tigator, Central a vast, found throughout Burope the activities of romotion of emigration to the nited States and the exploitation of ’; emigrated in = In June, 1920, Jacob Rosenberg sent cities and towns. fou year ils previews which he had adver- tised that he would dis. ere oe Le ener RU MOQEATR, in to i 4 Peay yd to his seventy- father in Poland. The dele~ trusted to hi _..Rosenberg's father, It is charged, fiidn’t get the money and recent! of starvation. “delogal Bas, arma 9 American Mr. Roberts got his figures and other Information at first hand, right on the took a) large sum of money on & spot, in the heart of what he calis "the to fer human reservoirs of Central and tern Europe, which have only be- gun to be tapped.” The work of the; emigration exploiters was most suc- cessful, as a matter of course, In the most backward districts, among the most ignorant, primitive and credulous New York, but has people The great, bulk of the immi- to see Rosenberg and grants, he found is drafted from the jeairable classes. u others trusted to hiuw Most und eee tare bean adviced by thelr rela-| Early in 1920 the New York Joint never received it The food, owas children of the family died. poration which undertook to make abe delivery has refused to repay jeimstein. An cast side widow sold and pawned aaa she had and sent clothing ? food valued at 420 to a brother, _& rabbi, in Vilna, Poland. He received aay two of the boxes shipped to him they were empty when they “Feached him. She has been unable to any satisfaction from the corpora- which undertook the delivery. On Aug. 2% an east sider sent hrough a firm of private bankers $200 cable to his brother. He paid for ye cablegram—or he paid what the nkers sald a cablegram would coat— and paid a commission, The money Wid not reach his brother until four weeks @go and by that time the value ‘of the mark had s0 declined that tae ignment worth $200 in August was rth only $60 in November. Tho brother in Poland refused to accept bankers refuse to eee money and te ye tenes By e conslgnor ring “him B00. te A working girl earning $20 a week ‘sent $500 to her parents in Poland ) instalments extending over a| of two years. Not a dollar of | git was delivered in Poland. She has succeeded in getting back $19 fron the American Express Company, rep- gfesenting one remittance. Half a dos- ‘en bankers who handled the other re- jittances have refused to refund her NEVER GOT MONEY AND STARVED. te woman, bareheaded and faded green boy's sweater, @ told her story. ‘am in disgrace in.my home vil- she said. “I am very poor and my family is large, but when my mother wrote she was starving | 1 together $15 and my brother ia Bult for $12—be had been sick and unable to work—and we sent the $27 to my mother through a banker. “She never got the money and she died months after I sent it to her. Now they say in my home village I am a bad daughter because J let my qeother starve and | an ts rich Amer . T cannot get back the §27 from © the banker.” i “"“I gave a delegate $20 to take to my brother in Galicia,” said an old . woman, “That was six months ago. My brother did not get the money, although the delegate was in our vil- The delegate has come back to “ Diew York, but he refuses to see me.” & young Siothing anes Polls! ® private which advertises extensively. sister bas since come to New . * ‘ reached the je it been to and ted or the through the efforts of immigration The cor- promoters and private bankers—to pay Distribution Committee alone was du- was sent by Men- livering money sent from the United on June 19, 1919, to @ States to Jews in Poland at the rate tein paid » of $1,000,000 a month. In the frat few ft is months of 1920 sulficient money had sent from America—largely the way to New York of 226,000 Polish Jews. An official of the Discount Bank of Warsaw estimated that American money was flowing Into Central Eu- rope at the rate of $100,000,000 a year. ST THE POLISH JEW GETS 18 THE “SHORT END.” | Mr, Roberts found the Joint Distn- bution Committee work in Moland well handled, “Lut,” he adds, “there are many other agencies through @hicl American immigrants seud money back to Poland, and sume of then, unfortu- nately, are thoroughly unrenuoie and crooked. Some of the private bunks which undertake to send money trom | America to Poland handle the money | in such @ way that the person to whom dt is sent may consider himself fortu- nate if he gets the short end.” The immigration boosters gel @ commission on every immigrant they deliver to a steamship on the other side. This is guiticient explanation of the insistence of immigration promo- tion concerns in New York that per-| sons wishing to bring relatives to: New York from Poland or elsewhere in Central Europe refrain from buy- ing the tickets here. In the first place, persons buying tickets here know just what they cost and the immigrattou booster gets no commission. Over in Europe the emigrant is usually mulet~ ed of wll he has by an agent who not, only gets a commission on every ticket he buys but pockets the diffe ence between the price of the ticket and the amount he obtains from the ignorant, creduious customer. Here !s a translation of part of an) advertisement which was inserted in| a New York Yiddish newspaper i than two weeks ago by an im! tlon promotion concern which claims | Ao have contracts for the passage to) New York of “hundreds and thov- sands of immigrants”: “Don't Buy Any Tickets.” “Have Mercy on Your Relativ and Don't Buy Any Tickets Here, “Although it costs you cheaper here to buy them than on the other side, but you make your relatives over there unhappy, The passengers, on account of these cheap rates, are subject to differ- ent troubles, and the passengers very often walt for months until they are able to travel” IMMIGRATION BOOSTERS CAN'T DELIVER THE IMMIGRANTS. Mr. Roberts found that the claim of the immigration’ boosters tha! they can expedite the passage of their customers is unfounded At the time of his visit there was only one United States Consulate In Po- land and that wes in Warsaw, York as ar immigrant. ni is money woe wo! jg one-third of e paid it over to but the banker, If that the settle. * She has made! aMdavit that she never received the! but the bank has refused to! He last visited | While the Department of Labor is rupposed to have complete charge of immigration both in the United | States and abroad he did not find a | wingle representative of the Depart- | ment of Labor in any consulate in Central Burope. He found that, owl to a scarcity of doctors, the physical examination of emigrants at the ports of debarkation is per- |from the New Ei ah. MOTHER ADMITS TOLET HIM TELL OF | HER MISCONDUCT SHPPNG SECRETS Ex-Chairman Denman Says British Mission Tried to Af- | fect Board’s Pol } CAUSE OF HIS QUITTING, English Member of Advisory Board Appointed, but Was Very Quickly Ousted. \ WASHINGTON, Doo. 15.—Members of the Frittsh mission which visited the United States tn 1917 attempted to Influence the policies of the Ship-, ping Board, William Denman of San Francisco, first Chairman of .the board, testified to-day before the spe- cial House committee investigating the board's operations Mr. Denman indicated that his in- matence thar the Shipping Board be free from Britiah influence had more to do with his resignation aa Chair- man of the board that any other one thing. In this connection the witness said that if he could obtaln the permis- sion of President Wilson for the dis- closure of “certain phases" of Ship- ping Board negotiations, “one of the sources of Interference with ky ad- ministration ab head of the board may be disclosed.” To support his charge of attempts of the British mission to Influence the polictes of the board, Mr. Den- man said that in April. 1917, when he was attempting to organize an ad- ministrative board In Now York to function with the Shipping Board “on a purely American baals," he discovered that without his knowl- edge Sir Connor Guthrie, a member of the British mission that had just arrived in this country, was made member of the advisory body. “I don't know how he got op that Yoard. It all happened between noon und 3.20 o'clock one afternoon, But) T can tell you how he got off,” Mr.! Denman dectared. “| Jearned that three or four mem- bere of the British mission had at- tended the session at which thé se- Jeotion was made, Afterward the Shipping Board had a warm session. It lasted twenty minutes and all that had been transacted at the previous sesion was wiped out “We wanted Hritisb co-operation Dut we didn't want Great Britain to influence our board unt! we had got things under way We were still In the air as to what we wanted | to do, and the policy of the British in | this connection seemed very extraor- dinary to me.” $300,000 LARCENY LAID TO MERCHANT Edward D. Rice, Head of Dye- estuff Firm, Arrested in Boston. BOSTON, Dec. 16.—Edward D. Rice, head of Edward B.4Rice & Co,, dye- stuff commission merchants, No. 610 Atlantic Avenue, was arrested to-day on an indictment charging larceny of $300,000. Nh alleged the sum was obtained Trust Company he National Shawmut Bank on bared on fraudulent statements, ¢ was held In bonds of $10,000 in the Superior Court, He Ls seventy ywars sold, Is @ member of many clubs and his realdences in Jamaica Plain an the ahow pla chester are among those nections. i Identified aa Hold-Up Man. When Charlee Gilinski of No, 4838 Third Avenue and Edward Marke of No, 111 East 116th Street, who were captured yeaterday following a $4,000 robbery in the Jewelry store of Henry |Davidott at No. 1744 Madison Ave- mt Pollce Head- an not nue, were lined up quarters to-day, Marks was {denti- fled by Henry Miller of No, 100 Bast 114th Street as the man who held him up at 110th Street and, Central Park on Nov, 10, shot tim in the alde and took $20 and @ diamond pin. to be used as a substitute for gaso- line. Members of the consulate staff are frequently overcome by the foul odor that permates thelr working quarters.” Mr Roberts points out a demoral- izing influence of the immigration promotion business which has its effect on the immigrant from the very start of his trip to the United States Every person that leaves Furope as an emigrant knows that | the laws of the United States pro- | hibit the entrance to this country of persons suffering from certain ii @ases, of persons unable to read a write to a certain extent and of per- sons who Are under any sort of con- | tract to work in the United Staten. Every immigrant that reaches thin country through the efforts of the Immigration boosters is virtually a contract laborer because he has been promised a job by the relatives who financed his adventure, An tn- finitesimal proportion of them are \ qualified to pass the simple literacy test and a very large proportion of functory and that the literacy test fs a joke. All emigrants must take their turns passing through the con- sulate, Here is his description of the consulate at Warsaw, “The stairway leading to the con- sulate Is jammed with emigrants all say, Jong. The main room ts jammed with them. For the most part they le and the si that them are diseased, | killed him with his father's revolver | which he carried after his mother told | TOSWVESONS LIFE Carmmine Bruno Shot Bucka- . nan With Whom She Had Eloped to Chicago, In defense of her aon Carmina, twenty years old, the oldest of seven children, on trial for murder in the firm degree, Mra, Bleanor Bruno took the sand to-day before Justice Beno- dict and @ jury in the criminal branch of the Brooklyn Supreme Court, She told of her relations. with James Buchannan, the man shot and killed by Carmine on the night of Sept 3 at West Third Stree: and Neptune Avenue, Coney Island I Mra, Bruno said that she was forty- seven years old. In Jost August, she aaid, her eon brought to their home Buchannan, who was down and out, and cared for him A short time later Buchannan induced her to leave her family and go to Chicago with him, Carmina learning of her whereabouts, first wrote to her, oeg- | ging her to returp to her family, and then went to Chicago When she told Buchannan that Carmine was there he ewore that he would kill the boy. She said that she was frightened and went her op back to Brooklyn} and followed him a few daya later. | Buchannan heard of her ight and: was on the same train. ‘He showed! her a blackjack and a revolver and told her he was going to kill both her and Carmine. She remained in the Grand Central Terminal until & o'clock the morning of Sept. 3, when; her son, to whom she had telephoned, | called for her in an auto. Young Bruno met Buchannan that nigit and his story to the police was that he greeted him with: ‘Hello, Buck, bow are you,” and that Buchannan turned witb his hand at | his hip, whereat Carming shot and | him of Buchannan's threats. He im- mediately gave himself up ¢o the po- How 2,479 SOLDIER DEAD HERE FROM FRANCE Largest Number to Come on One Ship Arrives Aboard Trans- port Wheaton. ‘The jargést shipment of American war dead to be returned on one ship, | 2,479 bodies, arrived here to-day ort) the army transport Wheaton from Bordeaux and St, Nagaire From the mast of the funeral ship, the flag hung at balf mast. Other |SENATORS TAKE UP Fact Brought Out That if All Ask Cash Sum’ Would Aggregate 500,000,000, WASHINGTON, Doo. 15.—The pay- ment of @ cash bonus to former ser- vice mén was brought to the front to-day at the opening of hearings by the Senate Finance Committee on the House bili to adjust compensa- Non of the forme: .soldiers and nations. Spokesmen for the American Le- gion estimated: that not more than 60 per cent. of the men would ask for a cash payment, but Senator Smoot said post cards he had re- celved from individual service men from all parts of the country indi cated that 98 per cent of the men would ask for cash. Gilbert Betunan of Ohio, hairman of the Legion's Legislative ommittes, suggeeted that the postcards “prob- @bly were propaganda against the DUL" Senators Smoot and McCumber toplied that the cards, of which Sen- Boe eesti Produced a high Views of war veterans nt SetaM! Mr. Bettman ostimated that if al the mep took @ cash bonus the sum Would aggregate $1,500,000,000. He said the bonur attempted to correct the “baste Inequality” In the pay of men |, who were drafted and those wh: not and who received $5 to ta day during the war. —__~.—__ BIGAMIST KRONER SENT TO SING SING. Alleged to Have Robbéd Second Wife’s Father Who Gave Him Jab, Benjamin. Kroner of No 39 West 114th Street pleaded gullty to bleamy in Bronx County Court to-day and wor rentenced by Judge Gibby to not igs than a year and three months and not more than two years and six months in Sing Sing Prison. Both of Kroner’s marriages were re- sults of park romances, In August 191% soon after his discharge from th army, he married Miss Blanche Dav- ldow of Philadelphia, whom he frat met in Fairmount Park, that city. The next official record finds Kroner rowing in Central Park with Miss Cecile Rut- ner of No. 653 Cauldwell Avenue. Bronx. He married her in Auguat, ‘Kroner_was given a Job tn the Jewelry store of J, Chamelin of No, 1888 Arthur Avenue, Bronx. the uncle of his second bride, and Chamelin took the couple to live af Als home. It was reported to the court that Kroner failed to return with $85 he was sent to deposit In a bank and to account for $1,200 rings he toyk from his employer to sé!) Aside trom hie plea of guilty, all Kroner would say wast “I'm through witb women.” harbor craft dipped thelr colors as the Transport moved into her dock, her decks doserted excopt for those of her crew needed in navigation. Awaiting the dead at the army base was a long row of tressels, and 2479 new American flaga With one of these flags, each casket was shrouded as it was lifted from the ship's hold. | A military guard will stand watch over the bodies until they are shipped in “squads” and “companies to nearly every State in the Union. SAYS HE TOOK PART IN $3,500,000 HOLDUP Negro Arrested Says Nine Men and a Woman Participated in Mail Robbery. CHICAGO, Dec, 15.—Edward Valen- tine, a negro who said his bome was in Akron, Ohio, confessed to police here to-day that he participated in ‘the $3,- $00,000 Omaha mail robbery. Valentine was arrested in @ raid on a roomin ghouse. He had about 1,000 res- fatered letters, While under examina- tlon late yesterday he made an attempt to scap but was caught. Vaintine said he tame here trom In- @ianapolis, where he went after the malt robbery. He declared six white men, one white woman and three negroes participated in the robbery, > MRS. O'GRADY AS SPEAKER. To Aid Movement Against Blue Sum- day Laws. Mrs, Ellen O'Grady, who resigned her Job a# a deputy police commissioner because of department politica, will be one of the speakers to-morrow after- noon In the Apollo Theatre in Weet 42d Street under the auspices of the Motion Picture Theatrical Association of the World, which Is fighting for “wholesame entertainment every day in the week." She will tell of her ob- servations in motion picture theatres during her servide in the police depart- ment. Dr. Howant ©. Clarke, an op- ponent of blue law Sundays, will also speaks: ate es Alleged Deteulter Caught, ‘Thomas Gtagg, Afty six, charged with falsifying accounts of the Soldiers’ Home at Noroton, Conn, of which was bookkeeper, to the amount of $13, They find that the Immigration Laws of the United States can be ‘violated with Impurity, Their very first perience With American law breeds contempt for it. They land here as violators of the Immigration Law and the initiation ts @ virtual Invitation to violate all laws which C0 g to them ‘unjust oF trk- oe Grove ow 6 Ryd 4, Lo Tae ; 000, and also with Oeing @ fugitive from Justice, was arrested this afternoon in fered after he, left Norotsin tn Octdber. rae = ; ata | ; THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1920. PLEAS FOR “STARVING EUROPE” USED TO ROB ALIENS HERE’ REQUESTS WILSON SELMENTRE) — [skinream SOLDIERS’ BONUS, ~~ TOPRUN WORK ON BIG STRUCTURE (Continued From First Page.) | . we believe to the extent of $3." in the satual working costs, how much more per ton did it cost to do the steel construction work of the Pennsylvania? A. About 60 gents a ton, Q. So that your own method of con- struction under unton conditions was altogether $340aton? A Yes. Mr, Btarrett was then asked re- garding the Interference of Walter Drow, counsel for the National Steel Erectors’ Association, with the con- tract of the Fuller concern for the erection of a Rhode Island Hospital Trust Company at Providence for $3,260,000 and a percentage, A letter from Mr. Drew to Henry Sharp, a director of the Trust Com- pany, was put in evidence “The sense of the letter, writ was @ menace to “industrial liberty” in that part of the country, The Puller firm wae described as exposed tocerstant strikes because of their adhergnee to unlon labor. Mr, Drew sent a copy of this letter to Frank A Vanderlip, who was also director of the Trust Company as wel as a large owner of the Fuller Cotnpany Mr Drew offered suggestions from the floor as to other letters Mr. Un- tePmyer ought to read “for the sake of fairness.” ‘Mr Drew.” sald Mr. Untermye: “thig “is a legislative Inquiry sup- posedly conducted with decorum A lawyer at loast should be conversant with: the rules.” ‘Mr. Drow subsided. A. Did you get another letter from Mr. Drew after you bad asked him for @ correct!in ot his statements to Mr, Sharp and Mr. Vanderlip? A. I aid Q. This was after Mr. Drew had folind “bit the ste work for the| Ithede Island Trust Company was y 3 all put up in on dies’ Christmas tre Purchases of Cand; Far-Away Points Should Be In Profusion a Special Assorted Chocolates Bly, Boxes, THe; B-lb, Boxes, 81.15. FOUND BOXES 39c Very High Grade Assorted Chocolates Bon: and | Ob on Sup, "Box00 81.00; B-1bs ea 80 Our Big Daily Special for 00, POUND BOXES erat, fragrant, vel¥ Supreme in Quality Immense Assortments Attractively Priced Churches, Sunday Schools, Public Institutions, Candy Committees and Donators POUNDS— together with 60 Half-Pound Boxes, e, ready for the Kid- Come and get them. Bon Bons and Chocolates QOOLATE COVERED NUT CARSMELS—Keal Big blocks of candy gooduess, chockfull of wll kinds of Nuts, enveloped in coverings of our Unexocelled, ety Chocolate, SPECIAL. For $7.65 we will sel) you 30 pounds of Very Excellent Candy, ‘97.65 to Be Ship Ma d to le Now nd Abundance High Grade Assorted Chocolates oF, Bon Bons and Chor Lin Beret 18) ee Super Assorted Chocolates or Bon Bons and Chocolates, Heautiful Packagens 2-ib. Boxes, Selb, Boxes, es POUND BOX $1.00 Thursday, December 16th perfection in caramel 24c POUND BOX PACKAGE OF 24c dations at varying angles and levels. Because of this condition and the con- Bequent use of sinal) stee) pleces at varying angles jn connecting the foun- dation steel and the superstructure the cost was Increased far above normal— @ Novyithstatding this difference ten tn | May, 1916, as read into evidence was! that the George A. Fuller: Company | was a closed shop concern and Its| presence on a big New England job) being done by Post & MeCord, Inc. nembera of the National Erectors’ Arsoctation, for whom Mr. Drow Is vunsel? A. It was. NO OBJECTION To OPEN SHOP ‘The letter of Mr. Drew to Mr, Star- rett was read. It stated that Mr, Drew had just learned that Post & MeCord were to do the steel erection and that as they were an “open shop” firm there.was no objection to the Fuller Construction Company going ahead with the job. The advocates of the open shop principle could not ask more at the time than that the steel work should not be controlled by or- ganized labor. Mr. Drew said he now ws satisfied the Fuller concern was probably the best equipped and re- sponsible firm for the Trust Com- pany's contract. But he added sig- nificantly that he “was about to de- liver ® number of addresses in New England op industrial conditions and would be glad of information as t the policy of the Fuller Corporation." Q. You replied'to that letter? A. I did not. 1 had made the point I wanted. Q. He had tried to Interfere, but it did not work? A. It almost worked. Mr. Starrett volunteered that he did not care how Mr. Drew attended to the National Erectors business, but that in this instance Mr. Drew had interfered when the contract for steel, erected in place, had already been given to a firm which was one of ) Drew's own employers, . Q. He wanted to run all your construction trade as well as the steel trade work? A. Thi just it, He had nothing to do with any business outside of stee! con- ‘ | struction. | In one of Mr. Drew's letters he de- clared “the clostd shop in the bulld- Ing Industry is the backbone of the closed shop tn this country.” Charles Kalhorn. former field labor agent of the National Erector's Asso- clation explained the system by!wae hurrying to catch whioh opesi-ah . p working mi The” ‘nasoclation's bue employed tion's bu- reaus, UNION WORKERS WERE Di6- CHARGED, intl? phe! that ir fellow-workers on “open Jobs" to join the unions were ‘diee vharged. He sald that In one ine stance the Bethichem Steel Mairi. cators Corporation hired apveral men at $2 @ day extra to act as spies on 4 New Orieans dock job. This prac- aie seen thea he said. Mr. orn den! © association kept ony bidek list. in T. Brooks, Vice Pres! and Genera} Manager of the cones A Just Company, fabricators and erectors of structural steel, oharacter witness for George 8. Backer in his trial for perjury before the Lockwood committee, aid he was 4D earnest advocate of the “open shop" le mitted that his firm's dues tw the iron League, of which it is a member, varied accord: to the volume of thelr years business. Goat dusimes oe fxcad last year on a otal bus! ween ee ta 3750,000 and Mr, Brooks defined the open is “one in which there were no on ten agreements between the employ- or and the workers as a body.” Does your organization employ union hoisting engineers? A. Yes, Q. Make arrangements with them through the union? Yes. Q. By collective bargaining? A. Yes. i. Apa rare members of the rindel uilding Tradex . Te Council? Q. Did you ever y ant Rrindell? A. We never Pir ideicand . Q You do not believe in collective ‘argaining for the men? A. I do not. Q put you belonk to all the trade wrganizations of which you have testl- fed? A. Yes. = Se Q. You believe in it tor employers ‘ut not for workers? A. 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