The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-29

Clarence Hathaway of the Daily Worker, Joseph Pass, editor of it's publication paradoxically entitled, Fight, Elizabeth Curly Flynn, who recently paid her respects to the Communist party of Waterbury, Joseph Lash, Ben Gold and William Patterson.
 J. B. Matthews, first national chairman, has stated that the league flor peace and democracy, re- member = twas from its very incep- ton part of an international plot to involve the United States in contemplated war on the side of the Soviet Union, or failing in that, to cripple the United States through mutiny in the army and the stop page of basic industries and to in- augurate class war and revolution here". These are the words of the first national chairman of the or ganization. And the organization numbers over four million members Certainly not four million who would subscribe to these objectives; the vast majority are ignorant of its true nature, but the four million receive its lying propaganda and the weight of their membership is used in furthering the activities of the organization.
 Activities
 What are some of the activities and some of the successes of the front?
 It was testified before the Dies Committee that there exist in this country over three hundred organ izations whose object is the winning over of the youth to some un-A Amer ican cause or purpose. Outstanding is the party's group for elementary grades, the Young Pioneers of America. This organization receives children up to IS years who are taught to stand and Loyalty give their Pioneer pledge: T pledge allegiance to the Workers fred" flag and to the cause for which it stands. One aim throughout our lives - freedom for the working classes" The Com munists call it Twentieth Century Americanism.
 A huge Farmer-Labor party in the United States under Communist con- trol is a cherished dream of the party. In Minnesota that had great success in penetrating to strategic position in the Farmer Labor party. The July, 1886, number of New American, a Communist sheet, quotes two Minnesota Congressmen as saying: What we must have is fifty disciplined Farmer-Labor Con- gressmen who will fight" 'They must challenge the supereme court and strip it of its power" Twen- tieth Century Americanism!
 In many of the large department stores of New York City there ex- ists organized Communist groups "cells" as the party calls them. With many of our great newspapers there are organized Communist groups who publish independently their own sheet. Even in the General Post Office of New York City, 8 federal institution, there is a unit with regular meetings, monthly dues and its own publica- ton. se 9n,. res Model Camps
 At Beacon, New York, there ex- ists one of the model camps of the party - Camp Nitgedaiget. There the Washington Post has charged the Communist party has estab- lished its own naval academy" in America = an academy for the train ing of sailors to spread Red doc trines in the American Merchant Marine.
 Two weeks ago Acting Secretary of the Navy Charles Edison begged Congress in the name of the Navy Department the enactment of legis- lation to curb the activities of or- ganizations seeking to undermine the morale of the service" He said the movement has been going on since the Armistice and today he says it affects every arm of the national defense services. Every form of propaganda is distributed, all of it urging disloyalty and dis obedience of orders and regulations. "The evidence" he says, involves every ship in the Navy" All of which, of course, is in keeping with MT. Providers statement (What is Communism, page 165). "All revo- lutions have been made with the weapons which the overthrown rulers relied on for their protection"
 Twentieth Century American ism" was the proud declaration of the Tenth National Congress of the Communist party held in New York City last May. Can we even call Americans those who teach a doc Urine that is determined to destroy American Democracy by force? Let them spout honied phrases and press on the soft pedal as heavily as they wish, but it is an unde- niable fact that the Communist party of America is linked definitely and undeniably to a world organ ization, the capital of which is in Russia and the chief of which is Stalin.
 What is the record? The Honor able Charles Evans Hughes as Sec ICVdIy O1 0tdtS ouOAAlAbbCA OO tA4C 0CA1- ate a 500 page document in which he devoted much space to Com munism. Among other things he said: Force and violence are in separable from the Communist program. The evidence of the Department of State establishes the unity of the Communist party, the Soviet government and the Com munist International" Later speak ing of the Communist party in the United States he says that not only is this organization "the creation of Moscow" but the essential fact for consideration is "the existence of an organization in the United States created and completely sub servient to a foregn organization striving to overthrow the existing social and political order of this country"
 Twentieth Century Americanism? Listen to the words MT. William T