Evening star., 1946-11-04

nists, whose open Frank Z. Kent.
aim is to wreck our system and
substitute their own, have achieved
today a power in American politics
utterly out Of proportion to their
numerical strength.
The evidence to substantiate these
assertions is overwhelming. The dlf-
ficulty is to get the people to con-
slider and understand. For example,
it is indisputable that from the first
disclosure of the New Deal spend
tng policies in 1888, the Communist
Party, which publicly estimates its
membership at 100000 but whose
members are far in excess Of that,
have been their most enthusiastic
supporters. No one who has read
the official Communist organs and
recalls the political facts of the last
three presidential elections will deny
that.
Saw Means to Their End.
Before the 1884 Off year cam
paign the Communists made open
declaration that the New Deal di-
rection was straight toward the
Communist goal. From that time
their support of the late Mr.. Roose-
velt and his New Deal program
never tagged. Though once Mr..
Roosevelt repudiated that support
1t was not diverted and the effort of
the Communists to make the Demo-
cratic Party their own never fall
tered. In this campaign again the
Communists in New York have
placed the Statewide Democratic
candidates on their own ticket and
nearly everywhere are calling for
the election Of Democratic con-
gressmen.
When Mr.. Roosevelt made his
hard and fast alliance with the CIO
and CLOS PAC became the chief
contributor to the Democratic treas
ury, the real Communist oppor-
tunity was presented. For, from the
start, they had saturated the larger
unions of the CIO organization and
the potency of their influence has
been conceded from within as well
as charged from without. Today
the Communists are in conceded
control of the American Labor
Party of New York, without whose
solid support Mr.. Roosevelt could
not have carried the State in 1914,
and are so strongly entrenched in
CIO key positions that, as Mr.. John
L. Lewis and others have asserted,
Mr.. Murray, head of the CIO, is "a
prisoner OF the Communists .-
Incidents In Campaign Cited.
The real situation Is attested by
various incidents of the current
campaign. First, there was the
Communist-inspired effort to dam
age Gov. Dewey when group OF
veterans led by the Communist
supported Michael Quill, a CIO
official, broke into the State Capitol
at Albany; second, there was the
radio speech of Communist off,
cial in Pennsylvania, who assailed
the Republicans as "reactionary"
and called for the election Of all
CIO-PAC-indorsed candidates, who
are all Democrats; third, there was
the Government radio address in
Moscow, broadcast here, which in
dorsed all CIO candidates for
House and Senate; fourth, the edi-
torial in the Government controlled
Moscow newspaper calling upon all
Communists in the United States to
support CIO-indorsed candidates;
fifth, the concrete instructions in
the September issue of Political
Affairs, official Communist monthly,
in which American Communists are
directed to "lead fights on popular
issues by working in various organ
iSations; be militant, favor extreme
demands, denounce compromise;
agitate on many fronts for causes
that serve Communist ends; accept
party discipline; support Democrats
as against Republicans in elections
this fall"
This ought to be enough to prove
the degree to which Communists
are identifying themselves with the
Democratic Party and the degree to
which the Soviet leaders are going
In their efforts to promote its sue
cess. In a few States, like Maryland,
the CIO-Communist support has
been avoided, but in New York, the
greatest of all, the efforts of the
Democratic candidates to shake
themselves loose by "repudiation" OF
the Communists have been futile
The Communists continue to urge
the election of the very Democrats
who most strongly repudiate them
OF course, "repudiations," such
as came from Chairman Hannegan
~ the other day, mean little because
they do not include reputation of
the CIO, too. That Mr.. Hannegan
is in no position to do. Nor has any