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Longtime Communist Ben Gold, 55, president of the Fur & Leather Workers Union, was found guilty by a Federal Court jury in Washington last week of making false statements to a Government agency. His crime: filing a Taft-Hartley law non-Communist affidavit on Aug. 30, 1950, a few days after "fraudulently" announcing his resignation from the party...
Secretary Stevens, getting from Zwicker an affidavit of what had happened at the closed hearing, was enraged by Zwicker's story of McCarthy's abuse. Without waiting for a transcript of the testimony. Stevens publicly ordered Zwicker not to testify at the next hearing and announced that he would appear in Zwicker's place. McCarthy, warming up, accepted the challenge. Stevens' statement was so worded as to give many the impression that he would shield all Army officers from questioning by McCarthy. Such a position would have scant legal basis and would be unacceptable...
Last week Clinton Jencks, international representative of the red-hued International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, became the second labor leader to be convicted of falsifying a Taft-Hartley non-Communist affidavit. (The first: United Electrical Workers' F. Melvin Hupman.) A federal jury in El Paso took 22 minutes to find Jencks guilty, and he was sentenced to five years in prison...
...that by we his were letter not, to in us. any The legal commit sense, tee, as we understand it, is not set up with any authority to give anyone a technically definitive "clearance." What we had from Mr. Velde was a letter to the effect that a sworn affidavit which we had voluntarily provided, because we wanted to straighten out once for all any ambiguities about certain tenuous "affiliations" of years past, was acceptable to the completion of committee the as a record . . "clarification." Again, to say that we personally received a citation from the California American Legion...
...vain. The D.A.V. campaigns used the names of President Eisenhower, former President Truman, and Generals Omar Bradley and Douglas MacArthur in unauthorized "endorsements," until they were stopped by the threat of a mail-fraud trial. The National Kids Day appeal featured a "testimonial" from Bing Crosby, although Crosby made affidavit that he had never given permission to use his name...