The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-18
HOUSE INVESTIGATORS PROPOSE
CAMPS TO IMPRISON MILITANTS;
GREEN COOL TO NEW ANT|.RED LAW
A. F. of L. Head Attacks
Communists and the
Insurance Congress
By Seymour Waldman
DAILY Worker Washington Bureau

] tDang hOFheT washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec. IL
Mindful Of his recent failure to get
American Federation of Labor locals
throughout the country to expel
Communists, President william
Green today refused to recommend
to the special congressional COM
mittee investigating un-American
activities" the framing Of Federal
laws which would make the Com
munist Party illegal or which would
give the Department of Justice spe-
cial authority and appropriations
to make intensive undercover in
vestigations Of the revolutionary
movement.
Green, the main witness before
today's opening nti-Comlmunist
capital sessions of the committee.
| however. drew upon his strike
breaking activities during the great
West Coast strike to recommend
legislation which would make the
general strike illegal except in Eek
IRENE cases." Repeating the en-
ployers' slogan, Every general
strike has failed" Green uttered the
old libel that the Communist Party
wasn't interested in winning the
economic demands of the workers
but in revolution" despite his own
acts and the clear official statement
to the contrary issued during the
strike by the Communist Party.
Aim of Committee.
The House Of Representatives In
vestigating Committee, known pop
ularly as the Dickstein Committee,
led by Chairman John w. McCor-
mack of Massachusetts, and Dick
stein, made it clear that, failing a
recommendation for outright out
having of the Communist Party, it
is interested in getting support for
recommendation which would
broaden the present Section of
the Criminal Code so that an covert
act" showing a conspiracy to over
throw the Government would not
be necessary to prove to obtain a
conviction.
Mccormack asked Green to give
some thought and make some sug-
gestionS" in the near future that
where a conspiracy is established
there should be the basis Of convic-
ton without showing an overt act.
Green said he would "be glad to
give it thought and if some sugges-
tons are helpful I'll be glad to do
it." To McCormack's request for a
recommendation for dealing with
an organized minority distinctly
outside the pale of the law Green
replied that if the activities referred
j to were illegal then present statutes
/ are sufficient.
! Rice w. Means, former U. S. Sem
/ ator from Colorado and Ku Klux
1 Khan leader in his state at the time
of his election, appeared as the rep
/ resentative of the Spanish Amer
/ lean War Veterans. Means declared:
eve believe that the Department.
Of Justice should be given authority
/ and proper appropriation to keep
/ constantly informed as to the Com
munist menace. We believe that
statute should be passed rlaking
i the teaching or preaching of COM
munism a felony. We believe that
I all aliens teaching or preaching
/ Communism should be deported,
and all naturalized aliens doing
/ this should have their naturaliza-
( ton papers cancelled"
Urges Prison Terms
Thomas Kirby, the national legis-
/ lative chairman of the Disabled
American Veterans, proposed: That
those who advocate the destruction
by force of the American govern
ment be considered felons and sem
fenced to long Imprisonment, and
that aliens among those be de-
ported, upon discharge from prison,
to the lands of their origin" Kirby
Boosted that Colonel William j.
Donovan, that distinguished citi-
zen and soldier" is a former Ma
| tional Judge Advocate of the D.A.V.
Donovan is the big Wall Street law
yer now representing the corrupt
/ duPonts' munitions and textile dy-
nasty before the Senate munitions
committee. The D-A.V. legislative
representative repeated his dema-
/ gogy, voiced before the War Policies
/ Commission, about the universal
draft" that is, drafting property
like men. However, he did not in
form the committee that he had
recommended to the commission the
usual return to property during war
time,
Mccormack and Green engaged
/ in long discussion about the left
( wing furriers union and that
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