1939 Press Photo Browder -Dies Committee - Communist - Roo

WASHINGTON, SEPT 5, 1939

HISTORIC IMAGE: EARL BROWDER
TELLS OF OFFER TO LINK ROOSEVELT TO COMMUNISM

APPEARING BEFORE THE DIES COMMITTEE TODAY EARL BROWDER, GENERAL SECRETARY OF THE AMERICAN COMMUNIST PARTY TESTIFIED THAT THE PARTY WAS OFFERED $250,000 BY A GROUP OF ANONYMOUS INDIVIDUALS IN 1936 TO NOMINATE PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AS ITS CANDIDATE. BROWDER, SHOWN TESTIFYING, SAID THE OFFER WAS MADE BY A MAN WHOM HE KNEW ONLY AS "DAVIDSON" AND WHO TOLD HIM HE REPRESENTED A GROUP OF SIX OR SEVEN WEALTH REPUBLICANS