Detroit evening times., 1943-01-18


There are several reasons why the Reds and other
left wngcrs want this most useful committee done away
with
In the first place in its investigation of subvcrsive
activities the committee confined itself to the Nazi
activities which it was THE FIRST FEDERAL AGENCY
TO EXPOSE-it has also exposed with great thorough
ness the organizations and affiliations of the Communists
and their fellow travellers.
The Reds and their sympathzers have resented this
mpartaly for they wanted the Nazs and the Fascsts
and the Ku KuXors To be eliminated and themselves to
to be let alone to pursue their depredatons.
Secondly. the Communist exposures have occupied
more space in the Dies committees reports and have
received public attention. than have other subversive
subjects.
THE Reds have tried couneract the effect Of such
/ publicity by calling it "Red-baiting"
Yet it was not the fault of the Dies committee that
the Reds cot more publicity than the Nazis.
AS Moran and Mack used to say regarding the
UNEQUAL appettes of their black horses and their white
horses the Reds have "eaten up" more space in the
congressional disclosures because there of the
Reds engaged in kinds of subversive activity.
Thirdly, the Communist movement employs and relies
upon devious technique to which the continued skill
and alerness the Dies committee has been the
effective antidote yet found
THIS technique consists in constant and bewderng
i change of party fronts.
When old front" becomes well recognized and
dscredted the Red method is to demosh it and up
new one out of the pieces
Thus the American League Against War and Fascism
1888 became the American League for Peace and
Democracy $685. which after its exposure by the Dies
committee succeeded by the American Peace Mobili
zaton later called the American Peoples Mobilization
Similarly when the Friends of the Soviet Union
shed under the Dies committees spotlight the American
Council Soviet Relations mysteriously in its void
Likewise, the Communist National Student League
combined in 1885 with the Socialist Student League for
tO the
Union under Communist domination.
CARRIED through endless and interlinking chains
- of both temporary and less permanent
fronts, the Communist movement repeatedly appears,
disappears and reappears in DISCUSSES and in
supposed support of all sorts of Causes which be
utilized for propaganda, Embarrassing, and so
But essentially the same purposes, and usually the
controlling personnel, in all these shifts and
the only effective CONFERENCE.-THE is TO RECOGNIZE
and TO IDENTIFY THEM as they arise.
D ECAUSE of the experience of its members the train
ID ing of its Investigators and the accuracy and
peteness of the reference files which it has pansakngy
accumulated the Dies committee is the public agency
most competeny capable of watching the dangerous and
deceptive fluctuations of the Communist movement, of
examining its furtive activities under the power Of the
subpoena and of issuing timely warnings to Congress and
10 the loyal American people
And this is AN ELEMENT OF NATIONAL DE-
FENSE of the greatest consequence with COMMUNISM
pervadng education religious societies. labor unions and
even government itself
Furthemore-contrary to one of the preenses of the
radcalsit is not duty that be performed by the
Federal Bureau of Investigation for the FBI lacks proper
jurisdiction unless overt acts Of lawbreakng be
alleged, and is itself strictly LAW-ENFORCEMENT
AGENCY subject to the orders of the Department of
Justice and serving of the functions of A CON-
MITTEE OF CONGRESS.
co LONG as the Dies committee remains vigantv on
~ guard, the Communist threat constitutional gov
ornment and to American institutions can be minimzed
nd cauterized
That is why the Reds and their fellow travellers
Vocerousy demand at the opening of each congressional
session, that the Dies committee be dsbanded
And that is exactly why this Congress should
unangly do its predecessors have wisely done since
1898 - KEEP THE DIES COMMITTEE ON IT'S
PATRIOTIC JOB
In fact the time when the Dies committee may safely
re discharged will occur until the Communists and
their cohorts longer demanding that il should be
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