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af nnyey6oe | . “WRS, ROOSEVELT IS ASK. TO END AID TO COMMUNISTS y Mrs, Eleanor D.~ Roosevelt was requested by . William/Karlin, New York airman of the Sociel Democratic Federation, Réen nmadawnnd Ane wen ot $4422.85, men A nae ean | —._ ew a Fk cee ee ee oe \*\ "to reconsider your attitudes and cease lending your moral support and prestige to the ‘left wing' faction of the American Labor Party.” Kerlin made public an exchange of letters with ~ Mrs. Roosevelt. He protested to Mrs. Rocsevelt originally in a letter _ : on May 25. The President's wife spoke on May 8 at a meeting of the i as 12th Assembly District Club of the_American Labor Party, which is to ‘controlled by the left-wing faction. On May 15, EugeneConnoll, Neceretary of the New York County Committee of the American Labor t i Party Balen agsntralled hy tha laft wine wrder thea chairmanshin of | oP \Rer vith Bee er Wh Pa wy bee ADA YE MAA, Mls ee ee ee we s h E : epresentative Vito-Mercantonio, made public a letter from Mrs. Rooserel ele Demers a statement of policy by this committee, a Ne Replying to Karlin in a letter dated May 29, Mrs. ; _Hoosevelt said: = "I read your letter and I thought my statement to rt xy which you refer was an American Labor Party statement and no one should to object to it. _ ANY "I spoke to a group in my neighborhocid in New York 2 \ | city, as members of the American Labor Party, on consumer problems. Not bos being a member I did not know the distinctions." ‘ ‘ . Karlin, his letter of yesterday said: rN "When you say of the American Labor Party'not being ' 7 ( & member, I do not know the distinctiong, we necessarily infer that you publicized facts in the political life of New York, nemelv, the distinct between the ‘right-wing! group of the Amerfcan Lebor Party, which hae consistently and unwaveringly since 1936 supported the domestic and fore! policies of President Roosevelt, and the 'left-wing' group of that Party ~, Which has actively promoted and indorsed the Communist Party line.” , | assert ignorance of one of the most fundamental, far reaching and highly » a nr ae ~yfire Socialist Democratic Federation split with the. ty leadership of Norman¥Thomas in the Socialist Party in 1936. It has been em PP Lated—wi American Labor Party. The right wing, which controls en Angontiny “ehatamen ion of the American Labor Party, is headed by Luigt ‘ Ant oninis airman jand Alex/Rose, secretary. The two factions are fighti f cont in the elections this year. " DON PV AEnT fell be we ee mp ete t ARCOT> ateee een CaaS Ee «+ in erie «