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well as certain other organizations
In which Communists have played
an important part, Is afnliated with
the American Youth Congress and
testimony has been presented to the
committee to indicate that this mi
nority group has at times exerted
an influence on the American Youth
Congress out Of all proportion to its
size.
American League for Peace and
Democracy.-The committee finds on
the basis Of overwhelming and con-
elusive evidence that the American
League for Peace and Democracy Is
q Communist front" organization.
American Section Secretaries
Well-Known Communists.
The American section of the Am.
sterdam movement first called itself
the American Committee for the
Struggle Against War. Its secreta-
ries, Oakley johnson and Donald
we're well-known Com
munists. It was this committee
which called the First United States
Congress Against War, at which
the founding of the American League
Against War and Fascism took place.
Donald Henderson became the first
secretary Of the organization.
In three successive programs
adopted by the annual congresses of
the American league, the organiza-
ton boldly declared its first objec.
tive to be the work of interfering
with the preparation of our national
defense. Point in these programs
stated this purpose in the following
language:
To work toward the stopping Of
the manufacture and transport of
munitions and all other materials
essential to the conduct of war.
At its second annual congress,
Harry F. Ward, present national
chairman of the American league,
declared this program to be sound"
Earl Browder, one of the main speak
ers at that congress and vice pres
ident of the American league at
that time, joined Harry F. Ward
In this declaration concerning the
leagues program. Shortly before
that, Browder, who was also secre-
tary of the Communist party, had
gone in person to Moscow to report
to the Executive Committee of the
Communist international that the
program of the American league
was politically satisfactory.
Report to the 18th plenum of
the Executive Committee of the
Communist International in Mos
COW, December, 1933-published
in Communism in the United
States" by Earl Browder, p. 1873.
In 1887 the American League
Against War and Fascism changed
its name to the American League
for Peace and Democracy. This was
in keeping with the Communist
party's new line on the peoples
front.
According to one of the recent
minutes of the Washington ID. c.
branch of the American league, it
was decided Ito set up league COM
mittees in the units of Government
agencies with our present member
ship in those agencies as a nucleus. y
These nuclei of the league are now
formed in more than score OF
Government agencies. H. c. Lam
berton, chairman Of the Washing
ton branch of the league, testified
under oath before the committee
that there are TOO Government en-
ployes who are members of the
American League for Peace and
Democracy.
Testimony Shows Contributions
BY Communist Party.
Both the financial secretary Of
the Communist party, William
Weiner indicted since his testi-
mony before the committee as an
imposter falsely posing as an Amer
ican citizen in obtaining a passport
and the national chairman OF the
American League for Peace and De-
mocracy, Harry F. Ward. testified
/ under oath that the Communist
party is the only national organlza-
ton which contributes any appre-
ciable sum of money to the work Of
the American league. According tc
these two witnesses, this amounts tc
the sum of two or three thousano
dollars annually and represents ap-
proximately Is per cent Of the tota.
annual budget of the American
| league.
A member of the national COM
mittee of the American league, Mrs
Clinton A. Barr, appeared as a wit
ness before the committee and tolo
how a radio address which she hao
been asked to deliver under the
auspices of the American league
since the singing of the Soviet-Naz
pact, was completely revised by the
secretary of the Communist party
of the State of Wisconsin. The
committee finds it significant tina,
among the changes which the secre-
tary of the Wisconsin Communist
party made in this radio address OF
the national committeewomen Of
the American league was the dele
| ton of uncomplimentary reference:
to Adolf Hitler. Mrs. Barr refused
to deliver the revised radio address
and resigned.
The committee finds that the
leagues record on the Soviet-Naz
pact stamps it as an organization
subservient to the Communist party
A statement prepared by the Execu'
tive Committee of the Washington
branch of the American league
reads in part, as follows:
This pact is a real contribu-
ton to world peace and to the
peace and security Of the United
States The signing of the
nonaggression pact between the
U. s. S. r. and Germany is not a
war alliance between the two
powers. 1t Is not an agreement
for the partition Of Poland '''
In this sense the pact between
the U. S. S. r. and Germany is
the only real contribution to the
security of Poland that has been
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