Understanding Soviet Russia-arid Her Propaganda
"Understanding" Soviet Russia-arid Her Propaganda THAT ultra-respectable Stalinist front, the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship is presenting We »"" apeaker at this week's anniversary...
...Arthur Osman, Stalinist president of Local 65 of the Retail Workers, CIO, one of the most tightly-controlled Communist locals in the nation, is boasting over an Army commendation he received recently...
...The delegates from Seattle, San Francisco and New York locals rose to the bail and attacked the resolutions—which were passed...
...The Council, which sprang up in 1942 as a successor to the ancient and revolutionary "Friends of the Soviet Union" and the affiliated Stalinist propaganda fronts, has become the most powerful and effective agency of the Communist Party, outclassing even the American League for Peace and Democracy which in its halycon days had a remarkable "sucker" list...
...They urged that the atoinbomb secret be given to the UNO - i. c, to Russia...
...Bayer is also feuding with Smith over the letter's refusal to turn the heat on Wallace and Harold Ickes, both of whom spoke at previous Council meetings but refused this year...
...Executive secretary of the committee is Elizabeth Moos, a former American Peace Mobilization leader, who registered as a Communist in Ihe IMC New York elections...
...He will be taken to meet President Truman by Corliss Lamont, Council head, and Henry A. Wallace, and will speak before the Foreign Relations Committees of both Senate and the House...
...What part of the radio priest's program he considered wrong wss not scored by the Desn...
...Not content with their Jefferson and Carver institutes for Stalinism, the Communists are footing a new "educational" organization known as "School for Jewish Studies" which proclaims elegantly "An education Institution devoted to a modern progressive approach to the history and problems or the Jewish people...
...They have a W. men's Council, panels on BCience, medicine, the arts, and juvenile advisory boards...
...He is said to have rebelled at Party orders during the San Francisco conference, refusing to sign the usual CP telegrams to put pressure on the Conference in support of Stalinist demands...
...Osman, laid up with hay fever in Ft, Meade ,Md., took an active part "as discussion leader in the hospital wards" and gave the GI's a taste of "education and reconditioning...
...Francis in honor of the second anniversary of American Youth for Democracy which is the present title of the Young Communist League...
...Brown, it is understood, is determined to oust the Stalinists, especially one New York IAM leader, from positions of power...
...Miscellany FOLLOWING the decision of their national convention to concentrate on the AFL, the Communist Party has been frantically trying to build up strength within the International Association of Machinists...
...These have their main strength in New York but the Council has made inroads in Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, Philadelphia and a number of other cities...
...Hewlett Johnson, Dean of Canterbury, who is flying from England to ju«ke a graund propaganda tour...
...One supported the Byrnes-Bevin stand at the London conference, the other rejected collaboration on a world scale with Stalin's slave labor unions...
...The Spanish and Argentine dictatorships were attacked- but not a word about Stalin's tyranny...
...An unwavering Council booster has been Joseph {Mixtion to Motrotv) Davies who will spesk at the New York gala Council meeting with the Dean of Canterbury, and Dean Acheson, Undersecretary of State...
...The Dean will not only lead the speaker* at the swanky Madison Square Garden "USA-USSR, Allies for Peace" mect-iag called by the Council for November 14 but will also address a similar Council conclave in Chicago two days later...
...John Santo, Pari.' whip for the Stalinists ir the Transport Workers Union, is now out of the Army and ready to resume business at the old stand...
...But at the recent IAM convention in New York, with Harvey Brown, IAM president, leading the fight, the Stalinist faction was smoked out with two resolutions, introduced for that purpose...
...However, these inappropriate (circa 1MB) remarks have not led to Lamont'a resignation...
...The Council has other big plans for Rev...
...The membership of 750,000 —largest in the AFL—is a juicy plum...
...And on Sunday he will preach at St Paul's Cathedral in Boston...
...The Communist Party's national committee is meeting this month to lay down strategy and oust all remaining Browder elements from positions of power...
...Other committees and panels have been set up by the Council with widely-known non-Communist Americans serving aboard the Stalinist vehicle...
...As an indication of its impor-*»»ee, the Party "whip" assigned to Council brain-trusting is Eugene Dennis, ?he Stalinist's top-trouble-shooter on the National Committee...
...It now develops that Crum was vice-chairman of a banquet given on Nov...
...Comrade Pat spread rumors against the F'oster group, carrying on Sam Don's factionalism...
...In addition to their pamphlets and their widespread, well-attended meetings from roast to roast, the Council has developed offshoots, such as the Committee on Education, «Men has achieved considerable success in planting "party-line" Council education courses and "studies" in schools and colleges...
...Understanding" Soviet Russia-arid Her Propaganda THAT ultra-respectable Stalinist front, the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship is presenting We »"" apeaker at this week's anniversary of the Russian revolution the Rev...
...American imperialism was damned, but not Russian...
...Rumor has it that Mike Quill, TWO president, is planning a three-front transport war against the AFL with Joseph Currari and Harry Bridges joining hands...
...Johnson, who has just returned from a long visit to Russia...
...Lamont, whose effectiveness as a front ••an has worn thin, is resigning because •f many inner-Council fights with Edwin I. Sm.th, former NLRB member and the Council's executive director, and •ther members of the executive committee...
...Meanwhile, the IAM stands firm on its anti-t'IO policy, despite ils quarrel with the AFL executive council over jurisdiction and per capita payments...
...When will the National Committee throw him out...
...The Communist press is whooping it ap for the Dean whose books Soviet toner and the Secret of Soviet Strength, are abject, unquestioning apologies for Stalinism, the Moscow trials, and even the negation of religion by the Bolsheviks...
...At home the American Veterans Committee in Los Angeles took action to counteract the rising tide of discrimination against Japanese-Americans in California...
...NISEI IN WAR AND AT HOME It fiss been officially announced that t>i.'i officers and enlisted men of the II" (Japanese-American) Regimental Combat Team were killed in action in Italy and Fiance, and HO others died of wounds...
...Skilfully disguised snd opersting under the general heading of "understanding'' Stalin's version of Russia, the Council has formed branches in twenty •'ties, is issuing thousands of "psrty-lfi'«" pamphlets and under the careful guidance of the CP's national committee, kas achieved what the comrades call eueeess...
...Forgotten far the convenient moment ay the comrade** ef the National < uumii are remarks made a lew years ago by Ike "Red Dean"—as he is known in England—wherein he blessed the notorious anti-Semitic priest...
...American delegates to the World Youth Conference in London, claiming to represent 2,000,000 American youths, introduced resolutions calling for freedom for the Philippines, Puerto Rico, India, Korea, Indonesia, etc., but said nothing about freedom for Poland or Ihe Baltic States...
...However, the resignation has been handled quietly and may not be announced by the Council, and there is no indication that Lamont has broken away from the Communist Party policies he has followed faithfully for a decade...
...Smith has been on a national tour following his trip to Russia...
...The committee has requested President Truman to enforce vigoroua prosecution of such violstions, and pointed out that this discrimination has now taken the form of incendiarism and vandalism, and that one of the latest victims was a Japanese family which lost one son in the war and which has two sons still serving overseas in the American Army...
...At least, that's what the latter from his commanding officer says...
...Father Charles Coughlin, and rilled Coughlin's program "95 percent rerrerl...
...2 in the Hotel St...
...see • Hartley C. Crum, who chaired the Garden meeting at which l.aski made the anti-Catholic remarks now raising such controversy, protested at the time that he was a good Catholic and knew nothing about Communism...
...Second in command »"d the Council's Commissar is Theodore ••rer, one of the editors of Soviet Bueiia Today...
...And the Stalinists are now identified...
...Banquet was billed as an adult tribute to the A YD for its "inter racial and vnn-jmr-tiean [!] activities...
...Come the revolution, you'll get cold water and like it • * ? • Pal Touhey, formerly CP District Organizer in Detroit, was recently sent to Philadelphia to clean up the mess made by Sam Don who remains a Brow derite...
...Lamont, it is rumored, is resigning from leadership of the Council following the nation-wide series of Stalinist propaganda rallies scheduled for next week...
...who made no reference to the bigolry of Coughlin which Anally compelled the Catholic Church in Detroit to lake "JMver Charley" off the air...
...Those who read his older pamphlet Soviet Russia and Religion may remember that Lamont, who will squire the Dean of Canterbury around during his visit, wrote not so many years ago, "The social principles of Christianity are lickspittle, whereas the proletariat is revolutionary...
...When Lee Pressman, CIO publicity expert who follows the party lins, arrived in Paris on his grand tour, he complained bitterly to his traveling companions (not all fellow-travelers) about the difficulty of shaving his sensitive face without benefit of hot water, lint when he got In Moscow he confided In the same companions that rold water was doing the job to In- entire satisfaction...
...More than 100 of the Stalinist leaders will be present for the highly-secret meeting at which Browder will be called in for expulsion—unless he reconsiders his refusal to confess his ains...
Vol. 28 • November 1945 • No. 45
