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Office Memorandum + ontrep STATES GOVERNMENT TO : SAC, San Francisco DATE: March 13, 1946 rom : mm 3 ib 7C SUBJECT: BDMUED GERALD BRON, aka Pat Brown - HISCE.LANEOUS INFORZATICN CONCERNING The following information was obtained by the writer pursuant to your _ request. - The current Martindale Hubbell Law Directory discloses. that BROTN was born 1905, graduate from the San Francisco Law School (not to be confused with the University of San Francisco School of Law) in 1925. The following information was furnished to the writer. by QD GHD @ close personal friend of the writer and it is therefor requested that his name intained inabsolute_ conti served as and at the present San Francisco, Counsel © is also retained by time is associated wi for the California State Federation of Labor (AFL). this organization concerning some matters. |. + tee . BROWN became active in politics in the CINCINNATUS, a group of young men who came to the front in San Francisco several years ago and. were particu- larly active about 1938. BRO“E is reportedly very friendly with of the American Communist Association and a leader in the CIO, whose communist affiliations are on record in this office. He is also reportedly quite friendly with QE Local 6, I, a member of the Communist Party. It is in- formant's understanding that BROWN was personally designated by to be candidate jor the position which run for governor of the State. He is also reported to-be quite friendly with BENJAMIN DREYFUS, member of the Communist Party and the mainspring on the WATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD Chapter at San Francisco. In this connection, it is noted that BROWN recently aligned hinself with other known communist members of the WYERS GUILD in San Francisco, to have the GUILD retract its condemnation of a few months back of the speech made at San Francisco by GERALD L. K. SMITH. Several of the communist sympathizers in the local chapter of the LAWYERS GUILD have opposed this repudiation of the GUILD's earlier stand claiming that SMITH was a Fascist, whose views must be suppressed. It is also wort of note, here, _ ‘that information has been received from other sources; namely, that bh 2, GHD anc DREYFUS are close friends. GED is also extremely active in the © / affairs of the NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD, -b7D BROWN was a delegate to the democratic convention in Chicago in 1944 and prior to the convention was opposed to the candidacy of HENRY A. WALLACE for vice-presidency. However, he changed his mind and then reportedly tefused to abandon “!JALLACE, when the others did not, when pressure was-put upon him, PROWN is a convert to the Roman Catholic faith and is a constant practicing catholic, who is reportedly active in the study clubs of his local parish. He is a member of the ST. THOMAS NOORE society of San Francisco, a group of lawyers, principally catholic, who espouse the principles of a SAINT- ease ok “fj - he 7 gett yt wee . F. Loos “od GU lev 7 - 7 ( 5 pk = “f ad