The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-16


only Gin the latter part Of De-
oember." What it didn't say is
that it received the charges as
long ago as last July s, seven
months ago, and never raised a
finger to investigate them.
In contrast to its conclusion tina
legislation is needed to check ans
control such movements as thu
Communist, the committee ended
its lengthy discussion of Nazi activi.
ties with the startling whitewasF
that its own disclosures already
have stopped their progress" Ir
other words, there's no longer any
reason to trouble about them.
Bowed to Fascists
The committee recommended, in
connection with its own disclosures
of evidence against other fascist
organizations, such as the Order OF
'76 and Harry A. lungs American
Vigilante Intelligence Federation,
merely IAN aroused and intelligent
public opinion"
1t did not mention, however. that
this same Harry Jung headed the
Key-Men of America, who as long
ago as the bonus march of 1882.
have been trying to persuade Gen
eral Butler to lead fascist party.
It did not develop the spectacular
fact that Butler had been the OBJ
Ject of a great many efforts. sup
ported by such powerful pro-fasciSt
figures as William Randolph Hearst,
to build capitalist-supported veter-
ans groups and pseudo-patriotic
mass organizations to protect prop
erty. 1t did not bring out the fact
that the United States Secret Ser
vice was in on many of these de-
velopments - facts which Butler
gave to the Daily Worker, and
therefore obviously would have
given to the committee.
The Committees report does not
identify any Of the fascist army
plotters as Wall Street financiers
and agents linked to the pinnacle
of power, j. P. Morgan and Com
pany. Its discussion of the Storm
troop plot actually tends to mini
mize and gloss over the whole af-
fair.
Attacked U. S. S. r.
But the Committee boldly at
tackled not only the Communist
Party, but the Soviet Union also,
and with a lying Interpretation. It
pointed out that many of the
citizens appearing before this Com
mittee have designated particular
and emphatic attention towards an
alleged violation of one of the con-
ditions of the agreement by this
country and Soviet Russia that pre-
coded Russian recognition by this
country"
Then the Committee quotes from
the so-calIed propaganda agree
ment" between Maxim Litvinoff
and Franklin d. Roosevelt. 1t sup
presses, however, the fact that this
agreement was reciprocal agree
ment. 1t implies that the resolu-
tionS adopted by the Communist
Party in its Cleveland convention
following and approving the last
Plenum of the Communist Inter
national constitute a violation Of
the Roosevelt-Litvinoff agreement.
1t conceals, however, that the
counter-revolutionary forces in the
United States, such as the Amer
lean Civic Federation and the Elks
Of which Chairman Mccormack of
the Committee is member, bear
exactly the same relation to the
question.
Communism, moreover, is of for
eign origin and is directed by an
alien organization outside of the
United States" the Committee re-
port misstates.
The real reason for such attacks.
and for the Committees whole ex-
istence and program, appears in
part in the report. 1t quotes a
statement by Chairman McCor-
mack: "a period of profound and
protracted depression has followed
in the wake of the World War.
During such period of unrest, dis
content with the existing order and
a widespread agitation for change
in the form, character, and sub
stance Of governments has spread
over the world, overturning estab-
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many new and radical experiments
in government"
Conceals Reason
The report, however, conceals the
reason why this discomfort and
agitation worries the Committee
and its guide, banker Felix M. War
burg, who has close business affili-
ations with Morgan. 1t is that such
working class struggle, led by the
Communist Party. hampers the eff
fort of the open-shop employers to
get out of the economic crisis by
further and further REFRESHING the
workers and farmers, step by step
to open capitalist dictatorship, or
full fascism.
The Committee report includes
the testimony given by Br0wder
and James w. Ford. This testi-
mony was taken in secret session.
The Committee report asserts
that it CONSTITUTES a virtual plea
of guilty. to Charges" that have
been made.
In this testimony, as printed by
the Committee, Browder specific
ally requested that if any of the
questions involved in these state
ments become the basis for any
conclusions of the Committee, that
we be permitted to give further evil
dence with regard to them"
Later, after the Committee an.
nounced publicly its intention of
urging legislation against the Com
munist Party, Geographic request
was made to the Committee to hear
a Communist spokesman. The Com