The Archive · 1940

US. Aircraft Plant Strike Plan Bared

Dies Committee Allevec Communist-Nazi Plot To Crinvle Output

Los Angeles, Aug. 17.

The Dies Committee for Investigating Un-American Activities yesterday announced that it had obtained evidence of a Communist-Nazi lead bloc which planned to cause strikes throughout the aircraft factories in Southern California and thus cripple defence plans and halt U.S. aid to Britain.

The Communists and Nazis are well entrenched. the Dies Committee charged. It further alleged that the Russo-German alliance had resulted "active collaboration" between vocates of the Nazi-Commun-toms in the United States.

Such advocates, it added. were doing their utmost to "keep America impotent and deprive England of aireraft"—United Press, Germany "Enforces

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