The daily worker., 1935-02-05

/ Intelligence Federation for anti
Semitic, anti -mihtant-lab espion-
age. Rosenwald is also on the ex-
ecutive committee of the American
Jewish Committee, which promoted
publicity for Coughlin, has continu-
ously opposed mass action by Jews
in protest against Hitlerism, and is
dominated by Felix Warburg, who
had a connection with the McCor-
mack-Dickstein Committee which
suppressed testimony on Fascist ac-
tivities.
Harry Jung also is now in the
Committee for the Nation
Secretary Of Agriculture Henry A.
Wallace was a charter member,
though he has since publicly crit
icized the Committee.
Publisher Connections
The Committee for the Nation
has many important connections
with publishers, the key capitalists
in the molding of the minds Of
workers and others in the groove
that suits the capitalist. It has close
/ personal contact with the Hearst
newspaper organization. Frank
Gannett, owner of a string of pa
pers, is an open backer of the Com
mittee, David Stern, owner of the
New York Post and three other
liberal professed Fascist but
ardent pro-New Deal journals, was
on a special committee Of the Com
mittee, though he says he later with
drew. On this special committee,
also and still associated with the
Committee, was A. Mitchell Palmer,
the former Attorney General of the
United States whose direction Of
the postwar raids on radicals and
militant labor made the Mitchell
Palmer days a household phrase
for terrorism and violence against
the workers and intellectuals Of
America not only the radical ones,
but the liberals and the militant
Democrat and Republican trade
unionists also. The recognized ex-
tension of the Mitchell Palmer ter
rorism, directed first at Reds" to
include others, gives an especially
prophetic significance to his pres
ence in the Committee for the Ma
ton.
Profits At Any Cost
The leadership of this Committee
is out to. preserve the profits of the
capitalists by any means necessary.
Though it is now advocating merely
initiation, and publicly-brings in
the working class struggle as a
threat to scare up further support
by farmers and small capitalists for
its monetary reform" program, its
fundamental purpose is to guard the
broad, fundamental property rights
Of the Vanderlips, Rands and
stotesbury relatives already in it,
and those of the Morgans and other
top fihanciers with whom it has
many mutual interests as well as
associations.
While originally the Committee
spewed out literally reams of propa-
ganda to newspapers and news
writer's, and conducted a high-pow-
cred monetary reform" propaganda
campaign by radio, public speeches,
ETC., it has in recent months con-
siderably stepped down these activi-
ties. This has created the impress
sion on many people that the Com
tnittee's activities are tapering off
but it in reality only makes the
Committee a more important force
for Fsscism in the United States
Activities Increased
Instead of tapering off. the Com
nittee actually is increasing its or
ganizational work, and it is further
perfecting its nation wide mechan-
ism for propaganda. 1t is attempt
ing to draw new forces in, especi-
ally to influence more middle class
farmers to take the pro-capitalist
"kulak" attitude, which it describes
by that word, and to build bigger,
tighter organization of compara-
lively small business men.
The Committees own literature,
sent to special classes Of it's mem
bership, acknowledges that it has
spent 100000 in its two years
propaganda work. During its first
year alone, it conducted six national
broadcasts, 1000 fifteen minute
broadcasts by electrical transcript
tion over $50 radio stations. 1t dis
tributed exactly 2,568, ,834 pieces of
literature, including 439 900 pieces
of printed matter such as multi
graphed bulletins and reports,
1850 letters, 1850 copies Of Ma
tional Industrial Conference Board
reports; 1S7,563 pages Of photolith
reproductions, etc. 1t made fifty