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The following is quoted. from a , report of th Ho Committee on Un-American Activities, "78th Congr Session, © 1944: "The American Committee for Democracy I lectual Freedom was closely interlocked with. the College Teachers Union, Local 537, which was | Communist dominated by the New York Central. Trade: Labor Council (American Federation of Labor February, 1939, and- by the American Federation of Tea “by refe vote, in 1941. Among those active in both the New. Yo College Teachers Union and the American,Committee.were .the following: ‘Franz Boas, Walter Rautenstrauch, Ned. Dearbo Louis Weisner, Perry A. Overstreet, Robert S. Tyna, Alonzo Myers, Clyde’ R. Miller, and Max Yer gan. pee Page 326 As an exhibit in the same report ‘there: is set forth an article from the "Daily Worker" yaine? March 18, 1939, reporting the formation of the American Committee for Democracy and Intellectual Freedom. This article stat that Professor Robert S. Lynd of Columbia University, autho of the Middletown series was a member of the Ne York City Chapter of this Committee » fhis report. also contains as. an of a letterhead dated September *22,°1939;' of the iuertean Committee for Democracy.:and. Intellectual Fr shows that Professor. Robert: s Lynd © continue the Dies Committee. name "Robert 8. nye Professor,