One of the longest lived communist fronts was the American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born. Active from 1935 until 1980, the ACFPFB was charged with preventing foreign communists such Davis’s friend ILWU leader Harry Bridges from deportation. Barack Obama Senior in 1962 ILWU WEBSITE
Barack Obama (senior) was one of the featured speakers at a Mother’s Peace Rally in Ala Moana Park on Sunday May 13, 1962. ILWU leaders including Jack Hall, joined the march and rally.
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A Communist Front at Mid-Century: The American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born, 1933-1959 (Hardcover) by John W. Sherman John W. Sherman (Author)
"The American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born (ACPFB) exerted significant influence on the course of U.S. immigration and deportation activities...
Frank Marshall Davis, a writer and Communist Party member who had moved from Chicago to Hawaii in 1948...was close to the communist controlled International Longshore Workers Union (ILWU) which dominated Hawaiian politics for decades.
Davis was close to ILWU head, San Francisco based secret party member Harry Bridges. When contemplating moving to Hawaii Davis "wrote to Harry Bridges, whom I had met at Lincoln School. Bridges suggested I get in touch with Koji Ariyoshi, editor of the Honolulu Record..."
The Lincoln School was run by the Chicago Communist Party. Koji Ariyoshi was a leader of the Hawaiian party which controlled the ILWU affiliated Honolulu Record- which Davis went to work for.
Australian born Harry Bridges was a long time leader of the ILWU. The US government fought for years to deport Bridges for his ties to the Communist Party-which Bridges understandably would never admit.
The Communist Party front Committeee for Protection of Foreign Born (CFPFB) spent considerable time and money keeping Bridges in the US. Frank Marshall Davis was listed as CFPFB endorser as late as 1973-three years after he began mentoring the young Obama.
Years later it was revealed that Bridges was not only a party member but served on the party's powerful Central Committee.
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