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TELLS OF WOMEN WHO ACT AS

SPIES FOR WESTERN UNION

"I have one or two women on my

payroll who don't do anything else

but go around to different offices on

the Western Union system and size

up the atmosphere. They report to

me what the feeling is toward the

company. From conversations, gos

sip and cahtter I hive knowledge in

my head now of employes who are

members of the Commercial Telegra

phers' union and may be discharged."

This is from testimony of T. W.

Carroll, Western Union division traf

fic superintendent at Chicago, before

U. S. industrial commission today.

Answers slowly squeezed out of Car

roll by fast questions from Chairman

Frank P. Walsh brought admissions

of these facts.

Workers known to carry union

memberships are discharged. It's

the company policy fixed by President

Newcomb Carlton.

From ?5 to $10 a month extra is

paid to operators who report every

thing they hear about the workers

organizing. Reports are made to chief

operators.

Carroll said he hadn't heard the

Western Union has gum-shoe men.

Pres. Carlton testified there are

"about 12" and Vice Pres. Brooks

that there are "15 or 20" special

agents. Carroll today said only gum

shoe man he knew of was one C. G.

Roderick. He discharged Roderick

two years ago and since then has

had no special agents.

It took a lot of questions to pull

from Carroll the admissibn that he

authorized money to be paid a special

agent four weeks ago in St. Louis.

At first he said he authoriezd the ex

pense not knowing what it was for,

but presuming it was in connection

with the affair of 30 men let out in

one wholesale discharge.

"I have no positive, reliable infor

mation what the money was paid

for," said CarrolL

"Come now," said Walsh. "TeUus1,

your theory. What is your surmise?

What do you suppose the money was

for?"

"Well, I guess it was for mingling

with the men and finding out what

was going on."

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HOUSE KILLS CONSTITUTIONAL'

AMENDMENT PROPOSAL

Springfield, III., April 14. Lacking

three votes of the required two-thirds

majority, the Rinehart resolution for

an amendment to the amending

clause to allow three amendments to

be submitted to the constitution at

one time was killed in the house to

day. The vote was 97 to 31. The

senate killed the same resolution yes

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PROBE COUNTY OFFICES

Officials in the county building are

squirming following the tip that

spread around that some mysterious

person has been around checking up

on the number of employes that have

been squeezed into county service.

r Whether this mysterious persons is

State's Att'y Hoyne or some one else

could not be learned. It is said that

the investigators are paying particu

lar attention to the offices of County

Clerk Bob Sweitzer and County

Treasurer Henry StuckarL

Those who are investigating are

suspicious that the extra help had

some bearing on the mayoralty race

4Josh

IfWisc

Um says

"Old Judge Skoove, our local cap

italist, besides wearin' a hair watch)

chain, is th' sole survivor o' th' bus-,

iness careers founded entirely upon:

an ability fer opencenan penman

ship." I

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