Evening star., 1947-06-15

report previously have denied any
Communist affiliations.
The report links to the confer
ence such well known persons as
Melvyn Douglas, Mrs. Marshall
Field, Harold Ickes, Joseph E.
Davies, and Paul Robson.
Mr.. Douglas, Mrs. Field and Mr.
Wallace are listed as advisory asso-
ciates OF the conference. Mr.. Ickes
Is listed as a speaker, Mr.. Davies
as a sponsor and Miss Parker and
Mr.. Robson as members OF the
New York executive board,
The Human Welfare Conference
is called by the committee "a pliable
instrument in the hands OF pro-
Communist wire-pullers behind the
scenes"
It's report adds; ''The most con-
elusive proof of the Communist
domination of the Southern Con-
ference for Human Welfare Is found
in the organization strict and un-
varying conformance to the line OF
the Communist party in the held
of foreign policy
The committee said that the 1888
Hitler-Stalin pact brought about
a bitter struggle in the conference
at its meeting in April, 1910.
Robert F. Hall, secretary OF the
Communist Party of Alabama, act
ing as the Communist whip, pre-
sented an eight-point program
which demanded an uncompromising
peace policy, the report says.
"The liberals, led by Frank P
Graham and w. r. Couch OF the
University of North Carolina, sup
ported the policy of the Roosevelt
administration. At one point there
was a threat of fisticuffs. But the
liberals were no match for the Com
munist steamroller, which castl-
gated them with the high crime OF
being 'anti-Soviet.'
THE thousand delegates de-
nounced war and pro-Allied propa-
ganda, as threatening America with
war. They declared themselves
unalterably opposed to loans to the
Allies and other belligerents ano
denounced war appropriations at
the expense of the American people
at home.
Rift Healed After Invasion.
1.-THE rift between the Communists
and the liberals Tin the Southern
conference) was quickly healed as
soon as Hitler invaded the Soviet
fatherland and the Communists
suddenly relinquished their 'unalter-
able opposition to the war"
The committee charged that the
Southern conference was born 1r
1888 with Communist aid.
While the conference has sue
ceeded in confusing certain elements
in the North by its pretensions, rep
resentative Southerners harbor nc
illusions as to its real character" the
committee report asserted. 1t added:
THE Democratic Woman's Club
of Alabama, an organization OF lone
standing in the South, publicly de-
manded the disclosure of the names
of the initiators of the conference
who provided the necessary finances
and who appointed the delegates
They charged that the conference
was of questionable origin and pur-
pose.
IN their own inner circles the
Communists were not nearly sc
reticent in claiming responsibility
for the conference" the committee
went on. 1t quoted both Robert
Fowler Hall, then secretary of the
Communist Party of Alabama, ane
Earl Browder, at that time genera
secretary of the Communist Party
to support its charge to that the
Communists aided in the formation
of the conference, in order to use it
I'm other words" the report con-
tinued, "the Communists were using
the conference as specific applica-
ton of the so-called popular front
policy in the South. = The honest
liberals drawn into the conference
were merely the most convenient
guinea pigs.
Not only do the Communists