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Show SECY. PERKINS IMPEACHMENT WILL BEASKED Dies Probe Report Hits at Labor Secretary and Ickes WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 (UP) Representative J. P a r n 1 1 Thomas (R., N. J.), a member of the house committee investigating investigat-ing un-American activities, announced an-nounced today he will introduce within week a resolution to impeach Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins. He prepared the resolution as the committee, In a formal report to the house, renewed Its challenge of members of President Roosevelt's cabinet and asserted that communists commu-nists have Invaded the federal government. gov-ernment. - Thomas said he would ask Impeachment Im-peachment of Miae Perkins on grounds that she failed to enforce lews for deportation of aliens. He charged specifically that she failed to deport Harry Bridges, west coast leader of the Congress of Industrial Organisations. . Dealea Charges Bridges, Australian-bora leader of west coast maritime laaor, has denied de-nied charges that he is a communist. commu-nist. Deportation action, based on the communism charge, was Insti tuted by the department of labor, but prosecution of the case has been delayed pending supreme court de- Icision of a teat ease involving the right of tha government to deport alien communists. Ta I. --. h- -mm Ittu J that nasi and fascist groups alas are a definite menace to democracy and asksd for flM.OOO to continue 1U Investigation for two years. Ths requested appropriation will precipitate debate from both sidss. Prssident Roosevelt has criticised the committee for permitting serious seri-ous he wss convinced It wss unwarranted un-warranted testimony to bs uttered against former Governor Frank Murphy of Michigan, who yesterday became attorney general. Pair Criticised Committee criticism wss almsd st Secretary of Labor Perkins and Secretary of Interior Harold L Ickes. ..- All sevsn members of ths committee, com-mittee, headed by Reprssentstivi Martin Dies D Texas), signsd th report, which asserted that: Communists srs trying to over throw ths govsrnment, seiss con' trol of ths labor movement and form' a farmer-labor party. Communists have used ths writ srs and theater projects of th works progress administration U disseminate class hatred props gsnda. Important government officials Contlnu,1 oe Pan. Tw.1 (Column Thr. I PERKINS' OUSTER WILL BE SOUGHT 1 (CmImmm Preel Pira' one) Including Ickea and Miaa Perklaa, ought to "hametrlng" Dies' Investigation. Investi-gation. Mlsa Perkins haa failed to enforce en-force rigorously tha deportation laws which, tha oommlttee contends, con-tends, would have stopped much subversive activity and disregarded disregard-ed the law In falling to deport Harry Har-ry Brtdgss, Paclfla coast official of the Congress of Indue trial Organ I-xatlona. I-xatlona. Sapoaa Hit David J. Baposs, chief economist for the national labor relations board, la "either a communist" or "sympathetic to communist teach-lnge." teach-lnge." Nasi and fascist consuls in the United States enjage In propaganda and are linked to subversive activities. activi-ties. Nasi agenta have penetrated airplane air-plane factories, navy yards and In-ainuatsd In-ainuatsd themselves "into direct possession of secret plans for the construction of United States navy battleships of tha latest type." German offlclala plan to create a "strictly American division" of the German-American bund and "If thia plan la carried out, a merger of a number of minor aubversive fnrra, tkle Mllnlra maw lu aw pected under the swaatika leadership leader-ship ... of the German-American bund." No Recommendations The Investigation haa "only scratched tha aurface," Dlaa reported, re-ported, and haa not proceeded far enough "to justify us In recommending recommend-ing legislation to eongTeaa." Ha warned that the Investigation ahould not ba continued unlesa adequate ade-quate funda are provided. The committee devoted the bulk of It report to the communist party, assarting that It waa "boring from within tha major political parti," and, "In tha next two years . . . will concentrate much of Ita efforts In ths formation of a national farmer-labor farmer-labor parry which It will seek to dominate." Plaos Blame Die blamed the labor department for extensive development of subversive sub-versive activity. "It doe not seem that Iheaa aliens experience any difficulty in entering enter-ing the United States or remaining here after entrance," he said. "All of them are engaged In fomenting diaoord . . . there la no excuse for the failure of the labor department to deport these aliens. The case of Harry Brldgaa la a typical example exam-ple . . . The laxity with which the department of labor deala with alien agitators would be unbelievable If w did not have before ue the most convincing proof. "We believe that a mora thorough and careful Investigation will reveal tha presence of score of fascist, nasi and communist alien, who could and ahould be deported. If the department of labor would proceed agalnat them In accordance with tha lawe of the land." Dlaa eatlmated that tha German-American German-American bund had M.000 active members, with another 100.000 "will-Ing "will-Ing to be seen" at Its public meet-Inge. meet-Inge. The report estimated that Italian! black ahirt organisations have 10,000; members, with possibly 300,000 ether under their Influence. |