Telegram : New York, to Maurice Rovner, 1940 Oct. 22.

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Telegram : New York, to Maurice Rovner, 1940 Oct. 22.

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Hammett, writing as chairman of Committee on Election Rights-1940, calls Rovner's attention to a campaign of voter intimidation happening in Upstate New York in an attempt to force the Commmunist Party off the ballot and asks him to voice a protest to Governor Lehman.

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