_ JFK Assassination System. Date: 4/27/201 > | Identification Form Agency Information AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER: — 124-90132-10023 RECORD SERIES: HQ AGENCY FILENUMBER: CR 100-71274-26 Document Information ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: NY TO: HQ TITLE: DATE: 04/14/1949 PAGES: 6 SUBJECTS : JACK RUBENSTEIN GEORGE MORRIS DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION: — Unclassified RESTRICTIONS: 4 CURRENT STATUS:  Redact DATE OF LASTREVIEW: 09/25/1998 OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE COMMENTS : RPT rn v9.1 1 HW 45948 DocId:32336119 Page 1
sy NY 100-13203 | The "Daily Worker" for June 6, 1947 stated that the subject would discuss, "Your Stake in Labor's Battle With the Trusts", on Saturday at the Progressive Forum, 13 Astor Place, New York City. Confidential Informant ND-408 furnished a letter from the Mosholu- Kingsbridge Section of the Communist Party, dated March 3, 1947, stating that. the subject would be a speaker at the Sunday Forum at their headquarters at 3092 Hull Avenue, Bronx on March 23, 1947.- - ‘ An item in the "Daily Worker" on September 6, 1947 states that =, the subject, the Labor Editor of the "Daily Worker"™: was covering the CIO. New York State Convention at Saratoga Springs and would tour America's largest industrial cities including Schenectady, Buffalo, Detroit, Flint, Toledo, Cleveland, Youngstown, Pittsburgh and. Boston, to find out about, . (.°: the problems facing American workers. ho : es » Confidential Informant’ 1-1 advised on August 29, 1947, that the Subject was requested to speak on the Taft-Hartisy Bill for the IWO Lodge 102 at 1407 Wilkins Avenue, Bronx, on September 5, 1947. On December 4, 1947, Confidential Informant T~2 stated that the subject attended the Lenin School in Russia in 1928 under the name MORRIS YUSEM. The informant said he!received this information from JACKRUBINSTEIN, Vice-President, CIO Textile Workers Union.  §  ° Pe . Washington Field Confidential Informant S-117, advised that Passport 500110 was issued on February 24, 1928 to MORRIS YUSEM, born at Raehni, Russia, April 6, 1903. /His father, JOSEPA WUSEM was born in Russia and naturalized at the Eastern District Court of Pennsylvania on December 6, 1921.’ The passport authorized travel to Germany, France, England, and Italy for six months for travel purposes. Subject stated he was a garment worker, residence 135 East 18th Street, New York City. On May 10, 1929, he applied for another passport for the purpose of visiting Russia to visit relatives and introduce modern methods of cutting in the clothing industry and he said there was a probability that he would stay in Russia. Passport 43892 was issued to him on May 11, 1929, and he listed his residence at this time as, 20 West 126th Street, New York Citye ae A weekly payroll and time sheet book listing hg names and signatures of "Daily Worker" employees was furnished by Confidential Informant Tl on April 2, 1948. - The subject's name and Signature, GEORGE MORRIS,.‘appears in, this book which is being retained in the New York files. 4 HW 45948 DocId:32336119 Page 2
NY 100-13203 . Confidential Informant ND-419 furnished a list of individuals | delegated as members of the various, a TH to. ‘preside at the Convention of the Brooklyn Communist Party. tos ESTs of the Brighton Section . was listed’ as a member of the Resolutions Committee. The list, which was - legaliy obtained by the informant, is being retained in the New York file. fne “Daily Worker" of June 28, 1948, stated that GEORGE MORRIS spoke on behalf of the "Daily Worker" at. the Brooklyn Communist Party Convention. Confidential Informant T-3 furnished a sighed statement to SA LEON 0, PRIOR at the Miami Office on April 24, 1948, stating that he- knew GEORGE MORRIS under his name of MORRIS YUSEM from 1927: to 1930 when he was a member of the Young Communist League. ‘This informant stated that MORRIS joined the "Daily Worker" staff and has become one ‘of the Party's best authorities on Labor. The informant said he had talked with the subject in September, 1946. ’., The "Daily Worker" for September 17, 1948, announced that the subject would be a speaker on "Who's Splitting the Labor Movement", on September 19, 1948 at the Jefferson School Forum, New York City. - The subject is announced as a speaker at the Brooklyn Press | Conference in the "Daily Worker" dated December 9, 1948. A réview of copies of the "Daily Worker" revealed that the subject's name appeared as the author of a weekly column entitled "Views on Labor News" from March 12, 1947 to October 14, 1947. -Since then’ his “name has appeared as the author of a weekly column entitled, "The World of Labor", including the issue of January 17, 1949. He has,also appeared as author of numerous topical features during this period and has: contributed features for the monthly magazine "Political Affairs" formerly known as "The Communist". His articles appear in the magazine issues dated January, 1946; March, 1947, and August, 1948. ~All of the aforementioned writings are frankly pro-Comunistic. -PEWNDING - HW 45948 DocId:32336119 Page 3