Local CIO Officers Take Anti-Communist Oath, December 1947
Ann Arbor News, December 19, 1947
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Swearing that they are not now, and never have been, members of the Communist Party are members of the executive board of UAW-CIO Local 38. Those taking the oath last night at Labor Hall were left to right, Emmett M. Gibb, union chairman at Hoover Ball & Bearing Co.; Elmer Moon, local vice-president, who works at American Broach & Machine Co.; Harley Tuthill, recording secretary, of Cook plant of the Associated Spring Corp; Kenneth Sisson, local president and chairman, American Broach; George Turk, trustee, a Hoover employee; Louis Sherwood, trustee and chairman at Precision Pars; Miles Alber, guide, an employee at American Broach; Tom Applegate, sergeant-at-arms, a Hoover worker; Karl Brust, chairman at Wolverine Products; and Walter Sell, trustee, also an employee at Wolverine Products. Administering the oath (right) is Arthur Wood, financial secretary of the local, and a Cook plant employee. Wood has previously taken the oath, and so is eligible to administer it to others. Affidavits as to non-Communist membership will be filed in Washington.
Year
1947
Month
December
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Subjects
Old News
Ann Arbor News
Labor Unions
Communism
United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 38
American Broach & Machine Co.
Hoover Ball & Bearing Company
Wolverine Products
Associated Spring Corporation
Labor Hall
Harley Tuthill
Elmer Moon
Emmett Melville Gibb
Kenneth Sisson
Miles Alber
George Turk
Tom Applegate
Karl Brust
Walter Sell
Arthur Wood
Eck Stanger
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