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beg ee ee r snr af a a: _ 174 leading Hitlerites and 55 organisations they control. The bet . the importance of the information. — Ooalition of the Bund and McWillianas is truly representative of the = ., Gomaunity. On its executive board sit a church worker, a night . watchman, the local banker, a settlement house director, a utility worker, @ lawyer, its 1500 menbers are of every faith. When WeWiliians attempted to run for Congress those people distributed 200,000 pieces ... of literature, ran dozens of opposition meetings, climaxed with the . largest one ever held in Yorkville, 4500 strong. - During the last Presidential “Gampaign the fifth columnists. saw a major opportunity to capture the election machinery of established political parties. Democratic and Republican * leaders called on the Conzittee for assistance. In the . case of the Republicans, daily, for six weeks, our represent- ative checked the backgrounds of campaign workers against our files. About 75 assorted undesirables were di scovered-- including Paul Castorina, leader of the ltalian Blackshirts . who had wormed his way onto the County Executive Comat tees Baron Gotfried Von Weyditch of the Bund. . In addition, the Committee maintains wide press contacts, “watts the Coordinating Committees itself does not seek publicity the activities of local menbership groups are stressed. Important advance informa tion on developments in the domestic fascist front is relayed to - oe influential editors—and the vital information on developments in the .~ -- donestic fascist front is relayed to influential editors--and the - vital information eventually reaches thousands of people. Such was we story in the WORLD TELEGRAY giving the plans of the Mobilisers .._ to picket the Paulist Rectory-—the first evidence that the “Christian® . ' Front might tum into anti-Catholic channela. rey vik, ; + #,y Each week the Committee's publication, the clTr REPORTER, “peaches s selected Met of newamen, editors, public officials and government Dureaus. ‘The 20 most recent issues provided then with reports on editorial writer of a leading Now York daily writes: "I think the - + CITY REPORTER is one of the most useful and best of all anti-Nasi sf . information sheets. It is superb. I have made frequent use of ite Likewise City and Pederal officials, including the Alien Squad and. the F.B.I., have received voluminous material and have attested to.