Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-21
FAIR
ENOUGH
BY Westbrook
Pegler

committee have revealed q clos0v
relationship between the politi-
cal action committee OF the Go
and the following:
The White House and Mrs.
Roosevelt.
Vice President Henry Wal
lace.
The department OF agricul-
ture.
The department of justice,
and
Various regional directors OF
the Farm Security Administra-
ton having the power TO exert
strong political and economic
pressure on farmers.
The numerous calls TO the re-
gional FSA officers were made
in most cases by G. B. Baldwin,
assistant director OF the politi-
cal action committee, who re-
signed his job as chairman OF
the FSA in Washington to be-
come actual manager of the
PACs campaign to elect Presi-
dent Roosevelt for a fourth
term and TO defeat a select list
of aspirants for the House Of
Representatives and the Senate.
Sidney Hillman, chairman Of
the PAC, is president of the
Amalgamated Clothing Work.
ers, Clio. and recently has been
denounced by David Dubinsky
and other right wing radicals.
as the leader of the Communist
party in New York, now known
as the American Labor party.
baldwin has held various
II key Jobs in Washington ever
since 1893, when he caught on
as assistant secretary OF agri.
culture under Wallace. He be-
came director of the Farm
Security Administration in OcA
tober, 1910. 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 "co-ordinator
for state department, Italy.
1943" and that he was dele
gate, first Pan-American hous-
ing conference. Buenos Aires"
a pleasant outing for impercep-
tible benefits 10 the American
people.
The period covered by the
subpenaed telephone records is
from Dec. 5, l943, 10 last May
81. The slips showed Is calls
from the New York headquar-
tiers Of the CLOS political action
committee direct 10 the White
House. including one from Hill
man 10 Mrs. Roosevelt on April
5. and another last Jan. 10 from
Hilman 10 David Niles, formerly
NyhuS of Boston. one Of the
Presidents selfless assistants
with passion for anonymity
and for left wing politics. Hill
man also called Vice President
Wallace and Baldwin is re-
corded as having made three
calls 10 Wallace's office. 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 JON
athan Daniels, another Of the
Presidents selfless and anony-
nous political assistants. al the
White House on several occa-
slons.
THE Hillman-B Baldwin Com
L munist group of the C1g~
has defeated for renominatic1y
both Martin Dies of Texas anu.
Joe Starnes Of Alabama. and
this undoubtedly may be ac-
Cepted as one reason for the
Dies committee interest in the
PACs telephone records.
Starnes is member OF the
committee.
The records show, according
10 the Dies committee, hun
dredS' of calls from the PAC'S
New York headquarters 10 vari-
Gus government officials, par
ticularly in the department of
justice. and in the department
of agriculture which controls
the Farm Security Administra.
ton and the fortunes of many
farmers through its local agents
scattered everywhere. Mr.. Bid.
die, himself. and Mordecsi Eze-
kial, an economist firmly at
tached TO the department Of
agriculture, were among the
men so honored. The list con.
talns 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 subordinate, +. S. Nor.
gan, regional director OF the
FSA in Montgomery, Ala. dur.
ing Starnes' primary campaign
in which he was narrowly de.
feated for denomination. Nor.
gan, who might be Baldwin's
subordinate again after election,
possesses the usual political and
economic influence Of regional
director in farming area.
Baldwin also phoned Love-
| saw (Vernnnl ESA" in Port.