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Show SECRETARY OF LABOR-HEARIWG LABOR-HEARIWG TEST CASES Decision Will Determine If Membership in Communist Party Cause for Deportation KASHINGTON, Jan. 22 Arguments in test cases brought by attorneys for the communist party in behalf of four members of the party arrested in Chicago Chi-cago during the recent nation vido raids were heard today by Secretary Wilson The decision" of the secretary, secre-tary, winch was promised within the next two days, will determine whether in general, membership In the communist com-munist party brands an alien as a subject sub-ject foideportation and will effect the cases of some 3,000 of those being detained de-tained as a result of the recent raids. The communist party attorneys contend con-tend that ihere was nothing in the constitution, manifestoes and program of tho party which advocated overthrow over-throw of the government of the United States, of any government by violence or force. Many persons had joined the communist com-munist part, it was asserted, in the belief that through It could be hastened hasten-ed recognition of the Russian soviet government by the United States. In denying the contentions of the communists. J. Edgar Hoover, special assistant to the attorney general, said that thp "American communist party in its affiliation with the Third international inter-national commune at Moscow is an integral part of an International conspiracy con-spiracy for social and industrial revolution revo-lution aimed directly and frankly at the overthrow and destruction of all existing governments, the annihilation of the state, the church and the courts, the seizure of all private property and the substitution of a dictatorship of the proletariat." The department of justice agent further asserted that every applicant for membership in the party pledged himself to its principals. |