"Who's unAmerican!" - 1947 pamphlet issued by Food, Tobacco, Agricultural & Allied Workers Union of America C.I.O.
1947 Pamphlet issued by FTA-CIO addressing the tactics of HUAC, who would use the sensationalism of anti-communism and "reds" in the capitalist press to discredit union organizing and the CIO. The pamphlet asks "Who is unAmerican?" and discredits members of the committee who in Congress have voted against the right of American serviceman to vote overseas and against the Fair Employment Practice Commission (FEPC) that would have banned discrimination in Federal employment and wartime industries for African-Americans and other minority workers. "FRONT FOR THE BOSSES That [same] fall of 1938, the unAmerican committee heard testimony against Harry Bridges, head of the CIO Longshoremen and warehousemen Union. Chief witness was one Harper Knowles. Harper Knowles swore bridges was a "red," should be deported. This is what Knowles did not tell the committee about himself: 1. Knowles was executive secretary of the Associated Farmers, Inc...