The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1951-02-22
Labor, Religious Leaders To Back More
Militant Policy Against Aggression

Philadelphia (ILNS). - A new
national Council Against Com
munist Aggression" formed here
by some 20 labor, educational anC
religious leaders, has launched 8
campaign to secure the active sup
port of $50 already friendly OF
pledged Congressional and civic
leaders for a Appoint program of
effective aid to Nationalist China
on Formosa, submission of United
Nations resolution citing Soviet
Russia as an instigator and accom-
plice of Communist China in ag-
gression in Korea, sanctions, in
cluding a blockade of Communist
China and an open advance declar-
alton that further Communist ag-
gression either by satellites or dir
ectly upon any state whether or not
a member of the North Atlantic
Pact, will bring down full forces of
all the United Nations against the
USSR.
The new anti-Communist coali-
tion will hold Washington meet
ing after Easter to consolidate
support for its program nationally
and through local citizens chap
tiers to function as committees of
correspondence. The new coalition
is headed by a provisional execu-
tive committee chaired by Marx
Lewis of New York, general secre-
tary-treasurer of the AFL Hatters
Union, with Bishop WEIGH of the
Methodist Church, Sal B. Hoff-
mann, president of the Upholster-
ers' international Union, AFL, and
Christopher Emmett of Common
Cause in New York as vice chair
men.
Other Officers Named
Mrs. George Fitch, an active
member of the Overseas Press Club
and for many years a correspond
ent in China, is treasurer, and
Arthur Gladstone Mcdowell of
Philadelphia is executive secretary.
Other provisional executive board
members include Fred Mckee of
Pittsburgh who resigned from the
American Association for the Unit
ed Nations last year over their en-
dorsement of the Lie program for
seating Communist China, after
many years as treasurer of that
and it's predecessor, the League Of
Nations Association. Also active on
the new committee is DR.. Maurice
William, author of the book which
DIR. Sun Vat Sen, founder of Ma
tionaIist China, declared turned
him away from Soviet Communism
to favor the principles of a west
ern democracy in China.
Although unable to attend the
organization meeting of the coun-
ell, many public figures sent strong
letters of endorsement, including
former Assistant Secretary of
State Adolf Berle, Jr.; Senator
Paul Douglas; Rev. Dan A. Polling;
Gen. Clare Chennault; Edgar An
sci Mowrer, columnist; former Am
bassador William Bullitt; former
Gov. Edison, and Senator Alexand-
er Smith and Congressman Case Of
New Jersey, Lester Granger Of the
National Urban League and lead
ers of the AFL and the CIO includ-
ing George NJ. Harrison Of the
Railway Clerks, Hugo Ernst of the
Hotel and Restaurant Workers,
Emil Rieve Of the Textile Workers
and Lee Minton of the Glass Bottle
Blowers Union.
Advisory Groups Planned
These and many others will be
asked to serve on national or ad-
visory committees of the Council
Against Communist Aggression"
which already includes T. c. Kirk
patrick, editor of Counterattack;
Isaac Don Levine; Ben McLaurin of
the Pullman Porters Union, AFL;
Rev. Father Dennis Comey of ST.
Joseph's Colleges Institute of In