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io 1 eeligghea a oe ete ee ccPY &3 COPY fs \ 2 Brenner - ¢ ‘ “{- )2090 Morris Ave. — “" New York City Most of my mail has wandered about from place to place because people left out care of Brenner. A lovely wreathe of partidge berries from Miss Lope enclosed a note telling me that you were interested in the Baldwin affair. Unfortunately it took nine days to get here, then I was not at home to receive it when it came because I am working a two jobs now one for my living and one for love. Commercial painting in the morning and nurceries in New Jersey in the afternoon. This is the story --- Pegler printed a letter from a "tank worker" on the 27th of * November. It was bitterly anti-union and anti-administration. The tank worker boasted of how regler had asked him to do it and was located by the union at Baldwin. He was fired from the Pennsylvania Railroad as a boasting Pro- Nagi of the "Jew" Roosevelt and wishing Hitler were here type so well known to us all. The Union turned the matter over to the F.B.I. last week. They may crack down on the man himself but I have a sorry hunch that the Peglers always get by for the same reason that the Coughlins, Camerons and Walshes do. I hope to get down to Philadelphia soon and can probably track dorm more by going to’ some of the more intelligent and powerful labor leaders I know. Also Sam Darcy is back there and would help if he could since he knows many Baldwin workers. I had planned to go down this week for a wedding and meant to follow this up. But I find that painting millions of daisies on scrap basket in the week keeps me flat on Saturday because I am not accustomed sat to the fumes of the cheap paint, the bad light or the high speed. I shall leave it soon for something better I hove but am glad to have ex- perienced piece work somewhere else than in novels. I shall let you or iss Lope know at once if I can find out either the man's name or where Pegler knew him and I think I can: I have tried as well as I could by long distance and with such long hours of work to prevent the story coming out first in the Sunday Worker wirich was planned by the Union maybe because i+ was the only place they could get. My point is not a criticism of that caper but that it reached so few and can be read as source material by only vou with the rush of bringing more Pegler wrath. I can arrange for more direct contact with a reliable Union source for you by going to Philadelphia. fi am sure and will try to make ti this week. There are affidavits from valdwin workers as to the mans Eund connections. He was obviously a stupid boaster and tool. Sincerely yours, /s/ Josephine T-hdans ~ . CLPY COPY COPY coPY Tho LOSURE SS 08 86984 - 10r-