(J.B.) Matthews soured on the Party when Communist organizers in Norfolk, Virginia donned ku Klux Klan robes to terrorize Negroes so they would join the Amalgamated Clothing Workers (a dual union). "They said they were killing two birds with one stone, " he said. "That is, not only getting Negroes into the Union, but able to show how brutal the Klan was in the South." Pg. 193 "Reds: McCarthyism in Twentieth Century America, " by Ted Morgan, Random House, 2003.
Michael Pugliese