Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-18
REDS ARE TERMED
AMERICAN MENACE
Fish Committee Submits
Plans to LegisIate Against
Communism.

The Fish committee yesterday termed
Communism a grave threat to demo.
cratic government, reported the Com
munist party extremely active II
America, and outlined legislative mean,
of combating the radical cause.
After eight months of study, tht
committee submitted voluminous re-
port, recommending that aliens who
advocate overthrowing the Government
by force be refused admission to thE
United States and more stringent de-
portation laws.
individual Report Made.
1t was signed by Chairman Fish
Representative Bachmann, Republican
West Virginia, and Representatives
ESlick, Tennessee and Hall, Mississippi
Democrats.
The fifth member of the committee
Representative Nelson, Republican
Maine filed O. individual report.
Bachmann Immediately introduced a
bill to prohibit the entry of avowed
Communists into the United States
Fish said he and other COMMITTEES
members would place in legislative
form other recommendations for which
law is required, They include:
Deportation of alien Communists;
denial of naturalization and the can
collation. of citizenship of Communists
empowering the Justice Department to
investigate Communist activities: g
prohibition against sending propaganda
for revolutionary Communism in the
mails Or in interstate commerce; law
to prosecute Communists or others
spreading false rumors to cause runs
on banks; immediate consideration OF
an embargo on Russian manganese.
In addition, the committee recon-
mended that the Treasury seek permits
sion to investigate through agents the
alleged production Of lumber and pulp
wood by convict labor and the use OF
forced labor in Soviet Russia.
Illegal Ruling Is Asked.
The Fish report also recommended
that the Communist party of the
United States be declared illegal and
that States be requested to take ap-
propriate action to have the party ex-
cluded from recognition.
Nelson's recommendations include
more stringent administration of the
visa laws, the deportation of undesir-
able and criminal aliens, the encourage
ment of organized labor and more care
full postal supervision of radical publ
cations. He also Endorsed giving the
Justice Department power to follow ur
radical activities.
New economic and social conditions
Nelson said in his report, require "a
new attitude of thought and a more
liberal approach to some of our prob
lens.
THE crisis that American industry
and American labor is facing today
speaks in no uncertain terms of some
thing wrong in our social and industrial
system, which calls for further and
deeper study of causes, effects and
cures" he added.
Bolshevism, he said was born out
Of social and political chaos that can
never obtain here in America"
There will be no weakening in oul
ideals OF democracy-simply an ex-
tension Of those ideals into other fields.
Labor Publicity Is Urged.
I'm proportion as We work out eco
nomlc justice here in America and sc
order our social system that labor shall
share in the economic life of the Nation
as fully and fairly as it now shares ir
its social and political life. in just that
proportion will radicalism fall of its
own tnaction and the threat Of Com
munism cease 70 disturb us" -
The United States has more to lose
from the economic system in Russia il
the flve-year plan succeeds than any
other nation" the Fish report said
We find there is not sufi1clent COM
petent legal evidence in the record tc
prove the connection of the An1tore
Trading Corporation with subversive &C
Invites"
The committee outlined the Com
munist youth movement here and said
publicity and support of organized
labor is the best means of combating
Communism.