Show EX COMMIE LINKS 3 WITH FARMER UNION A man who said he helped to organize the communist party in utah back in 1933 34 testified thursday he had met in communist front organizations several men active with the farmers union star defense witness for the utah state farm bureau de dendanto in a libel suit was paul crouch miami who testified he had been a member of the communist party from 1925 to 1942 1912 the bureau is being sued by the national farmers Fan ners upsilon service corporation because of a publication that referred to the farmers union as comun cobun dominated in his te simony aroch named three men who he said were active both with the farmers Fan ners union and with corn eunist front organizations organisations aubrey williams executive director of the national youth administrator from 1935 to 19 43 and present editor of the southern farmer a farmers union publication was among those named crouch testified lie he had often contacted williams in meetings of the southern conference of human wei fare which he called a communist front organization he also named don west a pout po utherA herni poet who lie he said saia was a chief supporter of the farmers union and miles hor cin an fanders a union oman er west he testified was active in the southern conference of human welfare are he said horton was a special mern mem ber of the Comuni st party who did not pay dues and was not tittered tiet re registered ered for his own prote protection C much of crouche Cro testimony was admitted by judge willis W ritter hitter over the objection of counsel for the plaintiff A ten page letter of resignation from the editor of the national union farmer which was published in the congressional record was admitted as evidence for possible mitigation of damages in event of a conviction but not as evidence in determining ter guilt or innocence james elmore former editor of the publication was on the stand to testify of his letter of resignation which aroused wide spread interest when it was pub li shed |