The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1950-09-07
BY CONGRESSMAN
Bob Sccrest

can activities in the House has
spent more than ten years in
vestigating individual Commun-
lists and the activities of the Com
munist party in the United
States. They have accumulated
mountains of evidence to show
that the Communist movement
III our country is foreign con-
trolled and its ultimate objective
is to overthrow our free Ameri-
can institutions. D is closure S
made by this com mittee of
treachery, deceit, infiltration,
espionage and corruption in the
United States has largely been
responsible for the belated activi-
ties of congress to guard against
destruction from within.
In the past two months con-
gress passed a major bill which
discussed in a former column.
This law is designed to protect
defense secrets of the United
States government. Another law
was designed to control and ia
cilitate the deportation of alien
Communists.
The House has just passed an
other bill which is of vital i'm
portance to every American. 1t
is certain the Senate will pass
the bill and that it should be-
come law within a few weeks.
The bill requires the registration
of all Communists in the United
States. 1t would also require re-
giStration with the attorney gen.
eral of all Communist-front or
ganizations. When a Communist
registers the government will
know who he is. If he fails to
register, the government will
have violation of the law under
which he can be fined and i'm
prisoned. We all know that it
was impossible to convict Al
Capone and many other persons
who operated in his era until the
government finally caught them
for violation of the income tax
law. Few Communists will take
the chance involved in failure to
register. In addition every Com
munist organization in the coun-
try must file with the attorney
general a list of its members,
making it possible to double
check all Communists and fell
low-travelers. The law would
also deny passports to members
of the Communist party. This is
to prevent them from going to
Russia for training and instruc-
tions. Alien Communists could
still be deported by the govern
ment at any time.
The bill which passed the
House also requires labelling and
identification of all Communist
propaganda, whether or not it is
sent through the United States
mails. The law bars all Commun-
lists from government jobs and
prohibits contributions by gov
ernment officials to Communist
front organizations. 1t also pro-
hibits the, employment of any
Communist in any defense plant
in the United States whether
privately or publicly owned. The
list of Communist party members
and Communist organizations
will be open to public inspec-
ton. To protect an innocent per-
son who might get on a list by
mistake, such individual is noti-
fled by the attorney general and
given sixty days before the list
is made public in which to prove
to the attorney general that he
is not member of such organ
ization. A board of three is eS-
tablished and it shall be the duty
of this board to determine what
organizations are Communist
controlled.
Communism would d e troy
America and there is no doubt
in my mind that we have not
only the right, but the duty, to
safeguard our democracy by a
law of this kind. No loyal Amerl-
can can suffer under it and
disloyal American should be
made to suffer. The Communist
party is not an American party,
but a party dedicated to the
the overthrow of American IN
stitutions, including the guar
anteed right to worship God. we
have as much right to protect
ourselves at home against trail
tors as we have to fight an army
that might invade our shores.
This law should have been
passed long ago. Thirty of the
seventy major countries in the
world have outlawed the Com
munist party. Many other coun-
tries have adopted various legls-
lative DEGREES against Commun-
ism, and since 1947, the trend
has been toward declaring all
Communist activities illegal.
Panama was the latest to take
such action. This action came IN
April of this year. The countries
which have outlawed the Com
munist party are as follows:
Guatemala. Ell Salvador, Hondu-
ras Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Haiti,
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