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AF May 71943 Poetess in OWI Here Probed. by U.S. as Red By HOWARD RUSHMCRE Acwell-known young poetess, who is-alleged to. have mixed con- aiderable left-wing politics. with her‘lambic pentameters, is wnder investigation by Government au- thorities who are probing political activities of the 13006 OWI em- ployes in New York City. ' This was learned today as. the stepe of the indulry was directec against Communists, Socialist: and. ofhér leftists who, according to the Dies Commilttes, have’ ob- tained 500 key jobs in: the nationa and regional OWI offices, Miss Muriel Rukeyser, a $3,800. a-yeur OWI employe here, whi hag been hailed by literary critic as-one of the finer “young” poet: is included in this probe, the N, ¥ Journal-American learned, becaus: of her poems, reviews and articte: In the Communist. Daily Worke. and New Masses, HEE POEMS QUOTED. & dark, rather plump. brunet Miss Rukeyser is the author ot auch volumes of poetry as “Theory of Fughi.” “T..8. 1," and a “Purn- ing Wind,” the latien. volume in- cluding the lines: _, ide: smi, he sitll, lowe, be ce thea not shaken, Xt ie for me to: be shaken, x ‘To bring tokens." Wot all of her vers bre has been. so unshaken, investigators claim, and point. to her vinlenily~ Bartisan writings in the New Masses trom 1836 until-recently. One of Miss Rukeyser's poema was given a place of honor in the “Projetarian Anthology of Amer. ican Literature,” published by such Daily Worker writers as Mike Gold in 1835, which had yc} intro-! auction reading: “Zo followers of Kart Mars, the conneation between pectry. poll- ties. and the Pasty is obeidns.* REVIEWED PRO-RED FILMS. 2-Other work for the New: Masses| included movie reviews of Bre- Communist films, articles on/ literature end reportage written, by Miss Rukeyser after she re-. ce tarnéd from Spale in 19968, wher " ghe covered the “Workers” Olym- pics’ held in the Loyalist capital] of Barcelona, One of her poems on the toval-| fists reoeived «two-page spread, in the New ‘Masses, which fa owned and financed by the Communist Party, in September, 1937, Prior to that Miss Rukeyser, 2 Vassar graduate had sometimes ound the word tightier than the «of Ben, ai She had been.a featured speaker rat City College meeting. of the g Ametican Students Union, an ie organization. controlied by the tf Noung Communist: League, RALLIES OPPOSED WAR, ‘The demonstrations were the then: currently-populer “anti-war rallies ageinst military prepared. ness, : Misg Rukeyser also has been published in the Daily Worker, organ of the Reda’ national com~| inlttes New Thestre magazine, a Communist ~ controlied publica~ tion, and other leafilst. periodi- cals,