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Some key documents

• Right wing anti union activist

1984–86: Trustee of the Philadelphia Society

1998 Mar 2: The Jesse Helms Center Foundation is trying to raise money from the Tobacco Institute via a "Salute". The letterhead has a good list of his backers, and the steering committee for the salute includes

• John Dodd is directing the effort,
• Steve Berry of Cellular Telecommunications
• George Dunlop, Century Communications (ex Helms Chief of Staff)
• Brad Edwards of US Tobacco
• Murray Jones of RJ Reynolds Tobacco
• Reed Larson of National Right to Work Foundation (anti-union)
• Darry Nirenburg of Patton Boggs
• Pat O'Donnell, of O'Connor & Hannan
• Steve Phillips, of Verner, Lipfert, Bernhardt, McPherson and Hand
• Scott Wilson, of the Tobacco Institute

2007 Apr: Death of Hugh Newton: After serving in the Army in the Korean War, where he saw the face of Communism close up and did not like it, he went to work as a reporter for a small newspaper in Virginia, and then became a corporate speechwriter.

    But in 1964 — Goldwater's year — he decided, as he put it, that "I wanted to work for something I believed in." He joined Reed Larson's National Right to Work Committee as its public-relations man, and before long news of the battle against forced union membership was spreading everywhere. href="http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_/ai_n19448264]
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    Reed Larson

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