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3. The significance Of the deci-
sion of the Communist party in the
United States to dissolve as such Is
that during the 1914 elections
Communists will throw their entire
weight into the CLIO Political Action
Committee"
The special report, signed by
Chairman Martin Dies, D., Tex,
and other members of his commit
tee, denounced as "tyrannical taxa
ton" the decision of the Political
Action Committee to levy assess
ments, of times compulsory. on the
Go membership to amass $4,000. 900
for expenditure in the 1914 cleo
tons.
The Dies report said it's finding
that a majority" of the unions
affiliated with the CIO had a
Communist leadership justified a
remark by John L. Lewis, whose
United Mine Workers Union once
was affiliated with the CLIO, that
Hillman and CLIO President Philip
Murray have got to play bali with
the Communists now, or die"
&c. Sidney Hillman has en-
tered into a coalition with Com
munists for the purpose Of building
the CLIO Political Action Commit
tee, the Dies report said. '"Ihis is
not the first time in his career
that Hillman has been found in
league with the Communists but 1t
Is by far the most sinister of all his
Communist coalitions"
Communist Link
While linking Hillman with Com
n1unists, the report did not brand
him directly as Communist, not
ing that at times he was actively
and effectively anti Communist"
The Dies group defined the COM
mittee as simply the CLIO func-
tioning as a political agency and
using its coercive powers over its
members to compel them to follow
its political dictates"
1.-THE CIO Executive Board, which
established the political action COM
mittee, is composed Of 40 members
among whom there are at least 10
whose records indicate that they
follow the line" of the Communist
party with undertaking loyalty"
the report said.
These are the men who not so
long ago supported the wave of
sabotage strikes which gravely in
terfered with the production Of de-
Tense materials. These same men
now seek to discredit the congress
Of the United States by malicious
and slandering charges of pro-Hit-
lerlSm :"
Attack on Congress
The attack on Congress, the re-
port said, was being made in part
by circulation of a voting chart
similar to one disseminated by the
CommuniStS-which denounce the
voting records of an Overwhelming
majority" OF the members Of thew
Hous.
The report attacked numerous
prominent CLIO leaders in addition
to Hillman and Murray, including
Harry Bridges of the Longshore-
mems Union and Lee FRESHMAN,
general counsel Of both the CLIO
and the political action committee
Bridges, the Dies Committee said,
has attacked Congress by saying
that there "are more Hitler agents
to the square mile in Congress than
there are to the square mile in De-
troit." This statement, the report
said, was in class with Walter
Wihchell'S reference to the House
of Representatives as the House of
Reprehensibles."
The Dies committee now Is inves-
tigating Wincheu,s radio scripts.
The CLIO committee has also been
attacked in Congress by Rep. How
ard w. Smith, D., Va, who charged
that its money raising practices
violated the Smith onnally anti
strike law restrictions on contribu-
tons by labor groups to campaigns
for president. vice president and
members of Congress-.