The daily worker., 1927-06-03
TX.


This the most elaboratey organized of the national
agencies has nine departments each devoted to study
and action. well-known journalist who studied them
has listed them with comments:
Current economic and political movements.
Welfare-opposing industrial welfare legislation and
favoring company welfare.
Immgraton-opposing it.
Mountaineering minimum wage, etc. and radi-
calism in all forms.
Workmens compensation
Social insurance-against it.
Study of revolutionary ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS them.
Public health education
1ndustry-founded in joint honor of August Belmont
and Samuel Gompers and devoted to industrial progress
through industrial peace (and vice versa).
The Woman's Department says of its objects:
"Amercanism-To understand the meaning and in
tent of this form of and of the various rad
cal activities tending to undermine and destroy it. To
use such accurate knowledge to actively oppose
destructive propaganda and aid in all afforts toward
Istabilizing constitutional Americanism
Naturalization To support legislation author
izing the enrolment of aliens.
National Defense-To stand for a trained and
equipped Army and Navy adequate to uphold the prn-
cples of Democracy and Liberty expressed by this
government To urge and to stimulate the protection
and preservation of chemical industries and chemical
research they affect the home the health the in
dustry and the defense of the country (The Womans
Department distributes pamphlet entitled "a Plea
To American Women" which is appeal to aid in the
protection of this industry)
This concern for the chemical industry may perhaps
be accounted for by the fact that Mr. Eon H. Hooker
president of the Hooker ElectroC Chemical Company
land of the American Defense Society, by the way)
on the executive committee of the Federation.
Of the Welfare Department, headed until recently
by the late Louis A. Coolidge Treasurer and Director
of the United States Shoe Machinery Company, Mr..
Easey says
There is perhaps no better antidote for radical
tacks present institutions than intelligent genuine
and wisely directed welfare work"
Ambitious Program.
The Department on the Study of Subversive Move
ments headed by Conde Paen one of the editors OF
the Catholic Encyclopedia offers the most pretentous
program. Here it is:
"a. subcommittee on socialist doctrine and tao
tics dictated to the preparation and distribution of
literature and the organization of training school
for speakers 1--WE have tried without to
find the training school.-Ed)
b. Subcommittee to make intensive studies of the
extent to whichf revolutionary forces have pene-
trated into labor the church, the press phanthropic
agencies social agencies, foreign groups, womens
organizations, public employees, negro groups agri-
culture, colleges, public schools, and other fields
A subcommittee to study text books history,
political economy and civics used in high schools and
colleges.
d. A subcommittee on Soviet propaganda in the
United States
e. A bureau to evaluate federal state and muni-
cipal official statistics well socialist deduc-
tions from same.
f. A committee the fundamentals of our Con-
stitution and their application to everyday life, in
cuding the limitations of free speech free press and
free assembly.
g. subcommittee a survey of industrial,
political and social progress and constructive
mendations."
The Federatons efforts against radicalsm are by
means confined to this department There is special
committee the Limitation of Free Speech" headed
by Archibald f. Stevenson, attorney fo rthe "Lusk
Committee appointed by the New York state legislature
in 1919 to study radical movements. It's Industrial
Department published report headed "Free Speech
Nuisance" The announcement of the Departmnt on
Current Economic and Political Movements sent out by
Mr.. Easley typical antradical blast, serving up
the dish under another He promised data
for social and religious bodies to thwart the detailed
program to capture these self-same movements, as
worked out by Moscow with uncanny clevemess."
Easley Figure.
In fact, all these departments and committees are
merely machinery for Mr.. Easleys He is the DOM
nant spirit. He speaks through them all. And what
ever in his fears becomes the Federations
concern. The radicals have been chiefly his mind
since the war together with those who defend free speec