The daily worker., 1935-02-05

private letter-reports to special
groups Of its members, and issued
twenty-five elaborate currency re-
form" theses.
Seeks More Funds
All this and the propaganda work
of another full year was done at a
cost of 100000, according to the
literature. But now the Committee
is seeking $4,000 for it's 1934-35
work alone. This in itself shows
how much more work it expects to
do in this one year.
The new $4,000 was asked for
in blank sent to members last
October. This blank called for
twenty-five Glass A" members. con-
tributing $1,000 each; fifty Glass
3" members contributing $500 each;
$50 Glass CT members contributing
$3.50 each; 400 Glass e. members
contributing $50 each and 300
Glass F.. members contributing s25
| each. The Committee wants 1925
paying members to support a pro
gram brOadened especially since
the San Francisco General Strike
to rest squarely on the fundamental
class interests of the capitalists of
finance, industry and agriculture.
The Fascist possibilities of this
kind of an organization, dominated
by the representatives of the big
trusts, but including masses of
smaller industrialists and big
farmer leaders, are, of course
enormous. Especially when one
considers the functioning propa-
ganda mechanism they have already
built UP. And the facts that their
membership is secret, that some of
them don't know some of their own
organizations activities, and that
the leadership includes individuals
with known pro-Fascist connec-
tions.
Fight Radicalism"
The Committee for the Nation is
now distributing a news bulletin Of
the Executives Club of Chicago
carrying the text Of a speech de-
livered there by Earl Harding, the
publicity man for the COMMITTEES
as well as a member of its advisory
council.
In this speech Harding told a
crowd Of old line anti-labor men.
according to the publication spon-
sored by the Committee:
IF you are afraid of radicalism
as I am, do not waste your breath
denouncing it, Communism is a
product of depression, of economic
insecurity, and Of poverty D..
Fight radicalisln at it's source"
Thus Harding argued to the bust
ness men to make yourself an ac-
tive, aggressive Committee of One
for the Nation to help spread none
tary understanding" He added "the
big Committee for the Nation is
the only national organization
lighting to upnold the Constitution
and the profit system through
price level restoration"
This was a plea TO the business
men to get behind the Committee's
brand of monetary REFORM which
Harding promised, would solve
everything, but which was actually
inspired by big capitalists who
Thought Of it merely as a solution
to their fundamental problem-to
get out of the crisis at someone
else's, especially their workers, ex-
penSe. Harding betrayed this in
this same speech, saying: There is
widespread fear that radicalism vii,
undermine all these things which
we have believed secure" BY which
things he, of course, meant property
rights.
Secret Meetings
But there is more direct evidence
Of this-the secret meetings of the
| founders of the Committee for the
Nation.
These meetings occurred through
the months Of January and Feb
ruary, 1888. BY this time the Com
mittee Of the Nation had been op-
Grating for few months with
about 200 picked men" 1t was
originally founded, according tc
Harding, late in 1892. ut grew from
a committee Of one" namely Vim
cent BendiX. He drew in foul
others-General Robert E. Wood
quartermaster general of the U. S
Army during the World War, anc
Lessing j. Rosenwald, both now
major executives and owners o.
Sears Roebuck; and Frank A. Van.
derlip.
Even before they started, an
l,Ahns. Csl.a incn.a A