The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-22
BY wEsTBRook PEGLER

NEW YORk-Long distance telephone rec
ords subpoenaed by the Dies committee have
revealed close relationship between the Po-
litical Action committee of the CIO and the
following:
The White House and Mrs. Roosevelt
Vice-President Henry Wallace
The Department Of Agriculture.
The Department of Justice, and
Various regional directors Of the Farm Sc
curity Administration having the power to ex-
ert strong political and economic pressure on
farmers.
The numerous calls to the regional FSA
offices were made in most cases by c. B.
Baldwin, assistant director of the Political Ac-
ton committee, who resigned his job as chair
man of the FSA in Washington to become
actual manager Of the PAC's campaign to
elect President Roosevelt for fourth term
and Mr.. Wallace for second term and to
defeat select list of aspirants for the House
OF Representatives and the Senate
Sidney Hillman, chairman of the PAC. is
president of the Analgamated Clothing Work.
ers, CO. and recently has been denounced
by David Dubinsky and other right-wing union
radicals as the leader of the communist party
in New York, now known as the American
Labor party.
Baldwin has held various key jobs in Wash
ington ever since 1888, when he caught on as
assistant secretary of agriculture under Wal
lace. He became director of the Farm Sc
curity Administration in October, 194O The
phone calls indicate a strong continuing in
terest and influence in the FSA, while he is
on leave serving with the political leader of
the New York communist faction of the union
movement. His biography in Who's Who says
he was appointed "coordinator for State de-
2artment, Italy, 1943' and that he was dele
gate, first Pan-American Housing conference
| Buenos Aires,' pleasant outing for imper-
| cHnfib1n hanoffc fo fho
| The period covered by the subpoenaed tele-
phone records is fom Dec 5, 1943, to last
May 81. The slips showed % calls from the
New York headquarters of the CLOS Political
Action committee direct to the White House.
including one from Hillman to Mrs Roosevelt
on April 5, and another last Jan. 10 from
Hillman to David Niles, formerly Nyhus, of
Boston, one of the Presidents selfless assist
ants with passion for anonymity and for
left-wing politics. Hillman also called Vice
President Wallace, and Baldwin is recorded
as having made three calls to Wallace's Of
flee. All these calls were placed from the
New York headquarters of the Political Action
committee. Baldwin also telephoned the one
who calls himself Niles and Jonathan Daniels,
another of the Presidents selfless and anony-
nous political assistants, at the White House
on several occasions.
| The Hillman Baldwin Communist group of
the CLIO has defeated for denomination both
Martin Dies of Texas and Joe Starnes of Ala
bama, and this undoubtedly may be accepted
as one reason for the Dies committees in
terest in the PAC's telephone records. Starnes
is member Of the committee.
The records show, according to the Dies
committee Hundreds of calls f r m the
PACs New York headquarters to various gov
eminent officials, particularly in the Depart
ment of Justice, and in the Department of
Agriculture which controls the Farm Security
Administration and the fortunes of many farm
ers through it's local agents scattered every
where Mr.. Biddle, himself, and Mordecau
Ezekial, an economist firmly attached to the
Department of Agriculture, were among the
men so honored. The list contains the names
of many others in Washington who have been
/ associated with groups and movements by
themselves called liberal and radical but
called by others, communistic.
: Baldwin made seven calls to his old sub
ordinate, E. S. Morgan, regional director OF
the FSA in Montgomery, Ala, during Starnes'
primary campaign in which he was narrowly
defeated for denomination. Morgan, who might
! be BaldWin's subordinate again after election
possesses the usual political and economic In
fluence of regional director in farming
area.
f Baldwin also phoned 'Lovesay Vernon)
FSA" in Portland, Ore, where Senator Ru1us
Holman, republican, was beaten for renomlna-
ton by Wayne Morse, nominal repuoncan
: but left-Winger, who resigned from the " al
J Labor Board to make the contest. BALDWIN,
telephoned Morse, too.
Other telephone slips record calls flkm BAD
win at the PAC to the regional office OF tne
FSA in Phoenix, Ariz; to E. D. Banfleld, al
! the FSA office in Denver; to J. H. Woodat
at the FSA in Upper Darby, Pa, ana 70
Ralph Picard at the FSA office in both Gin
t cinnati and Indianapolis.