ALERT!
LEWIS, WALTER K.
ALERT! Dedicated to an expose of all totalitarian enemies of democracy Earphones for the Comrades Kilocycling With the Peoples Radio Foundation By Walter K. Lewis IT has been • long time aince...
...Harold L. Cammer, who is the attorney for the Furriers Union...
...Corliss Lamont (1 preferred, V* common) ; Dr...
...C)l'' an authorized issue of 1,000 common at $2,511 per half share, atid $100 prefei red stock with a 5 percent annual return, close to 210 individuals and organizations have subscribed and $62,000 worth of stock has been sold...
...International Workers Order (25 preferred and 12V* common...
...party-liner Leverett Cleason...
...Samuel Landau, radio editor of the Jewish Day...
...Peter Shipka, treasurer of the IWO...
...the Iranian Institute's Dr...
...The Civil Rights Congress is a front group...
...IHE PRF notified the FCC that the late Independent Citizens Committee of the Arts, Sciences anil Professions "has sponsored our organization...
...Williams, Fred Borden and Peter Oppenheimer, leaders of the partyline caucus in AVC, to present a playlet on housing at an MAC-sponsored rally eai ly in 1947 at New York's Manhattan Center...
...Arthur Upham I'ope...
...Led by Joseph Brodsky, long-time lawyer for comradely causes, and himself" Secretary-Treasurer of Peoples ftadio Foundation, Incorporated, the hopes of the PRF stockholders are rising daily that the FCC will name them as the operators of an FM station...
...Hons*, •wned and operated by Leverett Uleasoii •f Friday tame, and a director of PRF ,(10 preferred and 5 common), and Brodsky himself (2 preferred and 1 Common...
...He wouldn't dine...
...International Publisher Abraham A, Heller...
...The FCC, guided by well-meaning liberals, Sn«y consider the granting of a license to PRF as a move to "balance" the big radio chains with small, "independent" Stations...
...the American Slav Congress...
...William Feinberg, former Secretary of Ixrcal 802 Musicians Union, who had CP support iu the union...
...Dedicated to an expose of all totalitarian enemies of democracy Earphones for the Comrades Kilocycling With the Peoples Radio Foundation By Walter K. Lewis IT has been • long time aince the comrades of Union Square used a soap-box to peddle their political wares- The scientific age has descended...
...The organization that bears this name would bring PRF it's new song of the week...
...Council an Africnn Affairs, a Paul Robeson production (1 preferred, V4 Common...
...Joint Board Fur Dressers (1 preferred, V4 common) ; William Cropper (1 preferred, % common) ; Dr...
...I'anl Crotbie, former Communist Party candidate (5 preferred •nd IV* common) ; Magazine...
...Dean Dixon, et al...
...Such as those it sang iu the Communist Party May Day Parade, 1946...
...As of June 40, 1946, the assets of the PRF were $60,420.61...
...It will be bad news if the Federal Communications Commission grants Peoples Radio Foundation, Inc., a jicense to operate an FM radio station...
...Club Obrerah'spnnol(2 preferred, I common...
...PRF was invited by Knobel, Franklin II...
...York City that "1 am a member of the National Roar...
...American Communications Association...
...Leverett Glcason, a member of the Board of the front group, Joint AutiFascist Refuges Committee, testified that Peter Shipka, treasurer of tho Communist IWO, Interested him in PRF, Sidney Schrelberg testified that the New York Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild bad endorsed PRF...
...the CP'ish 1COR...
...King told of the close cooperation between her Foreign Born Committee •nd the Inter national Workers Order...
...He tan relax and have others think for him...
...Those who sent communications to the FCC endorsing the PRF include: Jewish Peoples Fraternal Order, which is actually part of the IWO...
...On July IU, 1946, Brodsky testified before the FCC in New...
...Warned by Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., and Charles Bolte against Communist infiltration, AVC Chapters are being more careful about alliances with any non-veteran organizations soliciting support...
...The Advisory Council, however, gets down to earth—the real red earth...
...Thyra Edwards personally and for the Independent Citizens Committee...
...ml President of the International Publishers, Communist publishing firm (5 preferred and 2''i common...
...a concert violinist, of the American Slav Congress...
...Hester Sondergaard (1 preferred, Vi common...
...Harry Kaplan (10 preferred, 5 common...
...Kussky llolos, Russian edition of the Vuilit Worker CIO shares preferred and 15 common) ; Abraham A. Heller, President and Director of PRF, and treasurer e>f the Jefferson School of Social Science...
...D. W. Trachtenberg (1 preferred, Vi common...
...American Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born...
...People's Voice...
...Negro Labor Victory Committee...
...In the case of Communist William Schneiderman, the brief, for the United States Government states that the International Publishers is a "publishing agency of the Communist Party...
...David J. Timmons, Jr., assistant director of PRF, and a member of the New Haven AVC, has been addressing AVC Chapters...
...Julius Schatis, then educational II* rector of the Furriers Joint Council, and now an official of...
...A PRF spokesman told The S'ew Lender that the Progressive Citizens of America, the new Wallace-inspired group, "are giving us their support...
...the American Jewish Congress, testified In favor of PRF...
...The FCC should...
...of the Intei national Workers Order, a member of the Civil Rights Congress, and varum* other organisations Interested In civic affairs...
...Although not listed at the time of the hearings in July of 1946 before the FCC in Mew York City, the Teaehers Union, Local 555 (CIO), led by Communist Bella V. Docltl, the Furniture Workers Union and United Office and Professional Workers Union have joined the list of 12 union stockholders in PRF...
...There were th* usual bouquets from: League of Women Shoppers...
...Martin Wolfson, who did ecriptwritinf and newswyting in the Pacific Aiea during the war...
...No longer does a comrade have to have lung power to get across a message to a street audience...
...Jewish Peoples Fraternal Order, ComItiunist-led associate of the International Workers Order (10 shares preferred And 5 common) ; Fur and Leather Worktn Union (various locals) led by Communist Party member Ben Cold (8 •hares preferred and 2'a common...
...He can, likewise, relax vocally, and thus save tin energies for the other exigencies of Party life...
...Louis Weinstock, Communist leader, and head of the" Painters Unione who wrote Brodsky on January 30, 1940: "There is a great need for an independent radio station and I shall do everything I ran to help...
...This is more than the aosp-boxers of yesteryear ever hoped for...
...Rockwell Kent, party-liner and President of the IWO...
...They are now nearer the $62,000 mark...
...GRATITUDE • Anent UNRRA sid to Poland, which is turned over to the Government snd used as a political weapon, this quip is beard in Warsaw:_ What is a Communist...
...The largest stockholders in PRF are: United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, District 4, led by party-liner James Lustig (50 shares of preferred stock and 25 shares common...
...TlIK International Workers Order will be a controlling factor in PRF's polities...
...Horace Grenell, a member of Local 802 Musicians Union \nd the Master of the Jefferson School's chorus which he led during the 1946 Communist May Day Parade...
...Howard Fast, New Musses writer, had also endorsed PRF...
...Elie Siegmeistcr...
...On the Board of Directors of PRF are Joseph R. Brodsky...
...Carol King, attorney for Gerhardt F.isler, the Comintern agent who was cited by the House of Representatives for contempt on February 18, 1047, testified in favor of the FM applicant, PRF, and stated categorically that sho was instrumental in having the Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Bom endorse and help finance PRF, Mrs...
...Robert Leslie (10 preferred, 6 common...
...The leaders of the Peoples Radio Foundation ought t< have enough faith in Communism to say candidly: "The Communists wtint a voice on the air...
...Among those listed are: Millard Lampell, who wrote many anti-war pieces during the Nazi-Soviet Pact for the Almanac Singers...
...Wholesale and Warehouse Workers Union, Local 65, led by party-liner Arthur Osmair (1 preferred, 4 common...
...However Lou (ilassheim of the Jamaica AVC, Harry Wachtel of the BrennerFelsen AVC and Morris Hecht of the Bedford Chapter are alleged to be cooperating with Timmons in interesting AVC Chapter, in PRF...
...Joseph Weinstein (10 preferred), and Dr...
...There is little doubt that the comrades want to go beyond their street corner days and shout their political waies into every radio set in the country, if they can...
...J. Hammer (6 preferred, 3 common...
...To read the resume Brodsky prepared for the FCC concerning the activities of International Publishers, one would think that they publish impartial books...
...Centio Frutemal Hispana, Local 481)4, Carlos Dor'i (I preferred, Vi common...
...Norman Corwin who appears frequently on many CP-front letterheads...
...Brodsky, In preparing the necessary legal memoranda for the FCC hearing, assumed that the counsel for the FCC and other governmental agencies witching this case were unaware that the International Publisher* is an outlet lor Communist literature...
...American CommitUs for the, Protection of the Foreign Born (I preferred, % common...
...Such • radio station operated under the new electronic magic of Frequency Modulation is estimated to broadcast within a fadius of 60-miles of New York City, «nd to reach an audience of 16,000,000 potential listeners...
...Eugene Brown, program director of the Armed Forces Radio Network "Pacific...
...Under the heading of "Music," and headed "67: Peoples Snugs," the PRF notified the FCC that...
...This being the age of wonders in electronics the true comrade, having tried his hand in the arts, sciences and the professions, now turns to the new channels of communication: Frequency Modulation radio...
...But they are trying to pull a fast one on the Federal Communications Commission...
...I/eslie A. Goldman, who, from Ortober, 1940 to October, 1942 was publication director of the IWO...
...Max Yergen, Sational Negro Congress (1 preferred, 'j common...
...The PRF is capitalized at $100,000...
...Brodsky gave the FCC the following information concerning tip activities of the IWO: "It is fifteen years old aril it augurs well indeed Cor the applicant corporation (PRF) herein that thine responsible for having built this fraternal society into an outstanding success during the past decade and a half, havii pledged their full cooperation in making the proposed station a similar outstanding success...
...Other stockholders as listed with the KCC are: American Communications Association, Local 2 (CIO) (2 preferred, 1 common...
...Brodsky did not report thai the then Attorney General Francis Riddle on September 24, 1942 called the IV'O "one of the strongest Communist organizations...
...Dental Technicians Equity (1 preferred, Vt common...
...Joe Brodsky doesn't ask his stockholders whether they sre Communists...
...According to the report Brodsky offered, the International Publishers is "a publishing firm which has emphasized distribution of literature especially in the fields of history, economics and political sciences...
...Furniture Woikers Union Local 76-B...
...Council for Pan-American Democracy...
...Zlatko Balakovic...
...Pete Secgei, now a Cafe Society star, testified before the FCC hearing endorsing PRF...
...National Council of Hungarian-American Trade Unionists (James Lustig, President...
...Another front organization Stage For Actum would also be given time on the PRF program...
...Milton Robertson, who in 1937-1938 served with the Communist led Abraham Lincoln linrade in Spain...
...He is a person who thanks Uncle Joe for everything he gets from Uncle Horn...
...Organized in November 27, 1944, the bank balance for December, 1944, was only $4,121 75...
...Spurred by Lawrence Knobel of the Metropolitan Ann Council of the Amerlean Veterans Committee, AVC Chapters have had PRF "called to their attention...
...Left Wing composer Marc Blitzatein...
...7'oin Mooney Hall Association (1 preferred, \t common...
Vol. 30 • March 1947 • No. 10
