RED' CHARGES SPLIT ALLIANCE IN MILWAUKEE
'Red' Charges Split Alliance In Milwaukee 6 Workers Alliance Officers Resign; Say Local Is Thick with Communists MILWAUKEE, Wis.— The Workers Alliance in Milwaukee Is reported to be faced with...
...TONAWANDA, N. Y. — A 1-month strike by 400 members of Local 19401, Office Equipment Workers Union (AFL...
...Leith concluded that any real defense of the Monroe doctrine will involve concerted efforts to develop resources of the Americas "in their complementary relationships...
...Frank Webster, secretary...
...So that made us decide we had enough of that...
...Ludwigsen, a senior clerk in the federal farm security administration at the courthouse, denied that the Workers Alliance local was overrun with Communists...
...Congress Told of Speech By Prof...
...Teamsters Freed of Trust Charge WASHINGTON, D. C. — Government action against labor unions for alleged violation of anti-trust laws suffered a setback here when Federal District Judge F. Letts directed a jury to bring in a verdict of "not guilty" in a case against local 639 of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (AFL) and four of its officials...
...Discussing "Minerals and the Monroe Doctrine," Dr...
...One of the resigning officers, Mrs...
...The resignations of the six officers...
...In written form, were submitted at a meeting of the local, which is designated as "G 333,"' at 1628 W. Walnut st...
...A letter written by Ludwigsen, charging that "warlike implications" are being expressed by Pres...
...Robertson was secretary of the county central committee of the Workers Alliance...
...G. W. Smith, vice-chairman...
...Besides Mrs...
...Besides holding the position of treasurer of her local, Mrs...
...The government had charged the local and its officials with violating the antitrust laws by a jurisdictional strike here in the summer and fall of 1939 over the drivers of cement-mixer trucks...
...After handing in their resignations, the six officers turned and stalked out of the hall...
...Most of the other 25 members are Communists...
...John A. Lapp, building trades referee, awarded the cement-mixer truck drivers to the teamsters in a decision handed down in January, 1938...
...Ella Gaulitz, entertainment chairman, and Gilbert Kaun, sergeant-at-arms...
...Just lately we received a new member, a young fellow, and right away two Communist members approached him, gave him Communist literature, and told him that he should join the Communist party...
...They were headed to Arthur Lud-wigsen, a member of the local and state president of the alliance...
...The drivers here were covered by a contract between the contractors and the International Union of Operating Engineers (AFL...
...Catherine Robertson, treasurer of the local, declared: "We just decideu we wouldn't stand for the Communists In the local...
...forced Remington-Rand to bargain with a committee of the union's own choosing...
...C. K. Leith, Madison, Wis., University of Wisconsin geology professor, before the American Scientific congress here stressing the importance of co-operatively developing the natural resources of the western hemisphere...
...He deplored the "wave of economic nationalism" which finds countries trying to "build up their own industrial power by the development of their own resources and by closing the door in one way or another to outside exploration and development...
...The Communists were always trying lo get up and make Communistic speeches, but we usually managed to shut them up...
...Say Local Is Thick with Communists MILWAUKEE, Wis.— The Workers Alliance in Milwaukee Is reported to be faced with serious internal dissen-tion following the resignation jast week of six officers of a city local who charged that their unit was "full of Communists...
...Leith \ BY RADFORD E. MOBLEY WASHINGTON— Congressional attention was drawn today to a speech by Dr...
...Robertson, other officers of the Workers Alliance who submitted their resignations because of Communist activity in their local were: W. J. Rahn, chairman...
...Roosevelt, was recently printed In a Milwaukee newspaper...
Vol. 10 • June 1940 • No. 22
