Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-17
Report to House Advises
Full Publicity on Aims
as Remedy.
SOVIET FIVE-YEAR PLAN
is CALLED DESTRUCTIVE
Would Be Able to Finance Reds in
World Revolution, if Success
full, Group Convinced.
BY the Associated Press.

| Dy JnB ASSOC!abeQ HreSS.
Communism was branded q grave
threat to democratic governments and
their economic structure in the formal
report submitted today to the House
by its special Communist Investigating
Committee.
| In summary of evidence gathered
in an eight-month study in every sec
ton of the country of Communistic activ-
tiles, the committee detailed its find
ings as basis of legislative action. It's
recommendations for strengthening i'm
migration and deportation laws and
Federal surveillance of radical activities
were to be made public later today.
The group of five, led by Represent
ative Fish, Republican, New York, was
ordered by the House last Spring to
inquire into Communist activities. Their
report estimated there were between
100000 and 100000 Communists and
active sympathizers in this country.
| Only 10000, however, were considered
dues-paying members of the party.
Aims Declared Universal.
The principles and aims of Com
munistS are the same throughout the
world, said the committee and all take
their orders from the Communist In
ternational with headquarters in Mos
COW and "obey them implicitly"
THE committee is convinced" it add
| ed that the sureSt and most effective
| way of combating communism in the
United States is to give the fullest pos
sible publicity to the fundamental prin-
ciples and aims of the Communists"
The five-year industrialization pro-
gram of the. Soviet Union if successful,
the committee held, would become so
great money-making machine that it
may finance communism in world revo-
! luton"
THE purpose of the plan," it con-
! tinued, sis not to build up but TO tear
down and destroy"
The committee said Russia had hurt
the American manganese producing in
dustry and apparently was threatening
the United States grain, lumber and
wood plup industries and anthracite
producers
An individual report was submitted
by Representative Nelson Of Maine,
ranking majority member, in which he
predicted bolshevism could not obtain
in this country, but suggested:
We perhaps need new attitude of
thought and more liberal approach to
some of our problems. The solution of
this problem lies in the wisdom of our
legislators and in the un clhshness of
our industrialists."
Close Watch Is Advised.
He recommended legislation to enable
the Justice Department to maintain a
close watch on all radical activities
closer administration of the visa sys-
TEN and drastic laws for deporting I'M
desirable aliens, support of organized
labor and rigid postal inspection of all
radical publications.
The committee, specifically instructed
to investigate the Amtorg Corporation,
unofhcially trading representative of the
Soviet Union, found its export and i'm
port trade amounted to many millions
annually although Its business is con-
Quoted largely on a credit basis with
only 100000 invested capital and the
commerce to America from Russia is
only about one-third of the amount of
purchases in the United States"
The committee said testimony regard
ing the documents seized in New York
by former Police Commissioner Whalen
had failed to establish their genuine
ness.
Testimony, it is said, also led to the
opinion that the short-Selling of wheat
on the Chicago Board Of Trade by Rus
sian agencies last Fall, was done with
no intent to depresS the price of wheat.
While the Communist so far have
been unsuccessful in their plans for
boring from within and capturing
the American Federation of Labor"
the report continued, They have sue
ceeded in weakening and virtually
breaking up and destroying number Of
the important unions of the federation,
notably in the garment, needle, textile
and mining trades"