RADICALS: Gompers and Garland

Samuel Gompers attacked the American Fund for Public Service, Inc., (an institution controlling $800,000 of the inheritance of Charles Garland, radical and eccentric millionaire) as serving to bring together through its trustees " an interlocking network" of 50 or more " pacifist and revolutionary organizations of a more or less extreme character."

The Fund, Mr. Gompers declared, is used only to further radical enterprises. But this statement is denied by Roger Baldwin, a director of the Fund, who points out that money has been lent or given outright to such...

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