Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1962-11-30
A Subversive Conspiracy

Is there a nationwide conspiracy to subvert the
law Of the land, and the constitution Of the United
States and the authority Of the Supreme Court and
the Executive?
Is there a nationwide conspiracy to destroy the
United States by subverting the national policy in
dealing with world relations and exposing to the
intrigues Of our enemies?
Do these conspiraces If they exist, get their
direction from inside the House Of Representatives
Consider few facts
The House Un-American Activities Committee
which was once described by Harry s. Truman as
1.-The most un-American thing in America" was
made a permanent committee of the House as a
result of a slick parliamentary trick by Congress
man John Rankin of Mississippi, one Of the most
blatant racists ever to disgrace public life.
The doubtful, but very potent authority Of the
committee has been used for years to hound liberal
religious and other leaders who have spoken out for
a decent solution Of our human relations problems.
Many of these people have been destroyed or
effectively silenced. Others, like Methodist Bishop
G. Bromley Oman. have been required to devote
valuable time and energy to defending themselves
against utterly ridiculous Know Nothing attacks by
the committee upon their integrity and patriotism
The committee has worked in close collaboration
with some Of the most sinister hate groups in
Advantageous which make a business of attack.
ing Negroes, Jews, Catholics liberal Protestants
the foreign-born labor unions, almost the entire
spectrum Of American life which value in terms
Of good citizenship For example, the committees
program 80 closely parallels the program Of the
Ku Klux Khan that there's no distinguishable diff
ference between them" according to the (1942)
Imperial Wizard James Colescott About the same
time Congressman Samuel Dickstein was saying on
the floor Of the House that "11o Fascist organiza-
tons in the United States have had and now have,
the key to the back door of the Un-American Ac-
tivities Committee" This when the program
was run by Martin Dies Of Texas, but things have
scarcely improved since then The committee has
more money to spend bigger staff, even more
arrogant approach to its duties" and better Or
ganized claque Of the hate-everybody people,
national network Of professional haters super-patri-
oteers, crackpots and bgots.
The committee has used its investigative powers
to interfere with the freedom Of the press and radio
to terrorze the arts and sciences and to threaten
the integrity Of school system. Within the past
couple Of years 1t has sought and partially achieved
a wholesale purge Of public school teachers in
California, presumably persons denounced by the
aforementioned crackpots, haters and bigots. It
operates a blacklist of monumental proportions,
without affording any defense whatever for those
who are blacklisted
One committee chairman denounced as red
tainted, Eleanor Roosevelt AvereI Hartman
Adlai Stevenson, and Others and attempted to mis-
his powers to the extent Of ordering appearances
before the committee by ex-President Truman and
Justice Clark. And a committee member, upon being
told the familiar story Of victims Of committee in