Labor Denounces Communism in North Carolina Strike on Union Integrity
The editorial lauds labor leaders and unions resisting Communist influence in the CIO AFL and Democratic party. It cites North Carolina ads by the Communist party aimed at sowing strife and praises labor figures like William Smith and Charles Fink for denouncing the campaign. It warns that alignment with communism would endanger democracy and workers' rights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Communist Front
Democratic Party
CIO
Washington
Communist Party
North Carolina
AFL
William Smith
Charlotte
Mr. Smith
Charles A. Fink Ot Spencer
State Federation of Labor
North Carolina Federation of Labor
United States
Is the filibuster worth while
The editorial weighs Senator Clyde R. Hoey's planned challenge to anti filibuster bills and argues a united southern bloc could wield more influence than the filibuster. It questions regional strategy and praises constructive consensus over obstruction as a path to shaping national legislation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clyde R. Hoey
Senate Rules Committee
Congress
Hoey
Senate
Senator Hoey
South
Frantz Brothers Linked to Communist Activities in Alabama
The column notes testimony from Dies committee hearings involving Laurent Brown Frantz, arrested in Birmingham on Communist ties. It records his Memphis arrest connected to Spradley and his work with the National Committee for People's Rights while Joseph Gelders' southern representative. Robert Hall is named as a Communist party official in Alabama.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
TVA
John Marshall Frantz
Senate
David Lilienthal
Gordon Clapp
National Housing Agency
Laurent Brown Frantz
Birmingham
Hall
Communist Party
Laurent Frantz
Dies Committee
Memphis
Spradley
Spradling
National Committee For People's Rights
Joseph Gelders
Frantz
Robert Hall
Alabama
Testimony Questions Barker on Hall and Communist Ties
By George Sokolsky the testimony covers Robert F. Hall as district secretary for Alabama Georgia and Mississippi and southern representative of the Communist party national campaign committee. It discusses a letter claimed found in Birmingham and critiques TVA officials’ handling of communism concerns and the moral obligations of public officers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barker
Robert F. Hall
Communist Party
Alabama
Georgia
Mississippi
Frantz
Birmingham
Hall
Mr. Frantz
Department of Justice
Bob Hall
Lilienthal
Clapp
TVA
University of Tennessee
Capitol Square Adjournment and Historical Session Comparisons
February adjournment talks show a likely 69 day session around April 1 with past records cited from 1931 to 1945. Compensation confusion stems from a $10 day cap while pay totals hinge on session length. Must actions include the biennial appropriations act and hour of sine die adjournment. Paul Green’s cantata Song in the Wilderness premieres May 31 in Winston Salem linked to Wachovia’s 175th anniversary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
General Assembly
Paul Green
North Carolina
Winston- Salem
Charles Wardell
Salem College
University of North Carolina Press
Winston Salem
Wachovia
Winston-Salem
Lost Colony
Cape Fear
Jamestown-Williamsburg
Virginia
Waterside theater restoration funds debated at Fort Raleigh
A bill proposes $25 000 to restore and rebuild the waterside theater at Fort Raleigh while the North Carolina Symphony Orchestra seeks 25 000 annually versus 12 000 recommended by the budget panel and 4 000 spent this year. Army helicopters based in Cataloochie are reportedly reaching new altitudes as part of a search for a missing aircraft near Waynesville, while Hathaway Cross faces bid from allies over his Fort Bragg return and access to officers club on his birthday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cripts
Fort Raleigh
N. C
Waynesville
Smokies
Hathaway Cross
Paroles
Fort Bragg
Cross
Cherry
Selective Service
Eight new laws proposed to curb subversive activity
Washington reports J. Parnell Thomas, Republican chairman, says eight draft measures would regulate un American activities in the federal government, labor unions, and among aliens. Proposals include a new DOJ division, stripping tax exemptions from Communist fronts, deportation, citizen only union leadership, loyalty commission, published agent lists, restricted second class mail, and banned aliases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Congress
J. Parnell Thomas
House Committee On UN
Department of Justice Division
U. S
Departments of State and Justice
Counter Educational Program Aims To Combat Subversives
The article describes a legislative reform plan led by Chairman Thomas for a reorganized committee with a 50000 yearly appropriation. It seeks a counter educational program through frequent reports and a directory of subversive groups and people. Investigations would start quietly, then move to public hearings, following Eisler’s approach.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas
Gerhart Eisler
Background of a Crusader
The new chairman is the last original Dies committee member from 1938. A former New Jersey state legislator, he began focusing on subversive activities after the Workers Alliance seized Trenton in 1935 to protest Hoffmans tax plans. Now 52, he is a medium-built former World War I captain who served as Allendale mayor before joining the legislature.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Jersey
Workers Alliance
Trenton
Harold Hoffmans
Thomas
Allendale
N. J
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High Point Enterprise
John Budd
Lexington Ave
Audit Bureau OF Circulation
N.C. Labor
George Sokolsky
Capitol Square
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Capitol News Notebook
Peter Edson
NEA
Congressional Directory
Hollywood
Mister Breger
Breger
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