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O-F FICIAL ORGAN WL. £214 tf . ee i a nk sen _ = 40 1O0LLOWLI tne omy oonstity SLOT REGS SIE 5. subject organization re ne antine official organ "ARTICLE V" Section I - Official organ of this union to be designated by this union ® For several years previous to July 1941, Subject organization together with several other Meritime unions were affiliated together in a narent body called the Maritime Federation of the Pacifie. This organization began as a group of American Federation of Labor unions. With the trend away from the American Federation of Labor into the CIO on the part of the Maritime unions and the desertion of the Maritime Federation of ths Pacific by the more conserv-tive AFL unions, the Mari- tins Feagration changed from an entirely AFL body to aimost entirely e CIO bedy. On the date of ite dBsolution in July 1941, it consisted of all CIO unions except three, one of these was independent and two of the others were whet were generally known as extremely radical AF of L : unions. The Maritime Federetion of the Pacific published a weekly newspeper called the "Voice of the Fedcretion™". This paper carried news articles regerding each of the unions affilieted in the Meritine Federation of the Pacific, devoting in sach issue almost an entire pege to subscct organization. It will be noted in other sections of this report that severel items of informtion contained therein were obteined from issues of the "Voice of the Federrtion®. The executive positions in the Mrritime Federetion of tha Preifie wre lirgely held by members of the Comaunist Party. Accordingly, the "Voice of the Federation® was edited by Communists. Po Po PY