Show I Vote C Coercion Scandal Probe Fades Away I W WASHINGTON r Oct OeL 28 INS INS INS- The senate campaign funds funda committees committee's com corn Investigation of charges charge of political coercion In Pennsylvania faded laded away today as it was announced announced an an- pounced that the next m meeting of the committee will be held on November November No No- November vember 9 six Ix days daYI after the elec- elec tion lon While Chairman an Lonergan D D. Conn has power to call caU an emergency emergency emer emer- gency lency session Ion attaches said that no 10 hearings will wUl be held neither on Republican charges that the W P A AIn In n Pennsylvania anla is shot through with poll polities politics ti ca nor Democratic charges that big employers are coercing coercing coercing co co- co- co workers to vote Republican Robert Jeffries secretary said that reports of or Investigations did not show v sufficient basis for public hearings at this Um time Reports of or Louts Louis R. R G Giavis la vis chief investigator and other agents agent sent Into the field by the committee were read by Jeffries to ne newspaper menThe men The committee also made public a tabulation made by Edward Jones Jonca Penns Pennsylvania W P A administrator admin admin- on the political affiliations of V P A supervisors The tabulation showed that In Delaware county there were D Democratic and Republican W WP P PA PA A while In the Phila Phila- Philadelphia Philadelphia delphia and Pittsburgh districts there were Democrats and Republicans and others No explanation explanation ex ex- was wa given for the checkup checkup check- check affiliation up on the s' s political tion reports on the charges of 01 I political coercion in W P A made by William Hard In radio talks consisted con con I sidled d chiefly of or denials by W P A I supervisors Earl T T. Musselman u elman of ot Harrisburg Harrisburg Harris Harris- I burg was wu quoted in an affidavit it as assaying assaying saying that Hard was mistaken in In saying he was dismissed from W WP WI P PA A b because ause he did not bu buy a Jack Jack- son Ion day dinner ticket He said that thata a state highway tried to sell him a ticket that he paid 1 on oft account and did not pay the other 4 Joseph Schuyler W Wr 1 A director at Wilkes Barre Barre wa was quoted as a. emphatically emphatically emphatically em em- denying that any em em- were discharged because of politics Sixty charging that employers employers employers em em- threatened workers with discharge or actually discharged them because th they y were Democrats are in the committees committee's hands |