Evening star., 1949-06-26

naEax. xr1tsv. hAs nes. = :cw-
2: o. strength to Ire congress
through his activities !I ether
slave -front o.ganxa liens, The
report declares Il Gals h.,n tie
spokesman q various Comm mist
front organizations operating
among The slAy!c population 81
America
The committee offered Data ea
number o. !eaorrx G. The say
Congress including
! George Pirinski. executive
secretary also nAIioaA! Sc c-geIA-s
of TIE Macedonian American
People League. an organization
cited as SQoveTSlve by A;tugney
General Clerk under S. 900 bond
while awaiting deportation pro-
ceedtngs on q charge Of sunve. siwe
afTlliat!on but ~S,!u continuing a4s
ACTIVITY full blast"
Leo KrEyek,. president. also
president OF Amertc an Polish La
Dor Council which aAs cited as
suorerS!Ve by Attorney General
Clark. demonstrated his deso-
ton for the Soviet Union over
period OF years. vas given more
time with Premier Stain that vas
accorded the then Secretary 81
State James F. Byrnes.
In Revolutionary RoIe,
3 Zlatko Balokovic. chairman a
New York chapter ana nemoeC
OF editorial board Q! the Slave
American, oticial organ OF The
congress, croatian violinist. dis
carded his career as concert
yiolinist for the role OF q profess
Aonal reyolutloniSt a. the upper
levels OF the Stal!nist apparatus
4. Stanley J. Nowak. national
secretary. former United Auto
mobile Workers lCIOt organizer.
III Detroit listed as vice president
OF the International WORKERS
Order. which Attorney Genera!
Blddle cited as one OF The strong
est Communist organizations
S. Anthony J. Mlnerich. member
OF national committee. editor Of
Peoples Voice. a Croat!an news
paper published In Pittsburgh,
has had considerable experience
as an offictal OF the Communist
Party" d" played an important part
in Yugoslavia's attempt TO lure
American citizens OF Yugoslaylan
descent back to the fatherland.'
where their western skills and dol
lars could be utilized behind the
iron CURTAIN
s. George Wuchinich. executive
secretary OF Western Pennsylyanla
Branch, because OF his military
training and espionage experience
and because western PENNSYLVANIA
is highly strategic industrial
area the report said, "Wuchinich
is one Of the most dangerous indl-
viduals in the American Slav Con-
gress'; an engineering graduate of
Carnegie Tech; . paratrooper who
served for nine months In l943
with Marshall Tito's partisans in
Yugoslavia under ONCE OF Slra-
tegic Services orders: served with
Chinese Communist Army In l945.
Accused Man Defends Record.
The l51-page committee report
also listed number OF Slavic
newspapers and fraternal groups
including insurance unions. which
it stated have been used as prop
aganda tools to whip up pro- Soviet
sentiment among Slavic Amer
leans.
The Associated Press reported
from Pittsburgh that Mr.. Wuehi-
MICH commented: .
My war record as a volunteer
and as a paratroper who served
q months overseas behind enemy
lines in Europe and in China is
record Of devotion to my coun-
try which no member of the House
Un-American Activities Com
mittee can match. I won five
decorations including the dis
tinguiShed Service Cross / defy
the committee at any time to
question my loyalty to my country
or the principles for which it
stands"
In New York. according to the
Associated Press. Mr.. Pirinski.
termed the committee charges
ridiculous. He said they were
based on testimony by Judge Blair
F. Gunther. of Pittsburgh. who,
he said, quit the Congress after
it decided to support President
Roosevelt for a fourth term. He
said Judge Gunther Is a Republi-
can.
Judge Gunther told the COM
mittee in a hearing that he left
the organization. which he had
helped to found. because 1t had
come under Communist domi-
nation.
Mr.. Pirinski. said the Congress
is a wholly American and loyal
organization.