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Ny 1200-98810 ROBERT 8. LYND, Professor, Columbia University, was con- tained on a list of the sponsors,» editors and advisory: board of the. American investors Ynion. |: . wows : The report of the Special Comaittes of Un- American Activities, House of Representatives, 78th Gangress, Second Session, on page 368, stated tha ROBERT S. LYND, Professor of Sociology, Columbia University; coauthor of "Middletown" and "Middletown in Transition’; was a member of the Board of Directors of ‘the Americans Investers Union, Inc., which was deseribed as a Communist front under the aegis of the Consumers Union. 9. - ae ynown reliability, was a sponsor of | fea Chairman of the Confidential Informan advised early in 1940 that ROBART: Lie the Consumers Union and that he was. V fonsumers Nabiosal Federation. — * fhe American investors Union, Inc., was cited as a Communist front by the California vommittee on Un-American Activities Report 1948, page 334. 0 The Consumers Union was cited as & Comuunist front by the “peclal Committes on Un-American Activities Report, March 29, 19u, page 153. Page 155 of this report also cited the Consumers National Federation as a Communist front. fhe American babor Karty - {he "Daily Worker" dated April i an artiele entitled "rhe New ALP Set Up", “that the state committee meeting of the Americ Party had resuited in the election of SiD Ei as Chairman, which marked the reator be Boos ea in See ee The article atatess The. that such men ag Professor ROBERT LYND ..+- and the others have aga themselves with the United Labor Farty, indic * will win the support of the bilk of liberal the state". wage SS