Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1932-04-21

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Party is the League of Struggle fol
Negro Rights, an organization form
ed by Communists for the propaga
ton Of their doctrines among the ne.
groes and for Incorporating then
into and converting them to the pro.
letarian revolution. In his connec.
ion, they have endeavored to wipe
out the color line and have sent ne.
groes to train in Moscow for leader.
ship in the Hoishevization of thei,
nwn people. This is shown by ex
tracts from documents found at the
Brldgeman convention which said
"The leaders Of the working class
must wage a relentless war against
race segregati 0 n, dBenfranchse-
ment, pemage and lynching. The ne
| gro masses should be led to see the
similarity between their race strug-
gle and the struggle of the entire
working class -. A liberated race,
absolutely, race equality-political &c
onomic, social, the fostering of race
pride a united negro 'front.'
To quote from Moscow versus Am
erica" compiled by the A. V. /. F.:
More and more stress has been laid
upon negro work and the American
Negro Labor Congress has become
the official negro section of the
Workers (Gommunist) Party OF
America. At a conference held in
1927, Richard B. Moore was elected
general secretary of the Congress ]. j.
Lovett Fort hiteman went to
Moscow for the purpose Of making
an extended stay to be trained for a
higher position in the negro work.
James w. Ford was an employee for
the Chicago Post Office in 1927 !.
-. he did organization work for the
American Negro Labor Congress I'M
TIL he went to Moscow as q delegate
to the Congress Of the Red Interna-
tional of Labor Unions"
As q last word on the attitude OF
the Communists towards one phase
of the negro question, let us quote
part of William q. Fosters testim-
ony before the Fish Committee. He
is recognized as the outstanding
Communist in the United States:
Nm. Eslick Do you believe
in the social equality of the negro
and the white man?
Mr.. Foster $3.50. do, most assume
dly.
Mr.. Eslick -. Do you believe in
inter- racial marriages between neg
roes ard whites?
MIR. Foster $50. ! believe that any
person has a right to marry whom
ever they please, without regard to-
the color of their skin . that there
is no basis in science or anywhere
else for the assumption that the me-
gro is in any way inferior to the
white man.
Nh. Eslick 80. So you make no
distinction between races?
Mr.. Foster $50. No, sir
Aso closely connected with Com
munist party are the Unemployed
Councils, which have street and shop
nuclei and through whom consider
able demonstrating and propaganda
izing have been done in the past year
or 80.
There is also the Workers Ex-Ser
vice Mems League, an organization
OF alleged ex-service men in connec-
ton with this unemployment agital-
ton, but it's members, outside OF men
who have gotten into trouble in the
Army and Navy, r often found to
have no connection with the service
whatever, and, in general, it is a boz
gus organization using the name for
propaganda purpose An example
Is recounted in the Better America
Federation of California Bulletin" Of
March 20, 1891 in which a number Of
posing as veterans at
tempted to organize the "Unemploy-
ed ex-service Mems League for a
march on Los Angeles city hall on
February 10, but were exposed and
handled by the real exLeer-
vice men whom they were trying to
pnoselytize.
Included in the category closely
connected with and supported by the
parity in this country are
organizations to fight against
combinations hostile to the Spviets
as the AlLAmerican Anta-Imperialist
the A~nti-Fascist League If
North America and the Anti-Horthy
The Amtorg Trading Corporation,
cstensibly merely the business
Of the Russian Government.
with headquarters in New York and
branches in Chicago and other cities,
is a vital part OF the organization
and a link between Moscow and uoum
activities in this country. For
instance, according to the Fish Com
Report, Peter A. Bngdanov,
of the Board of Directors
Amtorg, began his areer as a
revolutionist at the 6 of IS, was
a member OF the Bolshevick
executive committee ON the Russian
Social Democratic Labor Party in
1919, president of the supreme econ
omic council in 1921, chief Of the SUI
preme administration of the military
industry In 1923, and is an admitted
alien Communist Also, that Feodor
N. Ziavkin, general manager Of Am
was head of the O. G. P. u. in
city of Rostov ON tn Don in 1924
and by his own statement shows
that he knows but little Of the bus
mess matters. That "Amtorg has
brought a large number OF Russians
TO this country, claiming that they