Evening star., 1930-11-30


The press of the country, as a general
proposition, has been absolutely fair in
It's news and editorial columns. Writers
on the New York World and the
Scripps- Howard papers, however, have
not hesitated to make numerous half
baked and inaccurate statements con-
corning the activities Of the committee
and attempted to convey utterly erro-
neous Impressions to the reading public
to the extent, it Is difficult to dis
tinguiSh, on the subject of Communism
between these newspapers and out-and-
out Communist publications.
Principles Are Same.
The proper answer to this form of
radical and insidiouS propaganda will
be the report of the committee and
its recommendations, which, / believe,
will have the backing of an over
whelming majority of American citi-
zenS in all sections of the country, and
of every race, color and creed.
The principles and aims OF Com
munism are the same all over the
world. The Russian Communist in
Moscow and the Communist in Ber-
lin, Paris, London, New York, Los
Angeles, Toxic or Peking stand on the
same platform and advocate the same
principles, and all take their orders
from the Third international, with
headquarters at Moscow, and obey
them implicitly.
It is not difficult to find out exactly
what these principles are. and to de-
fine Communism so that he who runs
can read, as Communists do not at
tempt to hide their fundamental pur-
poses and admit and are apparently
proud of taking their orders from
Moscow and giving allegiance to the
Red flag and the Soviet Union.
The following is definition OF Com
munism, q worldwide political organi-
zation, advocating: O hatred OF Goo
and all forms Of religion; (2) destruc-
ton of private property rights and
inheritance; 90 promotion OF class
hatred; a. revolutionary propaganda
through the Third International, STIR
ring up Communist activities in foreign
countries in order to cause strikes,
riots, sabotage, bloodshed and civil war;
(5) destruction of all forms OF repre-
sentative or democratic governments, in
cluding civil liberties, such as freedom
of speech, Of the press, OF assembly and
trial by jury; (6 the ultimate and final
objective is world revolution and the
dictatorship of the so-called proletariat
into one Union of Soviet Socialist Re-
publics, with the world capital at
Moscow.
In the United States both the Re-
publican and Democratic parties are apt
to forget their national platform soon
after election, but there is this that
Is commendable about Communist: They
adhere strictly to their party program
and principles wherever they may be, or
are thrown out of the party.
Not BASED on Study.
An article in last weeks Saturday
Evening Post, by Will Erwin, describ-
ing Communism as a ballyhoo ana on
the decline, makes good reading but
unfortunately is contrary to the facts,
and obviously unsupported by careful
preparation or investigation. 1t Is
much easier for a writer to present a
sweeping denial of the growth of Com
muniSm than by patient study-and care
ful investigation to dig deep into the
facts and write an article based on
those facts. 1t is easy to say there is
40 Communism when one knows nothing
about it, and has made no real attempt
to find out except by reading what ap-
pears in the newspapers or listening to
soap box orators in Union Square.
I am not an alarmist, and do not
consider the revolutionary doctrines OF
the Communists in the United States to
constitute a menace at the present
time to our republican form of govern
ment, but they are real threat to GER
tain Industries, such as textiles coal
mining, garment workers, marine trans
portation, fur workers, and are Begin
ming to cause considerable trouble
through creation of nuclei and the
issuance of shop papers in the automo-
bile industry, lumber industry and in
numerous manufacturing centers
throughout the Nation.
If it were not for the fact that the
American Federation of Labor, under
the patriotic leadership of William
Green and his predecessor, Samuel
GomperS, has refused to compromise
with the communists in the United
States, who have been trying to bore
from within in order to gain control
of the labor unions, Communism would
be a serious threat to American indus
try. Great credit should be given to
the American Federation of Labor for
combating and exposing the aims of
the Communists to undermine our re-
publican form Of government and de-
stroy our industries.
The American Federation Of labor,
by exposing the true aims of the Com
munistS against our Government, and
excluding them from their unions, have
forced them to organize their own rev.
olutionary unions, such as the Trade
Union Unity League, of which William
q. Foster is the guiding spirit.
The growth Of Communism in the
United States Is easy to prove, and by
that ! mean those who advocate Com
muniStic principles and not necessarily
members of the party.
There are some so affiliated organi-
zations, whose members are sympa-
thetic, If not open adherents of Com
muniSm.
Communist Vote Larger,
In 1928 William z. Foster, the Com
munist candidate for President, polled
48,770 votes in "a States. In 1880 the
Communist candidates for Governor or
United States Senator, in less than half
the States in the Union where they were
on the ballot, polled approximately
100, 900 votes. In New York City alone
there were 16,462 votes cast for the
Communist State ticket. The Com
munist party in the United States Is
largely composed of aliens; probably 10
per cent are aliens, 20 per cent nat
uralized citizens, and 10 per cent ma
tive-born Americans, including Negroes.
The aliens, of course, are not able to
vote, and in order to obtain a fair es-
Innate Of the actual number of Com
munists over 81 years of age it would
be necessary to multiply the voting 1lg-
ures by three, and even that would not
take into consideration the number of
Communists who failed to vote, al
though qualified.
In addition, there are all those Com