Groza also promised a series of land reform programs to benefit military personnel which would confiscate and subsequently redistribute all properties in excess of one hundred and twenty five acres in addition to all the property of traitors, absentees, and all who collaborated with the wartime Romanian government, the Hungarian occupiers during Miklós Horthy and Ferenc Szálasi's régimes, and Nazi Germany.
Chumak chaired a board committee on absenteeism in the 1970s, and suggested bringing back a truant officer for the city.
That image — re-imagined by graphic artist J. Howard Miller while working for the Westinghouse Company's War Production Coordinating Committee — may have become the basis for the poster Miller created during a Westinghouse anti-absenteeism and anti-strike campaign.
Michel was a member of the Young Communist League, and later joined the CPUSA, although he was asked to leave in 1949 for absenteeism.