Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1946-12-20

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In Europe the past summer was
made to understand an important
fact. Consistently I was informed
by labor leaders, government Of
ficials, and industrialists in all of
the eight countries visited that the
most disturbing element in each ma
ton was the Communist element.
In every country the confusion
wrought by the Communists was
quite disconcerting.
In England, Norway, Sweden.
Denmark, Belgium, Holland, and
Switzerland the Communist element
was not large in number. But it
was well organized. Apparently the
movement was receiving funds from
abroad in each country, for a cam
paign all out of proportion to
actual size of the organization was
in progress. In France. although
the Communist party is not the larg-
est, it has the best organization and
is recognized as the strongest single
party in France.
How About America?
Confusion, today, is not confined to
Europe. In America we have been
having a lot of confusion. We are
facing the most serious industrial
problems in our history. Though the
war has been over for IS months,
our industry is still dragging badly.
Production, in nearly every field, is
disappointing. But an abundant by
product is confusion. and more con-
fusion.
Industry wants to produce. for that
is the only way it can make money.
Some of our largest manufacturing
establishments have actually lost
money instead of making money in
the past twelve months. Industry
is not pleased with this situation,
and I cannot believe they are pur-
posely trying to keep it that way.
Labor finds it difficult TO live on cur
rent income Labor's need is wages.
and I cannot believe that labor as
a whole wants confusion, work stop
pages, and light production.
Does tie government want to him
der production? Surely it wants the
people to have food, clothing, trans
portation. and housing. Yet, when
we have every reason to believe that
labor, industry, and government
want production, we are not getting
production. Despite the desire of
the three groups to avoid confusion,
yet we have confusion cOnfounded.
A Growing Menace
j. Edgar Hoover, many years
head of the Federal Bureau of In
vestigation, a trusted citizen and
public servant, is in position to
understand perhaps better than any
other person what is happening in
America. In speech on the West
Coast, September 30, he decried TIE
growing menace of Communism. de
clarinG that ''in the past five years
American Communists have made
their deepest inroads upon our ma
tional rights"
Their false preachmentS on civil
liberty mean that Communists want
the RICH. to do as they please. Those
who seek to provoke prejudice and
stir up the public mind to angry re-
sentiment against our form of gov
eminent are a menace to the very
powers of law and order which guar
antee AMI safeguard popular rights.
Said Mr.. Hoover: Communism has
spread Fascism and Fascisr
spawns Communism. Both are the
antithesis of American belief in lib
erty and freedom. II people of 9TH
er countries want Communism, let
them have it. but it has no place in
America" 1t is time to stand up
and be counted, indeed.