Evening star., 1955-05-11
.Probeof Reds
In Vital Plants
Will Continue
BY JAMES Y. NEWTON

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Chairman Mcclellan said to-
day his Senate Investigations
Subcommittee would continue
hearings on alleged Communist
infiltration of defense plants
after staff investigators have had
the chance to run down some
new leads.
The group yesterday heard a
wide assortment of witnesses,
one of whom denied under oath
an earlier charge of Senator
Mccarthy that he was a men,
ber of the Communist Party.
The witness accused by Sena-
tor Mccarthy, Michael Sam. an
employe of the CIO United Steel
Workers, in Dunkirk, N. Y, said
fatty he had never been a men,
ber of the party or had asso-
ciated knowingly with Commu-
nistS.
Senator Mccarthy produced
what was represented to be a
Communist Party ballot petition
in New York with Mr.. Sans
name signed to it.
Suspects Forgery
The witness said the signature
looked like his own but he added
that it must have been forged
He said that at the invitation
of two men who showed union
cards he had signed a similar
petition, which he was told was
for the American Labor Party
in 1946.
Last August another subcom-
mittee witness invoked the Fifth
Amendment when asked if she
knew or had given information
to Mr.. Sam. She was Diantha
Hoag, an electrical worker OF
Buffalo, N. Y, subsequently cited
for contempt by the subcom-
mittee.
At that time Senator McCar-
thy. then chairman of the sub
committee. told Miss Hoag that
Michael Sam is member oi
the Communist Party and a tor
union organizer" of it. He was
acting on the basis of the party
petition bearing Mr.. Sans Al
legged signature.
Mr.. Sam admitted under ques-
tioning by Senator Mcclellan
that Senator Mccarthy at the
time had reason to believe he
was a Communist.
FBI Informant
Another subcommittee witness
James w. GlatiS, of Boston, ties.
tilted that he joined the Com
munist Party in 1949 at the re.
quest of the FBI and remained
member until last year anc
was employed in several defense
plants in Massachusetts,.
Mr.. Glatis identified as mem.
bers of the party Charles Woj.
choWski and his wife Juanita
The husband is employed by the
Allis = Chalmers Manufacturing
Co.
Mr.. WojchoWski took the Fifth
Amendment when questioned by
committee members about hi.
alleged Communist connections
Mr.. Glatis said that he wa,
inducted into the Army during
the period he served the FB1
and that Communist Party off.
GERS tried to persuade him tt
turn over information to them
A witness who had invoked
the Fifth Amendment in testify.
ing before the subcommittee last
year testified yesterday that he
had been Communist for about
four years. He was William
Delos of Schenectady, N. Y, an
employe of the General Electric
Co.
In Party 4 Years
Mr.. Delos said that he was a
Communist from about 194e
through 1852.
He said that he invoked the
constitutional privilege in testi-
flying before the subcommittee a
year ago because at the time he
still had some contacts in the
party. He agreed to furnish the
subcommittee in closed session
and later the FBI, with names
of persons who attended Com
munist Party meetings.
Still another person scheduled
to be a witnes. Charles w. Ernie
Easton, Pa, telegraphed the sub
committee from Philadelphia
that he had become i'll en- route
TO Washington and was advised
by a doctor against further trav-
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