Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-04-19
Anti-Red Exhibit
Is Warning
10 America

To America
The pictorial record of 40 years
If Soviet terrorism, brutality and
Imperialism, co-sponsored by the
AFL-CIO and Assembly of Cap
tive European Nations, which open
ed in Washington's Union Station
promptly drew a vociferous blast
from the Moscow newspaper Trud.
The exhabit, "Soviet Empire:
1917 1885," consists Of photo
graphs - most of them struggled
out of Iron Curtain countries by
refugees - which show how the
Russian Communist empire has
grown in the last four decades,
and how that growth was achieved.
1t was opened with a ceremony
at which government, labor and
the Assembly were represented by
speakers, with AFL-CIO Vice Pres.
William y. D0certy presiding.
Called a PrOvocation
Trud, the organ of Russia's So
called unions, described it as a
provocation against the Soviet gov
eminent and charged the organ
izers with trying to minimize the
"good impression" it claimed the
Soviet has been making on the
rest of the world, according to
an Associated Press dispatch from
Moscow.
"The growth of sympathy for the
Soviet Union among ordinary
Americans" the AP quoted Trud
as saying in one of its frequent
excursions into fiction, probably
frightened the ruling circles of tie
United States"
The Moscow paper condemned
AFL-CIO Pres. George Meany for
his role in the exhibit, said he is
well-known for his hostile attitude
toward the Soviet, and blamed him
for U. S. opposition to exchange
of union delegations between the
two countries, the AP story said.
Meany Sounds Warning
Meany, in his address at the
opening of the exhibit, called tire
panorama of life under the ham,
mer and sickle" warning to all
free people"
at is a warning to the American
people," he added. "It's an indi-
cation of what we must do, of how
vigilant we must be, to retain our
freedom. 1t should be a warning
to those who are falling for the
so-called sweet words and tactics of
the Soviet Union personified by
that wonderful actor they've sent
here as ambassador.
"This shows what happens to
people who lose their freedom.
And this should be an inspiration
to the people of America to present
to the Soviet Union not the threat
of preventive war, but the abso-
lutte certainty that America will be
able to deter and turn back Commu-
mist aggression"
!, Eternal Vigilance Needed
Sen. John j. Sparkman (D-Ala.)
said the exhibit should recall that
our freedom was purchased by
tie blood of our forebears, and
that 1--WE must always be on the
alert to be certain that our free
dom, our liberties, our rights, our
privileges, our opportunities shall
not be denied to us or to our chill
dren."
Rep. Barratt O'Hara (D-Ill.),
lauding u. S. labor as "the vigi-
liant guardian of freedom" recall
ed that organized workers have
been the "first target of commu-
nism." But for the vigilance, cour-
age and determination Of the AFL
and CLIO, "now happily merged"
our freedom today would be threat
ened, he added.
Rep. Walter H. Judd, (R-Minn.)
emphasized that what TIE Commu-
nists fear most is not attack by
the u. S., but "the threat within"
from the enslaved peoples of the
satellite countries and their own
Russians. They cannot break the
will Of such people for freedom, he
declared, unless the people them