Evening star., 1940-01-13

The labor leader hired him at $50
week. plus Sc day for expenses, Mr..
Elder said, adding:
Shortly after I came to Detroit,
Martin proposed that I take some
boys and some guns and make
raid on Communist party headquar-
ters on Fourteenth street. He told
me that he wanted us to raid head
quarters, destroy the records and do
plenty of damage generally. I told
him that would not do this on $50
a week and expenses
Martin told me that he wanted
me to get number of men whose
names he gave me. = do not
recall all of the names, but recall
the names of Emil Macy, John
Ringwald and Walter Reuther
There were others mentioned by
him. He told me that he did not
want these men killed-just put in
the hospital-break a couple of arms,
etc. I told him I would not do the
job unless was given help and
some real money. He gave me the
sum of $3.50 to 60 to st. Louis to get
some boys to help out and get some
guns"
Says Mailing List Wanted.
Mr.. Elder declared Mr.. Martin
wanted him to break into the Safran
Printing Co. and get the U. A. VIC.
I. o. mailing list.
Il told Martin that if he wanted
this job done, it would take more
than an organizers pay, that it
would need $4,000 and several men,
He said okay, but he never gave me
the money"
Mr.. Elder charged that during the
strike which Mr.. Martin called at
Flint, Mich. last June, Mr. Martin
brought in IL or Is men from Kansas
City and number from Evansville,
Ind. THESE men were imported ito
do strong arm work." Mr.. Elder
said.
The affidavit added:
'On two or three occasions during
the last two months, Martin has
told me he had been offered a build
ing as headquarters free Of charge
He said that the building was a
valuable building, fixing its value
at $4,000 or s150,00O-I cannot re-
call which. 1t was apparently q
mansion of some kind.
HE said that the building was
offered to him by Father Coughlin.
He stated that he couldn't take
the building, however, since there
were strings attached to it and there
would be too much heat put on If
he took it."
The affidavit was read into the
record by Edmund M. Toland, COM
mittee counsel, during examination
of Mrs Ann Landy Wolf, review
attorney for the labor board. He
said it was taken from the ''infor-
NAL files" in the case brought by
the C. I. O. against the st. Louis
plant of the Ford Motor Co.
THE affidavit had the initials of
the BOARD chairman" Mr.. Toland
commented, so it probably came to
the attention of the board"
j. Warren Madden is the board S
chairman.
Denies Seeing Affidavit.
Although her Lame had been writ
ten on it, Mrs. Wolf said she never
had seen the affidavit. The ST.
Louis case, in which the C. I. O.
charged unfair labor practices on a
number of counts, is pending before
the board for decision.
Representative Murdock, Demo-
crat, of Utah moved to have the affi-
davit stricken from the record, on
the ground that it had nothing to
do with the St. Louis case or with
the N. L. R. B. investigation. After
the committee had gone into two
executive huddles, Representative
Healey, Democrat, Of Massachusetts,
presiding in the absence of Chair
man Smith, allowed the document
to stay in the record, although COM
menting that he did not think the
committee should go too far afielo
4 in considering the boards files.