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ae 4) 2) - t Sa | | ay ee preoone i Ju TEACHERS UNION OF NEW YORK CITY : | SO bib The 1942 report of the Sub-committee Relative to the Public Education System of the City of New York, New York, New York States legislature, (Rapp-Coudert Committee) page 178, states as follows concerning the TU: "The history Se the Communist movement in the New York City school system is primarily the history cf the so~called Teachers Union of the City of New York, formerly Local 5 of the American Federa- tion of Teachers, a national trade union affillated with the American Federation of Labor and of its subsidiary, the College Teachers Union, formerly Local 537 of the American Federation of Teachers, which was founded by Local 5 in 1938, In the following pases we trace machinations of the Communists in Localé 5 and 537, showing how they began in Local 5 in a small way in the 1920's, grew, precipitated internal strife within the organization and finally brought affairs to such a pass that the founders and leaders of the union could tolerate the situation no longer end withdrew in 1935, leaving the Communists in complete -ecntrol, LA - “Thereafter, the union was used solely as a vehicle for Party line propaganda, and revolution- ary agitation, until, as a result of the labors of : = ON i