Evening star., 1938-11-21
Federal Publications
FireC|ass Haired,
Dies Charges
Article by Soposs Is
Read Into Records
Of Committee
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Chairman Dies of the House Com
mittee Investigating Un-American
Activities asserted today that testi-
mony received secretly from Gov
ernment employees Saturday had dis
closed a deliberate, longtime use
of Government publications to
spread class hatred throughout the
United States
He said Communist phraseology"
was used on some occasions in the
publications and that the testimony
revealed a very alarming situa-
ton"
The chairman read into commit
tee records an article in which he
said David J. Saposs, National Labor
Relations Board economist. had
urged workers to establish Socialism
by force II political action failed.
The article appeared in Labor Age
in 1881.
Mr.. Dies said attempts had been
made to make it appear the state
ments were not the views OF Mr..
SapoSs.
Plans to Expose Them.
''The reason we've emphasized
this" he added, "is because Mr..
Saposs is representative of num-
ber of Government offlcials-eco-
nomic crackpots who have been
drawn to Washington. They range
from outright Socialists to Com
munists. The committee in the
short time left to it is going to do
all it can to expose them"
In the 1881 article, Mr.. Dies re-
ported, Mr.. Saposs wrote in part:
The Socialist movement must tell
the people that capitalism cannot
be stabilized, and that the world
cannot be served by capitalistic
devices. -
Bourgeois democracy is a sham
When it is evident that socialism is
the only remedy, 1t is not worth
saving a democracy in which So
cialist parties only collaborate with
capitalism"
Claims Garbled Account.
Mr.. Saposs said that Mr.. Dies
statement evidently is a garbled
account of what was descriptive
and analytical article on a conven-
ton such as any newspaperman
would do"
He explained that presumably Mr..
Dies quoted from an abstract of an
article reporting the Fourth Con-
gresS-of the Labor and Socialist In
ternational held in Vienna in July,
1881. Mr.. Saposs said he was then
making a study under grant from
the Social Science Research Coun-
Gil, and attended the meeting.
II never entertained such views
and so couldn't write such views"
he said.
Mr.. Saposs Joined the N. L. R. B.
staff as an economist in 1885, after
a year in charge of company union
study made by the Labor Depart
ment. Prior to that he was with
the Twentieth Century Fund. for
which he wrote book entitled
Labor and Government" He said
he had spent his life studying and
writing about labor economics.
Investigator on Stand.
John Metcalfe, committee investi-
gator, took the witness stand today
to present documents which Mr.. Dies
said linked numerous organizations
in this country with anti-religious
and anti-racial activities.
Mr.. Dies read what he said were
extracts from some of the documents
assailing Jews, Government officials
and the Masonic lodge.
Among the organizations named
were Black Shirts, Union City, N.
j.; Christian American Crusade, Los
Angeles; American Defenders, Coral
Gables, Fla; Knights Of the White
Camelia, St. Adams, w. Va; Ameri-
can Vigilante Intelligence Associ-
alton, Christian Democratic Corp,
Dallas, Tex; Association of Ameri-
can Gentiles, Chicago: the Associ-
alton of Leagues, Cleveland; the
Christian party, Takoma, Wash.
The Christian American Patriots,
the Christian Campaign Commit
tee, the Christian Constitutional
Party, the Christian Commonwealth
League, the Christian Protestant
Party, Citizens Committee of 500,
New York City; Friends Of New
Germany, the German-American
Business League, the German-Amer~
ican Economic Alliance.
The Gold Shirts Of Mexico, the
Defenders of American Liberty, Led
yard, Iowa; the Defenders, Wichita,
Kans., and the D. K. v.
Under questioning Mr.. Metcalfe
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