Evening star., 1949-12-18

at Dork and at play are g1Den
a philosophical once-oUer in the
stories OF John J. Huber, iden-
tilted as a former FBI-under
couer man, in a report to Sem
ate committee. Some OF his
stories and comments in his
o,Un 10ordS, from the committee
folloW
Loyal Americans do not take
the Communist Party seriously
enough, for they feel that it is
but a minority party consisting Of
q small membership and 1T can't
happen here"
While it Is true that there Is a
yearly turnover of thousands Of
members, 1t must be emphasized
that this does not mean these
thousands have renounced COM
munism. They may no longer be
dues-paying and registered party
members, but they retain their
homage and allegiance to the
principles of communism. This
boosts the number of Communist
believers in this country up past
the million mark, fact which the
party Is well aware of. but cleverly
disguises in its unceasing recruit
ing.
It is misconception, which the
party will not try to correct, but
will rather try to increase, to
have us believe that the Commun-
ist Party is not as strong today
as 1t was 10 years ago. The party
is not only stronger, but it is
growing steadily, by reason of the
steady influx Of members from
communistically controlled labor
unions, from foreign language
speaking groups. from the thea
trical and entertainment fields,
from veterans groups, from the
youth of America, from among
the Negro people, and from con-
sumer and community groups.
The day-to-day recruiting of COM
rsdes has yielded the Communist
Party handsome dividends in in
creasing their numbers.
Communists have inf1ltrated
into mass organizations and into
civic and citizens groups. They
were even instructed to move into
the American Legion and the
Veterans Of Foreign Wars. They
hope, work for and expect some
day to get their policies accepted
and put into action by these Or
ganisations.
| The Communist fronts are in.
creasing in number today, and can
boast of such we'll known figures
as Dashiell Hammett, Lillian He'll
man, Dorothy Parker. Herman
Shumlin. Norman Corwin, Har-
low Shapley, Ella Logan, Charlie
Chaplin. Edward G. Robinson and
John Garfield as just a few of
the drawing cards which attract
the general public to their meet
ings and into eventually becoming
members there.
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In the field of education. there
are a few hundred members Of
the Communist Party who are
teaching the children of New York
City in our public schools. The
party realizes, more than DO most
Americans, that 1t Is in the schools
and by teaching youngsters the
Communist distortions of history
and the principles of revolution,
that they have their ripest fields
for propaganda and future men,
bers. That they are correct in
this Marxist realization is more
than proven by the numbers Of
students who join studenta'
leagues and youth organizations
controlled by Communists.
Their most common tactic Is
to pose as the friend and chAm-
pion of the aliens or foreign-born,
just as they try to pose as cham
pions OF any group in order to
make their propaganda reach an
audience.
BY way Of illustration, let me
cite to you the weekly meeting of
the teamster branch. waterfront
section of the Communist Party,
Tuesday, March l8, 1s4l. at 4S
East Twenty-ninth street. New
York. After the meeting was
called to order. all comrades wrote
letters to their Senators and con-
gressmen, demanding that they
defeat the Hobbs concentration
camp bill" Sam (Kappy) Kaplan,
organizer Of the waterfront sec
ton of the Communist Party, said
we should stress in the letters that
such a law would be a deliberate
attack on the civil rights OF all
foreign-born Americans. We were
also instructed to ask our repre-
sentatives in Congress to ignore
the proposal Of Attorney General
Jackson that there should be q
law providing for a concentration
camp.
Another illustration can give
YOU is a Communist Party mass
meeting held for the Irish people
of the third and fifth assembly
districts of the waterfront section
on Thursday, February 20. l94o.
According to Charles Keith, who
was chairman, the meeting was
called to denounce the murders OF
Barnes and Richards. two IRA
men executed in Birmingham,
England. AS you will see from the
tone of the meeting, this was just
another one OF the pretexts that
the Communists used to get an
audience for their party line.
Keith was followed by Pauline
Rogers, organizer of the Commu-
mist Party.
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Henry Winston (colored), ma
tinoal leader of the Young Com
munist League, compared the dn-