Evening star., 1935-09-29
W. p. 4. Is Held Fertile Field
For Spread of Red Propaganda
Communists Employ Tommony Hall
Methods, With J0bless Teachers Worst
OHmdIe, SuyOfficials in Nem York.

example, ii is the custom in New York
to give workers who labor overtime
supper money because they are natu-
rally late at their homes. OF course,
we have no petty cash fund in P. w. A.
and Federal directions do not permit
paying overtime, but some projects are
located far enough from the workers
homes to make supper money
charge reascnsble if We could allow it.
which We can't. The Communists lit
on this and raised hob.
The agitators make cause celebre
of every little mistake or seeming in
justice done. A few times We have
been able to set Washington regula-
tions changed and have amazed them
by granting their demands.
They are using Tammany Hall
methods. When We had pay roll diff
Guilty due to the natural lag between
! starting the jobs and the first pay
checks. during which some workers
we're of relief and out of money for a
few days. the Communists helped them
and fed them.
IF some individual has a real or
imaginary grievance. the Communists
help him and magnify the grievance
into resentment against the Govern
ment that is providing the job.
Teachers Become Radicals.
THE worst crowd of all about going
Communistic are the school teachers
When a teacher is unemployed she
,oI; otalt radical
should say 95 per cent of the unem-
ployed teachers in New York are Com
munists. A big help in educating our
next generation.
The number of Communist adher-
ents among all the intellectual unem-
ployed is astounding. Writers. mu-
sicians. artists and similar professions
often 60 radical as soon as they get
out of a job. Usually these people
are used to a respectable job and a
fairly high standard of living. They
had bigger jolt in their fall and fire.
quently went through more hell before
they went On relief. They are in
clined to blame the economic order for
their misfortune.
The least troublous are the skilled
mechanics. They know that when
there is work they are able to sup
port themselves. The monthly Sc
curity wage is lower than the pre-
vailing wage when the number of
hours worked is considered, but over
years time it provides more cash
than the periodic employment OF these
men on seasonal private jobs. In
spite of the bitter row we had with
organized labor over the hourly pre-
vailing wage scales, the Communists
made almost no inroads among these
men. The security wage averages
higher than the annual wage in any
year since the war except 1927 and
1928.
"Unskilled labor is next easiest to
handle. Ordinarily these men and
women are glad to get the jobs and
did not have as far to drop as the
intellectuals to reach the relief rolls.
But these teachers! They're impos-
sible."
The official said Mrs. Rosenberg
saw one Communicated delegation of
teachers 81 times. discussing impos-
sible demands. and when they barged
into her office in the midst Of an
important meeting and she refused to
see them. they protested to Mayor
La Guardia that they had been zig
nored."
The Communists count on the un-
familiarity of the average worker with
the facts and their feeling of re-
sentiment toward an economic system
which, in their eyes, has denied them
employment. Through teachers, re-
lief investigators and professional Or
ganizers they spread their poison
and so far no effective antidote has
been found.
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