Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-04
BiddIe Puts
Finger on
Earl Browder.
PeeIer S avs President
Freed a Conspirator
By WEsTBROOK PEGLER


THE White House statement
announcing the communication
of Earl Browder's prison SEN
tence said he was liberated IN
the interest of national unity.
Browder, a native American,
Is chief of the Communist Party
in the United States.
Rep. Martin Dies has often
been berated for charging that
the party is a subversive or anti
American group.
II the Communist Party n
subversive and anti-American
then President Roosevelt has
liberated the leader of con-
spiracy against the government,
the peace and the lives Of the
whole American people.
But is the Communist Party
antl-Amerlcan
THE answer Is given as an Of
L fetal document by Francis
Biddle. attorney general and the
highest law officer In the United
States. in the Harry Bridges
deportation case. as follows:
Tho Communist Party Of the
United States. . section Of the
so-calIed Third international,
was founded In 1919: and, after
Its name was changed several
times, finally became the Com
munist Party OF tho q. 3. A.
The Third international "a.
vocated the class struggle, whiS
was described ~ entering I'll
phase Of civil war In America.
Illegal methods also were ad-
vocated, where necessary, to
carry on Its work; systematic
agitation In the army; the re-
nouncing Of patriotism; and the
revolutionary overthrow Of
capitalism.
Tho "A m err lean section
adopted . program declaring:
The Communist Party will sys-
tematically and pcrsi silently
propagate the idea Of the in
evitability Of and necessity for
violent revolution and win pre-
pare the workers for armed
insurrection ~ the only means
of overthrowing the capitalist
state
The Communist Party teaches
the violent overthrow Of existing
governments, incl u ding tho
United States. This concept
reaches back 10 the famous
manifesto Of Marx and EngeIs
OF 1913, which declares: The
Communists openly declare that
their ends can be attained only
by the forcibIe overthrow Of al
existing social conditions
"In the Thesis and Statutes
Of the Third International (IS2O)
this doctrine Il expanded. The
mass struggle means . whole
system Of developing demonstra-
lions growing ever more acute
In form, and logically leading to
an uprising against the capitals
tic order OF government
"NHIS and other documentary
evidence established
that IL IL an organization that
advises, advocates and teaches
the overthrow, by force and vio-
lence of the government Of the
United States.
Penetration into trade unto
was strongly emphasized In Cot
munist literature and CONVEX
sion Of their members by con-
slant agitation and propaganda.
Reforms In the labor movement
should be accepted rs screens
behind which revolutionary &C.
tivities could be carried on.
To carry out this program.
fractions were organized within
particular unions To advance the
aims Of Communism behind the
front Of education. The party
was to engage In strikes and
wage movements to war against
class collaboration plans and 20
organize the unorganized.
THE party took control of the
Workers Alliance as q medium
through which to organize the
unemployed, TO develop militant
class struggles and to build the
revolution through association
In brilliant, class-conscious,
unemployed organization"
| MIR. BIDDLE also found that
AVA the American Youth Con-
gress had been identified" as q
front organization, or affiliate
of the Anti-American Commu-
mist Party. and said so.
Mrs. Roosevelt has sh own
marked sympathy with both the
Workers Alliance and the Youth
Congress. and Biddle cites, with
approval, the finding of Judge
Charles B. Sears, who recon-
mended Bridges deportation,
that demonstrations of such
sympathy warrant a conclusion
that Bridges followed this
course Of conduct a. an affiliate
of the Communist Party rather
than as q matter Of chance CO.
Incidence"
In Mrs. Roosevelt's case. there
having been no comparable pub.
lie inquiry there L. no dirol Z