Milford chronicle., 1948-04-30


patriotism and principle. Il will be
remembered that Roosevelt alter
nately disowned and embraced the
Communist. accord
ing to circumstances.
Another time, the
same union poll
ticians, { arr ying
spurious credentials
as spokesmen for
several millions Of
American citizens,
I might find it expedi-
ent to collaborate with and defend
the Communists as they did in many
cases in the past. Their credentials
are fraudulent for many reasons but
primarily because THERE is NO
GUARANTEE AND SMALL PRE-.
TENSE OF HONESTY IN UNION
ELECTIONS.
The case Of Harold ChristOflel
Of Milwaukee, now SO years old,
formerly president Of Local 24S
Of United Auto Workers at the
Allis-C Chalmers plant IN Milwaukee,
will show that the present mood
Of the clio. and Of United Auto
Workers Is entirely political. It
also win enIighten the public on
the reliability Of union elections.
Chrlstoffel recently was found
guilty on six counts Of perjury in
the district court Of Washington,
DC, for having denied under oath
to committee Of congress that be
was Communist or ever had been
one. He is one Of the most treach-
erous operators in the entire union
racket whether clio. or A.F. Of L.
During the war, he was the most
dangerous because other union poll
ticians in the CLIO. and the auto
workers who knew he was a mem
ber Of this traltorous Russian band
fought him only as a political rival
within the racket but never as an
enemy Of the United States. They
never denounced him to the public
as a traitorous plotter against the
country because that would have
been red-baiting and they always
were ready to make a deal for Com
munist strength in some political
coup within the union or to terrorize
a community by organized riots.
The Communists are expert rioters
and terrorists.
Christoffel and q
Stroke small group Of fellow
of Communists at Allis-
Sgbof00o Chalmers were re-
sponsible for a strike
Of 78 days in 1941 which was the
most destructive stroke Of sabotage
that any enemy struck this country
in the war. The Wisconsin employ
ment relations board said in writing:
''The officers of Local 248, Harold
Christoffel and others, caused at
least 1900 ballots to be marked as
favoring the strike and caused such
ballots to be counted" !"
The board had authorized exam-
inatiOn Of the ballots by Clark
Sellers, Los Angeles, and John +.
TyreIl, Milwaukee, experts IN
handwriting and disputed dOcu-
ments. They acted independently
and reached the same conclusion
by the same evidence which was
unnoticeable to the Iayman's eye.
Christoffel and his co-conspirs-
tors struck Allis-C Chalmers In Janu-
airy, 1941, while Hitler and Stain
were allies and the American Com.
muniyts were doing all they could
to hamper the war preparations Of
the United States.
The attitude Of the Communists
then was similar to Henry Wallace's
attitude today.
Christoffers local Of
Ballots United Auto Workers
0re contained only q mi-
Tnsnoctod nority Of the workers.
Fewer than half Of
the employees voted, so the strike
failed to carry. But two days later,
on January q, Christoffel took an
other vote. This one was pulled off
in union headquarters, subject to no
outside observation or supervision.
The racketeers reported 6,759 ballots
as against total Of 4.547 persons
clicked off on an automatic counter
by company official across the
street as the voters entered the
place.
The union would have refused to
submit the ballots for expert inspec-
ton but had made the careless mis-
take of delivering them to the em-
ployment relations board in trivial
dispute over the mere wording Of the
proposition. Thus they were in hand
when Sellers and Tyrell wanted to
see them and they found glaring
proof that the Communists had fors-
ed more than 1000 yes" votes.
There were patches Of hundred
fake votes tied together. They had
been marked in series by the same
hand and enlarged photographs
brought out "ghOst markafA on
many Of them, proving that they
had been marked wh0lesaIe. one
ballot atop another. Voters mark
single ballots and thus do nOf leave
vacant Impressions on other bali
lots. The case was SO strong that
the union lawyers didn't try 70
deny the findings.
The Allis-C Chalmers strike involved
absolutely no labor dispute between
the management and any employee
II was a Communist frameup which