Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-03
|veIde Group Urges
Colleges 10 Teach
Truth About Reds
BY |. Edgar Primo

The House Committee on IN
American Activities today called
on the educational institutions
of the Nation to teach the
actual meaning Of communism"
in order to discourage so many"
students from dedicating them
selves to the Communist con-
spiracy.
Taking the colleges and uni
versities to task in a report on
colonization" of Americas basic
industries by the Reds, the COM
mittee said:
1.-THE problem of colonizers, it
seems to the committee. calls
for educational institutions to
re-examine their curricula and
staff to see If they are not in
some way responsible for either
making or developing this un-
foreground apparatus of the Com
munist Party"
In Red parlance. q colonizer
is a Communist who enters basic
industry employment at the
party's command, as a member
of the underground, in order to
advance the party's program and
propaganda detectives.
Many Turn Reds.
The committee. in it's report,
noted that its hearings and in
vestigations had uncovered IAN
increasing number of young men
and women. most possessing
some college education and many
possessing degrees. employed in
minor positions in the basic in
duStrieS."
That these persons would toss
aside their education and the
prospect Of better jobs in order
to follow slavishly the dictates
of the Communist Party, the
committee said, evidently points
to a failure on the part Of the
(educationaD institution some
where along the line"
Truth Lessons Urged.
Urging that students be given
the truth about the Communist
conspiracy, the report asserted:
IF educational institutions
were as successful in educating
its students to the evils Of COM
munism as the trade-union
movement has been to educating
the workers, the Communist
Party would not have the in
tellectual backlog which it now
has to COLOMBO the basic indus
tries of America"
According to the report, labor
and industry have just as much
responsibility for exposing the
propaganda activities of colo
nizers as does the committee.
During a recent investigation
at Flint, Mich, q colonizers were
uncovered by the committee. The
report stated that there were
strong indications that the Com
munist Party had sent about 100
into the State. where the au-
tomobile industry was their
prime target.
History Reviewed.
The history of the Commu-
mist movement in American Ia
Dor was reviewed briefly in the
report, from the days when non
Communist labor leaders well
coined Red support to the time
these same leaders saw them
selves in danger of being de
posed and replaced by the Com
munists."
1.-THE hard-core party mem
bers, the uniformed recruits
and the opportunists merged into
one political force; became the
leadership within. many indus
tries" the committee said. "They
were among the leaders in the
CLIO through their leadership in
the United Electrical Work.
ers, the Mine, Mill and Smelter
Workers and the International
Longshoremen and Warehause-
men,"
Those unions and several 9TH
ers were expelled by the CIO in
| 1949-50.
When the Communist Party
saw the strong action by
the CLIO coming, it resorted to
the idea of "colonizers," the
committee said.