Evening star., 1953-03-13

Activities Control Board make
that clear to those who Gull the
8 million words of testimony
from former American Com
munists and loyal citizens
planted in the party by the Fed
eral Bureau of Investigation.
If the average American dur
ing the thirties and early forties
was in doubt as to Stalin's intent
toward the United States, no
such confusion existed among
the top leaders of the American
Communist Party.
Nine Of the American Com
munist chieftains took an oath
Of fealty to the Red generals
simo in 1885 at a time when
Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal
held sway in America.
The nine American Commu-
niSts travelled to Moscow as dele
gates to the 7th World Congress
of the Communist International
and took a pledge of loyalty to
"Comrade Stain, leader, teacher
and friend of the proletariat and
oppressed of the whole world"
Six Still Are Red Leaders.
They declared that "The Com
munists will always and every
where be faithful to the end to
the great and invincible banner
of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Sta
lin" and that under this ban
ner, communism will triumph
throughout the world"
OF the Americans who took
and approved this oath, accord
ing to the findings of a board
hearing panel, six are still lead
ers Of the American Communist
party, William z. Foster, John
Williamson, Gilbert Green, Jack
Stachel. william Schneiderman
and Martha Stone.
Dimitri z. Manuilsky, then
Russian boss of the Comintern,
set the stage for the oath to
Stain with a speech to the
American delegation prior to the
opening of the Comintern's S
World Congress. Manuilsky de-
clared that the first allegiance of
all American Communists must
be to the workers fatherland, /"
the Soviet Union.
Details Of the oath-taking in
Moscow were given the hearing
panel by Louis F. Budenz, a
member of the Communist party
from 1885 to 1945. Although
Budenz was not in Moscow, he
testified he was shown the reso-
luton by Jack Stachel. He said
Stachel told him that all Com
munist leaders from around the
world took the basic pledge of
loyalty to Stain.
U. S. Politicians Watched.
Nathaniel Honig, a member of
the American Communist Party
from 1927 to 1889. testified that
in 1885 the high command of
the Communist International
was screening candidates for
public Office in countries far from
Russia's border.
Candidates for public Office in
the United States went under the
microscope in Moscow's COMM
tern building. Here the Rus
sian Red leaders decided which
candidates the American Com
munists should support at home.
No election was too localized for
party attention If Moscow be-
lieved advantage could be gained
there.
With America still struggling
In the tail end of the great de-
preston, Stain and his lieuten-
ants saw another area where
Americas economy could be
stirred to Moscow's advantage
A courier left Russia one day
with a directive to Communist
headquarters in New York. His
orders-organize relief demon
strations and accuse city and
Federal officials of failing to feed
the unemployed.
The high commands Of the
Comintern and the Red Inter-
national Of Labor Unions Jointly
made the decision to stir trou-
BILE in the ranks Of the jobless,
many Of them eking out a living
on WPA projects. Honig testi-
fed he saw a letter from Earl
Browder, then the American
Communist leader, to the Com
intern. stating that he was try
ing to carry out the latest relief
directive.
Labor Publications Subsidized.
Witnesses said the Comintern
supplied direct subsidies to Red
labor publications In the United
States at this time, including the
magazine. Labor Unity"