Salt Lake Telegram | 1930-11-28 | Page 11 | Communism in U. S. Needs Psychology

Communism in mU U. U S. S Needs I L I Psychology 1 If It tho the communists were ero as u good goo psychologists as na they are oro economists if It they Indulged In more actual adaptation to American working class realities reali reali- ties tics and less leu wishful thinking in terms term A of oC Russian reality reamy their membership would undoubtedly be many Umes times its present number and lud communism a a. force to reckon on with in a n. period of ot general dePression depression depression de de- de- de and insecurity declares Lillian Byrnes SymeR Discussing What Is This Communism 1 In Sn Harpers Harper's Magazine l sho writes However weak numerically tho the communists ma may be bo in America their prestige and effectiveness arc augmented by each wave avo of ot persecution each unjust un un- just charge chargo against them each attempt to suppress their constitutional rights Because all nIl of ot these bring to their temporary support all wi those liberal and radical groups which under ordinary circum circum- circumstances stances abhor their methods and wd disbelieve in their principles Perhaps the single debt which American workers work work- orB ers owe so so far to ten years of or communist agitation L 18 Is the focusing of ot public attention attention and and organized L labors labor's interest upon Interest upon tho plight of ot such unde underpaid ald and miserably conditioned groups of ot unorganized t workers as all tho the textile mill hands sho Bho declares That the courage of oC the tho communist in the tho taco face acc of ot dangerous opposition is no less Intense than hi his 10 loyalty In tho the face faco of or criticism hag been demon demon- both in Russia Russin and in Sn America where they have havo gene gono into territory as dangerously Intolerant of or Innovation a as alt our southern states to organize ol's workers workers work work- ers so BO lon long neglected by the tho official American labor laboz movement