The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-06

ESAQW4SAa 0GNAGbAAJ OA sAAg kgAAAAAAA mist party in the United States, ad- dressed the nation by radio last night--the first of his political per Buasicn to enjoy network facilities free. Twenty policemen guarded the building housing the studios of the Columbia Broadcasting System, 100 men calling themselves patriots, whom the communists called fas- cists, picketed, a few stations drop ped off the network, but otherwise the occasion passed serenely. Among Browder's listeners was Congress- man Hamilton Fish, who will an- gwer him tonight over the same network, at the same time. Brow der spoke on "The Communist Po- Bition in 1936." Fish will speak on Communism verus Americanism. "
 Speech Was Censored
 Columbia Broadcasting System had received a number of protests predicting dire results because 1t had allotted free time to the com- munist party. Officials had pre- pared for the worst. Browder had submitted a copy of his speech in advance and 1t was carefully scan- ned for any hint of subversive doc- Urine. And while he addressed the microphone, an engineer stood up to cut him off the air the instant he deviated from his text
 Browder didn't. His voice coming out of the ether was mild and tremulous-either from emotion or ''mike" fright. Rather than seem ing the voice of dangerous revolu- tionist--it bore unmistakable quail ities of the middle west For exam pie, he pronounced genuine, jan-u- wine, with heavy emphasis on the final syllable. Browder is a native Kafisan. He once taught school in Cleveland, and now is considered the most powerful man in the American communist party.
 He pleaded for formation of a farmer-labor party-conceding the American people were not ready for socialism. He attacked the republi- can and democratic parties, the New Deal, the two party system, Wall street and the House of Morgan, publishers William Randolph Hearst and Bernarr MacFadden, Governor Eugene Talmadge of Georgia and the Rev. Charles F. Coughlin, and. by inference, compared his partys ideals with those of Abraham Lin- coln.
 His Party's Status
 His party's position for 1886 he set forth thus:
 "Every great crisis in American history has required new party to solve 1t. We communists pro- pose that in 1886, all of this opin- ion should get together in every town and city, in every state and on a national scale, to form farmer lakor party. Such Q farmer-labor pa.ty would not require that we all agree on a complete program. It would not yet take up the full pro- gram of socialism, for which many are not yet prepared. It would pledge itself to carry out only those few simple measures which millions of people are agreed upon. When- evor 6 capitalist closed down his factories and threw out his work CTS, such a farmer-labor party, when in power, would be pledged to reopen that factory and put the workers back to work at union wages. Such a farmer labor gov- ernment would outlaw the yellow dog contract and company unions; it would help the workers to make our industries and agriculture 100 per cent unionized; 1t would tax the rich to care for the poor; 1t would enact genuine old age, unemploy- raent and social insurance legisla- ton such a government would really guarantee the equal rights of the negroes, would provide for the millions of youths at least their minimum needs, would stop the ris- ing tide of reaction, would handle the supreme court as Lincoln did, and drastically remove it's dicta- torial usurped powers, would make impossible for Morgan Hearst to drag us into another imperialist war, would join with all peace forces in the world to restrain the German, Japanese and Italian war makers, would keep America out of war by helping to keep out of the world"
 Complete Socialism
 The ultimate program of his party was in brief complete social ism.
 We feel certain" he said, "that life itself will finally bring the great majority to support the full com munist program of the fundamental reconstruction of the country along the lines of the highly successful Soviet Union, on the basis of so- cialism." This would mean, he said, employment for every able-bodied person and a wage scale of from $2,0O0 to $12000 year for all.
 He ended by asking his listeners to write for more detailed informa- ton.
 The Columbia building was pick eted by members of the National - -