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<0 (@aLY FOR PAPFF , CMASINO LEWIS POLIS, 397 MOT s. A cam. C's couna we. az) - ° ¢, SRPTENEER A.M. AND P.M, PA oRS, MUST KOT BE PUBLISHED BErv DATE. ) tL BY FULTON LEWIS, JR. ae Tara i. Protter_ | Union, (MORE) W7- $l a COPYRIGHT, 1961, KING FEATURES STNTLCATE, aM, @ gerrulous native of Manitoba, Canada _w Canada who somehow dispenser-in-chief of Democratic patrons patronage, i> My Corbin is a Wisconsin Democrat who hooked on e/ MZ oy ee nl campaign train as it rolled through that state last spring. He Dake played a key wie in the campaign that followed JFK's primary FO! wictory over Hubert Humphrey. He was named last month as special Ox. assistant to John M, Bailey, chairman of the Democratic Nationa Comittee, Bailey and Attorney General Robert Kennedy agreed to put Cortiin in charge of patronage for the new Administration, One Washington Al ke A } source put it thia way: Kes __ [: "He talks to persons locking for jobs on the New Frontiex an also recrults likely prospects, He advises on these matters with leaders of the Kennedy Administration, but principally with Attorney General Kennedy, his political sponsor and patron," Reaction to the Corbin appointment was swift and violent. Democrats from across the country protested to Bailey and the Attorney General, Rep, Clement Zablocki of Wisconsin was particularly angered, charging that Corbin was ean opportunist, “unknown" in the statets regular Democratic organization, . The Milwaukee Journal, leading Democratic newspaper in the atate, then Jumped into the fight against Corbin, State reporter Edward Keratein and Washington newsman Larry Ecklund dug into Corbints past, which included: ~ : *Working, some fifteen years ago, with top Wisconsin Communists, These included Fred Bassett Blair, Emil Costello and Harold Christoffel (who served a perjury term in federal prison . for sweering wider oath that he was not a Communist) among others, *Soliciting membership and funds for the Coumunist Party. Corbin denies the allegation, *Being activein left-wing unions in the Midwest for many \os> years, dating back ‘at ‘least to 1939, when he was an organizer in / sii Illinois for the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's bn 4 ye rn