The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-17


9native American Communists
and other Legislation to take
care of the foreigners" char
acterized the sessions yester-
day of the congressional COM
mittee investigating Commu-
niSm.
Chairman Hamilton Fish, Jr.
notified the press representatives
that he would not call William z.
Foster" because "the Communists
might help him to escape" but that
the officials of Amtorg, U.S.S.R.
trading corporation in America,
would be called to testify Tuesday
or Wednesday next week.
Near the end of the testimony OF
Charles Wood, U. S. department of
labor industrial conciliator," Wood
stated and the committee suggested
that the Daily Worker should be
barred from the mails.
Fish and others of the congress
sional committee cut into the randi
ing, doddering, hesitant and almost
inaudible testimony of Wood to sug-
gest that "most of the Communist
activity has taken place since 1925,
when the department Of justice
ceased its active watch over the rad
icals," which certainly shows 8
frame of mind on the part of the
committee exactly like that of Elihu
Root and the Woll-Easley-big cor
poration National Civic Federation
who call openly for huge secret
police force to smash the workers
organizations.
Throughout the questioning OF
Wood yesterday, both witness and
congressional committee simply as
sumed at every point and occasion
ally fatty stated that the National
Textile Workers Union, the United
Front Committee of the PassaiC
strike, the Independent Shoe Work
ers Union, the Textile Mill Com
mittees in the New Bedford strike
the Needle Trades Workers Indus.
trial Union, and every workers or
ganization that really fights for the
Notwithstanding the Workers In.
ternational Relief, and the Interna-
tional Labor Defense, is the Com
munist Party. Every proposal to
destroy Communism i'll America, ano
much Of the testimony dealing with
! Communism, was really proposal
to smash, and recital of the labor
activities of, these militant unions
and relief and defense organiza
tions.
Coming events cast their shadows
before them very plainly in the Fish
committee investigation. 1t is GO
ing to propose a secret spy SIS NJ
it IL going to propose laws to easily
deport foreign born workers, it has
in mind some kind of federal Grim,
inal syndicalism law to Jail Amer
lean workers who don't kunckl.
down properly to the bosses, and il
probably has some kind of censor
ship law on its books.
Fight it on August /
Better war preparation could moi
be expected. The working class is
to be rendered unionless and voice
less, all leaders in imminent DANCE,
of hangmen abroad or prison terms
at home.
Against this, the Communist Par
ty calls for mass demonstration ana
protest on August /, international
anti-imperialist war day. The work.
ers then will mobilize not only TO,
the preservation of their fighting or
CARNATIONS, but to demand that the
funds gathered for war prepare.
tions be used instead for unemploy.
ment relief.
Getting Workers Fired.
Wood. a hollow-cheeked, soto
Yoiced, nervous gray clad figure
told of following Fred Beal, of the
! National Textile Workers Union and
other union leaders about the couu
try In New Bedford, he conspired
with Batty. director of the Amer
lea Federation of Textile Opera
tives (Which joined the United Tex
! tie Workers during the stril1e) t.
(('oHtguUeo on pu0e Thpeel