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Show Green Urges 'Purge' Of Reds From AFL WASHINGTON. Jan. 4 (INS) -William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, has ordered what Is tantamount to a purge of communists and communist com-munist sympathisers from the ranks of the federation. It was learned today. The fifty-ninth annual convention conven-tion of the A F L at Cincinnati last October went on record against communism. It now turns out that the expression there was more than Idle talk. Green, In a letter sent to all A F L unions on December De-cember 26 and first revealed today, to-day, ordered all federation unions to "refrain from taking Into membership mem-bership any known member of the communist party or active sympathiser." sym-pathiser." At the same time, he ordered the unions to "Immediately disassociate disassoci-ate (expel) members of the communist com-munist party and communist sympathisers sym-pathisers from membership of labor la-bor unions.". What effect Green's letter was; having was not yet known. According to the Dies committee Investigating un-American activities, activi-ties, an attempt has been made by communists "to bore from within with-in In the A F L." However, the committee added that "on the whole this effort met with but slight success." |