The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-06
ALL SERENE AS
BROWDER TALKS
ON COMMUNISM
Hamilton Fish Is to Reply
to Arguments in Radio
Address Tonight.
By United Press

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NEW YORK. March 6.-EarI
Browder, secretary Of the Commits
mist Party in the United States, adj
dressed the nation by radio last
night-the first of his political per-
suasion 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
Fascists, picketed, a few stations
dropped off the network. but other
wise the occasion passed serenely.
Among PROVIDERS listeners was
Congressman Hamilton Fish, who
will answer him tonight over the
same network, at the same time.
Browder spoke on THE Communist
Position in 1885," Fish will speak
on Communism Versus Ameri-
canism.'
Columbia Broadcasting System
had received number of protests
predicting dire results because it had
allotted free time to the Communist
Party. officials had prepared for the
worst. Browder had submitted a
copy of his speech in advance and
il was scanned for any hint of SUBJ
versive doctrine While he spoke, an
engineer stood ready to cut him of
the air the instant he deviated from
his text.
Voice Mild, Tremul0us
Browder didn't. His voice cons
ing out of the ether was mild and
tremulous-either from emotion or
mike" fright. Rather than seem-
ing the voice of dangerous revo-
lutionist-it bore unmistakable
qualities of the Middle West. Brow
der is a native Kansan. He once
taught school in Cleveland, and
now is considered the most power
full man in the American Com
munist Party.
He pleaded for formation of a
Farmer-Labor Party-conceding the
American people were not ready for
Socialism. He attacked the Re-
publican and Democratic Parties,
the New Deal, the two-party sys-
tenn, Wall Street and the House Of
Morgan. Publishers William Ram
dolph Hearst and Bernarr MacFad-
den, Eugene Talmadge of Georgia
and the Rev. Charles E. Coughhn.
and, by inference, compared his
party'S ideals with those of Abra-
ham Lincoln.
His party's position for 1886 he
set forth thus:
Every great crisis in American
history has required new party to
solve it. =. We Communists pro-
pose that in 1886, all of this opinion
should get together in every town
and city, in every. state and on a
national scale, to form a Farmer
Labor Party. Such a Farmer-Labor
Party 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.
Would Reopen Factories
whenever a capitalist closed
down his factories and threw out
his workers, 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
government would outlaw the yell
low-dog contract and company
unions; it would help the workers
to make our industries and agricul-
ture 100 per cent unionized. It
would tax the rich to care for the
poor; it would enact genuine old
age, unemployment and social in
surance legislation. :.