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...Dennis' chief exploit of the Pink Decade was in the labor field. He made a Communist out of violent Harold Christoffel, an aggrieved electrical apprentice at Allis-Chalmers, manufacturers of industrial machinery. Christoffel married Ann Sabljak. Under Dennis' direction, Christoffel engineered a seizure of the State C.I.O. Council. With the help of a goon squad, Christoffel seized and dominated Allis-Chalmers' C.I.O. auto workers' union. In 1941 Dennis' work paid off. It was the period of the Stalin-Hitler pact, when...
...Washington, 36-year-old Harold Christoffel, onetime president of Milwaukee's United Automobile Workers(C.I.O.) Local 248 and leader of two long, bitter strikes at the Allis-Chalmers plant, stood long-faced as a federal judge sentenced him to prison for two to six years for perjury. He had lied repeatedly to the House Labor Committee when he denied being a Communist or having Communist affiliations (TIME, June...
...Received a report from its Labor Committee that a 1941 strike at the Allis-Chalmers plant near Milwaukee was called at the direction of the Communist party. The committee charged Harold Christoffel and Robert Buse, past & present presidents of the U.A.W. local, with falsely testifying while under oath, asked the Justice Department to prosecute them...
Last week, the charge of Communism was just about clinched. Buse and the local's honorary president, Harold Christoffel, had their pasts examined by a subcommittee of the House labor committee, and the evidence that they had been Communists, despite sworn denials, set the committee studying a citation for perjury. On the strength of this, Allis-Chalmers had fired them both...
Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. settled an old score. In 1941 the company had been strike-shut for 76 days. Last week Allis-Chalmers fired Communist-line Harold Christoffel, who had led the strike...