Show e Inside Labor Who's Playing Commie Role By Victor Riesel It can now be disclosed and documented that a representative tive the of Dean Acheson's State Department recently visited the most strategic strategic stra stra- F waterfront waterfront water water- t front union t. t 1 headquarters w rr in this country r and urged t its leaders to P h have a vet their h e i r 1 5 working wharf followers refuse refuse refuse re re- fuse to load guns and am- am Mr Riesel on ships rushing military supplies to our friends in Europe This spokesman for the U. U S S. S Department of State Stale introduced introduced intro intro- herself as Edith Cameron Camer Camer- on Wall alL She carried the usual credentials used by federal agents In addition she presented presented pre pre- a letter elter from Secreta Secretary ry of Labor Maurice laurice Tobin lobin which in effect urged union leaders to cooperate with her This conversation took place in the national headquarters of the A F FL's Ls L's International Longshoremen's Longshoremen's Longshoremen's Long Long- long a target target target tar tar- get of the opposition Through its dock it controls all ocean traffic to and from almost the entire world In Ryans Ryan's Office Lest there be the slightest doubt as to time place and participants I record here that the lady still in the employ of the State Department at this very minute made this proposal in a talk with the husky r ILA L A chief Joe Ryan m in his private office at W. W St St. N. N Y C C. at about on the afternoon of this past March 13 It all began some days after Ryan had made certain that special Italian cargo ships were swiftly loaded with war stuff and sped on their way to toRome's toRome's toRome's Romes Rome's military depots Ryan had to see to this personally early in March farch when he was informed that a Communist propaganda spree was growing in Brooklyn at the Army waterfront base there A Apparently p par e n t 1 y an Italian Commie squad operating out of its Henry St. St Catacomb had spread out among the Italian longshoremen on the military piers and was urging the cargo slingers clingers not to load the Italian freighters Joe got out there fast So did Pentagon officers and some city officials including the mayor The ships were loaded Routine Call ISome Some I days later Ryan received received received re re- re- re what he believed was wasa a routine call from one of the many government officials who seek his unions union's aid in this war She was from the State Department She wanted to discuss the unions union's man power problems There was some technical talk She saw union records Suddenly and sweetly the lady said You have just issued orders to your men to load war sup sup- pl plies es And when I go over to France the French longshoremen longshore longshore- men will ask me about their brothers in America and what they're doing When I tell them that you are going to persist in your policy of sending the thet cargoes t over there will that not drive them into Communist hands Wont t you let me have your yom word that I can give them practical assurances that you will change your policy on loading these ships Slightly Apoplectic Never famous for his bis shyness shyness shyness shy shy- ness Joe Ryan got slightly apoplectic Listen girlie he snapped those French longshoremen ARE in the Communist Party They went in back in Dec 4 1936 when they refused to unload unload unload un un- un- un load our S. S S. S George Wash ash Washington ashington ington of the U. U S. S Lines and you or your people know it Joe opened the door and shouted for his secretary to throw her out before he lost his temper and forgot he wasn't on the docks Protests were shot to the State Department But it has refused to condemn her nor disassociate itself from her Who Vho sent her It doesn't seem possible that she could dare do this without orders from some superior Who Vho is he |