Evening star., 1946-08-19
Soviets Acknowledge
Stooqes in CIO-PAC
Moscow's Propaganda Stratesists
Slipped in Recent 'Trud Article
By David Laurence

Slipped in Recent 'Trud' Article
By David Laurence
Soviet Russia seems to be taking
quite an interest in the labor difficulties
happening inside the United States and
also appears to be interested In the
coming congressional elections.
The Soviet blessing Is being given
to the CIO-PAC, which may or may
not be the kiss Of death to that or
ganization. The Russian propaganda
strategists slipped when they permit
ted the following to be published in
"Trud," the Russian trade union news
paper:
THE coming election campaign
promises to be exceedingly strained.
The working class in the United States.
particularly its progressive sections
whose interests and strivings are ex-
pressed by the CIO Committee for
Political Action, realize full we'll the
present situation in the United States
which Is marked by the strongest
pressure for unprecedented expansion
by reactionary circles of United States
The election analysis in "Trud," ac-
cording to United Press dispatch
from Moscow, was entitled: Glass
Struggle Inside the United States and
American Monopoly Capitalism Trying
to Establish World Domination"
Infiltration Of Reds.
The Soviets evidently regard the
CIO-PAC as an exponent of the COM
munistic doctrine which Is designed to
promote economic chaos and first
weaken and then destroy the private
enterprise system.
The inf1ltration of Communists In
| the American trade union movement
| Is considerable. The American Fed
Grafton Of Labor openly accuses the
CIO of harboring Communists in key
positions in various unions. Last week
United Press dispatch from Pitts
burgh reported:
AN an-out drive to purge the CIO
United Electrical Workers Union OF
| Communists was under way today,
headed by International Vice President
Harry Block Of Philadelphia. Mr.. Block
ing to make the union a vehicle to
advance the foreign policy of the Soviet
Union He said the Members for
Democratic Action represent the ma
| jority OF non-Communists in the union
and will push its fight to oust the Com
munists at the national convention in
Milwaukee, September g.
The foregoing Is typical of many =
battle inside CIO unions where loyal
Americans are trying to get rid Of
those who follow the party line from
Moscow. Some Of the unions are COM
pletely dominated by Communists and
are known generally among trade union
people as Communist unions" These
unions denounce American foreign
policy and generally follow through on
the line Of propaganda which Molotov
and other Russian spokesmen use In
their denunciation of Americas policies
abroad
Iron Curtain on News
1t is significant that the CIo Com
munications Union, which is organized
among the operators of cable and wire
less companies, has strong Communist
flavor and is openly believed to be in
fluenced by Communist doctrine This
union called strike (now reported
settled against layof of men due to
reduced traf1c. This came during the
Paris Peace Conference and was aimed
solely at press messages. While some
dispatches got through, the strike pro-
duced new kind Of iron curtain on
news.
Is it a coincidence that q Communist
dominated union called q strike ut
time when it was OF the utmost i'm
portance to Russia to suppress the
news and when 1t is vital to the United
States that all the news possible about
what is going on in Paris and In other
countries OF the world shall be trans
mitted to the free press of all countries?
In the United Public Workers of
America, which is made up OF Federal,
State and municipal workers, 4 decided
Communist tinge has appeared. At its
National convention recently q resolu-
ton was adopted denouncing alleged
American interference" in the affairs
of other nations and our alleged "im-
perialism." 1t was obviously a pro-
Soviet resolution and motion to
include denunciation of Russia's inter
ference" failed of adoption.
The consequence of this was deter
mination on the part Of many members
to Withdraw. Whenever loyal Americans
discover they are being exploited, they
lose no time in getting out Of Commu-
nist-dominated unions. Congress, in
cidentally, observed a few weeks ago
what the United Public Workers Union
was doing and promptly passed law
forbidding the payment Of any salaries
or wages to any workers belonging to
an organization that insists on the right
to strike against the Government.
| 1t used to be fashionable for the So
called liberals" and parlor pinks to
laugh on the Communist threat inside
America, but the facts are coming out
in the open now with such persuasive
ness that they cannot be ridiculed any
longer. Even the Moscow trade union
paper acknowledges its stooges in the
American labor movement.
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More Appropriate
From the St. Louis Post Dispatch.
From the way Russia is having at all
| and Sundry, maybe they'd want to