Evening star., 1940-01-03

S usual post, swinging a sawed
der when the session convened.
schedule called for the Senate
President Roosevelt.
Leadership.-Through n m u
witnesses and documents it was
established that Stain and Moloton
have personally intervened to change
and determine the leadership of the
American Communist party. The
confidential versions Of Stains
speeches on the situation in the
American Communist party were in
troduced into evidence before the
committee. They reveal beyond any
possibility of dispute the fact that
Joseph Stain is the dictator not only
in Russia but also of the American
Communist party.
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Indisputable evidence was intro
duced to show that the interference
of the Soviet government in Amer
ican affairs goes far beyond the
confines of the American Communist
party itself. Organized and main
tanned under strict Communist party
control are organizations having di-
rect connections with Moscow as
we'll as indirect connections through
the American Communist party
Testimony Shows Technique
OF Organizing Fronts"
Communist Technique in Trans
mission Belts" and United Fronts.
Numerous witnesses support the
testimony Of Benjamin Gitlow, for
mer secretary of the Communist
party, who described the party's
technique in the organization anc
control of its front organizations
in the following language:
First, a number of sympa-
thizers who are close to the party
and who the party knows can be
depended upon to carry out party
orders are gotten together and
formed into a nucleus which is
sues a call for the organization
of particular front organization
| which the party wants to eStab-
lish. And generally after that is
/ done a program is drawn up by
the party, which this provisional
committee adopts. Then, on the
basis of this provisional program.
all kinds of individuals are can
vassed to become sponsors of the
organiza ton, which is to be
launched in the very near future
A secretary is appointed, a pro-
visional secretary is appointed be-
fore the organization is launched
and in every instance in our
day the secretary who was ap-
pointed was a member of the
Communist party, because the
secretary has access to the letters
and to the files and to the or
ganization. And as president Of
the organization, we would put up
some prominent public figure who
was willing to accept the presi-
dency of the organization. gen.
orally making sure that if that
public figure was one who would
not 60 along with the Commu-
nists, he was of such a type that
he would be too busy to pay at
tention to the affairs OF the
organiza ton. and therefore would
represent no problem to the Or
ganization.
"On the committee that would
be drawn together sufficient
number of Communists and
Communist party sympathizers
who will carry out party orders,
was included, and out Of this
number a small executive COM
mittee is organized, or acting
committee, which carries on the
affairs of the organization. so
called, and this small executive
committee, with the secretary,
really run the organization. And
this small committee and the
secretary are the instruments of
the Communist party, with the
result that when manifestoes or
decisions on campaigns are made.
these campaigns are ordered by
the Communist party"
Communist Party Fronts. .'-Th
committee flnds that the followin
organizations are properly classifie
as front organizations" Of the Com
munist party:
American League for Peace an
Democracy.
International Workers Order.
American Student Union.
Friends of the Soviet Union.
National Negro Congress.
Southern Negro Youth Congress.
League of American Writers.
| Workers Alliance.
Spanish Refugee Relief Campaign
North American Committee to Al
Spanish Democracy.
Friends of the Abraham Lincoh
Brigade.
In the case of the Internationa
Labor Defense, although some non
Communists have undoubtedly len
support to its efforts and perhap
even co-operated with it, the com
mittee has established that it Il
essentially, the legal defense arm o
the Communist party Of the Unite
States.
Young Communist League
Influences Youth Congress.
In the case of the American You'll
Congress, the committee finds
central organization which has n
membership of its own, but whicl
attempts to aflliate together tn
largest possible number Of organi
cations Of American young people
the vast majority of>whom have a