The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-11-04
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Dies Committee Bares Activities
OF Radical, Communist Groups
Unseen and Malignant Crowhs Are Being Bred Into Our
National Life by Agitators Who Seek Destroy Our
Government; Spread Poison in Ranks of Labor.
BY WILLIAM BRUCKART
WNU Service, National Press Bldg, Washington, D. @.

WASHINGTON. =" Unless some
thing is done to curb radicalism i'm
my section, there is going to be an
awful clash and a lot of people are
going to get hurt"
So spoke Fred w. Frahm, SUPER
intendent of police of the city of De-
troit, Mich. And his statement was
under oath, for he was giving testi-
mony before a committee Of the
house of representatives, a commit
tee charged with exposing to view
the un-American activities of GER
tain groups in this country. 1t was
the statement of a man who is serv-
ing city in an official capacity and
who has gone through 246 sit-down
strikes which he asserted were the
direct result of agitation by the rad
icals to which he referred. He looks
for more in the near future and
added, by way of emphasis, that
"these communists and radicals do
not want to seek adjustment of diff
ferences between labor and man.
agement; they want to make trouble
all of the time"
Through number of weeks, the
house committee before which Mr..
Frahm testified, has been taking tes-
timony, gathering evidence, digging
here and there in its effort to I'M
cover the activities of subversive
groups and expose them to public
view.
1t has been the contention of the
chairman, Representative Dies Of
Texas and some other members Of
the committee, that most of us are
not aware of the unseen and malig-
nant growths that are being bred
into our national life. They are out
to destroy our government, to bring
to us the type Of thing that has
made Russia famous.
Mr.. Dies is sincere and honest
legislator, and he is trying to do the
job assigned him, even when sew
eral of his committee members have
sought to balk his efforts. But there
is much more to be done in the di-
rection Of exposing radicalism and
the chiseling, cheating, cowardly eff
forts the agitators put forth.
Charge Communists ActiUe
In Government Offices
What I am wondering is why Mr..
Dies has not sent his investigators
into the very offices of the federal
government, itself. Or, if he has
done that, as it is gossiped about,
then why shield anybody? Why not
turn the spotlight of publicity on the
individuals who want to destroy the
American system, the American
form of government, American ira
dition, the American profit system Of
doing business? There has been
much talk in the last several years
about the operations of communists
within the very walls of the govern
ment, men and women who are bor-
ing from within as termites destroy
lumber, and we ought to know the
truth. If they are within the govern
ment, they ought to be exposed and
chased out of the western hemis-
phere; if they are not operating as
is gossiped around, then their names
ought to be cleared. In any event, I
hope the Dies committee goes on
and shows the cancerous nature of
groups that do not believe in our
system, whether they be Russians,
or Germans, or Italians, or British
or what have you.
It has been the favorite device of
the radicals and their henchmen to
characterize any official who at
tacks them as being subject for
the insane hospitals. Their game
has been to laugh people out of
court whenever an effort was made
to tell of some of the things the
agitators were doing. Many will re-
call an investigation by a house
committee several years ago where
the witnesses were laughed down
and a courageous superintendent of
schools from Gary, Ind, was made
to look foolish because Of the
charges he made. Well, if my opin-
ion be worth anything, the folks
who were the suckers in that play
were the supposedly intelligent
members of congress who made up
the committee. It was they who
fell for trick of propaganda. Eli
Their that was the case, or the mem
bers of that committee were just
plain dumb.
LesDis Cannot Break Grip
OF Communists on c. I. O.
Concerning the sit-down strikes
about which Mr.. Frahm testified,
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