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__ ee te a ne eee i ee - ae ane ON-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES IN CALIFORNIA bent were worked out by the C~mmunist Party leaders under Alexander Trachtenberg, member of the Communist National Committee. Director of the ‘‘ Jefferson School for Social Science’’ will be Dr. Howard Selsam, former Brooklyn College professor, fired two . years ago after the Rapp-Coudert committee branded him a Com- munist. Numerous ‘‘angels’’ have contributed toward the establish- ment of the Marxist institution, among them heing Frederick ie heh oes aL kee” OE eh oe Led Oe hake le Vanderbilt Field, great-great-grandson of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt and former executive secretary of the Communist Ameri- ean Peace Mobilization group which opposed United States entry into war until the Germans invaded Russia. MILLIONAIRE BACKER ‘ * Tlefler, known two decades ago as the ‘‘millionaire Bol- shevist, ” is another ‘fangel.’’ Several years ago he became a backer of International Publishers, the Communist Party’s publisher, headed by Trachtenberg. The new school, it was learned, will be the center for the follow- ing propaganda and financing organs of the Communists: The workers school, formerly the official ‘‘educational’’ insti- tation of the party. auc school for democracy, made up of city school teachers ousted hecause they were Communists. This group has denied any Corse .t affiliation, Doctor Selsam is head of this school for democracy. OFFICIAL ORGANIZERS Among the Communist leaders and members advertised as ubiciat organizers of the new school are: ‘yr, Max Yergan, Negro Communist chieftain and president of the George Washington Carver School in Harlem, from which six directots recently resigned because of Communist control. Lewis Merrill, president of the left wing United Office and Professional Workers of America, C.I.0. Prof. Henry Schlauell of N.Y.U., identified before the Rapp- Coudert committee as a member of the Communist Party's faction at N.Y.U. Harry Sacher, attorney for the Transport Workers Union and wihir icii wiig unions and a former teacher at the workers echool, Prof. Lyman R. Bradley of N.Y.U., treasurer of the ill-fated American Rescue Ship Mission from which Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt duu ulluer sponsors resigned because of its Red affiliations. — “ LLOYD LEYMANN ~ ; ‘ Lloyd Leymann is an admitted Communist. He was formerly ‘mployed by the Young Communist League at a salary of between nie ~ o ¥ a ales i ye ath an $2.-$20 a week. At the time of testifying at the committee's Oakland B a. we wo ae ee ee Fe ee aD ee Smee ina inved oon x fae ? ashen ik oy ae $ ur wwe op We Dig Tbe! 5 a ee