Show SAYS SAYS SLEUTHS HS T CREATED FAKE RADICAL PLOTS i Amazing Story Is Sworn toBy to toBy By Former Private Detective I i 1 t S LD OUT ON BOSSES I Charges Agencies Fomented Labor Troubles To Get i J I More Fees I II I I CHICAGO I b 13 id- id li tor or of I methods detective employed by private ate tic tic- de le- le I teethe In i I strikes strike und and labor Iel troubles contained In a 11 dc Ie- Ie doI J I Eai l position made nude Ire ere Dy jy Albel t Eal- Eal tin alias former agent I Ifor for the Ic ot of I y night and today brought I forth orth specific and general from agencies tind J p In- In InI Involved In Involved I in the Hie alleged d exposure I I CHICAGO reb 13 12 By By the i I I f dated dated- Press Charges Pros Charges that at I e agencies foment I labor troubles and under under- r rt I t I revolutionary movements mo In InI I J J InI I ora order r th that t they may collect bIg bit fees f I from banking and business Interests I for unco them m tIe ic e contained in InI Ina InI I 1 1 I a Bi deposition by Albert Baum alias 13 I taken here by y Prank Frank P Wo Wa sh au J tOI oi use Ise se In connection ion t-ion with n the det ns oC cC 22 alleged Jn jOt St rt n L- L f laner or f m e-m M I lM T g- g f ot of Justice the Ind In il f pr r lc of the the- Burn 1 Daniels and other otIer Rte private dc de de- de deI I member n ember o of the I 1 WW W V Vv V Communist party Communist La I I party Socialist part lart arh a 15 Socialist league I t International Intorn In- In Industrial Industrial In Industrial union and nd b his 0 own ions a spy and agent unfolded unfolded an n amazing etory lory of I crossing and cro I double InC In he sold out on three empio-eit empio cia els at a tim time to each lie Ito I formet formel er made him tire the t lt I I goat coat and caused called him to be bc d don I Ion on a federal charge hence heme his hie to expose e ose what hal he ho sa sass Is h the 1 I of oC the private detec 1 te e I ilL RAIDS n 01 Ot 01 1920 I lie charged among among- other nat hat the famous red I aIds on J uary I uary I 1 1920 were ero ere made sible po-sible II ln- ln cause lii-cause Z dl cause ause he and other othe- ate 1 Il lI the tile ranks of the ci- ci I th-lr th lr er to t- t ther In order that Ihal the raiders mgt lied them all nil assembled when hen the j rero hour came c me 4 P J hat the entire ee se members member or of orthe the propaganda committee of or th I Iv IW W v In l tl and 1911 1921 eji- eji I lIes of the asenci that two to or of them them also al ocro o sero cro In the th pa pc o 01 the J asenci and that Burns i Il f Thiel dictated the policy of or 1 i J I W W v committee ii ii h hI I Issued the radical I l leal to and anil lit lit- lat were among Balanow s s or i II I I J PLOn I I om I I Aher Alier he lie bad ad sold sohl out tiA tb secret pi- pi pipers Pl-I Pl pipers pers of th the tie 1 to the U Liin n office Alla Alia i 1 0 Myr l he ed id ot o tile the t I of the aben JI cd his pock t and t tle le lr II p p I PHS which hp h li rc ri to I lIe lic tat tall all I I j s lie be h b 01 e proposed sed to I lly i bIn hin 1 ili c 3 s I Ind I nd ho sho him how liow to mate male bombs aid ald am directed him to ate atc ate 11 w cit Q knon f labor and anel leaders and tr Ir 10 o I pet reI them to throw the bombs bomb he lie ts supposed to make in older that I I es might arrest them In ln case he ho declared a Thiel I I made named were exploded In the th 1 holm helm copper mines In order that tn I r er might ml ht be blamed blame for the destruction destruction I tion I He lie saId laid that the manael I I e Cf f the lie Thiel agency t ll nul loose loo e diced in In- In InI InI I radicalS ra In the 90 0 I ib I hh lerI Ier in or 1 that the Hie a any In y liP 1 ht earn care further monc from front Stare s 3 sI I lorney Maclay Ho Hoine ne by hunt mil I them Ihm again acain t Tl n I T J r J i Coone CooneY head o of the I de- de deJ de I of the tile Thiel agency Ja hal t Il a I II J I facsimile of the s sig tl u ia tire hIre of or a U Cl CI 1 i radical who VIA s s then a e justice made In Sew Now Toik YOI k from the tho signature on a 11 letter ona one o of his hll hAd stolen len from a a mall Balanow testified Coone u i ithe loo boi the stanl to sign in SO DO threatening let lei letters let let- letters 11 which Balance BalanO said ald were maili mall I Iby by bv hImself to Maclay Hoyne John Johl J I IMitchell Mitchell Chicago banker Alfred Aus- Aus Aus Austrian I trian attorney for J Ogden Armour e I Jud Judge w Oscar Hebel who was waa tr tn Ing In a I Iscore score of Frank Franl Commer- Commer Commerford ford arid and Henry Berger special trose grose- and many metro- metro metropolitan In the ca case newspapers I IThe J politan The l letters rs were Intended h he said ald the Or officials official and aM the t to Impre upon th the and packers who were ere er a-er on 1 cItizens for the Chicago dan dan- of reds with the p they wore were employing the gor to suppress J itel II traced the th letters Jetters to the th It 5 I inspeCtors 1 il 1 agencY arency In New York Tork lie he h de- de dee ded de-cl de Thiet e then Indicted for tor fl r J clare dared red d an and he was wa In COntinued od on P e Two io o 4 1 FAKE RADICAL PLOTS CHARGED Alleged Inside Workings of Private Detective Agencies Bared Continued from Page One sending them through the mall maII but I was ns neier neeT ne e- e tried and his bond bend money was nas ns refunded when n he said he heI I threatened thre to expose In- In in sp who had turned over private Ate I mall mail to Irh ate es ORGANIZING Balanow Balanon a IL old 28 son of a 0 Russian an anarchist 1st who was sas deported to 10 Siberia dur- dur durIng lur luring told with siltS per pen perfect ing lug tile the czar czars czar's regime self gelf of his own ann part partin In organizing labor unions for Thiel to suppress of selling the I secrets of or ono one employer to ot of carrying what hf hI belle cd was a trunk load head of bombs to New ew York o of joining radical movements at the behest of rh ate detectives and url urging urging ing hn Ills associates to acts of violence nce of or spreading radical al propaganda which he said was as furnished him by his employers and a wide wido ty arle of other activities lUes WALSH BAReS BARnS COURSE Attorney Walsh announced In UN the course of the hearing that Ie Le ex cx- cx to show that the W V J S Burns agency planned and executed the theraid theraid I et raid on the Communist gathering lit at Bridgman Michigan last August t an 1 that their agents pro I established In the Communist ranks coni- coni corn corn- com committed any Illegal acts that th may moy 1100 0 been committed In connection with that meeting Ho lie said he ho to to prove in the tho course of ot the thc trial which is set act to start tart at St in two weeks seeks that private de detectives do- do have fomented tho the various radical disturbances In recent years 0 o L Smith of LansinG assistant attorney general of Michigan n and Charles V W Gore prosecuting ncy ney of ot o Berrien county Michigan rep represented rep rep- represented resented the state at the taking of the deposition are that Mr Walsh will nih not be through with Balanow for tor or two tao or three days Th state vi sill then examine cross-examine him lIMOS ORG Balanow In the course of or his tea tes- tes testimony swore ore he had joined the Yorkers Workers International Industrial 1 un- un unIon Union un union ion of which Caleb Harrison of Grand Rapids one ono of the defend defendants In the forthcoming trial was sas headIn head headin headin in 1917 and how he then organized tho mens men's mens belt makers at the direction direction tion of Michael 1 Flannigan general manager of tho the Thiel agency who said that the tho agency would then goto go goto goto to the belt manufacturers and explain that they had a man In the new un- un unIon un union I ion len and It retained could break It up He wore snore 1 ore that ho had printed to circulate among amonI the tho belt makers and that the Thiel agency paid for tor them He lIe Joined the 1 1 W 1 W In 1919 1918 un Un- Un Ocr der from FlannIgan he be saU up In the ranks obtained cr- cr cru permitting him to enlist members membern and collect coli oct dues and ac actually ac- ac actually actually obtained ten ton new flew members In Chicago KEEPING I W W BOOKS A A year later while working for forthe forthe the Burns agency ho swore he lie was directed to renew his credentials Lot mt Paterson N J and continued In the I W W organization work Back Dack In Chicago with the Thiel and posed as aa a Rus Russian wanting to return to that country his object being be- be bIng beIng toI I Ing to get information as to how wig Lud-wig Lud- Lud Ludwig wig C K Martens Marten soviet obtained money y from Russia TRUNK His Is III The agency n C he said gave to send him blot as o It a donation to the Russian cause but buthe he swore that double crossed double double- crossed his employers employer and kept 70 and sent 30 SO to New York He lIe was ordered ordred to deliver delier the tho trunk trun he said to a German named Jaeger who was to send semi it to ton toa a sO let nom d Walter Valler at No 11 Stuyvesant place Ho He opened thai thel trunk and found It was full tull of ot radical literature After Arter he lie made the I the tiso trunk disappeared and oper operatives who sho tried to locate It in order to arrest the thc possessor for oper-I oper rad radical rad- rad radIcal radical ical literature were unsuccessful Cooney he said sahl bawled me out for spoiling the plan and then enlisted tIle the aid of the lew I ew York bomb squads t 0 of Or whose members ho he swore Is ore ere oreIn In the employ of the thc Thiel agency In all n to secure the tho trunk but fall failed Id I'd HUNTING nil Si I N I N Back In Chicago after arter that experience experience ence Balanow suli ho was WILS called In by the Burns Burn manager manae-cr here and di- di directed directed di directed to locate NIcoll Nicoli s let soy lot embassy chancellor who was sup sup- supposed sup supposed sI I posed to be In o with sith Ith papers belonging belong to Mart Martens Marten ns The Burns peo- peo people peo people pie paid him 4 4 a diy day cy for the work nork ork he testified and told him he Could ha hae e unlimited expense accounts as Sec Secretary Sec Sec- tary r of State Colby was nas as paying forthe for thc tho Investigation The pipers papers sere wanted canted In New w York by the Lusk legislative committee investigating the 50 let ambassador About the tho same lime time he ho swore Cooney of ot the t he Thiel office sent for I him and offered him a 0 month to Investigate radical case Coonc he said Jho showed cd him a report from rom the tho military Intelligence section about a radical meeting supposed suppose to ie e been bee held at Lt labor here In which ho lie was as named as one of those present I SI D EtCh EACH said ho lie had signed ned a con con- contract contract con contract tract with the Burns Durns of Ice to wor work for no one els Is else Ho lie told Raymond Burns son of V W J Burns of the Thiel otter offer ho he sold said and Burns told him to go ahead and tIke take It to give the Burns office a o copy of all his re reports re-I re ports porte to the Thiet Thiel agency ogency because the Burns people wanted wanted to get the Thiel clients I Balanow said he ho went th Cooney Coony and told him he was working for tor Burns but could also alao work for him and Cooney said all an right but to give sivo hIm hIma hima hima a CoP copy of his hili Burns reports said he ho then made duplicate copie of all reports tor for each euch agency an ani 1 de- de de delivered livered a Q copy to each ach I de-I No No operative e can live on what ahat one agency pas paa him ho he remarked onel CREATING JOBS Shortly before the 1920 radical scare Balanow said the Thiel agency put him on the Chicago police bomb squad He lIe received word ss ord from Cooney that the raids were ere to be bo stag stag-NI at 4 pm p m January 12 2 Ho He went to the I W W general headquarters he ho said and had about I W W members Including Brockmiller the Thiel Thill op- op operative operative op operative there thore when the tho detectives police and reporters arrived Henry Berger BerKer special prosecutor In Inthe inthe inthe the communist case calle proposed that he hebe hebe hebe be Indicted and nd offered to furnish his bond and pay his family his 1 salary It If he ho wont went to prison said but after arter first agreeing he later refused and wa was released n hoad of the Thiel agency which was employed by State Attorney Hone HODe to In the radical roundup turned some of the Indicted men loose Bill Bal Bal- Balanow flat swore and when ho he asked h ci hy he said Flannigan replied d Oh you dont don't understand the de detective do- do business If It he didn't turn them out wo we have an anything thin to do tomorrow Now we will have havo si sl months work orl hunting for tor them again Hoyne Hoyn later got Q a l ap- ap appropriation of 40 tor for tho work and who was resting re It t Palm Beach hurried back to ChI ChI- ChIcago caIn cago to fo the tho purpose ho hc haitI hald ald accoro Ing to the s Of that place Hones Hone's money Is spent In tho the right SELLING REPORTS Balanow brought In tho the name or of Jacob head of the radical bureau of 0 the federal department or of justice bureau of Investigation here hAro and s snore aw ore that received ed 2 25 a day hom the Thiel agency ncy for fer sell sen- InK ing selling Ing It the tile reports of or the gov- gov gov government ky lIe he swore swore hada had Q a cousin In the Thiel agency ency and an other r relative on the pOlice bomb squad and and they all ull worked s to together to- to together I gether Ire to-I to testified Before Detoro the 1920 rall Balanow tes tea tes- titled Cooney gave him money to have 2000 blank petitions to s congre-'s demanding the tho Impeachment of Attorney Attorney Attorney ney General Ge Palmer r punted printed at a so socialist newspaper office of The petitions copy for which be demand said he received from Coone de 4 mand Mr Ir Palmer Palmers S a Impeachment for failure to prosecute the tho auger trust Cooney he said eald had him mall them to varIous radical socialist t and labor organizations In order that It would opposition appear there was widespread tion unions among to Palmer r there there- thereby there there-bv hY by strengthening lre the demand for tor a national anti syndicalism s anU-s law |