RED MARITIME UNION PLANS SABOTAGE OF U. S. DEFENSE
HARRISON, CHARLES YALE
RED MARITIME UNION PLANS SABOTAGE OF U. S. DEFENSE By Charles Yale Harrison The United States merchant marine, wartime auxiliary of America's naval forces, through the control of its personnel by...
...i Everything went off according to plan...
...Out of the nineteen officers and executive board members chosen, twelve are Communists or out-and-out Stalinist stooges...
...It is part of a public document now in process of publication...
...However the sentiment throughout the working press section of the Guild is clear: the ANG can never PtrVt as the union of Newspaper workers as it is presently constituted and controlled...
...This 56-page booklet, attractively bound and displaying on its cover the symbol of a cross over an American flag, has just gone on sale at all "Christian Front meetings...
...We hope so . Coughlin Hints at Anti-Jewish Riots If FDR Wins By VINCENT ROGERS Who ever is paying for Father Coughlin's suddenly revitalized anti-Semitic campaign aimed at the New Deal is being well served...
...These agencies have set up a new fascist organization called the American by Statesmanship Crusade for the Restricted Franchise...
...His principal distinction has., been a hatchet man for Harry Bridges, whose bib-carrier he was on...
...Wc need you...
...But whose grave are you preparing to dig...
...It was this man whom Haywood held up as a model for union men to follow...
...He is one Stalin's leading goonmen in New tbrk and is cordially detested by workers in his **n trade...
...In another letter he writes to a brother officer relating the methods he employed in dealing with an anti-Communist minor functionary of his union: 'So Mills and myself went to work, carrying on a whispering campaign against Sawyer, and also ?attling him on the floor, to discredit him and wreck his influence...
...the latter** recent visit to New York, when he attempted unsuccessfully to raid the United Wholesale Uta jRetail Employees...
...Manning attempted to decline...
...Contributor to the Daily Worker...
...Keep the boys in line...
...The Detroit priest is back to his old tactics of referring to the "Communist-Jewish Daily Worker" and the "Alien New Deal...
...In addition, Coughlin has gone completely fascist, gleefully endorsing Premier Petain's regimentation of France...
...1 McGowan, as a member of the party, is a lusty-voiced orator in the party's campaign for civil liberties...
...officiated as the presiding officers There was a message of approval from the generalissimo of the Fifth Column in the American labor movement, John L. Lewis...
...This pamphlet also bears the revealing "bug number" 209...
...t The International Executive Board members who made these charges, with the exception of Harry Martin of Memphis and Julius Klyman —a stooge planted inside the opposition by the Communists—were removed by the convention steam roller...
...As late as last month, June 29, in a statement prepared for him by one of the members of his inner council, he declared that he wis "becoming impatient with critics who coptjfinw to accuse the NMU of being under Communist influence...
...It may be your own and that of your Communist pals...
...The .Washington crew was "educated" to sign up with the NMU...
...We'll work out your strategy for you—that's all...
...Of the 950 pro-Administration votes, at least 250 came from such units as the Daily Worker (40), the New Masses, the Freiheit, Friday, the Nation, the People's Press, the Unemployed, the Theatrical, the Russky Golos, the Labor Press (in which are the employees of a score of Communist union publication) and the Scholastic (the mystery unit of the New York Guild, no one knows what it is...
...An educational squad is a strong-arm gang...
...There have been no opposition conferir, ces yet in NewJYork and Philadelphia to decide the course of future action...
...The closest to victory approached by the anti-administration forces came during the voting for a national president when incumbent and anti-Stalinite Kenneth Crawford, who ran in answer to a draft movement—was defeated by 78 to 66...
...This statement added to the New York Progressives' evidence of Stalinism inside Guild management the additional evidence of incompetency...
...Picking up Goebbels' tactics again, Coughlin refers to England and some of her leaders as Jewish^ constantly returning to the "Jew-war" theme...
...833: "They brought pressure on me to pay $5 weekly to the Communist Party...
...It will serve well to cover up the totalitarian character of the council, safely in j the hands of the "comrades...
...Thomas McGowan, agent of the Port of Boston, to a comrade: "When Monday night came, nobody showed up\ Incidentally, we were disappointed, as we were lined up with baseball bats waiting for our friends' to show up...
...The Guild is controlled by its membership and its membership bodies exclusively...
...On July 1, at an American Destiny Party meeting, it was announced that the Jew-hating Father would be a chief speaker at a gala meeting at Ebling's Casino on July 10...
...It Is WR o pleasant subject, but H must be ?Jg«d, and too many real or pretended **ro/«" are trying to keep It In the *"*> We believe that In publishing 2L0rHe'e» on #Ws by Charles SP» Harrison, John . Jacobs, Victor *•*•!, onej Herbert Solow we render m*rvice to labor and to democracy...
...Harrison tears the lid off Gestapo-GPU cooperation inside the Communist-controlled National Maritime Union...
...Feebly, he tried to outsmart his Moscow opponents...
...Nothing is permitted to stand in the way of these determined men who set out to secure the mastery of the U .S...
...Father- Brophy's latest contribution to the cause is a printed booket entitled "The Christian Front...
...After the convention, Donal Sullivan, Milton Kaufman and Victor Pasche issued a statement to the effect that': "We state categorically, as newly elected officers, that we are not controlled or influenced by any outside organization, nor is the American Newspaper Guild...
...The Stalinite purge was almost complete...
...It was the Stalinite -hjanyrolation of...
...Then he did what every unprincipled labor politician does under similar circumstances—he joined them...
...Sent to the Soviet Union on a party mission in 1934...
...New CIO City Council Fronts For Communists By JOHN JACOBS In a recent editorial on the projected formation jjf the Greater New York Industrial Union Council by CIO affiliates in this city we declared that the council would be nothing else , than a Communist -G.H...
...And, of course,, the meeting would not have keen complete without a speech from Michael • Will, whom the voters of the Bronx recently defeated for the City Council as being a tool Of the Stalin-Hitler combination...
...He said: / "I wonder if the membership realizes the strategic position in which our union is placed.___Some day this union will be in a position to say when and where they (the United States Government) will ship arms and ammunition from this country...
...There are others: delegates, port agents and minor functionaries...
...The five-day con-tion ended in smoldering resentment...
...Once after a deft thrust by Lawrenson, Curran muttered: "I hate that man's guts...
...With Joe Cur-ran as headman, the council becomes the central effice of the Communist conspiracy in New York agair.gt labor and national defense...
...The convention reversed last year's endorsement of President Roosevelt—as was expected— and followed the current Communist party line on the national campaign...
...Recently he was plaeed on the (."Peace Ballot Commission," a Massachusetts Stalinite front...
...Join the Communist Party...
...Those in doubt should ask by what strange combination of circumstances does a little^ known Women's Wear Daily staff man, passing on corset and, brassiere copy, become the most important figure in the politics of American journalism...
...small units, their control^ of "the" commercial and technical departments which assured the pro-Stalinite administration another year in the service of the Soviet government's foreign office...
...Curran has known for some time that this receipt has fallen into non-party hands...
...He is a .^brilliant orator, iu contrast to Curran, who is a plodding, "uninspired speaker...
...A member of the union, writing to a-comrade in Boston, reveals that attractive young women are used on the waterfront to recruit seamen for membership in the party...
...It wiped out the opposition...
...At this meeting Curran boasted of his power and readiness, if the occasion arose, to sabotage the movement of American war equipment...
...The following are but a few who are on record as members of the party: 1. Frederick N. "Blackie" Myers, recently elected field organizer, graduate of the Marine Training School which is conducted by the Waterfront Section of the party...
...Long an ardent admirer of Father Coughlin, whom he has compared to Washington and Jefferson, his extra-official activities have included periodic addresses to such groups as the Paul Revere Sentinels, the Christian Civil Liberties Committee, and the Christian Front Boycott Committee...
...Later, this meeting was canceled when the owners of the Casino refused the use of the hall to Mobilizer Chieftain McWilliams, consequent to the latter's arrest and conviction for disturbing the peace...
...These are controlled primarily through commercials, unemployed, midget, and party-line-publications units...
...The council adopted a constitution1, the committee which prepared the document being headed by Lewis Merrill, of the Office and Professional Workers Union, one of the most notorious Communist crowds in the C.I.O...
...For a just one brief moment there appeared a slightem clement of delay...
...6. Murray Stein, name legally changed recently to M. Hedley Stone, newly elected treasurer...
...And like all commissars in Stalin's worldwide organization, they are implacable, relentless, and cunning...
...4.- Jack Lawrenson, national field organizer, party hatchet man within the union...
...Edition on the Wth Column •ecouse of the grave situation which •¦•mode It necessary for the United *o proceed at once to the crea-"fofa great citizens' army, with all j*«Jif implies...
...coded messages, corruption, violence, terror and attempted murder...
...Dteisive phiof of the union's exact political coloration, the NMU leadership fears, might lead to a rank-and-file revolt by the 65,000 members (Curran's figures) who are loyal American citizens and who look upon all dictatorships, whether red or brown, with equal abhorrence...
...The "manifesto" exhorts "gentile people" to join in a crusade against democracy...
...What occurred in Memjfcis was the climax of a national drive to Asprive the Comintern apparatus here of the strfiegic unions of newspaper workers...
...Dissatisfaction over the brazen action taken by the administration in Memphis is crystallizing into a series of resignations all through the country...
...Original documents now in my possession, some in the handwriting of f Joseph Curran, president of the NMU, offer the first complete and conclusive evidence in support of this startling accusation...
...Father Brophy has appeared as a character witness at the trial of Joseph E. McWilliams and has been quoted in the press as saying that Mrs...
...Sullivan can definitely be categorized as the perennial "innocent fronter...
...Meanwhile Christian Front leaders, with Father Coughlin's consent, are cooperating with many Fascist anti-Semitic groups here...
...as rep-resfinting the Newspaper Guild...
...5. Al Vetere, known on the Communist Party rolls and in the NMU as Al Lannon...
...Penmar en route to San Francisco: "This ship is 100 per cent hot, which includes the entire crew from the captain down...
...The red firecracker didn't explode at the Memphis convention of the American Newspaper Guild, but it sputtered enough to burn Guildsmen fingers, give Westbrook Pegler material for another column or two, and divert public attention from the real meaning of the meetings," writes the rNation's correspondent, who is, by the way, press editor of PM...
...The Communists, on the other hand, were glad to have him...
...The tell-tale receipt bears the union label of the Allied Printing Trades Council, Shop No...
...It acknowledges a total payment of $14.20, which includes three months' party dues amounting to 97.20, a $2 contribution to the party's waterfr&ttt council, now known as the waterfront lectfcf...
...Potash is bown to hundreds of thousands of organized *irkers in this city as the very antithesis of *nat a man purporting to speak for labor should be...
...Of the new vice-presidents on the IEB, many are avowed fellow-travelers...
...Hi, ho...
...Unions at Moscow in 1930...
...Although Curran has frequently denied that the NMU is controlled by the American representatives of Stalin, a letter dated October 8, 1936, <• proof to the contrary...
...52171-B...
...Father Brophy's anti-Semitism is so pronounced that even those most militant anti-Semites, the Christian Mobilizers, find no shortcomings in the priest...
...He works closely with the National Maritime Union, Transport Workers Union, and Social Service Union commissars in charge of the local Yanks Aren't Coming...
...In Buffalo last December he was still more emphatic...
...As we watched the proceedings we understood why the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, headed by Sidney Hillman, vice-chairman of the C.I.O., declined to participate in the formation of the council...
...Re has been jittery ever since...
...The "unity" resolution is a sham...
...He says: "In New York we are very short of good, attractive 'front...
...He is the husband of Beth McHenry, Daily Worker staff columnist...
...Look on the inside of every envelope now and you will see this stamp...
...Quiet, neutral in appearance, has unlimited power, which he uses with discretion in the interest of the party...
...Well spoken, Allan...
...You know the room rent is due and they expect the -s on the Washington to contribute...
...The hundreds of letters, telegrams, official minutes and secret reports that constitute the documentary basis for this story are filled with accounts of intrigue, extortion...
...He was American marine delegate to the fifth congress of the Red International of Labor...
...And to make sure that the officers and executive board chosen would be ,entirely satisfactory to Earl Browder, Stalin's viceroy in this country, Abram Flaxer, of the State- County and Municipal Workers, was chairman of the nominating committee...
...Minutes of the first constitutional . convention of the union record that during a debate he shouted: "I am a member of the Communist Party and proud of it...
...Found guilty by a trial committee elected by the membership and his expulsion unanimously voted...
...It was a deal...
...of Stalin's leading henchmen in America...
...Replete with undisguised party propaganda, the pamphlet crudely envisions the paradise the United States will be following the Soviet revo- lution...
...During the struggle for possession of the gun several shots were fired...
...209, "bug number" of the Prompt Press, job printers and publishers for many Communist organizations...
...Observers reveal that the Brooklyn Catholic Diocese leaders may even cooperate with this combination despite Imperial Wizard Coles-cott's avowed anti-Catholicism...
...waterfront and shipping—and succeeded . They stop at nothing...
...The Fascist sentiments of this priest have for some time been unconcealed...
...Kaufman's — and the Communists' — Guild control springs from control of small minorities in the powerful New York, Loe Angeles, Boston, and San Francisco-Oakland Guilds...
...Strangely enough, the Christian Front looks with approval upon the planned joint demonstration of the Ku Klux Klan and the German-American Bund...
...RED MARITIME UNION PLANS SABOTAGE OF U. S. DEFENSE By Charles Yale Harrison The United States merchant marine, wartime auxiliary of America's naval forces, through the control of its personnel by the National Maritime I Union (CIO), has become an integraf section of the Communist International's espionage and sabotage apparatus now at work in this country...
...As proof of his membership in the party, I reproduce elsewhere on this page a receipt issued to him from the ¦ New York Cornmunist Party, in the amount of one dollar...
...The Soviet American seaman will find his mess-room a large, well-decorated room, with one corner divided off—a Red Corner for entertainment, study and recreational reading...
...Honor graduate of the Marine Workers School...
...as the correspondents of the Sfation and the Daily Worker would have their iSewiing public believe...
...Of this number, only about 1,100 bothered to vote...
...The false-face sometimes slips, revealing the i dues-paying comrade underneath...
...Mills was presented to the delegates...
...For years their publicly expressed opinions and actions inside the Guild have followed the Communist line...
...of this city...
...It reads in part: "And they think they -are big shots now the C.P.s have about got control of the outfit now with Tommy Ray (Communist maritime leader) director of operations here in New York...
...That was when Joseph F.B-Manning, of the Grave Diggers' Union, LocalH-293, was nominated by Flaxer for sergeant-at-W arms...
...And although ante* Stalinists within the union have challenged him on several occasions about it, he has maintained a discreet and tenge silence...
...There are a score of New York newspapermen who can—and will, if necessary—attest to the fact that Kaufman was the commissar of the original top fraction which guided the Communist caucus in • the early days of the Guild...
...In round figures, top votes for the Administration hit about 950, while the opposition polled some 440 for John Chamberlain in top spot...
...The Communist proposal to Curran went something like this: You do all the talking in public Get your picture taken...
...Attended courses in military tactics and in the use of small arms while a student at the Lenin School at Moscow...
...Here are a few: An affidavit by a member of the Engine Division of the union, Frank Harris, Card No...
...Obviously a pre-pact evaluation of Stalin's newly found business partner...
...Titus, foreman of the Federal jury which* acquitted the plot defendants, is his first cousin and is "very friendly to the Christian Front...
...The tragic John Brophy babbled something about the great mission of the C.I.O., while Hiywood, whose subservience to John L. Lewis becomes increasingly nauseating as he sinks deeper and deeper in the Communist swamp, Uiured the delegates that they were embarked upon a great and noble mission...
...2. Hays Jones, associate editor of The Pilot, official NMU organ...
...This statement means little in the light of the records of Kaufman and Pasche as fellow-travelers...
...Most incriminating of all the documents at my disposal is an official copy of the minutes of a closed membership meeting held on the lower East Side of New York on May 4,1938, from which the press was firmly excluded...
...Early in May, six members of the Guild's highest governing body charged, that paid officials of the American Newspaper Gufld were responsible for losses in membership and trade union effectiveness...
...In constant fear that the inner circle in the union will frame him, Curran has devised an intricate system of coding and identifying genuine messages...
...In spite of the fact that the Communist credo demands that comrades in key positions conceal their party affiliations, proof is nevertheless at hand that more than a score of leading NMU officials are members of the Communist Party...
...Instructions from Patrick B. Whalen, the union's agent in the Port of Baltimore, to a west coast official of the union concerning the AFL crew of the S.S...
...There was no opposition slate and the harmony prevailing was, indeed, touching...
...The adopted legislative report denounced House Resolution 97C6 which orders the deportation of Harry Bridges, west coast longshoremen's chief...
...It appears that anti-Semitism and defeat of the New Deal have become the only objectives of Father Curran, Reverend Brophy and Editor Pat Scanlon of the Brooklyn Tablet In the new Christian Front drive, Father Edward F. Brophy of the/ Precious Blood Church, Long Island City, is playing an increasingly important role...
...Accused of acting as strikebreaker during the 1934 coastwide strike...
...Fond refers to the National Maritime Unity Fund And dots not refer to the union which came into existence a year later...
...Typical is the New York Guild, where there are some 5,000 members on the books...
...In next week's edition Mr...
...When I refused on December 3, 1937, Felix Siren threatened me with a gun...
...He is conceded even by Curran to be the real president of the maritime union...
...Curran's jealousy of his i agile rival is the constant cause of aerimony between the two men...
...One delegate shouted: "Are they all married...
...They are going to form a reception committee for the crew of the S.S...
...3. Ferdinand C. Smith, recently elected secretary, graduate of the party's Marine Workers School...
...The $3 assessment for the N.M.U...
...The Hotel McAlpin was obviously chosen as the meeting place to lend a touch "of respectability to the Communist conspiracy...
...The following is from a letter by Walter Carney, at one time Curran's bodyguard, telling of a plan to shake down other seamen: "We all livei together and the rest of the gang are on the educational squad...
...This letter was written just about the time Curran joined the party, at a time when he was coming to the painful realization that the Communists were playing for high stakes and for keeps on the American waterfront...
...This outfit is now broadcasting a pamphlet throughout America, urging that the majority of American citizens be deprived of the right to vote...
...Categorically, this is a Stalinite perversion of the situation inside the ANG...
...7. Tommy Ray, mentioned above in the letter in which Curran admits Communist control of the waterfront...
...Then, referring to three young ladies, two of them school teachers who had been suggested for this work, he continues: "These three would be excellent for this purpose if for no other, and there is no reason to presume that they would not become solid comrades in every other way...
...More than six feet tall, typically American in appearance, inordinately vain (there are fourteen photographic portraits of himself in his New York apartment), he was an ideal front man for the subtle comrades...
...for suborning a juror in the re-•nt trial of officials of his union...
...Haywood's conception of nobility was illustrated when, in response to a speech from a delegate of Communist-owned Fur Workers Union, "he delivered himself of a tearful dithyram-bic about Irving Potash, who is now serving a term in jail...
...The cover of the pamphlet is reproduced on page one...
...He was never I working newspaperman in his life...
...Roosevelt as their 1940 candidate, we fear that this will be the occasion for a national wave of bigotry to arise against the Jews whom he has befriended in his administration altogether out of proportion...
...He, too, spoke in the name of the Guild, thus committing the working newspapermen of the city to-approval of one...
...Walter Rue's resolution — introduced upon orders of the Seattle Guild—condemning Communism along with Nazism and Fascism was beaten by a vote of 105 to 37, revealing that more of the opposition to the administration had actually been planted in the opposition by the Kaufman bloc than was originally thought...
...The document is strongly anti...
...The constitution bears all the earmarks of a democratic document—like Stalin's constitution in Russia...
...Perhaps it is no .coincidence that just at this J time the same propaganda line is being pushed here by the agencies working out of 218 East 86th Street, up in the Yorkville, headquarters of the North German Lloyd and- Hamburg-American steamship lines...
...Supported* by six members of the International Executive Board, backed by a strong section of the - powerful New York Guild and units from Philadelphia to Seattle, this campaign voiced the sentiments of an overwhelming majority of America's organized working press...
...Majority in News Guild Oppose Natl Lenders By VICTOR RIESEL The revolt smothered...
...Joe Corran, president of-the G.P.U.-dosninated National Maritime Workersugan ^lect«<L;i>resir ¦pair Austin Hogan, pfeskterit/o'f tnVNew York Transport Workers Union, a leading- Comiinnist-entrolled outfit, was chosen first vice-president, ad Saul Mills, chief press' agent for a flock of Cbmmunist-Ied organizations in this city, was rewarded for his long and strenuous services by being given the paid job of secretary-treasurer...
...The convention's rejection of witch-huntirfg is in the best American tradition...
...Dump," in the lingo of the seaman, means to slug or to blackjack...
...Lewis Gannett, who for a while was a presidential possibility and who had been supported by the New York Progressives, frequently cooperated with the administration...
...Curran was broke at the time...
...Recruiting agent in NMU for Communist units fighting in Spain in the struggle against "the bloodthirsty monster, Hitler, the " most despised criminal in all the annals of history...
...But one look at Wednesday night's meeting was sufficient to convince the intelligent observer that there is also another very good reason why no genuine labor organization has any business to be affiliated with it...
...He has been boosted into the presidency of the Greater Boston Industrial Union CounciHiy the Communist C.I.O...
...Here are a few excerpts culled at ^'random: "Soviet America will not allow its seamen to sail on the ships that private companies have built, unless major repairs are made...
...Michael spoke *ith his usual brazen self-assurance and displayed his demagogic talents as a cheap rabble-Woser by an attack on the workers organized under the banner of the American Federation of Labor...
...As a member of the labor press unit of the Guild he does not even speak for his unit...
...Of an even more startling nature will be his well-documented revelations of methods used by Comintern agents in the NMU to sacrifice rank-and-file interests in the service of Soviet military and political espionage...
...Liaison officer between the lesser landlubber comrades and their sea-going brethren...
...Its price is 15 cents and the frontispiece carries this patriotic statement: "Proceeds to be devoted to tire support of Christian Americanism...
...Whether or not Coughlin adherents here are distributing the leaflet hasn't yet been ascertained, but many have expressed approval...
...And even the Mati Hari touch is not lacking...
...unions in the Hotel McAlpin...
...Says Coughlin: "If the New Dealers dominate the Democratic convention and;select Mr...
...Washington when she arrives tomorrow...
...Facing a conference of Great Lakes seamen with a perfectly straight face, he said that "there is not a single member, of the Communist Party enrolled in our membership...
...Those listed above are merely the leading commissars of Stalin's American merchant marine...
...Officially, the Amalgamated takes the position that the council is unnecessary and harmful to the interests of organized labor in that its formation can serve only as an additional obstacle to labor unity in the United States...
...The unearthing of this material, which fills five four-drawer filing cabinets, was made possible to a great extent by the cooperation of a group of former officials of the maritime union — one an officer of the U. S. Naval Reserve — who are vigorous opponents of Russia's domination of oor second line of naval defense...
...And so the denials continue...
...Only 2,200 were eligible to vote for a 'convention delegation last May...
...The Jury 22 edition of Social Justice charges that the United States is run by an "invisible government consisting of "Messrs...
...And the room rent was paid...
...unions in that sector...
...His rise to power in the Guild was a creation of the Communist ANG forces...
...With fellow-traveler Do nal Sullivan of Boston in office, this gives the Communist Pagty a ten to two majority on the national board...
...Allan S. Hay-wood, national director df the C.I.O...
...Kaufman's post-convention statement-, that the G)jild owes allegiance to no extraneous group is hardly substantiated by the series of elections and resolutions through which the administration put its seventh annual convention...
...But w?at's the constitution between friends...
...The New Leader feels {•"Hied In devoting an unusually large fot of its space this week to one {•«« of Fifth Column activities...
...Frankfurter, Brand?is, Baruch and Morgenthau...
...That is so you will know they are from me confidential...
...The job paid a hundred dollars a week...
...More recently...
...Ray saunters into union headquarters whenever he pleases, dictates to Curran's secretary, Dorothy Snyder, also a member of the party, who is under instructions to report all of Curran's activity to Communist headquarters every day by telephone...
...But the record, in addition to the evidence adduced so far, tells an entirely different story...
...by the Communist Kaufman-Pasch-Watson national administration of the American Newspaper Guild at its recent seventh annual convention^was no casual sectarian bid for power by &?*mai\ minority...
...There are scores of Guild members throughout the country who are in 5a position to testify to the truth of Pegler's charges...
...Despite policies that clearly indicate adherence to the Communist line, Curran'» denials of his Moscow affiliations have been loud, frequent ' and vehement...
...Dump them all...
...Telegrams, in order to be authentic, start with a code date: AJCACF or AAACF, 10/31/36 or 1/11/36...
...Q. ^Our statement was fully confirmed on Wednesday evening, when the council was formally constituted at a meeting of C.I.O...
...Party raised cry of "white chauvinism," and at a later meeting Curran pulled a fast one, whitewashed him and had him reinstated...
...w "Don't do that," pleaded Haywood...
...author of a pamphlet entitled "In a Soviet America: Seamen and Longshoremen Under the Red Flag...
...The instructions were faithfully executed...
...Semitic...
...An inadvertent statement at a meeting at which minutes are being taken, a situation at which confession of party membership is tactically necessary, a childish mood of_ bravado—and the secret is out...
...The convention, through the majority report, adopted a clear stand in defense of the democratic process and American liberties...
...The Communist Party has led the struggle against growing fascism (this was written before the Hitler-Stalin pact) and the growing war preparations in this country...
...3...
...It was this manipulation of a combination of minority blocs which enabled the national administration to elect the almost unknown Donal Sullivan as Guild president over the incumbent and popular Kenneth Crawford...
...Once more Coughlin, writing in the same edition, threatens a wave of anti-Semitism if President Roosevelt continues to run for a third term...
...Unabashed by national public attention, and ignoring the minority opposition, Kaufman and his bloc steamrollered through a series of Communist resolutions similar to those adopted by the Stalinite American Communications Association, the National Maritime Union and others in the C.I.O...
...Make statements to the press...
...The receipt was secured by chance by- M prominent labor leader and was immediately placed at the disposal of the government...
...These words were used only a month ago by the German Propaganda Ministry...
...To add another proper touch to the picture, Morris Watson, the pasteboard Robespierre of He Newspaper Guild, stepped forward to indorse Curran for the presidency...
...These, are Agnes Fahy of Newark, George Wilson of San Francisco, Philip M. Connelly Of Los Angeles...
...A jittery postscript to a letter addressed to one of his henchmen on the Pacific Coast reads: "If any letters come out there from me with this stamp on (a rubber stamp signature), they are not genuine...
...The receipt is No...
...He worked the doubtful charm of his Irish brogue to the full and carried the cane which, for some mysterious reason, he believes adds dignity to his role as chief blatherskite in the C.I.O...
...Responsible labor leaders in both the AFL aad the CIO insist that these repeated disavowals lare inept smokescreens designed to obscure the NMU-Moscow tie-up...
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