Evening star., 1936-03-07
COMMUNIST TALK
| HIT BY DR.. WALSH
Earl BroWder's Attack on
Roosevelt Held Against
Wishes of Stain.


of his superiors in Moscow" during
his recent radio broadcast, DR.. Ed
mund A. Walsh, S. j., of Georgetown
University declared last night in
replying to the united front" speech
of the secretary of the Communist
party of the United States.
He attacked, instead of supporting
President Roosevelt. whereas the policy
of Moscow is just the opposite" the
Georgetown educator asserted.
At the eighth Congress of the Com
munist International which Browder
attended as an American representa-
tive last August in Moscow, DR.. Walsh
said that Conrad Dimitrov, guiding
spirit Of the congress, when referring
to political conditions in the United
States. had laid down the general
principle:
"'The Communist party should sup
port the election of President Roose-
velt beacuse his defeat might enable
the forces now opposing our forces
to give us body blow"
Stain Leadership Hit.
Devoting a considerable portion of
his weekly lecture on communism to
the speech of the American Commun-
ist leader, DR.. Walsh said:
Under the leadership Of Mr.. Stain,
who is one of the Board of Directors
(Presidium) of the Third International
and Mr.. Browder's superior, the Exc
cutive Committee on that occasion
instructed the American delegates to
lay less emphasis, for the time being.
on the revolutionary purposes Of
communism, but to seek for united
front Of all the discontented and
thus lead them gently, not harshly.
into the Communist fold.
THE American Communist Party Is
not and American political group, but
section of the Communist Inter-
national. BY its statutes all members
are obligated to follow the general
line laid down by the Executive
Committee during the recent meeting
in Moscow"
Except for his attack on President
Roosevelt, DR.. Walsh said that the
American Communist leader had "ful-
filled to the letter" the instructions
of Moscow in his radio broadcast
of Thursday night.
mfr. Browder very wisely refrained
from telling the workers and farmers
that over 100000 of their fellows
were deliberately sentenced to the
lingering death Of starvation in 1888
for daring even to think the offensive
language which he employed Thurs
day against the President of the
United States" he said.
$l02 Per Year Wage.
Referring to the standard of pros
perity in Soviet Russia to which he
said the Communist invited the
American worker, DR.. Walsh quoted
reports from Moscow that the normal
wage for 25,000,000 Russian industrial
and Office workers during 1885, meas
ured in purchasing power, ranged from
$50 to STA per year.
THAT means an average annual
wage of something like $102, or So. SO
per month" he said. THE average In
dustrial wage of an American worker,
even at a bare subsistence level has
been at least $1,000 per year, while
on relief during unemployment his
average dole is s2S per month. while
in New York State it reaches $50 per
family"
The American worker will be par
doned, DR.. Walsh said, if he prefers
even unemployment in America.
And he will not be shot, exiled nor
enslaved as workers and peasants have
been in Russia to an extent that has
appalled, the conscience of humanity"
He added, HE will not be subjected
to the virutality of cynical dictator
ship that has peopled Siberia far
beyond the worst tyrranies Of the
TZarS".
Speaking to an audience that over
flowed in CASTOR Hall and was parti-
ally Accommodated in a second hall
where loud speakers were installed,
DR.. Walsh announced that next Friday
he would comment on the recent news
paper interview with Joseph Stain
in which he warned of a Japanese
Russian war.