Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-01
Communists
Cloak Selves
AS Patriots
S bout National Unity
by Spreading Hate
By PAUL MALLON

w domestic Communists. who
have put themselves in charge
of wedding out what they call
our fifth columnists, are now
openly pushing themselves for
ward as our best patriots.
Their newspaper, the Daily
Worker, had lead story Friday
showing that a New York con-
gresham, William B. Barry. a
Democrat, had once spoken on
the same program with Laura
ingalls, in a school auditorium in
his home district in Queens
Borough.
AS Miss ingalls, since has been
jailed for taking money from
the Nazis, the Communist
mouthpiece demands Barry's ex-
pulsion from Congress. This
seems rather fiimsy evidence
against Barry. but Congress
will no doubt take care of
that end.
The more important point is
that on the same day, Mr..
Roosevelt's Attorney General
Biddle. held, in the Harry
Bridges case, that these Com
mics who now profess TO be our
best patriots and are telling us
which Americans are loyal are
themselves subversive. He said:
1.-THE Co m m mist Party
teaches the violent overthrow
of existing governments, includ-
Ing the United States"
A ND he proved it by citing the
"A program adopted by the
American section of Commu-
nists. to-wit:
1.-The Communist Party will
systematically and persistently
propagate the idea of newt
ability OF and necessity for
violent revolution, and will pre-
pare the workers for armed In
surrection rs the only means
of overthrowing the capitalist
state"
We can all remember that
they were charged with doing a
pretty good job toward that end
up to last June, promoting
sabotage and strikes in our de-
Tense plants when communism
then was on Hitler's side.
MIR. BIDDLE is prosecuting a
A'A number of hit-and-run pub
fishers, like Father Coughlin, for
conducting what he calls subver-
sive sheets on the Fascist side.
If he is going TO be consistent
and democratic, he will now
have 10 prosecute The Daily
Worker and all other sJbversive
(his own ruling) sheets on the
Communist side.
He has a cold case with his
own announced evidence. IN fact,
he has almost directed himself
to do il.
The files of The Daily Worker
will show that our Connie
patriots waste no words in praise
of democracy. There are only
two kinds of people TO them:
Fascists and anti-Fascists.
There are no democrats
Like ants. the Commies have
swarmed over the democratic
band wagon and are now trying
to drive it, preparing not only
blacklists Of our American con-
gressmen. but telling Mr.. Roose-
welt what he should do here and
internationally.
(When they were on Hitler's
side they were calling him every
name they could think Of. includ-
ing war monger, in this same
publications.
They shout for national unity,
not by compromise and co-opera-
ton among our citizens. but by
spreading hate under a misuse of
q cloak OF patriotism. 10 further
their own selfish ends-not ours.
NOW don't misunderstood me.
~ Unlike Communists and
Nazis, favor free speech. Per-
sonally. l would let them both
holler their heads off in their
press or anything as long as they
stuck 10 political arguments and
kept away from spreading sedi-
ton in our armed forces.
THAT Is merely a precaution-
airy restriction TO save their
lives, as the inability of our SOL
diers off duty 10 keep their
hands of the Communist pick
cts in front of the White House
before December z, and again
when the boys wrecked a sus-
pected subversive Fascistic store
near an army post out west,
indicates they both need protec-
ton when they come in contact |
with the army
OUT this government. in it's
~ wisdom. has embarked on a
different course. II is pursuing |
politically subversive groups and
publications wherever found. and
now has officially designated a
new one. the Commies.
If 1t follows through its pol
icy, it will at least confine the
argument here TO believers in
democracy.
All this, OF course, has nothing
to do with our non-political joint
fighting arrangement with Rus
STA against a common foe. We
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