The gentleman was ousted from the faculty of the University of Washington in 1937 as a result of his political activity. His activities were vociferously defended by all the Communists in the State of Washington. On May 11. 1941. the gentleman. in his position as acting national chairman of the American Committee for the Protection of Foreign Born. sent a letter of protest to Attorney General Robert H. Jackson. charging that the arrest of German and Italian seamen who had overstayed their leave in this country promoted war hysteria and incited unjustified suspicion against foreignborn residents. He declared unalterable opposition to the passage of a law which would result in the establishment of concentration camps in the United States. and he said that the arrests were "carried out with a view to influencing the actions of the United States Congress and attempting to pressure Congress into immediate enactment of a concentration camp bill." The Citizens Committee to Free Earl Browder. of which the gentleman was a member. was organized in 1941. The Washington Commonwealth Federation and the American Committee for the Protection of Foreign Born. both of which were headed by the gentleman from Washington . issued a broadside on April 19. 1941. attacking the Department of Justice for the arrest and detention of Ernest Fox. a German Communist Party member who was organizer for the CIO in the State of Washington in 1937 and organizer of Local 7 and the Alaska local of UCAPAW. CIO. The gentleman was a member of the Working Conference for Peace.
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