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Show 8 THE SEARCHLIGHT Simple Lessons in Snipe-Hunting By Professor I. M. Professor, where have you been so long? Greene Did the hay fever or heat get you down? Confidentially, children, I’ve been gumshoeing. I’ve looked over the Ordnance Plant, the Kkearns Building, and the Copper Domain. In my spare moments I’ve been acting as bodyguard to the editor. We didn’t know he needed a bodyguard, Teacher. Who’s s after him now? The Copper gang want to hospitalize him, my dear young friends. He disturbs the tranquility of (Doug and Noisy Nels. He caught them fixing Copper news in the dailies again, and in attempts to seduce the A. EF. of .L. They want to squelch him. What will they do, Professor? Kiverything they can, my young friends. the editor. Noisy Nels may way-lay him. tacks. It’s like a stubbern confinement There are He makes case that hints they may use a goon threats but stops short of refuses to click. The editor squad actual on at- made all has preparations for his demise, but nothing happens. Maybe it’s a new Copper technique. What did you uncover in the Copper Domain, Teacher? Plenty, children. ‘he sudden elevation of Reed Damron from the hitch-hiking class a Cadillac back-fired. Chilly Charlie ‘Things got chiller. went sour. So Reed up to Reed lost his usefulness to Doug and Noisy Nels. and resigned as president of the Company Union. Now he’s back in the plant trying to learn his trade again. Who will succeed him as head of the Snipe Hunt, Professor? It’s hard to say. Maybe Doug or Nels will come out in the open and take over. Anyhow, children, the Snipe Hunt is operated by invisible wires and a front man is quite unnecessary. Professor, what is Mr. Moffat trying to do to the A. F. of L.?2 Move in on it? | Worse than that, my dear young friends. Doug and his helpers want to infect the A. F. of L. with Snipe Fase virus. They are determined to have a Company Union. If the National Labor Relations Board don’t let them have their own peculiar kind, they’ll compromise by making a Snipe Hunt out of the A. F. of L. How are they going about it, Professor? They are having some of their faithful stooges move as many as possible of their old Association victims into the A. F. of L. in the hope they can out-vote the honest union men in that organization, and take over. Dr. Russ Burton, better known in Copper Snipe Hunt circles as ‘‘Brother-in-law Russ’’,* is the labor physician who is spreading the germs. He has the ‘‘moral’’ support of Ed Cannon and all the old time bigwigs of the Snipe Hunt. How is the American Federation of Labor re-acting to that, Professor? Sh! Sh! Children. It’s supposed to be a secret, but Doctor Frey, head of the Metal Trades Department of the A. F. of L., has sent Paul M. Petersen back into Utah to handle the A. F. of L. side of the game. Doce believes he and Paul can out-smart the Copper barons even though iDr. Burton sueceeds in filling the A. F. of L. with Copper germs. Professor, are Paul and Dr. Burton conniving together to fect the A. F. of L.? Now! Now! Children. You know very well that Paul never indulges in intrigue. Class is dismissed “EKditor’s in-law of E. note: W. Greene Englemann, glemann is one Burton’s activities Significant. Prof of the in Copper doubtiess general bigwigs attempting to is referring superintendent who herd carry cut association to of the plants the fact of Utah Company’s members that into Russ Burton Copper labor the A. Company. policies. F. is of a brotherMr. En- Consequently L. are especially |