The Pittsburgh Press (November 5, 1944)
Candidates denied use of union funds
Los Angeles, California (UP) – (Nov. 4)
Seven political candidates today were enjoined from receiving or using funds of the CIO Shipbuilding Workers Union.
Senator Sheridan Downey (D-CA), Congressional candidates Helen Gahagan Douglas. Hal Styles, Elis Patterson and Clyde Doyle, Assembly candidate Vincent Thomas and incumbent Superior Court Judge Stanley Mosk were named in the preliminary order.
Roy T. Trent, union member, brought suit, saying the union had spent $6,000 before the primary and $30,000 since, for the CIO Political Action Committee in violation of union bylaws and the Smith-Connally Act.