Word: lautner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Israel Lazar, also known as William Lawrence, 54, sometime manager of the now extinct Daily Worker, was identified by ex-Communist Witness John Lautner as head of a Communist Party "cultural division" that directed and coordinated the work of secret Reds in the entertainment industry. Lazar refused to confirm or deny anything...
...other testimony Melish denied that the American-Soviet Friendship Council is Red-dominated and contradicted testimony by such ex-Communists as John Lautner and Fordham Professor Louis Budenz (who had testified that Melish was a party member). After testifying that he had written two stories for the Daily Worker, Melish was asked whether he knew that the Worker is the "official organ" of the Communist Party. His answer: "That's hearsay." Pressed to identify Communists who came to him for advice, Melish stood on his cloth: he claimed "ministerial privilege" to keep their confidences...
...Communists' parallel activities were disclosed when one John Lautner, former security chief for the New York State Communist Party, took the stand for the prosecution. The police had wondered for years how twelve of their 28 World War II spies were discovered and thrown out of the party. The Communist informant, said Lautner, was Lieut. Miller, who joined the force in May 1937, and faithfully sent the party inside information. After he reported that the anti-Communist squad was being formed, the Communists managed to get four police-department members assigned...
...however, Miller asked Lautner to let him resign from the force: he had been suspected of Communist activity, had been shunted to a harmless police post near Prospect Park. Brooklyn, and was afraid his wife was about to betray him. Lautner refused to let him quit: if New York's Communist-dominated American Labor Party gained more political power. Miller might well have become police commissioner. The Communist lieutenant accepted the verdict, stayed faithfully on duty until the department finally gathered enough solid evidence to cite him for trial. But Miller disappeared in a flash after that, and last...
...York City, according to Dr. Bella Dodd, onetime national committee member for the U.S. Communist Party, the Communist-led New York Teachers' Union alone had 1,000 members in 1939. John Lautner, a party organizer in New York State until 1950, said that at one time he had had as many as 500 Communist teachers assigned to him to be "processed into the underground...