Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-27
Dies Funds
Up for Vote
Today
Committee Must 90 On
in Fight on Radicals
By GEO. ROCKWELL BROWN

il TO carry on its work investi-
eating un-American activities in
this country, comes before the
House Of Representatives today.
It's defeat would be a national
calamity. Happily, this seems
unlikely.
Although the House is not in
recess and the Easter holiday
is theoretically at an end, the
attendance in the House these
days. however, is not impress
sively large at all times.
1t is most important that the
full membership of the House
be present on this vote and that
the resolution making this grant
of funds be adopted by major
ity. large enough to impress
left wing radicalism in the
United States with the fact that
Congress does not propose to
temporize with subversive ele-
ments.
THE money resolution, to I'm
Il plement the recent action of
the House continuing the Dies
committee. was reported to the
House despite the protests Of the
left wing New Deal.
Members of the House, when
called on to vote on this resolu-
ton. should bear In mind the
inspiring report Of the Rapp-
Coudert committee to the New
York legislature.
This report. on alleged Com
munist infiltration in the New
York school system, takes the
wholesome position that COM
munism is a continuing menace
10 the American system, not
standing the fact that Com
munist Russia and the United
States are now allies in this
second World War.
THE British government, which
l. is also allied with Russia. is
relaxing none of its vigilance
against communism in Great
Britain.
Neither must American vigi-
lance against communism in this
country be relaxed in the slight
est degree.
The Dies committee must &c
on, with ample funds to meet its
expense of research and secret
service work, and to bring wit
nesses before the committee Ia
testify under oath.
Never was the work of this
committee more important than
il is today.
THE committee has already
Il exposed the fact that tho
vast bureaucracy in Washing.
ton Is honeycombed with left.
wing radicals. manv of then
members of. or sympathiZerS
with, organizations which have
been identified as fronts for in.
ternational communism.
The committee has exposed
the fact that some OF these eX-
treme left-wing radicals have
strongly entrenched themselves
in vital kew positions under the
government. whore they arc
actually determining policies
and e%erting an enormous influ.
ence on the management OF the
wa.
Considerable external evidence
shows that out-and-out Com
mun'sts. members Of the party
are in the government service
The Dies committee. with lis
po'ver TO subpoena. witnesses and
compel the giving of TESTIMONY
and the additional power. il
necessary, TO cite recalcitrant
witnesses for contempt offers
the sole means bv which the
American people can BE- pro-
tected against these subversive
clements.
II must be borne in mind
that. in the language of the
Rapp- Coudert committee, "our
conduct must be based on the
hypothesis that the fundamen-
tails of communism have not
been altered, and that the sub
versive tactics. which have been
temporarily disguised, will
emerge again"
A TTORNEY GENERAL BID
"A DIE the other day described
the Dies committee as anna
flourish"
The New Deal Is not afraid
of the Dies committee because
it is "amateurish." 1t hates II
and fears il because il has done
a big job efficiently.
The recent exodus of certain
left-wingers from the govern
ment service in Washington.
after the Dies committee had
turned the spotlight on them, is
proof of that.
This committee must be con-
tinued. 1t must be adequately
financed.
Watch the vote in the House
note how YOUR congressman
votes.
rs YEARS AGO TODAY
April ~, 1917
A big shakeup in the Russian
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