ÆäÀÌÁö À̹ÌÁö
PDF
ePub

So critical was the situation that the President was compelled to order Federal troops to take over the North American plant on the ground that the strike had "created a situation seriously detrimental to the defense of the United States."

Hugh Ben Inzer testified that on May 8, 1940, Wyndham Mortimer, Lew Michener, "Slim" Connelly, Pettis Perry, and Hans Diebel met in conference at the union headquarters in Los Angeles to coordinate their efforts in the aircraft industry. Connelly and Perry are leading California Communists. Diebel was a leader of the German-American Bund in California and owner of the Nazi Aryan Book Store which cooperated by printing The Yanks Are Not Coming leaflets (hearings, vol. 14, p. 8540).

40

MORRIS MUSTER

Morris Muster, 42-year-old president of the United Furniture Workers of America (Č. I. O.) claims 46,000 members in his organization. The Worker, official Communist organ, of April 18, 1943, page 5, devotes a full two columns to a laudatory account of his achievements.

Formerly president of the Eastern Seaboard Council of the Upholsterers Union (A. F. of L.), he led a left-wing split into the C. I. Ò. to form the United Furniture Workers of America in 1937. The Special Committee on Un-American Activities in its annual report of January 3, 1940, unanimously found, on the basis of evidence presented, that it was one of the unions in which Communist leadership was strongly entrenched.

At the third constitutional convention of the C. I. O., held in Atlantic City in November 1940, the delegation of the United Furniture Workers consisted of Morris Muster, Max Perlow (who endorsed the Communist candidate for the New York City Council in 1937), Alex Sirota (who endorsed the Communist candidacy of Israel Amter for Governor of New York State in 1942), Morris Pizer (who endorsed the Communist program and candidates in 1933), and Joseph D. Persily from the Indiana district of the union. Emil Costello, provisional secretary-treasurer of the union, was expelled from the Wisconsin State Federation of Labor as a Communist (hearings, vol. 1, pp. 264, 265). Joseph Maglia cano, former business agent of Local 140, was a Communist candidate for Congress in the thirteenth district in New York City in 1936.

The New York locals of the United Furniture Workers have consistently supported the May Day parades of the Communist Party from 1937 to recent date. In 1940, Max Perlow was the secretarytreasurer of the United May Day Committee.

According to William W. Hinckley, executive secretary of the American Youth Congress, another Communist-controlled organization, the United Furniture Workers supported that organization (hearings, vol. 11, p. 7040). The organization also supported the August 6, 1938, Peace Parade, organized by the American League for Peace and Democracy. Morris Muster not only endorsed the American League for Peace and Democracy but acted as a member of its national labor committee. The American League for Peace and Democracy, branded by the Attorney General as subversive, was the Communist Party's front which expressed the Party's views on foreign policy until it was so completely discredited as a result of the Stalin-Hitler Pact that it was disbanded.

During the Spanish Civil War, the Communist Party in the United States set up a number of front organizations through which it carried on a great deal of agitation. Morris Muster was affiliated with four

of these Communist fronts, namely, the American Committee to Save Refugees (Daily Worker, March 23, 1942, p. 5), the United American Spanish Aid Committee, the American Relief Ship for Spain, and the Coordinating Committee to Lift the Embargo.

Muster is a member of the executive board of the C. I. O. which launched the C. I. O. Political Action Committee, and is a part of the large Communist bloc which is actively carrying on the campaign headed by Sidney Hillman for the purpose of subverting the Congress of the United States to Communist ends.

41

FREDERICK N. MYERS

Frederick N. Myers, vice president of the National Maritime Union, has been a regular delegate at national C. I. O. conventions. He is now devoting a large part of his time to the C. I. O. Political Action Committee.

Myers has been identified as a leading member of the Communist Party in the National Maritime Union by many of those who have been associated with him. He has worked closely and actively on projects which had the blessing of the Communist Party.

In 1938 he was the signer of the call for the United May Day Conference organized by the Communist Party. He has participated regularly in these Communist May Day Parades in New York City. He was cochairman of a committee which sponsored a meeting held in New York City in December 1943 in honor of Georgi Dimitrov, former head of the Communist International.

He endorsed the Daily Worker and the Worker, official organs of the Communist Party (Worker, October 11, 1942, p. 8, magazine section).

Frederick N. Myers' name appears among the contributing editors of the New Masses, Communist weekly (June 22, 1943, p. 2).

In 1942 Myers actively supported the campaign for the freedom of Earl Browder, general secretary of the Communist Party.

He was the signer of an open letter in behalf of Harry Bridges, whose deportation case is still pending (Daily Worker, July 19, 1942, p. 4.).

Myers signed an appeal in behalf of Morris U. Schappes, a Communist teacher ousted from the City College of New York and now serving in Sing Sing Prison for perjury (Daily Worker, February 4, 1942, p. 5).

Myers is listed on the managing board of Champion, a youth magazine which was an official publication of the Young Communist League (January 1938, p. 3).

He was a signer of the call for the American Peace Mobilization meeting in New York City, April 5-6, 1941. This organization was cited as a Communist front by Attorney General Biddle. It will be remembered that it conducted a picket line about the White House against convoys, conscription, and lend-lease. He was the principal figure among so-called trade unionists in the American Peace Mobilization, i. e., it was his special duty to enlist labor organizations in the seditious activities of the A. P. M.

Myers is a part of the Communist dictatorship which dominates the National Maritime Union. Associated with him in this function are Joseph Curran, Ferdinand Smith, Howard McKenzie, M. Hedley Stone, Leo Huberman, and others.

97287-44-10

Among the other Communist front organizations with which he has been affiliated are the following: National Federation for Constitutional Liberties, cited as subversive by Attorney General Biddle; American Committee for Protection of Foreign-Born; American Student Union, cited as subversive by the Special Committee on Un-American Activities (January 3, 1940); Joint Committee for Trade Union Rights, defending certain communists in the International Fur and Leather Workers Union; Trade Union Committee to Put America Back to Work; Friends of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade; and North American Spanish Aid Committee. Through the Daily Worker of November 7, 1942, page 2, Myers sent greetings to the Soviet Union on the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Russian Revolution.

« ÀÌÀü°è¼Ó »