Evening star., 1946-03-18


PLY, the subservient attitude which
he made an administration policy,
to a considerable extent, is being
adopted by. his successor, and the
chairman OF the Democratic Ma
tional Committee, Robert Hanne-
gan, is actually, at this moment,
supporting the CIO in its plans to
'Equidate" various Democratic
members of the House and Senate
who have had the temerity to op-
pose such CIO-indorsed measures
as the Wallace full employment
bill, the minimum wage bill and
the housing subsidies; or who voted
for the Case labor bill, denounced
by the C1O and emasculated by the
C1O-controlled Senate Labor Com
mittee.
Recently, Mr.. Hannegan made a
speech in Wilmington which could
be construed in no other way than
as an attack on the men the CIO
Is planning to purge" with its re-
Gently announced $6,000,OOO fund.
When the charge is made by such
men as Donald Richberg that the
C1O is run by the Communists who
have gotten themselves into its KEY
positions, it is not made lightly or
without sound basis.
Line from Moscow.
When Mr.. Richberg SAYS that
though Philip Murray is not himself
Communist but is a Captive" of
the Communists, he is only stating
a fact that should be obvious tp
any intelligent man who observes
the record of the CIO closely enough
to note the consistency with which
the C1O follows the Communist line
IN this country. which line, of course,
comes from Moscow.
Within the last few days there
have been two rather striking ex-
amples of this. One concerned Her
bert Hoover, who belatedly was
asked by the President for advice
and aid in the terrific job of avert
ing starvation in Europe. Almost
Immediately from Russia came the
silly and outrageous charge that
after the last war Mr.. Hoover with
held food from the starving who
lived In the countries (meaning
Russia) which did not subscribe to i
Mr.. Hoover's "reactionary views"
And almost Immediately following
that the CIO agricultural union
publicly echoed and repeated this
degraded and absurd allegation.
The other example concerns Win
ston Churchills speech. 1t brought
furious blast from Mr.. Stain and
the Russian-controlled press. The
Daily Worker here was even more
violent but not more violent than
the CIO publicity, which hewed
exactly to the same line.
Together on Issues.
The most unrestrained attacks in :
on the Churchill idea a.,
came from the CIO Senator, Claude ,
Pepper, Of Florida, and Henry Wal
lace, whom the CIO wanted for -.
Vice President and now wants for :,
President And, while a thousand .
Communists booed Mr.. Churchill at ,
the City Hall, CIO union with in .
sulting placards picketed the WAL j.,
dorf-Astoria, where he spoke Friday :
night.
Plenty of other examples could be
given. Take it right down the line +
and Communist publicity and CIO
publicity are almost identical. On
practically every public measure and
issue the CIO and the Communists
stand together. The list is long and
convincing. Neither denials of the
dominating Communist influence in
the CIO nor the usual denunciation
of those who refer to it as red
baiters" and 'reactionaries' alter /,
the facts.
The bulk of CIo members are, of
course, not Communists, but the
fellows in the key positions are-or
so close to being Communist that it
AMOUNTS to the same thing.
Bamboozled by PROPAGANDA,
And it seems timely to recall that \
former Attorney General Francis
Biddfe, himself an extreme left :
winger and the gentleman who ju-
bilantly described the New Deal as
a labor party headed by an able
politician, when called on to define
The aims of the Communist party
here, wrote that "the Communist I
party teaches the violent overthrow
OF existing governments, including
the United States 1t writes, cir
culates, distributes and DISPLAYS
printed matter advising such over
throw" =