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leadership in the National Maritime
Union is Communist and that the
other 20 per cent "are afraid to open
their mouths"
''Then the union is virtually under
control of the Communist party?"
remarked Mr.. Dies.
'Yes," answered Phillips.
"Then you might say that Russia
has more control over the situation
than the United States?" asked the
chairman.
"You might" replied Phillips.
1T seems to me-" continued Mr..
Dies, that the Soviet Union is
virtually in control of the situation
here so far as ships are concerned"
"At the present time, believe so, +"
remarked Phillips.
Phillips previously had told the
committee an attempt had been
made to murder him because of his
opposition to Communism in the
N. M. U. Representative Dies sug-
gested he also present his case to
the Department of Justice.
There appears to have been q
conspiracy on the part of N. M. U.
officials to destroy the civil rights
of an individual" the chairman said.
There is no question that your rights
as an American citizen have been
violated.
1T seems to the chairman that It
Is your duty to go to the Department
OF Justice and lay before it all Of
these facts"
Curran Action Cited.
Phillips said that when an anti
Communist is elected to ofIice he is
called on charges and suspended.
He explained he was elected to office
by the rank and file of the N. Nj. U.
and later suspended on charges
lodged by Joseph Curran, president
OF the organization.
Phillips is member of the Amer
lean Legion and served in the 18TH
Aerial Squadron in France.
Before McCuistion began his testi-
mony today Chairman Dies directed
Committee Counsel Whitley to issue
q subpoena for George Mink. Rep
resentative Dies said the committee
had information Mink was a Soviet
secret police agent in this country.
McCuistion previously had told the
committee Mink was in charge of in
dltrating the maritime industry with
Communists and that he was such
an important figure in the party he
took his orders directly from Russia.
McCuistion also said that Mink
could give orders to Earl Browder.
general secretary of the Communist
party in the United States, and that
ne was the power behind the
scenes" in maritime work on the
West Coast.
Other Threats Detailed.
Subsequently McCuistion identified
officials in the N. M. U. who he said
are Communists, and launched into
another detailed story of other
threats made against him because he
was fighting the Communist party.
He said in New Orleans three'gun-
men known as "Sweetpea" Jarvis,
Joe Russell and Frazier went
around the water front saloons with
guns and said they were going to get
him. He said some seamen stopped
them and there was fight in which
Two men were shot.
He also declared that two days
before he came here to testify, two
men, 1sadore Gold and Tony Lucio,
followed him around the water front
IN New York and said they were
going to get him.
'They must have had some chick
en- in them," McCuistion told the
committee, because they didn't do
anything, and I walked around the
water front, and they followed me-"
In Constant Touch With Police.
He said that while he was in New
York N. M. U. officials made no ef-
tort to report to police that ne was
wanted in New Orleans. He said
he knew this because he was in
constant touch with the F. B. I. in
New York and the New York DO
lice.
Chairman Dies asked McCuistion
Just before he left the stand what
would happen in the marine industry
In the event the United States be-
came involved in the war.
There would Immediately be a
series of strikes against the ship
ment OF goods to enemies of the
Soviet" the witness responded.
McCuistion later told the COM
mittee he thought it would take
from year to 18 months to purge"
the N. M. U. of Communists.
Before today's hearing Chairman
Dies predicted that the administra-
ton would do everything in its
power" to block his request for two
year extension of the inquiry.
If the question could be brought
to a record vote, he declared, there
would not be 10 members against it.
Funds to Be Asked.
His resolution contained no re-
quest for additional funds, but the
committee, nearing the end of its
$125,000 appropriation, has an
nounced already that more money
will be sought. Unless the extension
Is granted, the committee must make
Its report by next January 3.
Representative Dies said that on
his way home to Texas when Con-
gress adjourns, he will stop at New
Orleans to investigate the case In
volvtng McCuistion.