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Show ; -Am w ttg WeatLrook Pvtjlvr Released by WNU Fe.turei rvECISION of the bosses of t! c C.I.O. to oppose the Communis, traitors m the campaign of 1018 i a political stroke unrelated tc patriotism and principle. It will be remembered that Roosevelt allc-nately allc-nately disowned and embraced the t.v...ww.vA.l Sn-a... Communists, accord ingto circumstances, Another time, the same union poll-ticians, poll-ticians, carrying spurious credentials as spokesmen for several millions of American citizens, might find it exnedi- ent to collaborate with and defend the Communists as they did in many cases in the past. Their credentials are fraudulent for many reasons but primarily because THERE IS NO GUARANTEE AND SMALL PRETENSE PRE-TENSE OF HONESTY IN UNION ELECTIONS. The case of Harold Chrlstoffel of Milwaukee, now 36 years old, formerly president of Local 248 of United Auto Workers at the Allis-Chalmers plant In Milwaukee, will show that the present mood of the C.I.O. and of United Auto Workers is entirely political. It also will enlighten the public on the reliability of union elections. Christoffel recently wag found guilty on six counts of perjury in the district court of Washington, D.C., for having denied under oath to a committee of congress that he was a Communist or ever had been one. He is one of the most treacherous treach-erous operators in the entire union racket whether C.I.O. or A.F. of L. During the war, he was the most dangerous because other union politicians poli-ticians in the C.I.O. and the auto workers who knew he was a member mem-ber of this traitorous Russian band fought him only as a political rival within the racket but never as an enemy of the United States. They never denounced him to the public as a traitorous plotter against the country because that would have been red-baiting and they always were ready to make a deal for Communist Com-munist strength in some political coup within the union or to terrorize a community by organized riots. The Communists are expert rioters and terrorists. Christoffel and a Stroke small group of fellow of Communists at Allis-Sabolage Allis-Sabolage Chalmers were responsible re-sponsible for a strike of 78 days in 1941 which was the most destructive stroke of sabotage that any enemy struck this country in the war. The Wisconsin employment employ-ment relations board said in writing: "The officers of Local 248, Harold Christoffel and others, caused at least 2,200 ballots to be marked as favoring the strike and caused such ballots to be counted." The board had authorized examination exam-ination of the ballots by Clark Sellers, Los Angeles, and John F. Tyrell, Milwaukee, experts in handwriting and disputed documents. docu-ments. They acted independently and reached the same conclusion by the same evidence which was unnoticcable to the layman's eye. Christoffel and his co-conspirators struck Allis-Chalmers in January, Janu-ary, 1941, while Hitler and Stalin were allies and the American Communists Com-munists were doing all they could to hamper the war preparations of the United States. The attitude of the Communists then was similar to Henry Wallace's attitude today. Christoffel's local of Ballots United Auto Workers are contained only a mi- Inspected ' the T", 1 . Fewer than half of the employees voted, so the strike failed to carry. But two days later, on January 21, Christoffel took another an-other vote. This one was pulled off in union headquarters, subject to no outside observation or supervision. The racketeers reported 6,759 ballots as against a total of 4,547 persons clicked off on an automatic counter by a company official across the street as the voters entered the place. The union would have refused to submit the ballots for expert inspection inspec-tion but had made the careless mistake mis-take of delivering them to the employment em-ployment relations board in a trivial dispute over the mere wording of the proposition. Thus they were in hand when Sellers and Tyrell wanted to see them and they found glaring proof that the Communists had forged forg-ed more than 2.000 "yes" votes. There were batches of a hundred fake votes tied together. They had been marked in series by the same hand and enlarged photographs brought out "ghost marks" on many of them, proving that they had been marked wholesale, one ballot atop another. Voters mark single ballots and thus do not leave vacant Impressions on other ballots. bal-lots. The case was so strong thai the union lawyers didn't try to deny the findings. The Allis-Chalmers strike invoivee absolutely no labor dispute betweer the management and any employee It was a Communist frameup whirt held up manufacture of many grea machines which were needed foi manufacture of other machines. |