Case File 100-3291; January 31, 1944

Title: MANUEL CANTOR
Character of Case: INTERNAL SECURITY - C

Details: This investigation is being reopened upon advice from the Bureau to the effect that the subject was discharged from the United States Army on October 28, 1943.

The following article() relative to the subject appeared in the Trenton Evening Times on the dates indicated below:

September 19, 1940
CANTOR DEFENDS COMMUNISM HERE
Reds' Candidate Issues Slate

Manuel Cantor, of 534 East State Street, Communist candidate for governor of New Jersey, has issued a campaign statement as follows:

"In the past few days thousands of New Jersey voters have been receiving a flood of letter from Martin Dies (Editor's note: Chairman of the House Committee on Un-American Activities between 1937 and 1944). The letters are addressed to those who signed election petitions for the candidates of the Communist Party. Their purpose is to frighten and intimidate the signers into declaring that their signatures were obtained under false pretenses. The same procedure has been followed in other states, sometimes implemented with threats to publish, or actual publishing of the lists of signers....

....Every person who signed the Communist Party petitions had a perfect legal right to do so. He is subject to no penalties for his actions. He is under no obligation whatsoever to reply to Mr. Dies letter inviting him to perjure himself.