The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-07-02
GEORGIA CONGRESSMAN ATTACKS
LEWIS AND c. I. o.

Wednesday, on the floor of Congress,
Representative Cox of Georgia. Demo-
crat, of course, and heretofore fairly en-
thusiastic supporter of the present national
acknowledgements vigorous attack on
President Roosevelt's old side-kick, John
Lewis, and his C.. l. o. uprising.
Congressman Cox presented a list OF
names of 121 C. l. o. organizers who are
avowed Communists. They do not belong
to the class merely suspected, but are well
known as Communists; so that it is clear
that Lewis and his helpers know the real
character of these men and must have
known it when they were employed to
round up and coerce working men to unite
with this radical so-called labor movement.
In addition to presenting the facts in
this particular in regard to the Lewis in
surrection, Congressman Cox is quoted
by the Washington correspondent of The
Greensboro News, as follows:
81 warn John L. Lewis and his Communistic CO.
horts," said Representative Cox, 'that no second
carpet bag expedition into the southland, under
the red banner of Soviet Russia, and concealed I'M
If the minions of the C. l. o.. attempt to carry
through the South their lawless plan of organza-
ton, if they attempt to demoralze industry to
corrupt our colored citizens, to incite hatred
and race warfare warn them here and now that
they will be met by the flower of southern man.
hood and they will reap the bitter fruits of their
own folly"
Declaring that ''boody possibilities lie alarming
ly near thess surface in any such situation the
Georgia representative told the house that c. l. o.
representatives are now working in the South,
preaching social political and economic equality to
the colored population.
Calling upon the national and state governments
to cease aiding and abetting Lewis and his asso-
ciates in forming what the speaker declared is "a
Observation-Disclosures movement" Represen-
tatve Cox said further:
ITO continue to temporize with this movement
will be TO invite utter disaster for this nation.
'h We are for moment to admit that millions
of working men and women who satisfied with
their wages and their hours and their living with
out being impressed into membership in the CLIO,
in any other organization, must be prepared
to admit that this government is no longer capable
of maintaining the constitutional rights and privi-
leges of its citizens. ...
'If we are going to pursue policy of encourage
ing defiance of the courts, of approving awessness
and disorder of condoning Illegal seizures of en-
tire industrial plants, and if we are going, as we
already have gone, dangerous step further, and
use the armed forces of the states and finally of
the federal government itself to compel satisfied
wage earners to submit to consumption into the
C. !. O., then we must be prepared to admit not
only that this government is no longer capable of
maintaining the constitutional rights and privileges
of it's citizens but that it has gone into partnership
with the forces of lawlessness and disorder; it has
joined hands with a labor despot; it has embraced
communism in industrial, relations 81