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Witt's End. Matusow went to El Paso to testify that he had lied when he helped to convict Clinton Jencks, an official of the Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers' Union, which was thrown out of the C.I.O. in 1950 for being Communist-dominated. On the strength of Matusow...
When Communist Lawyer Nathan Witt, representing Jencks, refused to answer whether he is now or ever has been a Communist, Judge Thomason threw Witt out of court. He held that a lawyer has a special duty to deny himself the protection of the Fifth Amendment in a case where he...
Matusow had been making a miserable $35 a week as a Red errand boy, and he had noted the rise of McCarthyism. Matusow now says that anti-Communism looked like "a good racket." He was soon in business right up to his mouth. He named more than 150 persons as...
Harvey Matusow now confesses that he testified falsely against the 13 second-string Communists. He says that he was coached in this by Roy Cohn, then an assistant U.S. attorney. (Cohn denied the charge.) Matusow says he also lied in the Jencks trial.
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...