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News clippings : House Un - American Activites Committee
Monday, August 1, 1938
Friday, June 30, 1939
A2001-074
AF/162930
News clippings regarding the House Un - American Activities Committee (Dies Committee) : Charles H. White testifies about his time in Russia and the tactic to use young women to recruit new communist members from the U.S. army ; White testifies that the idea of the national hunger march came from Moscow ; John P. Frey, vice president of the American Federation of Labor, testimony ; Communist rules C.I.O. Frey Says ; Fray names unions and members ; Daniel L. Marsh denounces red baiting ; Edward F. Sullivan, special investigator of the congressional committee on un - America activities deems New England "Gods country" compared to the Pacific Coast and Mid - West where business and industry is terrorized by bloodshed ; inquiry into the Federal government is denied by Dies ; Representative charges that eight federal officials are members of the American League for Peace and democracy which he asserted is an arm of the Communist party front ; Harry Bridges investigation ; investigation into labor ; Workers' Alliance branded link in Communist chain ; government officials called Red ; action against the Nazi German - American Bund ; woman says actors forced to join Communist Alliance ; war veterans say two house members used Soviet Salute ; federal theater project dominated by radicals ; Martin Dies ; Shirley Temple accused with other film stares by Dies Committee Witness ; James B. Matthews testifies that Reds aim to control politics and labor ; Actor George Bancort will head drive against communism ; President of the A. F. Of L. submits report to President Roosevelt regarding Communistic activities in the United States ; sabotaging dies inquiry ; Dies probe hears attack on C.I.O. ; deserters from Loyalist Spain testify that America fighters were being held by communist leaders of the government forces Also includes a newsprint images of : Edward F. Sullivan ; F.A. Silcox, head of national forest services ; Mary Anderson, labor department official ; Alice Barrows, of federal office of education ; Oscar Chapman, assistant secretary of interior ; John Carmody, rural electrification administrator ; O'Coonr rakes up gage, asserts Roosevelt riding escalator to Monocracy Also includes news clippings regarding : Spanish Civil War ; General Franco bars the evacuation of U.S. volunteers ; Ben T. Osborne explains reasons why he attacked Commonwealth Federation ; China Relief Committee is appointed ; seven peace organizations protested against the administrations' current proposal to create a naval and military establishment for defense of the western hemisphere ; Oregon Commonwealth Federation issued a statement against Nazis Organization : Oregonian ; New York Times ; Boston Herald ; Oregon Journal People : Duty, Frankie ; Herbert, Benjamin ; White, Charles H. ; Frey, John P. ; Marsh, Daniel L. ; Sullivan, Edward F. ; Bridges, Harry ; Thomas, J. Parnell ; Silcox, F. A. ; Anderson, Mary ; Barrows, Alice ; Chapman, Oscar ; Carmody, John ; Bancroaft, George ; Matthews, James B. ; Osborne, Ben T. ; Hewitt, Roy R. ; Epps, David C. ; Sobel, Abraham ; Hopern, Alvin I. Key Words : Dies Committee ; Communist ; Communist Party ; subversive ; C.I.O. ; A.F. of L. ; labor ; WPA ; Oregon Commonwealth Federation ; Spanish Civil War ; China ; congress ; Red baiting ; subversive ; peace ; anti - war ; Roosevelt administration ; federal government
