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70 persuade GT6OeTal SmeCleY d
Butler, to lead 100000 American
Storm Troops for them, the COM
mittee report further whitewsshet
this conspiracy and other fascist &C
Invites Of the big bankers. 1t ais,
further primed the guns which j
long ago turned against the workinl
class for decent living standards anC
basic civil rights.
Dismissed Plot
The committee report dismissed
the Wall Street fascist army plot
the most spectacular and sinister
fascist development before it, in "a
lines. Tt devoted more than hall
as much space to the Silver Shirts
1t concluded its discussion of the
Wall Street plot without a single
recommendation for action against
such activities. 1t merely said
armed forces for "a dictatorship by
means of fascism or dictatorship
through the instrumentality of the
proletariat have no place in this
country
1t completely ignored the sup
pressed testimony published by
the Daily Worker. This suppressed
testimony showed that the fascist
army plOtters previously had es-
tablished a direct link with the
White House on a matter related
to the Storm Troops plot. 1t
showed that the fascist army plot
tiers were depending upon Presi-
dent Roosevelt to be with us"
when they should use their armed
forces in order to, in their own
words, Support the President" on
the day when demagogy would no
longer sustain the present semi
fascist repression of the ruling
capitalists.
The committee report naturally
completely ignored the fascist acts
Of the Roosevelt Government.
Ignores Liberty League
1t completely ignored the Amer
lean Liberty League Though thi.
powerful pro-fascist group organ
lied by the same financiers who
backed the army plot was named in
the suppressed testimony.
The whole formal of the report
further demonstrated the anti
working class purpose and activitie!
of the Dickstein-M cCormack Com
mittee. 1t devoted exactly six pages
to Nazism, and exactly IL pages
more than half of the entire report
to Communism.
Its pages on Nazi activities were
filled with references to secret prop
Uganda and other activities by Of
ticial representatives Of the Nazj
Government of Germany-but its
twelve pages on Communism had tx
be devoted to discussions of officia,
documents of the world revolution.
airy movement, documents which
have been published and openly
circulated in millions Of copies 70,
years. The reports discussion o.
Communist activities contained not
one single fact or allegation of an,
Illegal activities.
Nevertheless, it concluded with 2
recommendation for LEGISLATION
against illegal" acts of such
movements" It said: 1T is the
duty of government to check anc
control, through appropriate legis-
lation, the illegal actions and
methods of such movements, with
out regard to the improbability OIL
attainment, and to protect itself
and its loyal citizens against sucr
subversive attempts
This correspondent recently
asked a competent source close to
the committee why they used Of
flcial Openly-circuIated publica-
lions such as the Daily Worker in
their effort to show that Com
muniSt activities are "subversiye,"
but made no gesture toward
doing the same thing with respect
to fascist or Nazi activities.
On, we didn't have to interpre
the Nazi and fascist publications,
this official source declared. "W
nad evidence on them"
Had No Evidence
In other words, they had evidence
on illegal fascist activities, but, hay
ing no such evidence on Communists
activities, they resorted to misrep.
resenting open publications in ar
effort to show secret, illegal sub.
YersiYeneSS. The committee repor
bears this out fully.
The Committee report was unani
nous. This indicates how com
pletely The Roosevelt Administration
both dominates the Committee anc
supports its recommendation Thes
recommendations include:
l. That Congress should enact
"a statute requiring all publicity,
propaganda, or public relations
agents or other agents or agen-
cies, who represent in this country
any foreign government or a for
eign political party or foreign in
dustrial or commercial Organiza-
ton, to register with the Secre-
tary of State of the United States,
and to state the name and Ioca-
tion of such foreign employer, the
character of the service to be rem
dered, and the amount of COM
pensatiOn paid or to be paid
therefor"
Although this is aimed ostensibly
at fascist and Nazi propaganda
agents whom the committee named
as working under cover, it doubt.
lessly will be used against thu
working-clsss movement. The com.
mittee laid the basis for this b,
stating the outright lie that tn;
Communist Party of the United
States is mot a National politica
party" but is a group of individ.
uals, both citizen and alien, actine
in part under alien orders" TIL,
report also declares that the Thirc
International. the World Commu.
mist Party, was created by Official!
of. the Soviet Government" Thu.