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Show jlVPA mauiRY I - HEARS OF PLOT WASHINGTON, May 11 i The house committee Investigating the WPA iaaxd testimony tods? lnml ra ember of the Workers Alliance plotted unsuccessfully to prevent . forcibly a congressman from attending at-tending the Reading, Pa, postoffice cornerstone-laying ceremonies because be-cause he voted against Increased relief re-lief fund. Chris Doom, committee Investigator, Investi-gator, read an affidavit from a member mem-ber of the alliance which said that at a meeting of the organization's reading branch last Tueseday night a man named Ben Rubin sought adoption of a resolution providing that if Representative Moser D., Pa.) attended the cornerstone-laying next Saturday, they would remove re-move him bodily from the platform. Did Not Pass Deose said the resolution did not pass and that communist member of the alliance withdrew from the meeting In protest. Moaer sat at one end of the committee com-mittee table as Doom testified and tok newsmen he "certainly would" attend the postoffice exercise . Saturday. Another witness. OUn C Eckley, representing the Michigan Builders' Supply association, told the committee commit-tee tbe WPA'a purchasing policies were robbing local building malarial dealers of their traditional business. Eckley said, for Illustration, that In -on Instance the government called for bids on 600,000 barrels t Mmant in Detroit and Flint Mich., for use on projects at widely scattered points in the state. Only two dealers submitted bids, Eckley said, and nine declined to bid. "The WPA ha taken over th functions tbst normally would be handled by the local dealers," he added. Tbe witness said hi group made the "definite recommendation" that purchases for WPA projects be made through the local dealers. This would preserve the normal business functions and tend to sustain employment em-ployment he said. The committee also planned to delve further Into charges that federal fed-eral relief money had been used In Tennessee to enhance the value of property owned by politically prom- Lient persona. |