The Californian from Salinas, California • 13

SALINAS CALIFORNIAN 9 (Paid Political Advertisement FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 13, 1944 FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 13, 1944 SALINAS CALIFORNIAN GOP Sftemdaird ESecoirers CFkild Political Advertisement) Democrats Join Dewey-Bricker To Fight PAC Throughout California and the r.a'ion as well life-long Democrats aTe deserting their party this year to vote fcr Dewey and Bricker and Republican candidates generally. They include big and influential Democrats, byt the great bulk come from the rank and file. They declare that the Democratic party Tias been taken over, lock, stock and barrel by Sidney Hillman, the CIO Political Action Committee and the Communist party." That statement was recently voiced by Jack B. Tenney. State Senator from Los Angeles.

Tenney throughout his entire political career has been known as a staunch Democrat. Tenney likewise has been a strong union leader. In his announcement Senator ienney declared he was registering as a Republican and supporting Governor Thomas E. Dewey. The Senator's action exploded a political bombshell and climaxed, he said, studies and Investigations made over a period of five years.

He has, during that time, been chairman of the legislature's committee investigating un-American activities, and has, in his official reports, blas'ed the Communist -New Deal and PAC affiliations. Tenney also declared he will suoport Lieut. Governor Frederick F. Houser for United States Senator against the Democratic incumbent, Sheridan Downey. The high official, whose district embraces the entire county of Los Angeles, asserted that organized labor has been betrayed and present trends indicate the ultima'e loss of every gain" made by labor.

Tenney has been president of Musicians Unions No. and 369 and is a life member of the latter body. Throughout the nation the swelling tide of resentment to New Deal tactics grows people do not like the use cf force in politics where the faithful are rewarded and opponents slapped. Letcis Says Sidney Hillman Is Now in Communist Trap Are Philip Murray, president of the CIO and Sidney Hillman under control of the communists? John Lewis says they are. Following is an excerpt from report on the CIO Political Action committee just recently issued by a congressional committee: "Two men, more than any others, were responsible for the split in ranks of organized labor which led to the creation of the CIO.

Those two men are John L. Lewis and Sidney Hillman. "In 1938 and 1939, the Special Committee on Un-American Activities did all that was humanly possible within the scope of its powers to warn John L. Lewis and others of the CIO that Ihe communists were moving in on their organization en masse. Their only response to the committee was silence or abusive language.

"On February 29, 1944, John L. Lewis made a public statement concerning communists in the CIO (New York Times, February 29, 1944, p. 1). Belated as this statement may be, it confirms in toto what the Special Committee on Un-American Activities found 5 years ago and what it finds today. Lewis' statement, as quoted in the New York Times, reads as follows: When I was organizing the CIO we picked up a lot oi communists in one unit after another as we grew including Harry Bridges.

But if I had not resigned the chairmanship and left the CIO in 1940 1 can toll, you the communists would have been weeded out of the CIO long before now. Instead, as anyone might expect who has seen them throw their weight around inside labor organizations, the Communists dominate the CIO today. Philip Murray is today the prisoner of the communists in his own union. They control bim and the CIO through their seats on his executive committee. And there isn't a blessed thina he can do about it.

Sidney Hillman is just as badly off. Both of them have got to play ball with the communists now, or die. As heroic Russia battles our German enemy In Europe, the communists in our labor movement naturally hang on to the coattails of the Red Army and try to build an ideologi-' cal bridge between our loyalty to Russia and (heir own pet schemes. This is a sheer abuse pf our good will toward Russia. And, of course, the communists in our labor unions are not even good Russians.

What good citizen is not for a Russian victory over Germany in this war? Yet the communists in the unions play hard on the trick Idea that America cannot fight side by id with Russia and at the same time fight against American communists and fellow karolm here. That is an outrageous contonr Hillnian-Browder Plot to Seize Democrat Party Proof of ClO-Pclitical Action committee's link' with the communist party and its intent fo destroy the American ferm of government, was given the Congress and nation on oeptember 28 in testimony before the House Un-American Activities committee when Chief Investigator Robert E. Stripling asserted: "The Political Action Committee, a.ias the National Citizens Political Action Cominr ee is following the Communist party line not the 'rank and file' of labor line. It is part the revamped blueprint of the Communist Par to take over and destroy the American system of government by taking ever a major political Pa''In doing this they are receiving the active assistance of all the fronts and organizations which rally around the Communist movement They are also receiving the active assistance af a number of officials and employees of the federal government and the bill is being paid by the members of the CIO who are misled by certain of their oommunist-insoired Headers. Of 141 members cf the CIO-P AC.

more than 80 per cent have been affiliated with the Com-iE Srrty or its front. Stripling told the con-gressional committee. Plot Charged Stripling tcld of a telegram sent by oclress Helen Gahaaan, wife of screen star Melvm Dnualas and Democratic nominee ior Congress from her California district to Sen. Claude Penoer, Democrat cf Florida. "If at all oossiHe," the telegram read, prevail uoon Vail PHtman (brother of the late Sen Kv Pittman, Democrat of Nevada) to run against McCarran in Nevada.

Everything is in his favor and he is most electible. "This telegram" Stripling declared, was charged to the CIO Pclitical Action Committee In Lcs Angeles." The CIO-PAC is meeting resistance from the rank and file of the CIO in its attempt to build up the tremendous slush fund which it has been using to purqe those in public office 'bey dcTnot like." Striding asserted, and introduced a telearam from Sidney Hillman dated arch 14 144 and addressed to John Green of am-den N.j, president of ihe Industrial Lianne and Shipbuilding Workers of America It read: "Local nine is committed tor 3i a member which amounts to $16,000. To date the administrator has paid only $1,000. He also has not put on a full time man from the national office. Imperative this be done immediately and commitments Members of CIO, resentful of such shake-down methods as revealed by Hitmans telegram, have resigned from CIO, Stripling vealed, and will be called as witnesses in the investigation.

"Clear With Sydney Refuting Sidney Hillman's congressional committee testimony "that indorsement ot local candidates was entirely up to local members of the PAC and that the national office had nothing to do with ft," Stripling produced another telegram dated August 24, 1944, addressed to Walter Frisbie, CIO PAC official Indianapolis from Raymond Geough who re-signed as regional director of OPA to become CIO PAC director for Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana. The telegram read: "Please immediately notify all locals and PAC committees throughout your state to positively make no political endorsements Elect Fred J. Hart As Congressman to Get Home Interests Represented in Nations Capitol Harts Opponent Is George Outland Known Follower Sidney Hillman PAC And His Record Eroves This Fact. A7EY I For Jobs and November 7 Vote the-Straight Republican Ticket Real Security,.