| Show Group Exposes Health W Workshops Amid the spectacular developments of the Senate Investigations of or wartime frauds and the recent house bourn probe of un-American un activities In Hollywood wood the I I cleverly disguised campaign of a group I In the employment of the U. U S. S govern govern- on c ment including In some cases known I Communists using fed federal ral funds runds to or or- or so-called so health workshops as ae pressure groups for advocating socialized medicine Is escaping the notice of the most alert observers I I 1 According to an exposure by a House subcommittee this activity presenting sided one-sided propaganda urging Lion I of medicine as aa outlined In the Wagner Murray gell bill Increased expenditures of the executive branch of i the government for propaganda and publicity publicity pub pub- purposes per cent over prey previous oue years to the sum Bum of end and occupied occupied oc- oc federal employees par part or full time The findings of the subcommittee approved unanimously by the bi part bl-part- part lean Isan committee on expenditures In fn the tho executive departments bare bar tho the true nature and purpose of health workshops work work- shops The committee report to the House Hous of Representatives states Your committee committee committee com com- finds lInds that at least leant six agencies In the executive branch are using government funds In an Improper manner for propaganda activities supporting supporting sup sup- porting compulsory national health in insurance In- In or what certain authors of propaganda refer to as socialized medicIne medicine medi medi- cine cinel U. U B S. S Public H Children's Childrens Chil ChA- drens dren's Bureau Dureau Office of EdU U. U S. S Employment Service Dept of Agriculture ture the Bureau Dureau of Research and Sta at tics Social Security hoard Board These activities are calculated to build up an artificial federally stimulated public demand upon Congress M for enactment of legislation for compulsory health insurance referred to as the Wagner Wagner Murray Murray Murray-Dingell bill bal These health workshops were planned conducted conducted conducted con con- ducted and largely financed with federal funds by a key group on the government payroll who used the workshop method of discussion subtly to generate public sentiment in behalf of socialized medi medi- cine The Tho federal employees arrange the meeting invite the delegates train the delegates preside at the meetings and then frame the formal summary of re resolutions resolutions resolutions re- re solutions and actions Among th the topics listed in the instruction sheets used by bythe bythe bythe the training officers at these called so-called health workshops are Techniques for the Organization of Citizen Groups Formation of Pressure Groups Group Methods of Bringing about Group Action Ac Action Ac- Ac c tion And all of this thin Is paid for with public moneys never authorized or approved by Congress for these or any like purposes Among federal workers advocating compulsory health Insurance the committee committee committee com com- found one documented by the House committee on un-American un activities activities activities ties for almost uninterrupted association associations since 1939 with various Communist- Communist front and traveler fellow-traveler organizations in the United States At various times Jacob Fisher has bas been identified with seven different groups or organizations organizations organizations avowedly sponsoring the Moscow party line in the United States Your committee reports its firm co conclusion that American Communism holds this program as a cardinal point in Its ita objectives and that in some In Instances Instances instances In- In stances known Communists and fellow fellow- travelers within the Federal agencies rellow-I rellow ar are are areat at work diligently with federal funds in to furtherance of the Moscow party line How these federally paid advocates of socialized medicine have laid the ground groundwork groundwork groundwork work for a propaganda campaign in Utah is In la brief but highly significant significant signi signi- news stories stories' A Utah health workshop was waa held In the State Capitol building October 1945 Eight federal officials were flown lown here hereto hereto hereto to conduct this this' meeting Other than federally employed doctors there were no allopathic physicians or representatives represents represents- tives tivee of other healing arts arta I present as delegates at this meeting A meeting in the State Capitol on I November 8 8 1947 of ot state health and welfare agency representatives for the purpose of discussing health workshops reportedly attracted representatives from Red Cross Teacher Parent-Teacher Associations Cancer Society Association for Infantile Paralysis Prevention and other philanthropic philanthropic philanthropic philan philan- organizations organizations- together with re re- re of Utah colleges Junior colleges colleges col cot leges and school districts j I Three days day later a committee of educators educators tors tord school administrators and public health officials started preparation of a health education workshop on state level to be held during the first six months of 1948 At a time when our way of life is threatened by Communism and undemocratic processes of government which recent history so chillingly proves are I harbingers of police pollee state methods method II It ItI behooves every American to resist su l I underhand and illegal megal methods The place to start is in our own State I of Utah where already an attempt Is fe being made to trap unwary Utah leaders leader Into furthering the efforts of what a alto House committee labeled ft p. Communist Communist- indorsed pressure group for socialized medicine under the subterfuge of the hea e th h hop i I 1 |
