Show washington dies committee bares activities of radical communist groups unseen and malignant growths are being bred into our national life by agitators who seek to destroy our government spread poison in ranks of labor by WILLIAM BRUCKART service national press washington D C washington I 1 unless some thins thing is done to curb radicalism in my section there is going to be an awful clash and a lot of people are going to get hurt so spoke fred W frahm super in of police of the city of de troit mich and his statement was under oath for he was giving mony before a committee of the house of representatives a commit tee charged with exposing to view the un american activities of tarn tain groups in this country it was the statement of a man who is ing a city in an official capacity and who has gone through sit down strikes which he asserted were the direct result of agitation by the rad icalas to which he referred he looks for more in the near future and added by way of emphasis that these communists and radicals do not want to seek adjustment of dif ferencek feren ces between labor and man argement they want to make trouble all of the time through a number of weeks the house committee before which mr frahm testified has been taking tes gathering evidence digging here and there in its effort to un cover the activities of subversive groups and expose them to public view it has been the contention of the chairman representative dies of texas and some other members of the committee that most of us are not aware of the unseen and malig nant growths that are being bred into our national life they are out to destroy our government to bring to us the type of thing that has made russia famous mr dies is a sincere and honest legislator and he is trying to do the job ob assigned him even when sev eral of his committee members have sought to balk his efforts but there is much more to be done in the di d of exposing radicalism and the chiseling cheating cowardly ef forts the agitators put forth charge communists active in government offices what I 1 am wondering is why mr dies has not sent his investigators into the very offices of the federal government itself or if he has done that as it is gossiped about then why shield anybody 7 why not turn the spotlight of publicity on the individuals who want to destroy the hine american rican system the american form of government american tra flitton the american profit system of doing business there has been much talk in the last several years about the operations of communists within the very walls of the govern ment trient men and women who are bor ing from within as termites destroy lumber and we ought to know the truth if they are within the govern ment they ought to be exposed and chased out of the western hemis phere it if they are not operating as is gossiped around then their names ought to be cleared in any event I 1 hope the dies committee goes on and shows the cancerous nature of groups that do not believe in our system whether they be russians or dr germans or italians or british or what have you it has been the favorite device of the radicals and their henchmen to characterize any official who at tacks them as being a subject for the insane hospitals their game has been to laugh people out of court whenever an effort was made to tell of some of the things the agitators were doing many will rei re i call an investigation by a house committee several years ago where the witnesses were laughed down and a courageous superintendent of schools from gary ind was made to look foolish because of the charges he made well if my ion be worth anything the folks who were the suckers in that pl play y were the supposedly intelligent members of congress who made up the committee it was they who fell tell for a trick of propaganda el ei ther that was the case or the mem bers of that committee were just plain dumb lewis cannot break grip of communists on C 1 I 0 concerning the sit down strikes about which mr frahm testified I 1 want to boast that I 1 wrote of corn com eunist participation in those sit down strikes when they were hap pening I 1 had several letters there after calling me crazy and describe mg ing me as a red baiter mr frahm now has put into official records the facts that must be obvious to any real american and he further has expressed the opinion that john L lewis head of the C 1 I 0 cannot break the grip that the communists have on his organization that may be the reason why mr lewis has been so silent the last several months maybe he sees that the la bor group of which he was so proud has become a gargantuan monster that is slowly swallowing him phys icalla large as he is there is of course the danger that a lot of people will make foolish and unsupported statements about red activities thus throwing doubt on the really serious phases that always seems to happen unwitting ly that type of person which shouts and shouts and has no proof ere cre ates the impression that all cries of wolf wolf are meaningless but when a congressional committee has the courage rather when its chairman over objections of some of its members has the courage to bring the stuff out for public exam mation there must indeed be a basis for it the tragedy of the thing is that the labor movement as a whole will suffer a severe setback the fact that the radicals have grabbed con arol of the automobile workers un ion means that they have cells in other groups also and that these cells slowly but surely will be spreading poison and trouble the agitators seize upon the un unthinking thinking the foreign born who are not steeped in our customs or love of country or upon elements that have been badly treated and they will use these innocent victims to carry out their destructive plans c 1 I 0 being used as tool for destructive purposes there will be much more labor trouble you can count on that the communist party re presenta tives will never allow the slightest chance for creating trouble to es cape them they are determined to convince labor that it cannot trust the managements they are en cou raging the breaking of agree ments between labor and manage ment to the end that employers will have no faith in the leaders of labor and they are using the national la bor relations board wherever that can be done to give official voice to labor troubles that fact is chiefly responsible for the position which the C 1 I 0 group has taken in op position to proposals for revision of the labor relations act william green and the american federation of labor are urging revision of the law but C 1 I 0 having its tenta cles in the labor board obviously does not want its grip broken it has been known for a long time that the C 1 I 0 was being used as a tool for destructive purposes but the agitators and emissaries were sly and careful they covered their tracks such information as leaked out was promptly discredited by the very reds who had done the job and they discredited any individual who repeated the story by laughing at his gullibility however there is one instance which cannot be denied the clerks in the rural electrification adminis organized a union and affidi abed with C 1 I 0 it was to have social as well as fraternal aspects there was a dance scheduled ne gro workers attended and insisted on inter racial participation in ev grything ery thing that was done they said they were told to do so by depre senta tives of C 1 I 0 after the dance was concluded so pants have reported a pho phonograph record was procured and the bel be lowing notes of the ale communistic anthem blared forth dies committee exposes methods used by radicals the dies committee record is full of testimony about methods em aloyed by the communists in their devious borings and destructive tactics the record te tells II 11 s too of how many innocent appearing or created for an allegedly useful purpose are captured by communists and used by thero them to obtain money contributions for which no accounting ever is made and tragic also are the stories of how the real leaders laughed at the suckers who gave hard earned mon ey laughed in the secret recesses of their hideouts about the soft and easy minds of americans but another session of congress is coming the dies committee will make a report and probably will ask an appropriation to enable it to go on we will see who opposes that appropriation there probably will be opposition from two or three members of the committee itself and we will see who they are if they are outspoken in their tion I 1 suspect most people will know why I 1 think this condition has reached the point where attention should be paid to it by the federal govern ment it is now hot on the trail of some alleged german sp es who were seeking american military se crets so why not make a thor ough job of it and lift up the lid that hides various other kinds of spies whose work to my mind is much more dangerous to american national life 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