Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-18
MAY VISIT MEXICO
IN PROBE OF REDS
Fish Committee to Consider
Widening Inquiry-South
to Get Hearings.

Investigation of Soviet Communistic
propaganda allegediy being directed at
the United States from Mexico may be
undertaken by a group of members Of
the House committee now probing the
extent of Red propaganda activities in
this country.
The possibility Of a trip into Mexico
by committee members to determine to
what extent the alleged propagandizing
has progressed was discussed at the
Capitol today by Representative Hamil-
ton Fish of New York, chairman of the
House committee.
Fish said he had been assured by
Ambassador Teller of Mexico of the
close cooperation of the Mexican gov
eminent in watching the activities of
Communists and added he expected the
documents reported seized in that
country would be turned over to his
committee.
Would Go I'm November.
II a subcommittee makes the trip to
Mexico City, he said, it probably would
sail from New Orleans about Novem-
Der 20, after the full group completes
hearings in several Southern States.
Fish said he did not plan to make the
trip.
The New Yorker said the committee
was considering holding hearings in
Cleveland, Buffalo and Boston between
November and g. After a session in
washington November 10 the group will
go to Chattanooga. Atlanta, Birming
ham, New Orleans and possibly Jack
Sonville.
Both the Mexican Ambassador and
the State Department said they had
no Information regarding the reported
seizure of the documents In Mexico.
Asked il the authority granted the
committee by the House permitted 1t
to go into foreign countries, Fish said
it did. Under the resolution creating
the committee it could subpoena any
person, he continued.
Might Call StimsOn.
Because of certain actions Of the
State Department, he said. the possi-
bility of calling Secretary Stimson had
been considered. However. he added
the committee had yet to complete its
inquiry into these actions. He did not
reveal to what actions he referred.
+ Chairman Fish returned to Washing
ton yesterday from hearings on Com
munist activities on the West Coast.
He said 1t was apparent that the "prin-
ciples advocated by the Communists
in the Far West are Identical to those
in the Eastern industrial centers, and
are directed by the Third International
at Moscow"
THE activities of the Communists, I"
he continued, have been increasing in
the past few years on the Pacific Coast.
as they are taking advantage of the
business depression and unemployment
situation to spread their propaganda
and revolutionary doctrines"
Refers TO Soviet Deals.
Fish said that during the commit
tees inquiry into the short selling OF
wheat by the Soviet government at
Chicago, 1T was disclosed by the three
brokerage houses in New York which
handled the transactions that no COL
lateral or securities of any kind were
required from the all-Russian textile
syndicate which ordered the sales.
THE action of the Chicago Board OF
Trade" he said, lin prohibits g the
short selling by foreign gov :rnment
will take care of this situation to a
large degree if 1t is properly enforced" "
John L. Lewis, president of the United
Mine Workers, was praised by Fish for
his presentation of 1.-The serious efforts
made by the Communists to disrupt the
coal mining industry in America"
Praising William Green, president OF
the American Fee Grafton OF Labor in
message eongfatulating him on his
reelection, Fish said the organization
under Green's leadership has been the
front line defense in America against
the insidious and revolutionary ac-
tivities and propaganda OF the Com
muntsts."