Corporations Auxiliary Company

Corporations Auxiliary Company was an American corporation created to conduct "the administration of industrial espionage" in the United States.^[1]

Corporations Auxiliary Company masqueraded under a dozen different names. It specialized at electing its agents to union office in order to control or destroy unions;^[2] providing labor spies who could propagandize, sabotage, or act as goons in exchange for payment.

In 1921, the New York World reported that Corporations Auxiliary Company issued "a bi-weekly bulletin of labor Information gathered by undercover methods in every State in the country."^[3]

An investigation revealed that the Steel Corporation of Pennsylvania possessed worker blacklists, as well as reports from two labor detective agencies, including Corporations Auxiliary Company.^[4] In the period 1933 to 1936, Corporations Auxiliary Company had 499 corporate clients.^[5]

^ Richard C. Cabot, Introduction, The Labor Spy--A Survey of Industrial Espionage, by Sidney Howard and Robert Dunn, Under the Auspices of the Cabot Fund for Industrial Research, published in the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen's Magazine, Volume 71, Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, 1921, p. 27
^ Sidney Howard, The Labor Spy, A Survey of Industrial Espionage, Chapter 1, The New Republic, reprinted in Mixer and server, Volume 30, Hotel and Restaurant Employee's International Alliance and Bartenders' International League of America, April 15, 1921, page 43
^ New York World in a press notice on a series of articles on "Spies in Labor Unions," printed in the New Republic of New York, as reported in The Bricklayer, mason and plasterer, Volumes 24-25, Bricklayers, Masons, and Plasterers International Union of America, 1921, pages 125-126
^ New York World in a press notice on a series of articles on "Spies in Labor Unions," printed in the New Republic of New York, as reported in The Bricklayer, mason and plasterer, Volumes 24-25, Bricklayers, Masons, and Plasterers International Union of America, 1921, page 253
^ John J. Abt, Michael Myerson, Advocate and activist: memoirs of an American communist lawyer, University of Illinois Press, 1993, page 63

[1] Richard C. Cabot, Introduction, The Labor Spy--A Survey of Industrial Espionage, by Sidney Howard and Robert Dunn, Under the Auspices of the Cabot Fund for Industrial Research, published in the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen's Magazine, Volume 71, Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, 1921, p. 27

[2] Sidney Howard, The Labor Spy, A Survey of Industrial Espionage, Chapter 1, The New Republic, reprinted in Mixer and server, Volume 30, Hotel and Restaurant Employee's International Alliance and Bartenders' International League of America, April 15, 1921, page 43

[3] New York World in a press notice on a series of articles on "Spies in Labor Unions," printed in the New Republic of New York, as reported in The Bricklayer, mason and plasterer, Volumes 24-25, Bricklayers, Masons, and Plasterers International Union of America, 1921, pages 125-126

[4] New York World in a press notice on a series of articles on "Spies in Labor Unions," printed in the New Republic of New York, as reported in The Bricklayer, mason and plasterer, Volumes 24-25, Bricklayers, Masons, and Plasterers International Union of America, 1921, page 253

[5] John J. Abt, Michael Myerson, Advocate and activist: memoirs of an American communist lawyer, University of Illinois Press, 1993, page 63

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