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: headline is given on Page 1 of the October 4, 194] issue to the purchase, by the union, of $10,000.00 of Defense Bonds. The articls begins"by a unanimous standing vote Thursday, October 2, headquarters approved the secretary's recanmendation that we purchase $10,000 of U.S. Defense Bonds", An editorial on Page 2 of this issue is headed "The Union's Program for Defense". A resolution reads; "WHEREAS, President ROOSEVELT, in the name of demoeracy here and throughout the world, has pledged the ful) support of the America peopbe in the British-Soviet-Chinese struggle against Fascism; and WHEREAS, The direct threat of fascism is a danger to our trade unions and to the Americm people thet is being minimized by such groups as "america First', LINDBERGH, Senator WHEELER, the HEARST press, and others, who attempt to confust an vide our democratic forces; and “HEREAS, Although President ROOSEVELT hes promised our full aid and support to all nations struggling against this threat of Nazi dictatorship, his program is being slowed down by priorities bottlenecks, by quibbling bureaucracies headed by dollar a year representatives of big business; therefore be it RESOQLVED, That we recognize thet the Number One danger facing the American people, our democratic institutions, our unions, end particulerly our seamen's unions, is the menace of German Nazism ...etc.® It is noted that the current criticism in the Communist press on the West Coest (People's orld) are the America First Committee, LINDBERGH, WHEELER and HEARST.