Evening star., 1944-08-23

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the Democratic
has begun to Frank 4. Kent.
change. The purpose is to make
the change complete.
It will be recalled that, good
many months back, the Communist
party, as q party, deliberately wen
underground. Shaking OF its party
label, it emerged as the Communist
Association, processing devotion tt
the American way Of life.
That, Of course, changed really
nothing. It was so obvious a ma
neuver Is to make the pretense alb
surd. It changed neither its lead.
ers nor its line, it's purposes mol
its basic plans. 1t retained all these
and, in addition, its party organ
the Daily Worker, through which
party doctrine Is channeled to the
members.
Communist Sense.
No real secret of the reasons fol
the change was made. The Com.
munist leaders in Moscow and ir
the United States very simply be.
lieve that Communist goals can be
best promoted through the re-elec-
ton Of Mr.. Roosevelt-and that
Communists can promote his re-
election better by working inside
the so-called Democratic party thar
outside as a separate party.
This is good sense from the Com
munist standpoint. Already, they
control the American Labor party
In New York. The Communist
leaders are in closest alliance with
the Russian-born Sidney Hillman,
who heads the powerful CIO Polit-
ical Action Committee. and Com
munists hold key positions on the
Executive Committee of the CIO
which is closely linked with the
White House and the most con-
spicuous sponsor and supporter Of
the fourth term.
Under the circumstances, aban-
donment Of the separate Communist
party and wholesale Communist In
filtration into the Democratic party,
from the Communist angle, Is logi-
cal, desirable and effective. For If
their side wins in this election %
entrenched will they have become
that the Communists and the COM
munistic C1O not only will have
acquired 4 real dominance In the
Democratic party but will have
achieved . very great influence In
the Government Of the United
States.
That such is the prospect will be
strongly denied because frank ac-
knowledgment would sit very badly
indeed, upon the collective stomach
of the American people. Yet the
Communists, the CIO leaders and
the administration strategists, indi-
vidually and collectively, know these
assertions to be true. Nor will they
be doubted by, any one who does not
deliberately shove realities aside.
Today, the cold truth Is that there
Is not q Communist In the country
who Is not lined up behind Mr..
Roosevelt. But that is not the whole
story. The Communists, In mass,
have calculatingly moved into the
Democratic party with the purpose
Of taking 1t over. No one who reads
current Communist literature in this
country can possibly deny the truth
Of this statement.
Inside the Democratic party. into
which they have moved, these Com
muntsts do not operate as Demo-
Gratis but as Communists. They
maintain, inside the Democratic
camp, their communistic solidarity
discipline, spirit and purpose. They
take their gospel and their instruc-
tions, not from the Democratic Ma
tional Committee, but from the
Daily Worker, the Communist organ
In brief, though, for campaign
purposes this year, they now cal
themselves Democrats; for thei,
own purposes they remain Com
munists as always.
This Is made crystal clear in the
special election supplement" Of the
Daily Worker, issued about e month
ago and now In the hands of every
Communist in the country. This
supplement is worth the perusal OF
every American citizen. Though no.
where In this remarkable document
Is the word Communist used, 1t
establishes fully the truth Of the
charge that the Communists have
gone into the Democratic party
with the idea Of taking it over.
instructions Given.
Detailed instructions are given tc
the members as to their conduct
during the campaign. The Demo.
cratic party" they are told, lis no,
yet, as a whole, a peoples party. II
is = bourgeois party-albeit a liberal
bourgeois party"
The clear inference is, that given
time, this "liberal-bourgeois party
will become wholly a party of the
proletarians," and there follow mi.
mute instructions to the Communist
members, now enrolled and regis
tered as Democrats, as to how to
bring this about.
They are told of the great de.
slrability of becoming precinct cap
tains within the Democratic oraani.
zation; Of the importance of cap
turing the shop stewards" TO,
practical political purposes; of the
necessity for registration; Of how
70 organize the women in trade
union circles into Democratic cir.
cies and, particularly, of the neces-
sity OF nurturing the Negro vote
wnlch, 1t IS declared, easily may
be decisive In Middle Western and
Eastern States and which is nov
somewhat disaffected because of the
Democratic platform.
Two things are heavily emphasized
IN this special election supplement, y