Show Inside Labor Shop Groups Tour Russia By Victor Vidor nic el Somewhere from hidden sources someone is supplying hundreds of thousands of dollars dol dol- w lars lars so 0 that A n Ar Jl r hitherto unknown un un- r known central t 1 organization 4 4 can dispatch a achain achain chain of small d delegations e 1 e g to the Soviet Union for or briefing and swift return n to the tte United Air Mr Riesel States Slates Once back here they're counted on by friends of the Russians to set up pro Communist shop committees in as lS many plants pl and nd offices as their network and nd man mm power will sill allow Such a group of Soviet pro American labor cadres is in Russia right now traveling from Moscow to Leningrad to Stalingrad and on to Crimea There are 11 of them virtually all nIl with long pro Communist records They are led by a Furriers' Furriers Union chief named Leon Strauss whom I saw leading the last Communist party May Day parade into New Yorks York's Union Square His pro Communist activity is no no- Yet he and the other 10 just justas as the previous pre 17 who left Russia last May received passports passports passports pass pass- ports from Dean Acheson's State Stale Department Why Who's hos responsible for failing to check the group Names Revealed Since I 1 was informed that this delegation would make a special point of oC smearing this column olumn and the charges Ive I've made of slave labor and the exposures here of the complete grinding out of the rights of oC what passes for Russian unions Ive I've been investigating this delegation Here then are the names of oC the leaders the place of organization organization organization or or- and the purposes of oC this mysterious central committee committee committee com com- none of oC which has been made public before It was launched by a Soviet So agent called caned B B. B K Gebert a particularly tough operative and pet of the Moscow l Politburo Politburo Politburo buro because he knows America America America Amer Amer- ica so well For ma many y years until about 1945 he was Com Cont- Communist Communist party organizer for the Chicago district member of the American Politburo and its commanding secretariat Then he was recalled by the Soviets Soviet's international labor network and now operates out of Poland Little over o overa a 7 year ago he returned to America on a U. U N N. passport and checked into the I I Hotel Lexington in New York where here in effect he was vas the agent of oC the Anglo Anglo American American Commission section of the Communist International During During During Dur Dur- ing his stay he met with Communist Communist Communist Com Com- party leader Louis one of oC the party's 17 bosses arrested two weeks ago Together with several others they launched something something something some some- thing called The Committee to Survey Suney Trade Union Conditions in Europe Now the point is who is-who who is paying the bill for the 11 Amerlean American American Amer Amer- ican lean union members members' which include a batch from the United Electrical Workers Yorkers in Indiana Michigan and Ohio shops Most of these now wandering across the face of oC European Russia are arc leaders who have been screaming that their wages are too low How can these underpaid workers suddenly afford an expensive junket halfway to the Orient Worth a Probe If JC they insist they can themselves themselves them them- I selves pay for this trip the Internal Revenue Bureau should be he interested If they are not paying then the Justice Department should order the F FBI B I to find out just who wants to send such troupes around the world And the State Department Department Department De De- De- De ought to tell us why all this is permitted It is a matter for all these federal agencies This is so important important im im- tn- tn to the apparatus because because because be be- cause it is part of the peace campaign strategy of oC the pro- pro here And the peace campaign camp is so vital it can be revealed that the Communist party ordered at least one of oC its new leaders Fred Fine Finc to avoid F FBI B I arrest last week so he could finish running the American Peoples People's Peace Congress Congress Congress Con Con- gress in Chicago Fred Fine minded master the Chicago parley which drew pro Commie delegates to Chicago last week end Without Without With With- out him and the organization technique he picked up as Young Communist League chief In Michigan and as district district dis dis- dis- dis organization secretary of oC the same Chicago District Ei Eight ht of the Communist party which Soviet agent Gebert once headed the peace confab con conn fab lab would have fallen lallen apart |