Show The Salt Lake Tribune 2A May 15 1866 US Reds Make va Editor! Not— Aftw many th In darkna ttw CommjnUI Partv-USWo tha ha new llatit of day again The rii of cn Viet left the dlvljlvt ljue Nam and civil right tlvt It a turbulent pool Into wtilch to cast It line With1 a unite It Is wsrcrihg for a new lace even desperately and faintly embracing caeitalim But the US left li religion thing - V4 Influence Wanes Concessions-B- ut enrod I it 3 NEW YORK (AP) Gus Hall America's No 1 Communist "is shining more brightly on the Com--"Th- e Sun" beams munist Party" It may be the sun or the realities of a new American society but the party has melted down some of the graven images of Karl Marx which thundered that religion was the opium of the that capitalism was people doomed because of Its built-iexcesses tfiat would cause la creasing misery ware and ulti mately and Inevitably a revolt of the masses in a bloody dawn of socialism For on occasion the sounds as If It were getting downright soft on Communism War Not Inevitable Magnavox WITH AUTOMATIC n CP-US- Capitalism in the US says the CP's proposed new platform "is a marvel of social collective effort" "We recognize many positive humanist values in the ethical and moral precepts of the al religions" says the same document "We In common with most of the world's Marxists are persuaded that war is no longer In evitable" It continues And In one of the greatest reversals since the Yankees lost the pennant It adds: "It strikes us as folly to think that monopoly can be overcome and revolutionary transf- ormation of society be i undertaken without the sanction and participation of a majority of the (American) people we Communists are de fenders of the Constitution in principle and practice" Since the party's In 1919 ¥ jV63 -- v-- tr a' - carefully watched by govern ment agencies They are not just another group telling Americans what to do" says an aide to US Attor ney ueneral iMicnoias ivatzen-bac- h "The reason for our inter est in them is their attachment to a foreign power" is probably "The than any more an FBI said in the world" party spokesman "They are a Trojan horse In our midst" he added But the bureau doubts it is a horse filled with spies "Espionage Is carried out directly from Moscow" the FBI says "The party would be too risky Moscow knows we know who the members are" CP-US- was In the als The affluence of the American society may be the greatest barrier against any new growth of the party It has failed to make much headway among the "new left" on the university campuses which generally regards it as a relic of an older time with no meaning for today There is little evidence that it has much influence among Negroes engaged in the civil rights movement Intellectuals couldn't stand the switchbacks of the party's forward march and strayed off few to return Split to Oblivion The hard line state-of-min- of post-wa- tions a iajLjiiTaMiriiiii - — Associated Press Photo the party key positions it had escape the Smith Act of 1940 gained in the big labor unions which made it a crime to con and the party all but split itself spire advocate or teach the vio- into oblivion when Stalin Its Heht overthrow of the govern former hero was desanctified by ment and the McCarran Act of 1950 which required the party Nikita Khrushchev in 1956 The party that once polled and its members to register as 100000 votes for its presidential Communists candidate in 1932 won less than Eleven leading Communists 1000 votes for New York City were Jailed in 1949 under the council 25 years later Smith Act including Hall who So when a government official had a maximum security cell at says the party aoesn t nave Leavenworth next to the late Influence more "but than great Gun" the 1930s "Machine Kelly is generally believed" he is pay bank robber ("a nice fellow" to the CP's a compliment ing of his cell neighbor) Hall tenacity In fact it's lucky to be Sen says McCarthy was in Joseph alive at all Yet it has not been full cry after the party all the party's doing But by the mid '50s McCarthy Burrow Underground had faded and died After many Not the sun but the courts first climbs up and back to the US began to shine more liberally Supreme Court the Smith Act After World War II the says a spokesman for the Senate began to burrow underground to Internal Security Subcommittee 19T0s (when depres- sion woes fed its strength) when it was a major force in labor and among the intellectu- Membership Grows Says the FBI: "Hall puts membership at 12000 up 2000 In recent years with another 4 X--J- -S1 son The party reports a new interest in its activities fed by tl:t hew Left — mostly college students Herbert Aptheker leading Communist Party official peaks to University of Wisconsin audience in Madi- - founding in 100000 any one who has followed Its party line has traveled a crooked path indeed When Moscow called the turns turned even if It the meant marching back through ' the rubble of yesterday's certiline of tudes The Pact the 1930s the Hitler-Stali- n and the German Invasion of Russia forced the party to about face three times In a matter of months causing numerous comrades to fall out of step Moscow currently is attempt- lng to coexist with the west So is trying to coexist the I with the USA And it Is doing better than It has for over 15 America "has been all but gutted" To and liberal It has no serious across when you're undersecure a convict inn undor it the theorists" ground "They crave publicity" And so Hall is proud to point court ruled actual efforts to in"They are a minority and restigate subversion must be alize it" said an FBI spokes- out that "there is a great deman "so they have to work mand by the public to hear tha proved within— persuade and observe Communist viewpoint From a Party Reapnrar And they are the best organized Communist not an rehas Therefore the party ' hordest working politicians in nRt We are asked for speakers emerged into the light of day by churches chambers of com- The money that wenf for lrnl the United States" be- - meree even Southern colleges The has and party suhmerged foes is now free for agitation fore and is prepared to do it which is kind of surprising Wa propaganda Ann it so nappens speak to millionrfliterally with mar a again seller's offrr these times such prominent Americans as ket for agitation and propaCrave Publicity Arnold Johnson Gil Green and ganda But as a government official Herbert Aptheker (all leading The rise of a young radical noted it is hard to get a point party officials)" "New Left" particularly on campuses offers the party a badlv needed field for new re cruitment to replenish its aging membership "We have had a problem with aging" concedes Hall "but 70or 80 per cent of our new membership Js among youth" "Beneath the symbols of afflu- - 5 ence" says the party's new draft program "there is a deep COLOR TV and growing uneasiness in 1 America" It concerns says the CP the fear that American for COLOR eign policy is leading to nuclear over of the worker war the fear automation the deprivation of 1 the Negro and the growth of a "skilled and rich" right wing Johnson Propaganda While it approves some ele ments of President Johnson sf DroETams the party says the Great Society is propaganda rich in words low in appropna CP-US- Stalinism cost r "The desired goal Is creation of a new people's party but) becomes whether this party one of two major parties is (not) essential at this time to deter- - mine existing political alignments constitute the womb from which any new alignment must emerge" A final area of disappointment for the CP is among the intel-- & 1 lectuals The party has never been able to make up the ground mait lost during the about-fac- e neuvers of the Immediate prewar period To others as to youth the party has simply gotten old Future Doubted "I don't think the party amounts to much or has any future" said a leftist former Ivy League professor who prefered anonymity "Except for its de- votion to the Soviet Union it dif-fers little from the various Socialist and Social Demociatic factions that stem from the old Socialist Party Its political phil osophy Is essentially reformist The Cosmopolitan 19850 Come in for a demonstration Magnavox offers many exclusive features such as Automatic Color — always makes color pictures appear perfectly keeps them that ay without manual tuning Brilliant Color Tube brings bright vivid pictures Chromatone adds dimension depth to color and warm beauty to black ond white pictures Quick Pictures flash on in just 12 seconds Color Purifier keeps all pictures pure Magnavox sound for added program realism high reliability with precision bonded circuitry 1 265-sq-i- : nists He's probably right" That sounds slight compared to the estimated 100000 card carriers only two or three decades ago 4 But for years ihe main Issue the party dealt with was its own survival It was confronted with the hostility of the law the and the American people in general This hostility has diminished fortunately for the at a time when the meaty type of divisive issues on which Communist feed have arisen especially the turmoil over the war in Viet Nam and civil rights Power Drops Off years Despite the new conditions In Attached to Russia which it exists and for all its Despite its "new look" and Its optimism the Communist Party softer approach the party is still is no where near the power it y The Cosmopolitan Model in contemporary fine furniture natural walnut finish Includes convenient channel selector windows plus tone control and extended-rangspeaker Commu- d n e CP-US- H v hi anti-Fasci- Con-gre- 'r i r " 6! 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