| Show Inside Labor State Department Ignored Truth About Latin Reds By Victor It took the Communists but a Jew few minutes minutes min mm- utes after the assassination to get their disciplined trained labor-controlled labor action committees out on the Bogota streets Within the Communist labor lawyers were screaming over seized government government government gov gov- radio stations for their followers follower to break into hardware stores loot guns knives machetes and other weapons to attack some liberal I repeat liberal as aswell aswell aswell well as government elements Then in a military fashion that comes only after rigid training in street fighting and in the techniques of immobilizing a abig abig abig big city Communist action committee commissars commissars commissars com com- so strategically directed the mobs mob's fury that opposition newspaper plants were burned key Icey ey radio stations seized but not burned the ministry of oC justice police etc building ransacked and put to torch the communications building gutted the cathedral cathedral cathe cathe- dral attacked the U. U S. S embassy unsuccessfully unsuccessfully unsuccessfully fully bombed and the inter-American inter headquarters destroyed right down to the thelast thelast thelast last vital records and typewriters Commies Take to Air Meanwhile messengers were running in inand inand inand and out of the hectic controlled Communist-controlled Confederation of Workers of Colombia Two vo bosses of the Commie federation which is violently anti-American anti and for months has been planning to either break breakup breakup breakup up or defame the inter American conference conference conference confer confer- ence t took ok to the air immediately One was Charles Paraja the outfits outfit's national attorney who shouted over the air airwaves airwaves airwaves waves for the action committees to storm into hardware stores and arm themselves and the people The other was the boss and attorney of the oil workers outfit which with the transport workers and the building trades unions are the whirling pivots of the comrades comrades' comrades comrades' comrades comrades' com com- rades' rades Confederation of Workers The lawyer Montana fontana Cueller announced that the revolution was successful At the same time Communist activists imported from other South American countries were needling the rioting mob into more violence Then the confederations confederation's central committee committee committee com com- called for a general strike to paralyze paralyze paralyze para para- all Colombia Had they succeeded they would have accomplished something the outside world seems to have overlooked in the past few weeks because of preoccupation with maneuvering maneuvering maneuvering ma ma- in Italy and Had the Communists working through the pro-Communist pro left wing of the Colombia Colombia Colombia Colom Colom- bia Liberal party succeeded in seizing the government they would have succeeded in surrounding the Panama canal They already are powerful in Costa Rica just north of the canal Now they would have had power if not control in Colombia just south of the Big Ditch Whore There to Place Blame For all the chaos put much of the blame on the U. U S. S state department For over a a. year now the A F L South American specialists have been trying to warn state department officials of or the Communist Communist Communist Com Com- control of kE key labor federations in Latin-American Latin nations Only two weeks ago the department thought so little of the theA theA A F Ls L's emphasis on labor that Assistant Secretary Armour even refused to put a U. U S. S union man on its delegation to Bogota In the past few months the A F L has constantly warned that the Colombian Liberal party was split into pro and antiCommunist anti antiCommunist antiCommunist Communist factions with the wingers left-wingers headed by the murdered criminal lawyer Jorge Gaitan For weeks the A F L has been pointing out that the capital of Costa Rica to the north has been and still is in the hands of Communist agents who agents who are getting arms from the Mexican Communist Labor federation federa federa- tion And for months the state department officials have been brushing off the A FL Maybe now they wont won't wont now now that their boss has heard the mob as it was goaded by these action committees |
