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embraced by the Steel Workers Or
ganizing Committee.
Identifies Directors.
The witness said he knew or had
reason to believe eight national di-
rectors of the G. I. o. were Com
munist party members. He iden-
titled them as Donald Henderson of
the Cannery Workers, Mervin Rath-
borne, head of the Communications
Association; Julius Emspak of the
Electrical Workers, Ben Gold Of the
Furriers' Union. Harry Bridges, West
Coast c. I. o. leader; Lewis Merrill
of the Office Workers, Michael Quill
Of the Transport Workers and Joseph
Curran, head of the National Mari
time Union.
Mr.. Zack said j. Rubin. president
of the New York Trades Council, an
A. F. Of L. affiliate, had been q
Communist party member from the
beginning"
Names of number of other G.
I. o. officials were read to the
witness, but were stricken from the
record when he said he was unable
to identify them.
Mr.. Zack was questioned particu-
larly about Mr.. Bridges, who is fight
Labor Department proceedings de-
signed to have him deported to his
native Australia. Repeatedly, Mr..
Bridges has denied he was in any
way connected with the Communist
party. Mr.. Zack said:
II never met him personally. But
when Mr.. Browder earl Browder,
general secretary Of the Communist
party, who was in San Francisco
during the strike (maritime) in 1894,
was on his way back, he stopped in
Cleveland and told me the main man
there for the party was Bridges"
Lands to Get Testimony.
Chairman Dies said later he would
instruct the secretary of the COM
mittee to turn over Mr.. Zack's tes-
timony with respect to Mr.. Bridges
to Dean James M. Lands of the
Harvard University Law School, who
as special examiner for the Labor
Department conducted the deporta-
ton hearings against the West Coast
c. I. o. leader.
Responding to questions near the
close Of his appearance on the wit
ness stand. Mr.. Zack denied en-
phatically "sit-down" strikes in the
United States were the brain child
of the Communist party. He said
they arose in this country out of
sheer desperation" of workers who
feared to strike under their legiti-
mate names. After the "sit-down"
strike technique became popular,
however, he said, the Communist
party Jumped on the band wagon"
to sponsor it in order to maintain
influence over the masses"
Opposed Lewis, He Says.
The committee also was told by
MIR. Zack that the Russian Comm
tern invested large sums" in an
effort to defeat John L. Lewis for
reelection as head of the c. I. o.
in 1880 and to elect John Brochy,
executive secretary, rs president.
The witness earlier had recounted
how he had, for many years, taken
a leading part in the organization
of the Communist party, and how it
had expelled him in 1894 because
Of his opposition to change Of
policy. He also told how his wife
and son had been held hostages"
in Russia to prevent him from dis
closing anything after his "break"
with the party in this country.
Despite fruitless efforts to bring
about the return to this country of
his wife and son, Mr.. Zack said their
fate could be no worse than that
they have already faced, and he had
made up his mind now to flight"
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