ALERT!
OAK, LISTON M.
ALERT! Dedicated to an expose of all totalitarian enemies of democracy Links in the Communist Chain By List on M. Oak rEON JOSEPHSON is accused by the House Committee on UnAmerican...
...Josephson was the representative of the International Labor Defense...
...Battle of Jan...
...Meantime Josephson had become a more and more important link in the conspiratorial Communist chain...
...Stop being a sap...
...He was then practicing law in Trenton, N. J., and boasted to me that he was in a position to get valuable information from clients, Including a railroad, to forward to the Kremlin...
...From Demoeracy'sBattlt...
...Ws also wonder why "L'a New.-," a publication of a character ?srf different from thai of Ihe ad...
...Another of this group was a man named Switz, whose brother Robert turned State's evidence in a trial of Soviet spies in France and was jailed for espionage...
...Ths workers and peasants are solidly behind the POUM, the CNT and the Left Republicans," he boasted...
...GOVERNOR OF INDIANA ATTENTION: • Racists snd American Fascists ar« counting on a coming depression to fits I hem an opening for their pilch sf pitting race against race, religion against religion, and ethnic groups one against Ihe other...
...This "bourgeois liberal" often clashed with Josephson on the political line to be taken by the defendants...
...In April, 1037, I met George Mink at the Hotel Continental in Barcelona...
...another plugged such old-timers in the pro-Fascist move, ment as the National Blue Star Mothers, Philadelphia's Current Events Club, Minute Men of '46, and Albert Dilling, attorney for the sedition defendants...
...Mink, slopping whisky down his throat, said, "Liston, you are a goddam intellectual...
...YeARS later, in 19.(7, I was chief of a press bureau for the Loyalist Republican Government of Spain, in Valencia...
...I said, "Okay, I'll think about it...
...You could wear $150 suits like mine and afford $50 whores...
...You look so damn • espectable that you could be useful...
...The host of unknowns they trotted forth on this occasion as "prominent Americans" Indicates that as Issues become clearer, party-fronts are going to And ths going Increasingly rough...
...Tired of agitallen by impractical theorists...
...A couple of days later I informed Andres Nin, POUM leader, of the Communist plot to stage a piovocation and a coup...
...Mink boasted to m« about plans to maneuver the POUM and the CNT into a situation which would enable the Communists to accuse them ct revolt...
...It need hardly be pointed out to the state »'* Uriah* of Indiana that advertisini »' this sort is anything but American— snd aa auch must be resented by ¦¦>« elllztns of that atate more than by any* ons else...
...That is why an advertisement of Ihe Indiana Department of Commerce and Public Relations in the "Unites States News" for March 7 Is dlseoarertlng...
...After I had returned to the United States, I was accused by Mike Gold and Israel Amter, in the Daily Worker, of having helped to engineer the Barcelona revolt as the liason between Trotsky and Franco—neither of whom I have ever seen...
...A lengthy article in Freedom Newt elaborated this thesis snd "proved" that Judaism is synonymous with Communism...
...He was, in fact, a gangster with the equipage of an aristocrat, a Comintern Capone...
...He is mixed up in the Gerhart Eisler case (his handwriting appears on Eisler's application for a visa...
...Part of ths ad reads aa follows: "Indiana Labor Is American...
...February 11...
...should baie accented it for oubliralion...
...As reported in Democracy...
...Soon after he became a Communist he was recruited into the Comintern apparatus...
...Then move >'""" business to Indiana, where the popslallon is 97 percent native born...
...Lambkin, who had been a personnel manager for Amtorg, the Soviet purchasing agency in the USA, was then secretary of the Friends of the Soviet Union and I was editor of Soviet Rtuxia Today...
...Thereafter until Franco won the Communists were dominant throughout Spain...
...The last I heard of Josephson was when he borrowed fflOO from a friend ol mine...
...Out on bail, pending an appeal to a higher court, Beal skipped to Soviet Russia...
...Subsequently, on my recommendation, Goldfrank succeeded Lambkin as secretary of the FSU, and since has risen high in the ranks of the Communist elite...
...Nin laughed confidently...
...15, Walker has connections with and the approval tl the labor-baiting Attorney Generals from three states and Is working with influential reactionaries in organizing an interstate "open shop union" to compete with the AFL and CIO...
...since he had been in jail in Copenhagen for 18 months on a false passport conviction, he did not know that I had resigned from the Communist ranks, in disgust and disillusionment...
...1 first met this smooth operator in Charlotte, K. C. During the famous trial of Fred Beal and other Communist leaders of the Gastonia strike—in which the Chief of Police was killed...
...Get into the npparatus.'' 1 answered evasively that the din-tor had told me I would have to leave Spain on account of my health He then supbested NKVD work in France, Britain and the USA in connection with forged passports...
...Linked with him was Herbert Goldfrank, a chemist working in a big New York laboratory and also able to get information desired by Moscow...
...Some of these signers were: Dan Gillmore, Jack MacMichael, Dashiell Hammett, Dorothy Parker, Harry F. Ward, Garson Kanin, Arthur Miller, Max Weber, John Howard Lawson and, of course, Albert E. Kahn...
...WALKER GOES ANTI-SEMITIC • William Walker, Texan, ex-jailbird, leader of Fight for Tree Enterprise, Inc., and editor of Vrctdom News, last month shifted from labor-baiting to antiSemitism and eased into the nationalist movement...
...Kmart this NKVD trigger-man accused of bumping off several Spanish Socialists who were opposed to the united front by means of which the Communists were raining control...
...Perhaps it went, with other such loans, into financing the highly profitable Cafs Society, managed by Loon Joseph son's brother Barney, Heard on the Fronts: THOMAS MANN PROTESTS "PERSECUTION" OF EISLER • The party-line Civil Rights Congress had to scrape the bottom of the innocents' barrel to round up fifty signatures to their manifesto denouncing "the shameful persecution of the German anti-Fascist refugee" Gerhart Eisler...
...He expressed resentment over the fact that when he was arrested in Copenhagen with Josephson and six other NKVD agents, Josephson used his . knowledge of law ar.d skill to wangle his way out of a prison sentence, while Mink and Nicholas Sherman had to go to jail...
...The prosecuting attorney was Clyde Hooey, now Senator from North Carolina...
...Bill Dunne and Leon Josephson were the commissars who wrote the speeches, okayed by Joseph Brod.sky, made by the defendants on the witness stand...
...You deserve a bit of the gravy...
...After serving part of his term, he was pardoned by Hooey, who was then Governor...
...Other names ran truer to form...
...Walker's shift in emphasis is of real importance, for he stands a chancs of leading "respectables" into the proFascist movement...
...He greeted me cordially...
...Goldfruuk a»d I then .i,.,ied an apartment, and a frequent visitor was Josephson, often accompanied by George Mink and Cyril Lambkin...
...He became utterly disillusioned with "the Communist fatherland" and came back to surrender to the authorities...
...Why don't you get smart and join the NKVD...
...The Communist Party, then in the ultra-revolutionary "third period," insisted on a "class struggle" sort of defense...
...Having known desperate poverty in his early youth, in Barcelona he was proud of his fine London-tailored clothes, his expensive leather luggage...
...Then the "Anarchist-Trotskyist-Fascist traitors" would be executed as agents of Franco...
...Dedicated to an expose of all totalitarian enemies of democracy Links in the Communist Chain By List on M. Oak rEON JOSEPHSON is accused by the House Committee on UnAmerican Activities of involvement in "an elaborate system of supposed espionage in which fraudulent passports were used...
...Karl Marx, Walker said, "typifies" the "Jewish influence" upon popular thought and action...
...the "loan" was never repaid...
...The defendants were exploited for propaganda...
...Beal and his colleagues were, of course, convicted...
...In my opinion he is an important cog in the conspiratorial machine which operates in this country for the benefit of Soviet Russia...
...One notable aspect of the proclamation was that ths CP found It difficult to rouse even the most faithful of the fellow-travelers...
...The one surprising name included in ths list of signers was that of Thomas Mann, internationally-known novelist who has been awarded the Nobel Prize for literature...
...On May Day, he told me, the CP would provoke a civil war, and "loyal" troops from outside Catalonia would be brought in to restore order...
...The party needed martyrs...
...If the Commantsts start anything we will finish them.* A month later he was dead, and so wets many others...
...His task was to "guide" the battery of defense lawyers, of whom Arthur Garfield Hayes was the most prominent...
...Mink got his start as a union organizer on the Philadelphia waterfront...
...Mink is a heavy drinker, and I had to bt careful to keep my head and out...
...While there I saw Hans Berger, or Eisler, who, I was told, was working with Andre Marty French Communist who directed the political line of the International Brigade for the Comintern...
...Like other NKVD asrents, he stayed at the best hotels, avoided association with the ordinary proletarian Communists...
...Tired of imported ideas of how your business should be run...
Vol. 30 • March 1947 • No. 11
