COMMUNIST PARTY

Greymouth Evening Star, 14 October 1939, Page 7

COMMUNIST PARTY

UNITED STATES ACTIVITIES. [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] (Recd. October 14, 1 p.m.) WASHINGTON, October 13. Maurice Malkin, charter member of the United States Communist Party, testified before the Dies Committee that the party has a nuclei in the Brooklyn naval yard, one of the largest in the United States, transmitting secret information to the Soviet for years, through an Ogpu agent located in New York, in the same way as information relating to industrial plants. Malkin testified that the Communist Party employed many such as the late “Legs” Diamond, to eliminate recalcitrant persons or groups blocking the Communists’ infiltration. The party did its utmost to prompt strikes, particularly on the West Coast among maritime workers, where it played a predominant role. The Los Angeles correspondent of the United Press states that Edward McDonough, a draughtsman at the Douglas aircraft plant, was arrested by Federal agents, on a charge of stealing drawings of plans used in the construction of military aeroplanes. McDonough was gaoled, in default of a one-dollar bail. The Army Intelligence Service has summoned the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the case in which reports of sabotage, which also involved the warship Arizona, were received by G-men.