70 Year Magazine Archive

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Walter Dorosh, Secretary of the Tool and Dye Section of the UAW, Local 600 (Ford) took the Fifth Amendment eight times last Tuesday when queried by the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee about Communist affiliations. Paul Boatin, another Local 600 leader, testified that he had been a member of the Communist Party until his expulsion from it in 1949…. A Grand Jury in Los Angeles has called upon the LA County Supervisors to explain their reasons for supporting the UAW boycott of Kohler products.

In the fifteen months since the de-Stalinization drive, Daily Worker subscriptions have dropped by almost one-half. The Worker has 6,200 readers today as opposed to 11,500 in March, 1956…. In San Francisco, the California Labor School is closing after failing to reverse a Subversive Activities Control Board ruling that it was “Communist controlled”…. The United States Court of Appeals last week unanimously upheld the conviction of atom spy Morton Sobell.

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