Dies Confuses Fight on C. P.
Oneal, James
Dies Confuses Fight on C. P. By JAMES ONEAL SeekS to Hit Reputation of Progressives \ LONG range exchange of com*™ pliments between Congressman Dies and Secretary I ekes shows how the...
...will be held to welcome Anns and August Classsens, transferred to our branch...
...Will you assist our 1989 Sustaining Fund by making a pledge of one dollar or more per month for 1939, payable monthly or in a lump sum ? i Let us hear from you...
...He added that the Civil Liberties Union is a Communist affiliate, which is not true...
...members...
...S.D.F..814 Albee Bidg„ Wash...
...Die* ha* oe nemneed these oJhcieJa ¦¦ The Civil f fin Si iff Union, however, is s semi-"innocents" dub...
...at 7 East 15th St...
...10 in the home of Comrades Chait...
...Auspices, Upper West Side Branch...
...at the Public Theatre, 4th Stand Second Ave...
...It also has attracted wellmeaning innocent people...
...The LL.D...
...Secretary Ickes became incensed at Dies and denounced the latter...
...for this grafting in 1932 and yet the LL.D...
...THEATRE BENEFIT for Local New York, S.D.F...
...At the last meeting, s touching tribute to his memory was expressed by a number of members...
...A countywide New Year's Eve entertainment and dance will be held...
...Shiplacoff Branch supperette and social gatherings, Saturday, Dec...
...Thursday, in the home of Mrs...
...Ir general, it is hot in defenae of Stalin Communists and cool toward anti-Stalin Communists...
...17, at 1301 Boston Road...
...11, 8:30 o'clock, at the I.L.G.W.W.U...
...at 241 S. 4th St...
...The latter is a direc Communist Party stooge and worn government officials frrnocerrt !y joinbd it without knowing it history or control...
...Tbey bear names having no relation to Communism and nonCommunists are invited to join...
...A Christmas Eve Party, Dec...
...Congressman Dies heads the Committee Investigating un-American Activities...
...SUSTAINING FUND must intensify our work of bringing to the people the message of Social Democracy and the Cooperative Commonwealth...
...Successful drive for New Leader subscriptions is bringing our paper to a 'larger number of Local 10 (I.L.G.W.U...
...that was denounced by Tom Mooney for similar conduct...
...Here is one of the neediest cases reported in the present drive of the I.L.D...
...Harry Schachner is the new financial secretary sad delegate to the City Central Committee...
...i' labor case...
...Etc by Addressing: Natl Office...
...Esther Friedman and guest speakers discuss current events...
...He accused Secretary Ickes of employing Communists in his department and of being a member of the Civil Liberties Union, headed by Roger Baldwin...
...That committee's investigation has revealed some > interesting facts regarding the agents of totalitarian regimes in the United States, especially Germany and Russia, but after several months Dies turned the activities of the committee to the service of reactionary clique« In the past several weeks Dies has been the central figure in the following drama...
...They do—to oppose fascism, to ' fight for civil liberties, etc...
...Public Speaking and Parliamentary Law Classes follow at 3 p. m. • * • The Midtown* Cutters Branch is steadily growing in membership and activity...
...Mens*he Skulnik and s fine cast of artists in a new Jewish musical comedy...
...Democracy...
...New Jersey The State Committee meets Sunday, Dec 18, at 10*30 a. m., in Newark at 190 Belmont Ave...
...Thursday...
...is appealing for funds for these families, the same I.L.D...
...Women's Afternoon Classes, at 1:30 o'clock: Monday, Rand School, 7 East 15th St...
...Tuesday, Amalgamated Houses, Bronx...
...9, at Central Plaza, 111 Second Ave...
...In one form or another Dies has repeated this little drama and the uninformed reader is unable to understand what is what and which is which...
...It faithfully follows the "party line" of the Communist Party...
...Thus the xaactiMary and die Communist mind mjRt oa commas ground in a uninW front , Moreover, all this compromik* well-meaniag peasant whose only offense is the desire to help humfcr Seings re distress or to smmeive the civil rights which the CoWmunists would destroy in this coortr.} if rhey had the opportunity' One s*owW aisw note that there is very little difference In this low cunning and that of the Ndsl agents in the United States-, Te be sure, the lata** do net -jmjrarrise grafting organisations Ca.orrj upon the humanitarian syranjftpies of decent people but they,^djb at/sert that they desire toprpsjervt "American" institutions.** ** This is s Nasi traiunr&K of the Communist Party's cmiirr that Communism is "100 per ** sent Americanism...
...Wednesday, Dec...
...its annual affairs, a Christmas drive for "Labor's Neediest Cases," the families of labor prisoners...
...The main PROP in propaganda is still MONEY— so lacking and so essential for the printing of literature, the routiner of speakers, radio broadcasts, etc...
...Who would not contribute some Christmas cheer to this afflicted family...
...For example, the Civil Libertief Union is not in the same category with the League for Peace ant...
...Card party and dance, Friday...
...8:30 p. m., at 7 East 15th St...
...It, at 8:90 p. m. Concert and speakers...
...SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC FEDERATION AT WORK Readers in Localities in Which S.D.F...
...Wednesday, at 0416 Bay Parkway, Brooklyn...
...Polikoff, 1641 East 9th St., Brooklyn...
...The Williams burgh Branch has changed its name to B. C. Vladeck Branch...
...E. Bonn, director of the Rand School, will speak on Sunday evening, Dec...
...but they are unaware of this Ceesssm* nist control...
...Comrade Vladeck was a member there...
...S.D.F...
...August Claessens speaks oa The Tasks Ahead for the S.D.F " st the meeting of - the Lower East Side Branch, Monday, Dec...
...Charter Blanks, Membership Applications...
...Washington, D. C. National Secretary Lea Meltzer win address the LassaTle Club ef the Washington Young Circle League, 1502 Mth St., N. W., on Saturday evening...
...Hall, 122 9th St., Pittsburgh, on the subject: "American Labor and Fascism...
...A conference of Bronx members last Tuesday elected a committee to revitalize all Branch branches...
...Mail your pledges and remit to the S.D.F...
...Tickets at 55 and 85 cents and $1.10 are now on sale at the City Office, 7 East 15th St., and at ail branches...
...SbiplacOff Day Commemoration at Brownsville Labor Lyceum, 219 Sackman St-, Sunday, Dee...
...Edith Mullins and five children whose miner husband I is serving 99 years in a West Virginia prison because a company gunman was killed in a strike in 1931...
...With the approach of the Christ- < > mas season, to what better use can money be put than that of aiding in the attainment of our goal— international peace, Social Democracy, and harmony of all the toilers of the World...
...and especially in New Jersey...
...Its head, Roger Baldwin, baa ex pressed his Communist sympathy and there are several others of the ssnse type high in "Its councils...
...is now engaged in one of...
...IS, 8:30 p. as., hi the Hotel Bradford, 210 West 70th St...
...The I.L.D...
...like a ghoul' is again plucking wellmeaning people for funds in this CONGRESSMAN DIES is rre: V fair enough to declare that Bnoeoni persons are caught in tte mtrigue of the Communist Par© 'In so acting, ha himself followf in* essaawad Cum—mrlirt policy oflftlined by Lenta mena years affo V conceal the truth if it will set%* one's purpose...
...JACK of this drama is the Com** munist Party with dozens of other organizations under its control...
...member is a carrier of suspicion*, antagonisms, Mttd hates that destroy human under* standing, that compromise decent folk, and that make the adfSmas toward a more decent world mom difficult...
...However, the name of the organization appeals to decent human beings who have no sympathy /or the terror, dictatorship, and concentration camps of Russia...
...One prisoner openly denounced the I.L.D...
...Dies quoted a statement by Baldwin a few years ago in which the latter approved Communism...
...Branches Do Not New Exist Msy Obtain Information...
...A progressive mind came into conflict with a Texas Bourbon...
...Your contribution to this work, even if small, added to others, will make possible a broadening of democratic Socialist activities and influence...
...New York City Important meeting of the City Central Committee...
...THE International Labor Defense is a third "innocents" organization...
...Card party of the Bronx Educational League, Saturday, Dec...
...They are two souls with but a single thought ha*/ So establish a iliitstniabhj " "..IT 4Not since the days of dsrlsf> force anarchist, Michael Beldsrttft, have relations between ©rgssjjzations and human beings been s% poisoned as they are today by the Communist movement Living dutt fives under assumed names, tie average CP...
...Special order will be plans for the "Supperette" to be held on January 15 at which August Claessens win open the discussion on the political outlook m the U.S.A...
...However, the same I.L.D that is asking funds for this needy case is the same organization that in 1932 collected funds for the defense of her husband and several other convicted miners and kept the money...
...Dies Confuses Fight on C. P. By JAMES ONEAL SeekS to Hit Reputation of Progressives \ LONG range exchange of com*™ pliments between Congressman Dies and Secretary I ekes shows how the "innocents" and semi-**innocents" clubs of the Communist Party can play into the hands of a demagogue and involve a perfectly honest man in an embarrassing situation...
...that claimed to have collected $500,000 for the defense of Saceo and Vanzetti of which the Boston Defense Committee received nothing...
...12, 8:30 p. lm...
...Bela Low speaks on "The Decadence ef Europe," Tuesday, Dec...
...19 Holly St, Brooklyn...
...National Office, 814 Albee Building, Washington, D. C. « » • • Dr...
...the same I.L.D...
Vol. 21 • December 1938 • No. 50
