on with the testimony of Reese let me call your attention to
the Industrial Relations Commission Report, a report that our friends of
the Commercial Club had read and knew all about:

"'Spies in the Union: If the secret agents of employers, working as
members of labor unions, do not always instigate acts of violence, they
frequently encourage them. If they did not they would not be performing
the duties for which they are paid. If they find that labor unions never
discuss acts of violence they have nothing to report to those employing
them. If they do not report matters which the detective agencies
employing them can use to frighten the corporation to cause their
employment, they cannot continue long as spies. Either they must make
reports that are false, in which case discovery would be inevitable, or
they must create a basis on which to make a truthful report. The union
spy is not in business to protect the community. He has little respect
for the law, civil or moral. Men of character do not engage in such
work, and it follows that the men who do are, as a rule, devoid of
principle and ready to go to almost any extreme to please those who
employ them.'

"That is the descriptive adjective, definition and analysis of the
character of union informants made by the National Industrial
Commission, appointed by President Wilson, and composed of nine men, all
men of national standing, three representatives of labor, three
representatives of capital and three representatives of the general
public. That is their definition, description and classification of that
character of testimony.

"Mr. Vanderveer closed yesterday by saying that this struggle, whatever
your verdict is, will win. If yours is a verdict of 'not guilty,' Tom
Tracy must take up again the job of finding a job, the endless tragedy
of marching from job to job, without home, wife or kindred. His offense
consists of being a migratory worker. I beg of you to render a verdict
that has due regard and consideration for the tragedy of our twentieth
century civilization that does not as yet measure out economic justice.

"Your verdict means much. The wires tonight will carry the word all over
this land, into Australia, New Zealand and thruout the world. Your
verdict means much to the workers, their mothers, their children, who
are interested in this great struggle. We are not in this courtroom as
the representatives of one person, two persons or three persons; our
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