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...They're seizing the power plant and the telephone building now," boomed the voice over the public-address system. "Henceforth, they will be the property of the state. A boy has been arrested for waving an American flag. He will be dealt with severely." Hartley, Iowa (pop. 1,650) was staging a demonstration of Communism...
...Hansen could muster only about a dozen Hartley men to serve as "guerrillas," plus a few individual Guardsmen from neighboring towns. As the raiders rolled into town in a drizzling rain, the streets were almost deserted. The chief of police was arrested, and "executed" out behind Foley's furniture store. Sheriff Ed Lemkull was playfully roughed up (see cut). Red flags were hung all over the main street and road blocks established. One oldster complained bitterly about standing in line for a permit to buy each glass of beer. "That's the severity of it, Al," explained...
...Hartley's thrifty German citizens just didn't like it. They knew it was only make-believe but it kind of scared them anyway. "They know Communism is bad," explained a town official. "They feel that when you play around with something that is bad, somebody's going to get hurt." Some remembered that when Mosinee, Wis. had a Communist Day, the mayor had suffered a fatal heart attack. Then the program said that houses would be searched. "They won't have no pants if they come to our place," said one housewife...
...hundred printers, engravers, stereotypers, pressmen and mailers had shown up for work. Although their A.F.L. and independent unions were not on strike, only a handful crossed the orderly picket line. The rest refused to cross, for fear of their "physical safety"-an explanation apparently designed to skirt the Taft-Hartley ban on secondary boycotts and to avoid violating their own union contracts...
Died. Representative John Lesinski, 65, veteran Democratic Congressman, champion of labor as chairman of the influential House Education and Labor Committee, undeviating foe of the Taft-Hartley Act; of a heart attack; in Dearborn, Mich. John Lesinski was sent to Congress in 1933 as the first Representative of Michigan's newly created 16th congressional district; a labor-minded area sent him back for the next 17 years...