Evening star., 1952-01-31
| Led Three Lives
Reds in U. S. Control Vost Underground Press;
Ink, Paper Stored for Day of Crisis
By Herbert A. PhiIbrick
CHAPTER XI.
Violent Revolution is the
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"outlawing" of their press. A
early as 1945, when I became
member of the six-man educa
Itiona1 commission of the Massa
chusetts Communist Party, I frs
became acutely aware Of the ex
Iistence and constant strengthen
ing of far-hung network Of TN
derground presses.
Some of the party's stand-b
Ipresses and equipment are kept il
dead storage against the day whel
they may have to be used. Their
is also a considerable Stockpile O
scarce paper and printing ink he'll
in reserve. But for the most part
the underground" party press
already on an operational footing
not lying idle and concealed il
secret cellars. They are workin
i'm the open behind legitimate an
respectable business fronts, max
ling and taking in money through
every available source for thei
own support. In some cases the,
represent large and well know
printing and publishing houses.
Inspects Secret Press.
Because of my close affiliatiol
with commercial printing houses
I was invited to inspect the newes
secret" party press in Boston, ,
complete. modern shop set up tt
handle job printing by the offse
method. The party asked me tt
look over the plant and offer an.
suggestions for efficient operation
I did a thorough job for thu
party. Then I went a step fur
ther. "Let me have a few samples
of your work to show around"
suggested. Perhaps I can throw
some work your way" I was givel
a full set of all the types of worl
produced on the press. 1t wa
most considerate of the party tt
let me have them. They went di.
rectly to the FBI where they
doubtless are still on flea SCI
of "fingerprints" with distinctive
characteristics through which any
work turned out in the future by
the same press can easily bt
traced.
Many of the most highly secret
documents were produced on thu
little headquarters mimeograpl
machine which I had rebuilt ane
frequently operated. In the fal
of 1945, the party CAREFUL!
screened $500 Communists in tht
Boston area to attend a super.
secret training school in Marxism
Obtains Valuable Document.
I was selected as one of the II
candidates. Outlines for the courst
were prepared from a mastel
copy provided by the party's ma.
tional headquarters. Extrem,
caution was decreed to preven
the study outline from falling intt
the hands of any comrade outside
the school. A limited number o1
copies was run off on the mimeo.
graph. enough for each of the II
students and the instructors who
would handle the training course
It was a valuable document. i
showed how Marxism was to be
taught in Boston, and elsewhere
too, no doubt, as a living anc
fighting force, applicable to ou1
own times and our own country
It was a simple matter to gel
into the hands of the FBI. After
each stencil was typed, I slipped
out the thin fiber papers lining
and backing sheets, stuffed them
into my pockets, and mailed then
to the FBI. The Government hac
the full course outline before any
of the students saw it.
The secret eacher-trainins
course was scheduled for eigh'
sessions, one night a week, to bt
held in october and November
1945, at the West End Communist
Club off Scollay Square in down.
town Boston.
Whispered Conversation.
At the table, Fanny Hartman
sat in whispered conversation with
a woman whose back was turned
to me but whose hair, even under
the dim light, was markedly red
The young woman with the rec
hair was DR.. Hulda McGarvey.
had previously encountered Hulds
in connection with the San
Adams School for Social Studies
and regarded her as one of many
liberals enticed int
teaching posts in the Communist.
front training school. But / wa.
shocked to see her here in the
inner circle of the Communist
Party, a graduate of Smith Col.
lege and Columbia University, &
former instructor at Noun
Holyoke College and as assistant
professor of psychology at Smith
a highly regarded academician
unknown for any intimate Com
Party connections.
Fanny Hartman glanced abou
the room. and, assured that hel
full class was assembled, sht
passed out the course outlines.
Comrades" her soft voice wa
like the stropping Of razor il
the still room. "You will have tn,
responsibility of training oul
cadres so that they in turn cal
go out and win the workers II
the Socialist struggle against TIN
Fascist imperialists of the world
and in particular, the Unitet
States.
Three Glasses of Society.
Fanny turned the class over t,
Hulda McGarvey. who started u
off with the party definition o
the three classes of society. First
she said, there is the bourgeoisie
the 60 top capitalist-class familie
who own and control the Nation
means of production. These people
she said, inevitably are tn
enemies of the working class. and
with some notable exceptions il