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ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1954-01-27

\h/E have long argued, without fear OF
w ever being contradicted, that the vast
majority of Americas Fraternal Societies
are absolutely immune to Communism.
In maintaining as much, once in sue
cessful public debate with United States
Congressman, we have held up the Croatian
Fraternal Union of America as prime ex-
ample of why Communism cannot infiltrate
the rank and file membership of an alert,
patriotic Fraternal Organization.
Now, after fighting on our own for 10,
these many years, we are joined in our mill
tant defense of the Nations open and above
board Fraternals by Mr.. Walter Basye,
Rochester, New York, Editor and Publisher
of "The Fraternal Age who offers proof
positive in the January issue of his magazine
that Fraternalism is Communism's foe.
Mr. Basyes splendid article dealing with
the subject, which appears elsewhere on this
page, is not to be taken with a grain of salt
for if there is such thing as an authority
on Fraternals in the United States, he is
definitely that man.
His intimate knowledge of the leaders of
Americas foremost Fraternals, who they
arc and what they stand for, makes Mr..
Basye an authoritative parsonage.
In effect Mr.. Basye condemns those who
would inject the sordid issue of Communism
into baseless talk against Fraternal not
to their liking, for one reason or another,
and subject 1907 American Institution to
public suspicion and national shame.
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1954-01-27
A Smash Hit!

"This is Your Croatian
Fraternal Union" is the
title Of a new sound film
financed by the Pittsburgh
fraternal society which has
won enthusiastic acclaim
among the membership.
Photographed in techni-
color by George Marchan,
a member of the Society
and Director of the Chica-
go Station VICES Ameri-
can-Yugoslav radio hour,
and narrated by Stephen F.
Brkich, English Editor of
Ia lednicar, the first show
ing was in Chicago on De-
cember 6, 1858.
The occasion was the an
nual "Fraternal Day" cele-
bration in Pilsen Park Aud
itorium by the CFU Central
Committee of Greater Chi
cago Lodges. There was
a record-breaking atten-
dance, and many wrote to
the home office in Pitts
burgh, expressing t h cir
praise.
The next showing was in
st. Louis on December 20,
and it was described as Sin
strumental in making the
Croatian Fraternal Union a
living thing"
Requests are pouring in
to the home office for
showing the film in numer-
Gus C.F.U. centers, notably
from such strongholds of
the Society as Gary, Ham
mond, Whiting, East Chi
cago, Waukegan and Mil
Waukee.
The Fraternal Age
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1954-01-27
Wisconsin Lodges
In Annual Confab

Milwaukee, Wise. - T h e
annual meeting of the Wis
consin Council Of C.F.U. LODI
ges will be held at 2::30 PM,
Sunday, January 81, 1854, at
Rebernisek's, $50 South Sixth
Street. All participating LODI
ges are asked to be sure their
Delegates are present.
Lodges that haven't as yet
become affiliated with the
Council are urged to send rep
resentatives to this meeting,
see the Council at work, re-
port back to their own LODI
ges, and take steps to become
affiliated with this very
worthwhile group. Remember,
in numbers and unity there is
strength.
The number of Delegates
any Lodge is entitled to is
determined by the number
Of members in said Lodge.
For instance: 1 Delegate rep
resenting a Lodge of Is men,
bers; 2 Delegates represent
ing a Lodge Of so members;
3 Delegates representing a
Lodge of IS members; and 4
D eleg 6 a t e s representing a
Lodge having more than IS
members.
Dues in the Council are
$500 per Lodge, per year
payable at the annual meet
ing.
Remember the State Bowl
ing Tournament, sponsored
by the Council, will be held in
Racine this year. Let's give
the Racine boys a boost.
Fran Rocki, Sec'y.
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1954-01-27
Time To Change

ONE of the more important Supreme
- Board decisions Of September 1858,
was to extend until June 80, 1854 the dead
line date for present day members of the
Society to switch from the Sick Benefit De-
partments Old to its New Disability Plan.
Originally, the Board had hoped that the
ma iority of those so insured would effect
the changeover in question by December 80,
1858, and set aside that date as the last
day for members to apply for the much
better form of protection without submitting
to a rigid medical examination.
Sick Benefit Department Secretary bro.
John Ovcarich's last Report to the Board
showed that all too few had switched to the
New Disability Plan up to that time. Anxious
to be of service to the membership involved,
the Board then decreed that the deadline be
extended to June 80, 1854, to give everyone
interested their last opportunity to change
to the New Plan.
Surprisingly only $4,000 of some $4,000
members carrying the Old Disability Plan
have seen fit all these months to take out
the New Plan on the basis Of the Society's
without medical examination.
Particularly disappointing in this respect
have been our members on the West Coast
very few Of whom are listed among those
carrying the New Disability Plan.
AS a matter of fact, the records at the
Home Office in Pittsburgh show that in
some West Coast Lodges not one single men,
ber has effected such changeover since
the protection was put into force by the
Croatian Fraternal Union January /, 1852
Be that as it may bro Ovcarichs article
on Page and this Editorial should bring
the eligible reader to realize that he, or she,
must apply for the New Disability Plan by
June 80, 1854, to merit acceptance on nom
medical basis. After that date all members
past 50 years Of age desiring the protection
will have to undergo medical exam while
those past 50 years will no longer be per-
mitted to make the transfer period
This appeal, or warning, if you will
should be of particular interest to the Field
Workers poised for the opening of the So
ciety's 1854 Membership Campaign on Feb
ruary 1, for Cash Award of S1OO will be
made during the drive for every changeovcr
to the New Disability Plan.
Considering the fact that five full months
remain before the June 80, 1854, dcadlinc
for such changes, many Field Workers
should find it extremely profitable to con-
tact those still carrying the Old Disah hility
Plan, outmoded protection in these times.
In the meantime, let no one complain that
the Home Office at Pittsburgh hasn't done
~ L; n 4
it's rights in this matter.
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1954-01-27
More Lodges Seek
Showing OF Movie

Pit t 5 burg h, Pa. - The
technicolor film, "This Is
Your Croatian Fraternal Uni
on" which is made available to
our membership carries but
one prerequisite, that as ma
ny people as possible see it.
To help effect this, the
C.F.U. Executive Board went
on record advising that in
communities where more than
one of the Society's Lodges
exist, that a C.F.U. Central
Committee be organized for
showing this film. The reason
behind this reckoning is to
treat all C.F.U. members in
that community with a public
showing Of the film at one
time. Only in this manner can
we have this film make it's
rounds among our faithful
and many colonies.
We say faithful with a dose
of sincerity because in the
Society's Diamond Jubilee
there is no doubt that pride
in the chest of each and every
member, youngster to elder,
will swell somewhat upon see
ing it as George Marchan
would have you see it and as
Stephen F. Brkich fills in
with informative narration.
The film is of the 16 nm.
type, with each group of
Lodges showing it to be re-
sponsiblc for procuring a film
and sound protector in their
respective communities. All
we ask that, Immediately
upon showing said c. f. u.
film, that it be returned eX-
lpress collect and shipment
insured to the C.F.U. Sports
Educational Dept.
We ask these who would
book said film to carefully
scan the calendar listing
which follows: Sunday, Feb
ruary ID, Lodge 1914 in Mon
essen, and Sunday, February
2Sth, for the United C.F.U.
Lodges Annual Meeting to be
held in Pittsburgh. Farrell
Lodges will show the film
Sunday, April 18th, and Gary,
Ind, Lodges on Sunday, April
25th. Further on into the year
Lodge SD Of Canton, Ohio,
will show the film on Sunday,
September 26th.
Inasmuch as booking of the
film, the only one we have at
the present time, is rapidly
being filled, we ask that our
busy body committees take
advantage as soon as possible
of the dates still open.
Frank Braidic, Director
Sports-Educational Dept.
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1954-01-27
AMERICANA

1t is imperative, more so
chan ever before, that we
have government and men
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1954-01-27
Senator Isn't Weakling

"McCarthyism" is a word
coined by the Daily Worker.
I do not read that publication,
but from authentic reports I
learn that the Daily Worker
screams "McCarthyism" ev-
cry day.
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1954-01-27

There are too many lawyers in Congress.
And there isn't one in 20 who has gone
through any real hardship. l think we'd be
better off if we had so per cent women in
Congress. Mature women would look at all
legislation through the eyes of the family,
the mother - DR. Francis f. Townsend
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1954-01-27
AMERICAN FRATERNAL SOCIETIES ARE
UNITED IN BATTLE AGAINST TRAITORS
Hints About Communists In Fraterna|s
Erroneous In Great Majority Of Cases

BY Walter Basye, Editor, The Fraternal Age

BY Walter Basye, Editor, The Fraternal Age
Rochester, N. Y. - Driving along the southern shore
of Lake Erie on Highway No 5, big truck ahead,
and large letters the word Explosives The truck
going at moderate speed and wanted to get ahead within
the legal limit Of course.
My garage often tells me- "When you get out on
the highway you are as safe battlefield That may
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1954-01-27
Men Of Great Courage

Then came the Fundamen-
tai Orders of Connecticut,
1889, which was a mutual
contract in which the citizen
was given responsibility and
individual self respect.
These and other communi-
ty agreements led to the Dec
laration of independence on
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1954-01-27

My garage man often te
the highway, you are as safe
be a measure Of safety, but
here was a new hazard. I es-
timated that the truck held
enough explosives to blow up
Silver Creek, New York.
So, with extreme care,
which other drivers were not
using, l got around the truck
and journeyed on.
l am using this as an intro
duction to what is to follow.
There are explosives in it, but
think it is the most impor-
tant subject in America to-
day.
Discussed will be the rea-
sons there are no Communists
in American fraternal soci-
eties, also the Fifth Amend
ment, Congressional investi-
cations, "McCarthyism," "a
cademic freedom" and free
dom of conscience
r.s,ssst Ffafk Too Much
| have followed up every
hint Of Communism in frater-
nal societies and have not
found any, except one case
which will be given later.
These hints are usually, "He
talks like a Communist" etc.,
but there was no substance
! in them.
While agents of Russian
Communism have infiltrated
the Government, into arms
production plants, into labor
unions, and into shiploading
at the docks, their efforts to
get into fraternalism have not
succeeded.
Their efforts have been stu
pid. One instance was when
| they tried to get into the Be-
nevolent and Protective Order
of Elks. That was so ridicu-
lous it was laughable. Imagine
a secret Communist agent
getting anywhere in a lodge
of Elks!
On orders from Moscow,
the agents organized the In
ternational Workers Order,
with headquarters in New
York City. They built an in
surance society of respectable
size, but size was the only
respectable factor.
They Couldn't Get In
They had to learn some
thing about the fraternal sys-
tenn. Years ago l wrote a
book which was published,
History and Operation of
Fraternal Societies. 1t be-
came out of date but orders
for copies kept coming in
from the Two.
Finally an order came for
a quantity to be shipped to
Pittsburgh where the Society
was holding a school of in
struction. There was nothing
in the book to give comfort to
a Communist; in fact, they
learned that fraternal life in
surance is the finest flower
of capitalism. l guess they
wanted to learn how to act
like fraternalists while work.
ing under cover to destroy
our government.
Max Bedacht, the general
manager Of the I.W.O., ad-
mitted to the Dies Committee
that he had attended the Sta
lin school in Moscow. When
the Two. applied for mem
bership in the National Fra
ternal Congress of America,
Bedacht appeared before the
Executive Committee. The ap.
plication was rejected.
New York Takes Action
1t took the Dewey Admins
tration, through the New
York Insurance Department,
to put the I.W.O. out of bust
ness. The Order was in good
financial shape, as an insur-
| a coo;o4xy - roo+ oil &c The
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1954-01-27

in government equal to the demands of new
power and responsibility. To be assured of
such government and men we must concern
ourselves with the source from which they
come. That source is politics. For the sake of
his own security, prosperity and very free
dom, every individual has an obligation to
be interested and active in politics.
- Ernest T. Weir
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1954-01-27

I think the courageous Sem
ator Mccarthy has done an
invaluable service to this Re-
public. When nobody else was
doing much about it, he and
his committee were running
Communists out of the United
States Government, agents of
a foreign power intent upon
destruction of America.
His methods were crude,
but who can be delicate when
dealing with termites of that
character? He did not docu-
ment his cases carefully, but
his exuberance was stimula-
ted by his desire to be of SER
vice to his country.
David Lawrence, the dis
t in 6 u S h e d commentator,
says: eve need more men
with the courage of Senator
Mccarthy to drive enemies
out of our government" I
agree with that.
However, what about the
teaching profession and the
clerics who are agitating that
Congressional Investigations
are infringing upon their free
dom?
Congressional in We S t iga-
tons are proper in a govern
ment in which citizens have
a part and responsibility in
government. The citizens are
entitled to know the truth.
Freedom Not Plaything
There is a bunch of school
teachers in New York State
who claim that to answer,
"Are you Communist? ~, is
an infringement on their aca-
demic freedom. Bosh! How
much academic freedom do
they have if they are enrolled
Communists?
There is a bunch of clerics
who claim to answer, "Are
you a Communist" infringes
on their freedom of con-
science. Bosh, I say again!
How much freedom of con-
science would they have if
carrying Communist member
ship cards in their pockets?
On this subject, I think that
DR.. John Bruere, in a sermon
delivered on December 18th
at c al v ary Presbyterian
Church, Cleveland, Ohio, en-
phasized that men and wo-
men called before Congress
sional committees are not be-
ing grilled for philosophical
or religious beliefs, but for
treasonable activity as men,
bers of the Communist party.
He asserted that freedom
of conscience does not mean
freedom from responsibility,
a freedom to refuse to an
swer questions asked by in
vestigating committees. He
Continued On Page 81
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1954-01-27
The Insurance Department

The Insurance Department
moved for dissolution in the
courts on the charges that the
Order was engaged in Com.
munist propaganda and that
large sums of the Orders as.
sets were donated to the
Communist Daily Worker.
The trial lasted a long time,
was carried to the higher
courts and, in 1858, the Su-
preme Court of the United
States upheld the Insurance
Department, which immedi-
ately proceeded to complete
the dissolution.
Golden Rule Practiced
The reasons why Commu-
nists have not been able to
infiltrate fraternal societies is
because of the inherent char
acter of fraternal societies,
their composition and the
tenets of their doctrine.
When a person joins a So
ciety he subscribes to ideas,
rules and practices which are
the complete antithesis of
Communism.
He believes in God. More
over, he believes in the Fa-
therhood of God and the
Brotherhood of Man.
The Golden Rule is prac-
ticed.
Also, patriotism is a part.
I have never attended a fra
ternal meeting in the United
States without joining in the
Pledge of Allegiance to the
Flag, which is always in sight.
According to good authori-
ty, the chief tenet of MARKHAM
Communism is, "The Lie
must be stamped out and give
way to Truth. The first lie
is God; the second lie is
Right :"
Can you imagine any fra
ternalist subscribing to that ?
Ordeals OF Yesteryear
Down through the history
of mankind there have been
various forms of trial.
To mention one, in Medic
val Times there was trial by
ordeal. The accused was re.
quired to put his hand in boil
ing water to pull out an OBJ
iect, or just stick his hand in
boiling water. In three days
if his hand had healed he was
adjudged innocent.
Humanity made progress
slowly, and upon this North
American Continent the peo-
pie set up forms of govern
ment which led to the form
which we have now-the Con
stitution of the United States.
The Mayflower Compact in
1920 formed "a civil body
politick >. to enacte, con:
stitute, and frame such juste
and equal laws, ordinances,
acts, constitutions and offices,
from time to time, as shall
be thought most meete and
convenient for the general
good of the Colonie unto
which we promise all due
submission and obedience"
Which was better then Pla-
to's Republic, because it gave
the person an opportunity to
find himself. Plato's ideal was
a government in which philos-
ophers should rule, the war.
riors protect, and the artisans
work. Plato was a philoso.
pher.
Men Of Great Courage
Then came the Fundamen.
tai Orders of Connecticut
1889, which was a mutual
contract in which the citizen
was given responsibility and
individual self respect.
These and other communi.
ty agreements led to the Dec.
laration of independence on
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1954-01-27

, were 20 college men, 34 law
yers, eight financiers or mer-
chants, six planters, three
doctors, and two ministers.
Forty-two had been delegates
to the Continental Congress,
eight had signed the Declara-
ton, six the Articles of Con-
federation; and seven were
governors Of states. Among
them were James Madison, of
Virginia, and Benz a m n
Franklin, age 81, who was
crippled but his keen mind
was as good as ever.
These men conceived the
Constitution of the United
States, which has given more
liberty, opportunity, prosper
ity and human dignity to
common people than any 9TH
er thesis than the preach
ments of Christ.
About Fifth Amendment
But, while the trainers of
the Constitution thought they
had set up freedom of the
people and the Federal courts
would uphold those freedoms,
there came an insistent de-
mand from all quarters that
the freedoms be defined.
So 10 amendments to the
Constitution were adopted
unanimously by Congress in
1888, and promptly ratified
by the States. They are called
the Bill of Rights enacted by
the English Parliament in
1889.
The Fifth Amendment to
the Constitution contains that
phrase which is the ultimate
escape from trial by ordeal
or torture.
(The Communists of Rus
sia employ torture, and when
their victims have signed pre-
pared "confessions' they take
them out and shoot them. l
cannot understand that, be-
cause they do not differenti-
ate between right and wrong,
justice and injustice, and if
they have the determination
and the power to kill, why
use an exculpation?)
The Fifth Amendment con-
tains that phrase, "nor shall
he be compelled in any crimi-
nal case to be a witness a.
gainst himself" A witness
may fall back upon that right
in the Constitution and refuse
to answer, stating that he
might incriminate himself.
The hands of the law are
stayed, and it is up to the
prosecuting authorities to dig
up evidence for prosecution.
Perjury Proves Costly
Witnesses before Congress
sional committees have fallen
back on that freedom in un-
told numbers.
If a witness is asked, "Are
you a Communist or have you
been a Communist in the
past?", he will undoubtedly
reply "No" if he is innocent.
That is all he has to do. If he
refuses to answer, he is i'm
mediately under suspicion.
All, but here is the rub! If
he answers "No" and is
proved a Communist, he may
be imprisoned for perjury.
Alger Hiss, who sat at the
elbow of a President of the
United States, is serving in
prison for perjury. He an
swered "No." He was proved
to be a liar. So that is the
reason witnesses reply, II re-
fuse to answer"
Senator Isn't Weakling
"McCarthyism" is a word
coined by the Daily Worker.
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