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House Committee on Un - American Activities : articles 1939
Friday, February 24, 1939
Thursday, November 2, 1939
A2001-074
AF/162044
House Committee on Un - American Activities was established as a special investigating committee. It was chaired by Martin Dies Jr. and therefore known as the Dies Committee. The committee investigated the Silver shirts, the German - American bunds and the Communist Party and sympathizers. The articles regards testimonies given to the Committee. Topics covered in first file : H. Jerry Voorhis joins Dies Committee ; evidence of Anti - Jewish plot dumped on Committee without inkling form Mr. Dies ; American German bund ; exposure of anti - Semitic organizations ; Bund chief menace at hearing ; Bund plans to conquer U.S.A. told ; dies preparing to file charge against communist and German - American Bund ; A.C.L.U. claims retraction was made ; Dies charge man who attempted to spy on the Committee ; Dies group eyes taxes ; Silver Shirts ; Communist report seized. Topics covered in second file : fear that Kuhn of the German - American bund might flee the country ; Earl Browder testifies ; Dies group decides to recall Kuhn ; Dies suspects new axis plan ; battleship plans halted ; purging about 2850 known communists who hold key government positions ; William Z. Foster, chairmen communist party ; German - American Bund ; Bund leader, Firtz Heberling ; communist spy in Brooklyn navy yard ; Communist and Bund propaganda agents for foreign countries ; American League for Peace and Democracy ; wanted witness, William C. McCuistion ; what makes a red? ; C.I.O. group drafts resolution against Dies Committee ; mother believes charges framed. Organization : People : Dies, Martin Jr. ; Voorhis, Jerry H. ; Kuhn, Fritz ; Pelley, William Dudley ; Browder, Earl ; Foster, William Z. ; Herbling ; Firtz Key Words : Dies Committee ; communist ; red - baiting ; German ; fascist ; German - American ; politics ; Congress ; C.I.O. ; A.C.L.U. ; Communist Party
