Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-09

Second Of Series)
Communists before the Subver-
sive Activities Control Board
salute the dead Premier Stain
as the master mind behind a
30-year Russian plot to destroy
America.
Stain. that testimony shows.
took personal command of a
three-decade Communist cam
paign to sabotage industrial
America and rear a Red puppet
state amid the debris of capital
ism.
Into the record. amassed from
witnesses over tedious months of
almost daily hearings. have gone
Moscow's orders for Gripping
strikes. domination of American
labor unions, seizure of the Pan
anna Canal. decentralization of
our armed forces, infiltration of
government, establishment of a
Negro republic in the South, dis
tortion of United States institu-
lions for Red propaganda, es-
pionage and sabotage.
The goal? Revolution.
BY 1924. only seven years after
the Russian revolution, the
Kremlin's efforts in the United
States already wore a sinister
bloom. according to this grim
record.
Stain Merged Two Groups.
Under Stalin's direction, Rus
sian leaders had knocked to-
gether two infant Communist
parties in the United States into
a single outfit. In secret con-
vention at Bridgman. Mich. the
merged organization had sub
scribed to 81 conditions laid down
by the Comintern in Russia and
resolved to establish the die
tatorship of the proletariat" in
America.
The Moscow strategists already
had organized Amtorg in New
York, a corporation devoted to
trade between the two nations,
but also secretly funneling fl
nances into Communist bodies in
this country from Russia's treas
ury. Amtorg footed the deficit
for American Communist publi-
cations by paying excessive adj
vertising rates. It financed the
Communist School of Business
Relations.
Comintern headquarters in
Russia sent $4,000 to America
to establish the Daily Worker in
New York as the official Com
munist mouthpiece in this coun-
try. Plans for that still func-
tioning newspaper were Matched
in Moscow.
Financed Foster Campaign.
In the Coolidge year of 1924,
the Comintern also sent sub
stantial funds to this country
to finance the campaign of Will
liam z. Foster and Bejamin Git
low, the Communist ticket for
President and Vice President of
the United States that had been
approved in Moscow.
BY the mid-twenties the Com
munist Party leadership in the
United States was following
coded instructions from Moscow
at all levels of subversion. Tvpi-
cal is a cable from Moscow found
in the minutes of the American
Communist Party's political COM
mittee. dated December 23, 1925:
+ "R1.L.U. CRed International
of Labor Unions) executive bu-
reau empowers Comrade Earri-
son George act representative
R.1.L.U. transport workers sec
ton at united front conference
meeting Havana. Cuba. January
Is, 1926 Stop Our position Stop
Fight war danger and imperial
ism fostered by capitalist gov
United States particularly Stop.
f.. Detailed instructions ma
terial following Stop"
COmintern Dissatisfied,
The degree of Moscow control
was so tight that Foster and
Alexander Bittelman. then as
now high officials of the U. S.
Communist Party. iourneyed to
Russia in 1925 and made a writ
ten report to the Comirtern on
American progress toward rev.
olution.
Comintern officials weren't sat-
iSfied with the rate. In 1927 the
Comintern adopted "a resolution
on the American question" and
forwarded it to New York as a
directive to American Commu-
mist chieftains.
GitloW. a Government witness
before the Subversive Control
Board. saw the resolution drafted
and approved by Moscow's execu-
tive committee of the Comintern.
It read in part:
"The United States of America
has developed into the might
lest imperalist power. The
task Of the Workers Party (old
Communist name) is to form a
broad united front and to in
tensify the struggle against
American imperialism.
The American Communists,
Gitlow, Foster and Jay Lovestone,