Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-06
RADICAL ACTIVITY
HELD INCREASING
Work of Agitators Is Report
ed to Labor Department
From Several States.

Increasing evidences of activity among
Communist agitators among persons out
t1of work, and those employed in textile
mills, shoe factories, coal mines and
other large industries through the coun-
try are coming to the Labor Depart
ment from field workers charged with
promoting the welfare of the laborins
man. :
From many great population centers,
chiefly in the East and Middle West,
Secretary Davis has been advised that
Communistic propaganda is more wide
spread and apparently more general this
year than Tor many years. The Labor
with such propaganda, but It has &C
cumulated O large file of Communistic
literature among lahorers in many in
dustries. New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio
ana Illinois appear to be the States
where CommuniStic propaganda Is being
most widely disseminated. So far, how
ever. the department has not been adj
vised OF any evidence of sabotage, or Of
militant measures against employers.
Working under the guise of the ma
tional miners union, said to be a COM
munistlc organization, agitators seeking
overthrow Of recognized authority are
said to be working in the coal fields.
Some dissatisfied elements have been
found sympathetic to the teachings Of
the propangandists, but in the main
the communistic teachings have fallen
on barren ground.
Are Asked TO Organize.
Government reports show that the
present unemployment has found Com
muniSt agitatOrs spreading their propa-
ganda among joblesS. Advocating abol-
ition of evictions for non-payment of
rent by the unemployed, complete in
suraiice against unemployment to be
provided by the government and flnanc-
ed by taxes, equality of colored and
white workers, and establishment of free
employment agencies administered by
workers themselves, the central
committee of the Community Party
OF the United States within the past
few weeks has called upon the unem-
ployed to organize and struggle"
One publication attacks the Admins
tration by declaring that "capitaiists
and their servants make a great show
OF plans to reduce Unemployment BY
public works, construction, building,
"These fake plans" the publication
says, mot intended to be carried out
In more than the smallest degree, are
merely to keep the workers quiet in
vain hopes of better times to come"
Claim "Super- Government"
1t also asks that the TRAITORS" of the
American Federation Of Labor be
thrown out, and claim that while
Hoover and the capitalists are setting
up their Super-government in the form
OF the National Business Council, the
A. F: OF u. Is disarming and demoraliz-
ing the working class, helping the bosses
70 Iool the workers. The workers must
hight against the nisleaders Of the A.
+. OF L. and must organize to throw
them out Of all positions among the
workers, to expose them and destroy
their influence,
From Philadelphia comes q circular |
distributed to employees Of leather COM
pany, which pleads with the workers to
organize against lengthening Of hours,
hight for an increase in wages and de-
mand a 7-hour day and a f1ve-oa!
week. This. circular, sponsored by TN
Trade Union Unity League. called for
demonstration on City Hall Plaza TO-DAY
The Labor Department sees In TN
spread Of Coiumunistic propaganda a '
greater organization and more ACTIVITY 1
than during the Communistic scare
OF 1921, when L. G. x. Martens, an
agent Of the Soviet, suspected OF ois"
tributine propagaaGA @as- deporsso.