Joint Committee Against Communism

From October 14 to 16, 1947, Schultz published a series of articles in the New York World-Telegram on Communism among Protestant and Catholic churches and Jewish synagogues.

[1][6] In late January 1950, the committee formed in response to a call from George Craig, head of the American Legion, when 60 national organizations.

[7][8] As of July 1949, Rabbi Schultz named AJLAC's executive board members as: "Gen. Julius Klein, a past national commander of the Jewish War Veterans; your own colleague, the Hon.

Multer used Pressman's communist association against him early on by claiming that he had received his "certificate of election" from the Daily Worker (CPUSA newspaper), thanks to its condemnation of him.

[10] In 1954, board members of the committee's core group, AJLAC, included: Alfred Kohlberg (chair), Benjamin Schultz (executive director), Harry Pasternak (treasurer) as well as Bern Dibner, Lawrence Fertig, Theodore Fine, Benjamin Gitlow, Walter R. Hart, Herman Kashins, Eugene Lyons, Norman L. Marks, Morris Ryskind, David S. Savitz, Nathan D. Shapiro, George E. Sokolsky, Maurice Tishman, and Ascher M.

That same year, the committee helped keep actress Jean Muir banned from radio, soon after her name had appeared in Red Channels.

")[4][12] Partlow was a member of People's Songs, a left-wing publisher based in New York City and founded by folk-singer Pete Seeger.

That same year, conservative journalist Westbrook Pegler wrote a supportive syndicated article called "Let Me Introduce Rabbi Benjamin Schultz.

"[4] By 1953, the committee's original members in AJLAC had become known among leading Jewish "anti-Reds" and included: Eugene Lyons, Isaac Don Levine, David Lawrence, George Sokolsky, Benjamin Mandel, Barney Balaban, Rabbi Ben Schultz, Maurice Tishman, and Victor Riesel.