Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America.-Samuel Abrams, Leon Blum, Morris J. Gitlin, P. Gutierrez, Edward Jackson, Jacob Prager, Arthur C. Sheahan.

American Newspaper Guild.-Charles I. Irwin, John O. Kykyri, George Wilson.

International Federation of Architects, Engineers, Chemists, and Technicians.-Paul Pinsky, Calvert S. Wilson.

International Fur and Leather Workers' Union.-Ben Gold, Pietro Lucchi, Edwin Brown, George Bradow, Samuel Mindel, Abe Feinglass, Sam Burt, John Behrent, Albert Eland, Max Bronsiren, Irene Catizone, John Church, Joe DeCastro, Mary Eddy, Julius Fleiss, Jack Flier, Larry O'Toole, Bela Gesslesi, Katherine Hartmann, Norman Henkin, Lyndon Henry, Anna Isola, Tom Jasper, Richard Jewell, Millie Kovaoic, Herb Kurzer, Sid Lehrman, Leo Levine, Ernest Mayer, Sophie J. Miller, Nicholas Papaceno, Ernie Parent, John Perna, Michael Perna, Leonard Peters, Clarence Phillips, Albert Proia, Harry Rothenberg, Mary Rybaltowski, Vincent Sastre, Ruth Siegal, G. Stein, William E. Stevens, Bernard Stoller, Leon Strauss, James Trowell, Ralph Tuna, Jerry Turner, Max Weitzner, Esther Westberg, Bernard Woolis.

International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union.-Elliott Wax, Al Friedman, Phillip Nash, Daniel Reuben, J. P. Carrico, William Christensen, B. N. Corona, Blanche Coronca, W. J. Crawford, John D. Cronin, E. F. Fitzgerald, Jesse Garcia, Frank Hendricks, H. A. King, Adrian Lawrence, Jim Nelson, Edgar Reite, A. J. Sauers, Henry Schmidt, L. C. Seeliger, D. Shaw, L. C. Whiting, Luther Wilson, H. H. Woods, A. H. Wolff, J. Stevens.

International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers.-Reid Robinson, John Barilone, N. E. Francis, V. F. Harris, Ed Hendrickson, Edward G. Hocking, S. C. Kidd, R. O. Lamson, William Mason, Karl Burn, Richard Kadow, Jack C. Marcotti, William Morris, Claude Smith, Angela Ward.

International Woodworkers of America.-Ilmar Koivunen, Ernest Tomberg, S. Hicks, Sam A. Swanson, Karley Larsen, H. Arrasmith, Edward Borden, Ted Dokter, Scott Geddes, L. B. Herbert, Ray Martinson, Ralph Pool, Joe Shipard.

National Maritime Union of America.-Joseph Curran, Jack Lawrenson, Frederick Myers, Corby C. Paxton, Reginald Atwell, Harold M. Boynton, A. C. Brehm, Sam Balton, Mike Kearns, Arthur Phillips, Frank Bruno, Revels Cayton, W. C. Curott, E. V. Dennett, James W. Drake, James Drury, John H. Evan, D. J. Garvin, E. Gonzales, Neal Hanley, Ed Hendrickson, Jimmie Higgins, Joseph Keller, Owen Kiernan, Charles Lawrence, Joe Lutz, Robert McBride, Bill McCarthy, Thomas McGowan, James Merrel, E. Miller, A. J. Morris, Emil Novack, J. O'Donnell, R. A. Perry, J. Ramos, Francis Richard, Harry Rios, John Rogan, Ralph D. Rogers, Joseph Rose, A. A. Rothenberg, D. W. Schoen, Joseph L. Stack, A. C. Smith, W. Stanton, A. A. Stingel, James Taylor, H. Thomas, John Toboada, H. Warner.

Oil Workers International Union.-A. A. Duvall, H. McCabe, W. E. McCord, P. R. McKinstry.

Packing House Workers Organizing Committee.-H. Awe, Frank Ellis, Russell Frury, Herbert March, Jesse Prosten, Oscar Stotza.

State, County, and Municipal Workers of America.-Abram Flaxer, Hewitt Guinier, Daniel Allen, William Spahn, H. R. Meullen, Mel J. Heinritz, Doris Birnbaum, Judy Dunks, T. Emeght, John E. Lindberg, Harry E. Rhodehamel, A. W. Sasada, Sam Sorkin, B. J. Zukas. United Steelworkers of America.-Adron Coldiron, J. Mueller, Red Adams, Meyer Adelman, H. Anderson, M. Anglin, H. P. Armstrong, R. Baum, Carl Bucholtz, W. J. Burke, Jack Child, Paul Chown, W. H. Cluster, James M. Crockett, A. L. Elden, R. D. Erickson, Russel D. Evans, Michael Ferreco, Alois L. Granec, B. K. Hickman, Clifford H. Johnson, Henry Kreienbrink, A. Kryminski, Emil Kumbier, Frank Mattern, John Morgan, Joe Paszak, Glenn E. Pearson, Herman Podell, Andrew Savee, Harry W. Smith, G. Spirewka, Delaney Tallus, William Thompson, George Thorley, Robert Van Love, C. Walzer, Herbert F. Wilberth.

Transport Workers Union of America.-Michael Quill, Albert Sansler, Jess Arminta, Troy Black.

United Automobile, Aircraft, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America.-J. Matson, Lew H. Michener, Bob Stone, Ed Hall, John Amundson, John Anderson, P. S. Anderson, Rudolph Ansley, Paul Bazell, John Birulis, Mrs. Enid Botts, John Broske, John Burja, Robert Buse, Jack Bush, Mrs. Tillie Capata, Frank Chap, Harold Christoffel, J. Cody, Del Compton, Mrs. Elsie Cracium, Louis Crison, Virgil C. Delay, Roman Detlaff, S. Douglas, E. J. Edelen, Robert J. Evans, C. Fisher, Walter Fleck, W. G. Flyn, W. H. Flyn, George Forsburg, Nat Ganley, R. Owan, A. J. Hammock, Henry Hayden, Joseph S. Hladilek, R. C. Jacobsen, John Kaslow, Art Hearns, John S. Kennedy, E. E. Kenney, Henry Larson, Larry Ligocki, Leo Logocki, L. Lindberg, F. Mandell, Goldie Major, Wilton G. Martin, Hodges Mason, Gerald Mayhew, E. Mattson, J. McDaniel, U. McQuitty, Robert Merrick, Sam A. Miller, Robert Minerick, Melvin H. Moner, Watson Nicholson, Tony A. Nicol, James E. Patterson, Ed Peters, Henry Peters, M. Puttrick, Alfred R. Reinke, Emil Reback, A. D. Robinson, Leslie Roth, Frank Scofield, P. H. Sheeley, Robert Sheeley, Raymond F. Smith, Virgil Steele, Martha Strong, E. M. Swope, George Sylvan, Noah Tanscher, O. Walter Wagner, Fred Williams, Fred Wohlman, Irene Young, William Zautke.

United Barbers and Beauty Culturists Union of America.-Abraham Schenck.

United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing and Allied Workers of America. Donald Henderson, Harold J. Lane, Conrad Espe, John F. Larson, Virginia Britton, Lief Dahl, E. V. Huggins, Jane Plagens, Armando Ramirez, John Stephenson, Elizabeth Tarbutton, D. Tiller, John Tisa.

United Construction Workers' Organizing Workers' Organizing Committee.-J. Fred Rausch, E. S. Fitzgerald, Bruce Godwin, Don R. Healey.

United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America.-Robert Wishart, William B. Elconin, Charles Rivers, William Mauseth, R. W. Bergstrom, Alfred Casale, E. E. Davis, Harley DeLong, E. L. Doggett, Joseph Dorlack, C. Evans, Lynn Gunther, Isaac Hasson, Charles Franks, George F. Hughes, Joseph Julienelle, Martin Kling, Nathan Lerner, Oscar Lindman, Sidney Mason, Harold J. Miller, John Mulock, Robert McNaughton, Jack Myers, William J. Pipe, Everett Roemer, Pietro Rossi, Paul Sheppart, Albert Smith, H. A.

Smith, W. Stevenson, August Storm, Edward F. Strelow, Leo Turner, Louis Torre, Thomas White, Sr., Harley O. Wright, Caesar Vignola, Jack Young.

United Farm Equipment and Metal Workers of America.-Grant Oakes, L. W. Salbrecht, Albert W. Severson, Melvin Severson, Richard Shaughnessy.

United Federal Workers of America.-Hyman Chait, John Lier, E. J. Melvin.

United Furniture Workers of America.-Morris Muster, Max Perlow, Vincent Favorito, G. O. Brown, Jack Kaufman, George Buchner, George L. Beaumont, S. O. Brown, Armando Davila, M. DeCicco, Carl Green, Jack Hochstadt, Sol Kitain, Harold Klein, Louis E. Leviton, Richard Mazza, Scott Mellville, Joseph C. Messina, Clarina Michaelson, Bernard Minter, Mart W. C. Owen, Morris Pizer, Niccolas Ramirez, Sam Sieger, Alex Sirota, William Standers, Leonard Tardiff, Michael Tyson, C. Warren, W. Westfall, Abraham Zide.

United Paper, Novelty, and Toy Workers' International Union.

W. Sliwa.

United Office and Professional Workers of America.-Lewis Merrill, Joseph H. Levy, Richard Lewis, Evelyn Adler, Alice Balmer, Jane Benedict, Ann Berenholtz, Walter Bohanan, Marjorie Boulton, Nicholas Chase, Douglas Hall, Lynn Hames, Olga Helma, Alice Hendrickson, Robert Josephy, Sophia Korff, Joseph Laurie, Helen F. Lewison, Beatrice Lindgren, Herbert J. Nichol, Josephine Nordstrand, Ann Prosten, R. Robinson, Kate Ryan, A. D. Schneider, Jerome Shore, Milton Tarlow, Dorothy Tate, O. M. Vickland, Freda Werb, Morris Yanoff.

United Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Employees of America. Arthur Osman, Harry Virgil, Bernard Altman, Ann Becker, Leo Bernstein, Andrew Bird, Bob Burke, Nicholas Carnes, David Cohen, Leon Davis, Ida Fisher, H. Foth, N. M. Freeman, Mollie Genser, Mollie Hopkins, T. L. Jennings.

Utility Workers' Organizing Committee.-James Dougherty, Robert MacKay, J. H. Baker, Gene Chance, E. P. Chitterdon, W. E. Foster, Paul Heide, A. F. McGeorge.

Miscellaneous C. I. O. Local Union Officers.-Gene Johnson, Ed McRae, Jack Mink, Martin Nelson, Louis Schwartz.

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DAILY WORKER AND C. I. O. POLITICAL ACTION

COMMITTEE

The enthusiasm which outstanding leaders of the C. I. O. have exhibited for the Daily Worker recently and which they have been bold to declare in print can only mean that they wish the public to know where they stand on communism.

The Daily Worker is, of course, the chief journalistic mouthpiece of the Communist Party. It cannot be supposed that any leader in the C. I. O. who gives his endorsement to the Daily Worker is ignorant of the fact that this newspaper is, and has been for a little more than 20 years, the Communist Party's newspaper.

In January of this year, the Daily Worker celebrated its twentieth anniversary. Much was made of the occasion by Communist Party leaders; and, significantly enough, much was also made of the anniversary by scores of prominent C. I. O. leaders who are in the forefront of the C. I. O. Political Action Committee. We shall presently list the names of these C. I. O. leaders who endorsed the Daily Worker in January 1944, but first let us note some of the facts concerning the origin and nature of the publication.

On August 28, 1923, Gregory Zinoviev (then head of the Communist International) sent a cablegram to Charles E. Ruthenberg (then executive secretary of the Workers Party, as the American section of the Communist International was known at the time). The text of that cablegram was published by the American communists, and read as follows:

RUTHENBERG, 799 Broadway, N. Y.:

AUGUST 28, 1923.

Know no more important task American workers than establishment militant daily. This should be rallying point for concentration all forces present time. Only after foundation daily will Comintern consider we have real mass party America.

ZINOVIEV.

Naturally, the Communist Party did not feature this cablegram on the occasion of celebrating the recent twentieth anniversary of the Daily Worker. In the first place, the Communist Party did not wish at this time to remind the American public that the Daily Worker was founded in response to direct instructions from the Communist International in Moscow. In the second place, the party would like to forget the name of Gregory Zinoviev whom Stalin had shot some years ago. It was indeed a strange birthday celebration for the Daily Worker when the names of its parents-the Communist International and Gregory Zinoviev-could not be mentioned even in a whisper. Nevertheless, it is evident that the Communist Party always considered the origin of the Daily Worker as going back to that cablegram from Zinoviev. Shortly after its receipt, the Daily Worker

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Campaign Committee was set up with one John J. Ballam as its manager. Ballam reported to the third national convention of the Workers Party of America on his stewardship, and headed his financial statement as follows:

Statement of cash receipts and expenditures from Aug. 28 to Dec. 22, 1923. Note that the campaign began on the very day of the recipt of Zinoviev's cablegram.

In his report to the third national convention of the Party, Ballam said:

The Daily Worker will be the chief instrument through which our Party will popularize all its slogans, and mobilize all its forces for action in every field. * * *

The first issue of the Daily Worker appeared on January 13, 1924. Its revolutionary character was frankly advertised in its own pages. On page one of that first issue, there was published the following

statement:

Now, in this first issue of the Daily Worker, we join hands with the comrades of the Communist International in declaring that the Daily is but "The forerunner of more revolutionary dailies in other parts of the country."

For seventeen and a half years, the pages of the Daily Worker were filled with subversive propaganda, advocating insurrection, class war, the violent overthrow of the United States Government, and the destruction of American institutions. This fact must be perfectly well known to the leaders of the C. I. O. Political Action Committee who joined in celebrating the twentieth anniversary of this un-American and subversive newspaper. Not one of the more than 140 C. I. O. leaders who went on record publicly as endorsing the Daily Worker said anything about disavowing the publication's first seventeen and a half years or about endorsing only that part of its history which dates from Hitler's attack on Russia (June 22, 1941). All of them went all-out for the paper and its twenty years of existence. No other paper or publication of any kind in all American history has ever been loaded with such a volume of subversive, seditious, and treasonable utterance as has this organ of the American Communists.

It would require thousands of pages to reprint all of the subversive, seditious, and treasonable material which has appeared in the Daily Worker, but a few samples will indicate for those who have never seen or read an issue of the paper something of what it has been advocating in the way of disloyalty to American institutions.

Earl Browder, present general secretary of the Communist Party, wrote in the Daily Worker of January 14, 1933, that "so long as capitalism rules, the working class has no fatherland to defend."

There may be some who have forgotten that the Communists in Germany worked hand-in-glove with Hitler for the destruction of the Weimar Republic. If so, they need to be reminded that the Daily Worker, shortly after Hitler's assumption of power in that country, hailed the Nazi destruction of "democractic illusions among the masses" on the theory that Hitler's regime would hasten "the proletarian revolution and the dictatorship of the proletariat." In exposition of this theory, the Daily Worker published the following in its issue of April 17, 1933:

The establishment of an open fascist dictatorship, by destroying all the democratic illusions among the masses and liberating them from the influence of social democracy, accelerates the rate of Germany's development towards proletarian revolution