Evening star., 1938-11-24
Nazis Are Enro||inu
Indians in Bund,
Collier Says
Statement Is Outerowth
Of Dispute Between
lckes and Dies
0y the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
A charge that Nazis have sent
agents to Indian reservations in the
United States to enlist the original
Americans" in the German Amer
ican Bund was made yesterday by
John Collier, Indian commissioner.
In California" he said, "the Nazi
Bund Is enrolling Indians and that
Is being exploited from Germany.
It is Nazi activity"
The statement was an outgroWth
OF a dispute between the Interior
Department, under which Commits
sioner Collier functions, and Chair
man Dies of the House Committee
on Un-American Activities.
Representative Dies had heard an
Indian woman, Alice Lee Jemison,
testify that Government officials
1ostered communistic practices on
Indian reservations and that Secre-
tary OF the Interior Ickes, Mr.. Col
her's superior. was a member of the
American Civil Liberties Union,
The committee previously had re-
celyed testimony that the union was
Communist front" organization.
Called No. Zany.
Secretary Ickes, declaring such
charges were old ones which had
long ago been refuted, described
Representative Dies as the worlds
champion "zany"
In a formal statement later. he
said he had received word that the
testimony before the Dies Commit
tee about the Indian Bureau was
belng cited in an anti-American
propaganda campaign carried on bv
a foreign dictatorship Germany.
I have said before that Mr.. Dies
sideshow has gone far beyond the
bounds OF propriety and decency,"
Secretary Ickes said, but when it
comes to feeding falsifications to in
imical foreign forces believe that
the American people should take
heed"
Chairman Dies, at the conclusion
OF yesterdays session of his COM
mittee, replied that Secretary Ickes
was engaging in his usual campaign
OF abuse and vilifcation."
I'm not going to contest with
Mr.. 1ckes on which of us can be
the most abusive" he said. II award
the palm to him without argument
He declared that Secretary Ickes
nad "resorted to his usual tactics
for the simple reason that he is
unable to answer the testimony by
facts"
Lewis Statement Cited.
To support the charge that the
American Civil Liberties Union was
a communist front" organization
Mr.. Dies read into the record a
statement he said was made bv John
L. Lewis, the labor leader. in 1924
1t said:
Ihere are 200 organizations in
the United States engaged in or
sympathetic with the Communist
movement. Forty-five of these are
either pink or radical or are engaged
IN communistic effort to seize con-
trol OF labor unions and convert
them to the revolutionary movement
IN virtually every instance. these
organizations have direct contact.
through interlocking directorates.
with the Central Executive Commit
Tee OF the Communist Party of
America, or with it's legal branch.
the Workers Party of America.
illustrative of this arrangement
is the Executive Committee and Ma
tlonal Committee of the American
Civil Liberties Union at New York
posing as the champion of free
speech and civil liberties, but serving
as a forerunner and trail blazer for
the active and insidious activities of
Communists among labor organiza-
tions."