The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-04-19
REDS CONTROL Clio,
SAYS F. B. POWERS.
INT'L UNION HEAD
Says John l.. Lewis Chartered A. C. A.
to Organize Telegraph, Telephone
Communications

Chicago ILNS).- The Commercial
Telegraphers' Union will ignore the
most recent request of the American
Communications Association &C. /. o.
for the setting up of a unity COM
mittee" to discuss unity between the
two organizations, Frank B. Powers,
international president, announced
here, as the A. G. A. held its fifth an
nual convention in Chicago.
$50 long as the Communist party
controls the A. G. A., which it now
does through Mervyn Rathborne, Rey
Pyle and scores of others, the Com
mercial Telegraphers' Union can have
nothing in common to discuss" Presi-
dent Powers said.
"The American Communications
Association is the new name for the
American Radio Telegraphists' Asso-
citation, which was launched by the
Communist party in 1882 to capture
American communications.
Warned in 1881
owe were warned by Rathborne in
1881, when he was attempting to or
ganize radio officers for the C. T. u,
that the Communist party was inter
ested and was offering to finance him.
He quit the G. t. U. and blossomed
out within six months on the Pacific
coast as a buddy of Harry Bridges
and with an organization having
paid officers in every port, monthly
magazine and hiring halls
''In 1897, John L. Lewis chartered
the American Communications Asso-
citation for the purpose of organizing
telegraph and telephone communica-
tions, furnishing them with more than
100000 in Is months.
'sFour witnesses have already tes-
titled under oath before the Dies COM
mittee that Hoyt S. Haddock, former
president of the then A. R. T. A.,
Rathborne and others were members
of the Communist party.
A. C. A. Leadership Long Red
From the time that the organiza-
tion was first started in 1882 until the
present time, the leadership has been
ommunist-controlled and has affili-
ated with each and every Communist
front committee from the time of
the Trade Union Unity League down
to the Committee for the Relief of
Spanish Loyalists.
with the connivance of the Ma
tional Labor Relations Board, the A.
c. A., now in convention here, figur-
atively put pistol to the head of
Postal Telegraphs, and by minority
sitdown and showdown strikes, forced
the Postal management to recognize
them and nullify C. t. u. agreements
in seven large cities. By their own
admission, A. G. A. is still resorting
to showdown technique during the life
of their agreement with Postal and
Mackay.
"A closed shop agreement, contin-
uing the scandalously low wages
which G. T. U. was gradually improv-
ing in Postal, was then entered into,
binding Postal employees to the A. c.
A. A Labor Board election resulted
in just fraction over so per cent of
Postal employees, including messen-
gers and part-time employees, voting
for A. G. A."
Powers went on to say that the
natural goal of a revolutionary move
ment, such as the Communist party,
is to capture the communications sys-
TENS. He added that the army and
navy is deeply concerned over prog
ress made in this direction by the
A. CA.
The Ct. U. president pointed out
that the constitution of his union
"bars Communists or any members
of any Communistic organization.