The Archive · 1937

Communist Conspiracy

Washington, July 26.

Representative John Rankin, Democrat of Mississippi, to-day accused officials of the National Labour Re laions Board of conspiring with Communists to wreck industrialists in the South. He said he would demand the officials be discharged, that he would seek to amend or repeal the Wagner Connery Labour Act under which the Board was created, and that he would block further appropriations for the Board until its personnel was changed, Mr. Rankin did not name the officials he accused of communistic activities. The Mississippi Congress man is one of President Roosevelt's closest advisers on the New Deal's power policy.—United Press.

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