The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-29

REV. JOSEPH F. DONNELLY Communist printing presses in. the United States each year. Over six hundred newspapers and periodi- calls are maintained. The spear head of the attack are the Daily Worker" published in New York, the Daily Record" in Chicago, and the Peoples World" on the West Coast all of them ably printed and managed. In New York alone, according to one survey, there are 52 magazines and newspapers in45 foreign languages and 178 in Eng fish. According to a Communist report the average annual distribu- tion of Communist pamphlets in the United States before recognition of Russia was 263,000. In the first year after recognition it was 1,192,- 900 = the following year 2,236, ,000. Today, it has been estimated, the Communists party distributes in the United States each year over 20,- 100000 pamphlets. And the wiley MT. Litvinov signed a promise to the State Department of the United States promising "to restrain all persons and all organizations from any act tending to agitation or propaganda"
 Marches On!
 The conquering army marches on! Not with guns! No! But with weapons more powerful than guns! With weapons doing more harm to the United States as Mark Sul- livan has said, than could be done by a million soldiers of the Soviet army. My dear friends, in America, too, will all be lost to propaganda?
 How many Communists in the United States? Comrade Manuil- sky in his report last week in Mos COW to the All-Union Communist Party Congress, said that five years ago there were 10000 enrolled mem bers of the party in the United States. Today he, said, there are 90,000. And when we compare that figure with the figure of 30,000 sub mitted to the Fist Congress as the number of Communists in Russia when they seized the control of the government, we find that we have in America today three times as many enrolled members of the Com munist party as there were in Russia when they seized control of 165, ,000,- 900 people. Of course, Comrade Manuilsky probably exaggerated, but reliable surveys in this country show that he did not exaggerate very greatly. There are 300,000 active workers who are not members of the party. But the most astounding estimate is that an organization controlled, directed or at least strongly influenced by the Com munists there is the unbelievable total of 20,000,000 members = not 20,000,00O Communists - most of them would heartily curse Com munism - but twenty million men and women in organizations at least strongly influenced by the Communist party.
 600 Organizations
 In December, 1884, a congressional committee listed the names of six hundred national Communist organ izations. In four years with the added agitation of the Spanish War we had new ones born all over the country, most of them to enlist sympathy for the Reds of Spain.
 The Dies Committee reported that: 'Their real influence must be measured in the terms of their abil- ity to influence other organizations and groups who have many times the membership that the Commun- ist Party claims. The effectiveness of the Communists in the United States must be gagged by their abil- ity to infuse the poison of class hatred into the blood stream of the nation. It is not the open and un- disguised activity of the Comun- ists that We need fear. It Is not their direct influence that should occasion alarm. It is rather the subversive and destructive way they go about their work. .. If the Com munists worked in the open there would be nothing to fear. but when through policies of deception and tactics that are cleverly concealed they pursue their destructive plans, it becomes important to reckon with them as menacing factors in our national life"
 As an example of one of the front organizations with high-sounding names we may take the American League for Peace and Democracy" which until 1897 was the American League against war and Fascism" and which was originally established as the United States Congress against war held in New York City in 1883. According to its first vice. MT. Earl Browder, who is also secretary of the Communist party in the United States, the league represnts "the largest united front ever built in America. Gih- coin and the Communist). A year ago the organization numbered 4,O25 ,0O0 members and according to its first national chairman, who tes- tified before the Dies Committee 1t is a prelude to the American Popular Front.
 League Communistic
 The Dies Committee reported that fin spite of the testimony of many witnesses and the voluminous doc- evidence presented to our committee there is still an attempt to deny that the league is a Communist front organization" But from the beginning 1t has been dominated by Communists. Not long ago the ''EIoosier Legionnaire" stated that nine professed Communists were on the board of directors of the league. Among its officers past and present are included such well-known Com IA 1ess faF DNs