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...Bruin eleven is led by its fast forward wall, centering about Ed Keppler, high-scoring center forward. Outside forward Phil Messare, and inside forward Jack Andrews are other standouts of the line...
...Business Agent Hugo Lundquist, Vice President Donald Keppler, other high-ranking officers of the A. M. U. local were Communists. 2) Lundquist and others were mishandling union funds. 3) An editorial board composed of Lundquist & friends had been dictating the Aero Mechanic's policies, inserting Red propaganda items, cartoons, squelching anti-Communist editorials and articles written by Editor Stone...
John ("Barney") Bader, 29-year-old president of the local, acquiesced to the demands of the members, appointed a trial board to investigate 1) Stone's charges against Lundquist, Keppler & friends; 2) charges against Stone and his helpers that they had defamed the Lundquist faction. Principals in the fight were meanwhile suspended. Last month, 2,000 members assembled to hear the first group of the trial board's reports and pass judgment. The meeting opened with music and drum majorettes cavorting on the stage, fell into a hush when the trial board began to read a report...
...report was damning: testimony of Boeing men that Keppler had invited them to join the Communist Party; stories of secret C. P. meetings in the apartment of a mysterious "Miss Kay"; stories of Keppler and Lundquist organizing May Day parades. The court of union rank & filers voted to accept the trial board's verdict that Keppler was a Communist...
...board's verdict. The court also decided that Editor Stone was guilty of a technical infraction in failing to bring his charges before the members instead of hawking them in the bootlegged Aero Mechanic. At week's end, 21 other cases were still unsettled. Vice President Keppler was still suspended from office...