POLITICIANS IN WIRE-TAPPING METHODS, CLAIM
Politicians in Wire-Tapping Methods, Claim Senate Probers Hear of SchemeH to Discredit Political Rivals WASHINGTON, D. C—The Senate committee investigating wire-tapping last week unearthed a...
...Equally sensational was testimony that "wiretapping and dictograph recordings are regular practices" by the New York office of District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey, Republican presidential candidate...
...Needham...
...He said Pennsylvania was Republican, but was slipping and they were anxious to get them (the Democrats) out of the state...
...William H. Vander-bilt of Rhode Island and Joseph N. Few, Jr...
...The young women were Virginia Stentz ir.ri Virginia Holliday Camp-boll, both rged 22...
...A highlight before the committee was an admission by Gov...
...CIO director "indicates a state of prejudice and hy-sterin which might well alarm the American people," the council commented...
...When the girls learned the nature of the work, they turned Needham's proposal down flat, they said...
...The immediate job, they said, was to "entrap" John B. Kelly, chairman of the Philadelphia Democratic city committee...
...The company, which has been under fire from both the government and organized labor, was convicted of failure to pay the minimum wage and of falsifying its records to hide the evasions...
...Cal.—The only reason for the attempt to deport Harry Bridges through n special act of congress is his record in organizing labor, the San Francisco Industrial Union Council charged...
...Vanderbilt admitted before the committee that he had paid for spying on Democratic rivals and men in his own party he didn't like...
...the hearing...
...This is the second wage-hour prosecution of the Bata corporation which is said to have imported its labor policies from German mass production methods...
...Miss Stentz and Miss Campbell said they had been approached by Basil A. Needham, representative of Bielaski, after the latter had been "vouched for" by Rev...
...Kelly has demanded opportunity to testify before the committee, and he insists that dictograph records of his conversation with undercover men be run off at...
...Kelly said, "that the lowest form of political blackmail was resorted to by these wiretappers and I feel it is my duty to expose and punish them...
...G. O. P. machine boss in Pennsylvania...
...William B. Stlmson, who told the committee that he "had been duped...
...hTcy said the offer was made by Frank B. Bielaski, head of a New York private detective agency...
...Both are multi-millionaires...
...Last December it was ordered to pay back $7,000 to 65 employes at its Chicago warehouse, all of whom got less than the minimum they were entitled to under the law...
...Vanderbilt that he employed private detectives to spy on his own attorney general, "because he did not trust him...
...Chairman Tom Stewart declared the committee will issue a subpoena for Pew unless he appears voluntarily...
...The bill aimed at the Calif...
...Two pretty former University of Pennsylvania co-eds—one a redhead and the .it her a natural blond—testified they had been offered a salary of $200 a month and an unlimited expense account in a "snooping scheme to run the Democrats out of Pennsylvania and then out of the country...
...Political Spies According to testimony before the committee, Bielaski has been paid large sums for undercover work by Republican Gov...
...So airtight was the wage-hour administration's case against the company's big "speedup" plant at Bel-camp, Md., that it ran up the white flag without putting on any defense...
...The girls were "to keep their eyes and ears open and their mouths shut" and were to give all the information they learned from their contacts with Democratic politicians...
...I am convinced...
...It was also ordered to repay $10,000 to 600 employes who had been chiseled out of wages due them under the act...
...Politicians in Wire-Tapping Methods, Claim Senate Probers Hear of SchemeH to Discredit Political Rivals WASHINGTON, D. C—The Senate committee investigating wire-tapping last week unearthed a shocking story of efforts by politicians to discredit rivals through a modification of the old "badger" game...
...Is Fined $8,000 By Wage Act BALTIMORE, Md.—A fine of $8,000 the biggest levied so far against any wage-hour act violator was slapped on the Bata Shoe Company last week by Federal Judge W. Calvin Chestnut...
...The records, Kelly said, are now in possession of a Republican prosecuting attorney In Dauphin county...
...Bata Shoe Co...
...as well .".S upon leading Rhode Island Democrats...
...Pew denies that about $7,000 paid Bielaski was for political espionage, but has not asked to go before the committee and reveal the purpose of the payment...
...This alibi was denounced by Judge Chestnut, who pointed out the company had marie a 'studied effort" to hide its violations...
...Bata counsel argued the violations were "technical" and that the firm's executives didn't know they had to obey the wage-hour law...
...Turned Down Proposal "Needham told me that his real interest was politics and that he needed girls...
...Many of the employes were worked up to 671 i hours a week, but the books never showed more than 42 hours, wage-hour attorneys pointed out...
...SAN FRANCISCO...
...the girls said, in addition to the salary, offered them "all the country club clothes they needed, plus expenses to be used in entertaining leading Democrats at cocktail lounges and other places...
...He said he had an election coming up in Rhode Island and he wanted material...
Vol. 10 • June 1940 • No. 23
