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Meanwhile the outfit that started the rout of Red teachers, the Rapp-Coudert legislative committee investigating subversive activities in New York City schools (TIME, March 31), last week resumed hearings. A teacher in P.S. 61, The Bronx, one Alfred J. Brooks, was revealed to have divided his time between The Bronx and Moscow. He had had seven leaves of absence from school since he became a teacher in 1922. Benjamin Gitlow and Joseph Zack, ex-Communist functionaries, said they had seen him in Moscow in 1927-28, working for the Communist International. His alleged party name: Bosse...
...convention singled out the Rapp-Coudert Committee in New York State and the Tenney Committee in California, both of which investigate un-American activities in the schools, for special denunciation as agencies for "political inquisition." The NCDE hopes to arouse public demand that such committees be abolished. Another group attacked was the National Association of Manufacturers, which was condemned for its investigations of text-books...
...teaching Communism in class. He was busy turning out statements for the press at the College Teachers Union office near Union Square when three detectives marched in and marched him off to police headquarters. There he was fingerprinted, confronted with an indictment for perjury before the Rapp-Coudert Committee. Morris Schappes spent the night in the Tombs...
...last week six ex-comrades had testified before the Rapp-Coudert legislative committee investigating subversive activities in New York City schools (TIME, March 17 et ante). They had named as Communists 64 teachers and clerks in three municipal colleges-Brooklyn, City and Hunter. The catalogue of Red activities was almost mock-sinister. The comrades were pictured as taking party pseudonyms, reading and writing Marxist literature, meeting secretly in each other's homes, issuing anonymous and scurrilous throwaways, sneaking stickers on subway windows, holding secret union '"fraction" caucuses, pleading with witnesses not to expose them. Although a witness accused...
...unrestricted license. . . . The Communists make use of any issue upon which they can lay their hands to promote rebellion and dissension." Three days later Dr. Wright suspended the college's No. 1 ex-Communist, red-haired English Tutor Morris U. (for nothing) Schappes, who confessed to the Rapp-Coudert Committee that he had been a party member for five years. He ordered Schappes to stand trial on charges that he had lied to the committee (saying there were only four Communists at the college), edited a "coarse, abusive, scurrilous, intemperate, scandalous and vulgar" Communist sheet, advised fellow teachers...