The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-08-16
COM N j NISM
SPREAD AMONG
RELIEF PEOPLE
Charge Made by Frey;
Federal Officials Are
Being Investigated
WOULD PUSH NEW
DEAL FURTHER LEFT

w lON, aug. 10. (OfJ
John P. Frey, AFOL spokesman.
today charged that communists
are spreading their doctrines
among relief workers and into the
Federal Theater through the me
dunn of the Workers Alliance.
Frey testified before congress
sional committee investigation un-
American activities that the Work
ers' Alliance, organization Of
WPA communism charges follow
ed Frey's assertions that through
the domination Of two key ClO
unions, communists were respon-
sible for last years sitdown strike
epidemic.
Political maneuvering by the
Communist party to force Presi-
dent Roosevelt and his admins
tration further to "the left" was
charged yesterday before the
Dies committee investigating un-
American activities.
Frey made the assertion then in
connection with his attack upon
alleged communistic influences
within the rival Committee for
Industrial Organization.
He told the committee that
pressure on the president is being
exerted in line with policy
adopted by the party at Paris last
year and later enunciated by
Earl Browder, secretary Of the
party in the United States. The
Browder report, Frey calimed,
said the Communist party must
work inside the Democratic par
| ty" because it is felt that the lat
ter group includes "persons who
are progressive and anti-fascist /"
Representative Noah Mason, r.,
ILL.,, revealed that certain govern
ment officials were under inves-
tigation because of their alleged
connection with the League for
Peace and Democracy, which Frey
characterized as communistic.
Mason's assertion was made at
ter Frey had mentioned that a
Mexican labor leader was schedul-
ed to speak at a meeting in which
several federal officials are inter
ested. Names of the officials were
not revealed.
ut might be we'll for the COM
mittee to investigate these fed,
eral officials" Frey said.
"This is being DONE" Mason in
terposed, but refused to say
whether the un-American COM
mittee or some other agency was
conducting the investigation. Il
understand many federal officials
admit membership in the league"
Other charges heard by the
committee yesterday included:
|. That William Sentner, whom
Frey charged with being an or
ganizer for the Communist party,
directed the CLOS Maytag strike
at Newton, la.
2. That the president of a
union affiliated with the CIO re-
signed because he felt "it is my
duty as an American citizen to
stop being part of this communist
movement. :"
8. That the American Labor
party has been used to spread
communist policies and ideals in
New York.
Contending that the only place
the order could have come from
was Moscow, Frey said the COM
munist move to drive the admin
istration further to the left is
based upon communist support Of
labor's Non-Partisan league and
1.-The Republican party in WiscOn-
sin and Minnesota, where the Re
publican party has a liberal
wing"
PROVIDERS report, he charged.
urged communists to seek as much
influence as possible within the
CLIO and seek CLIO endorsement Of
communist political candidates
running on established tickets.
Frey said he would reveal the
source of the Browder report in
a secret session.
Sentner, in q statement at Des
Moines, Ia, admitting his mem
bership in the Communist party.
branded Frey's assertion that he
was an organizer for the party
"a flat lie."
He is free under $4,000 bond
on two charges of criminal syn
dicalism in connection with the
Maytag strike. He is directing ne
gotiations Of the United Electri-
cal, Radio and Machine Workers
union with the company.