Monday, Sep. 19, 1938

No Macing

Bitterly protesting its injustice, President David Lasser of the Workers Alliance (WPAsters' union) last week heeded the "warning" of Chairman Sheppard of the Senate Campaign Expenditures committee, dropped plans to collect a $50,000 political campaign fund from WPA workers. But, said Mr. Lasser, voluntary contributions from friends of the Alliance would be accepted and, with its dues income, put to the Alliance's political ends. He wrote to Senator Sheppard:

"You know full well that the campaign against us in the press, encouraged and abetted by your 'warning,' has reached new heights of unprincipled slander. You know perfectly well that the charges that we intended to 'coerce,' 'mace' or 'shake down' the WPA workers are without an iota of justification in fact."

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