Part 1: The Roosevelt Red Record and It's Background

It really does amaze me how many Americans do not get what they are up against at this time.I understand the level of propaganda directed at the American people is at unprecedented levels,mostly meant to divide the population.Some write in frustration toward the countries youth and young adults growing love affair with socialism,and wonder how this could be happening.I think that a great deal of the wondering in this country stems from never being truthful to itself about what happened in America in the 1930's.This is where Miss Dilling's account comes in handy,because this book,though 85 years old could have been written anytime in the last  10 years.Read it without  the names, you hear about 'swamps' and 'occupy this',and 'occupy that'.

Hands down FDR and his Wife did more to destroy this nation,than any other pair in its history.Disgusts me that so many see him as some type of hero.He was a liar and a traitor.All the Corruption in Washington and New York stems from the actions he took starting in March of 1933 and onward to his death some dozen years or so later.He more than anyone on the planet was responsible for half of Europe being left behind an Iron Curtain for over 40 years at the close of WW2.  

THE ROOSEVELT RED RECORD 
AND ITS BACKGROUND
By Elizabeth Dilling
1

WHAT IS YOUR ATTITUDE 

TOWARD ROOSEVELT?

Tribute To Communism On South Lawn of .White House 2009..

Attitudes toward President Roosevelt fall largely into four classes 

1. The attitude of the "man in the street", who knows, thinks, and cares less about the international conspiracies of Marxian Communism-Socialism than he does about Greek syntax . He accepts the President at his face value, admires his winning smile, splendid voice, confident delivery, and assuring promises, and trusts that his extraordinary expenditures are just what the Country needs to carry it toward renewed prosperity, in fact, toward some sort of new Utopia where the reign of perfect "social justice" will bring new life to the "forgotten man". 

Any features of the New Deal to which he objects he blames on the "crack-brained brain-trusters" surrounding the President, but objects to having any blame or responsibility attached to the President himself for appointing these "brain-trusters" and choosing close personal association with them. Though supposedly outwitted, out-maneuvered, and taken in by these Reds, the President remains, in his opinion, a strong dependable leader of sound judgment. 

He regards any adverse criticism of Roosevelt, as Roosevelt himself has described it, as the malicious emanations of "representatives of entrenched greed," personifying the spirit of human wolves who tremble to tear the raw flesh from the bones of the poor and grin while licking the blood dripping from their chops-but are prevented from doing so only by the intervention of a Messiah President, copywriter of humanitarianism, altruism, and "social justice" . Naturally, the "man in the street" loves the "Messiah" and loathes the "wolfish opposition. 

Admiring or Critical Because Leftist? 

2. The attitude of the radical, who understands exactly what the President is doing and who either praises him or "smokescreens" for him because he has achieved more of the revolutionary Socialist program in a few months than all of the American Reds combined have in years, or else assails him because he does not go all the way at once, hoist the Red flag over the White House, and proclaim a Soviet America. The latter follow the "leftist line" of the Communist Party and their close associates, although at the Comintern (Communist International) Congress in Moscow, Aug . 15th, 1935, Dimitroff, Secretary of the Communist International, urged support of Roosevelt as against his opponents . 

The Socialist-controlled A.F.of L. unions (the United Textile Workers, the International Ladies Garment Workers' Union, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, etc .), have now formed a "Labor's Non-Partisan League" to work for the reelection of Roosevelt, hinting that this bloc is to become the nucleus of the Farmer-Labor Party advocated by the Communist Party and the Communist International as a united Red Front to elect radical candidates to office preparatory to complete Socialist seizure of power . Spain and France already have such "Red Fronts" . 

After the pro-Roosevelt announcement by the Red unions affiliated with the A.F.of L., William Green, A.F.of L. President, announced  in opposition that the A.F. of L should maintain its non-political tradition But so strong was the pressure that he was forced to reverse himself only a few days later and publicly announce (5/6/36) that the A.F. of L. should, work for the reelection of Roosevelt . 

Critical Because Partly Informed? 

3 . The attitude of the person who understands enough about what Roosevelt is doing to see its destructive and un-American trend. He knows that the petty revenge and vindictiveness, the "cracking down" on opponents, the spying, snooping, intimidating of opponents, of the Roosevelt "New Deal", is "new" in America but very old in countries under the iron heel of tyranny. He does not relish the jailing of a poor pants presser because he dared sell his services at a price satisfactory to himself and his customer. He does not like to think of having to pay a $1,000 fine and being jailed a year for buying or selling potatoes without the permission of a Soviet-minded Commissar he did not even elect to office . He objects to being taxed to provide funds to harass patriotic organizations, as the Black Committee is doing, solely because they oppose the "New Deal" . 

No Free Speech for Opponents 

He is disagreeably reminded of those Emperors of old who did not allow their vanity to be offended with impunity, when he learns that the U.S. Marine Band was ordered to pack up its instruments and walk out, the Navy speakers were forbidden to speak, and the Navy chaplain even forbidden to pray, for the Women's Patriotic Conference on National Defense, a brilliant gathering in Washington, D.C., January 1936, representing the leading patriotic groups of the United States, to punish the ladies for listening to Hon. Bainbridge Colby tell them what the U . S . Supreme Court has told the whole world, namely, that the legislation pushed by the Roosevelt Administration is unconstitutional. 

Presumably, the ladies might have "beaten up" Mr. Colby in order to retain the good graces of the President and the services of his (?) Army and Navy. 

This opponent of Roosevelt treasures and wishes to preserve the liberty and opportunity for individual achievement protected by the American Constitution, which has lured the whole world to the gates of America. He knows something of the universal failure of Socialism in practice and believes that the unprecedented American record of advancement for all must be carried into the future under the American system, which allows the individual to work for profit, instead of under "planned" compulsion. 

Poor or rich, he objects to being "planned" for, nursed, bullied, coddled, or "uplifted" by political "planners". He has helped local sufferers in the past and considers his own heart as humane as any politician's and his own judgment concerning his own business affairs better than that of any remote political "brain-truster". 

"Entrenched Greed" 

He is willing to be taxed to provide food for the hungry, but he is unwilling to have his wages and property taxed away to support armies of political bureaucrats and their hangers-on and to provide recreational facilities such as amateurish art daubing, silly theatricals, tap dancing, etc., to multitudes whom he thinks have an easier time thus "boondoggling" than he has working to support them. For these ideas, President Roosevelt dubs him one of the wolf-pack "representatives of entrenched greed". 

Fully Informed? 

4. The attitude of the patriotic student of the world Marxian revolutionary movement, who sees in the Roosevelt regime a delibate, comprehensive plan to change the American form of government to a Red dictatorship . He sees that the persons placed in power by Roosevelt are Red revolutionaries, that, soon after the New Deal achieved power, the mechanism for a Soviet America was provided in the Emergency Leasing Corporation (I have a certified copy of its incorporation papers) and other similar corporations, incorporated under the laws of the State of Delaware as secretly as possible by Secretary Ickes and his immediate subordinates . While not put into operation since their exposure, these corporations provide for the use of Government funds to buy, lease, manage, operate, and take over every sort of American property and business . 

Also, a reading of sections and details of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration Act is like reading the set-up for a new Soviet Russia . The thoroughness and audacity of dictatorial provisions along these lines make one gasp. Socialist legislation in defiance of the American Constitution has been pushed by Roosevelt since the day he took office. 

Socialism by Stealth 

In order to make socialistic legislation abolishing the private property right, the essence of Communism-Socialism, stick, the Supreme Court has to declare it constitutional, which it is not, or the Constitution must be amended. The New Dealers hoped that their cry of "Emergency would influence the Supreme Court to declare their socialistic legislation constitutional . Justices Brandeis, Cardoza, and Stone could be depended upon to have radical sympathies, and Chief Justice Hughes and Justice Roberts had also voted that way at times. The favorable "Gold Clause Decision" gave New Deal Socialists courage . But when, to their surprise, the N.R.A. was knocked out by a unanimous decision, President Roosevelt referred sneeringly to the Constitution he had sworn to uphold and defend as a relic of "horse and buggy days". 

The Constitution itself provides that it may be amended by a vote of the people. But, as the people, in voting, have always turned down the Socialist Party program, they would be unlikely, in the opinion of the New Dealers, to vote for an amendment to authorize Socialism. So Socialism by stealth and subterfuge, covered by the cry of emergency, was attempted. 

Plans for the Future 

There are two other ways that may yet be tried . One is to get a radical majority in the Supreme Court by waiting until death claims some of the patriotic conservative justices, replacing them with radicals . The other is to force Congress to increase the number of Supreme Court justices and appoint additional radicals . Since the number of Supreme Court justices is not fixed, the President, acting on precedent, could, if he dared, do this . If Roosevelt is reelected, it is probable that his reelection will be proclaimed a "mandate" to carry out his policies and to take such steps as are necessary to reverse past decisions of the Supreme Court which have hampered his program.[So she is spot on here,because we know what he did DC] 

Disarming Resisters 

But if such methods are avoided or thwarted, other programs underway may culminate in the same end by different means. If Government ownership of munitions, for example, is achieved, as Mrs. Roosevelt and all the radicals, including the Nye "investigators," intend, opponents of a Red Roosevelt dictatorship will be as disarmed and helpless as are the Russians. 

Taxation and Revolution 

By confiscatory taxation, by continued attacks upon private business men and private business, by using tax funds (as at present) to train an army of radical agitators and to spread radical propaganda, class hate, and unrest, by grasping ever-increasing control over communications-telephone and telegraph lines, the radio, and the railroads, by loaning large sums on business establishments and homes, which cannot be repaid in the face of mounting taxation with resultant forfeiture to Government ownership, by hastening inflation or repudiation of currency through seemingly foolish squandering of funds (which is not foolish if Socialism is the objective and the Socialist destruction of private property rights and ownership the aim), the way is now being paved for that ripe moment eagerly anticipated by all revolutionists, when, after a false inflationary boom to reelect the Roosevelt regime, lasting until his legislative program is put over, would come sudden economic collapse, ruined, currency, debt, despair, confusion, paralysis, and a willingness to take any way out of the dilemma. 

Then the signal would be given waiting revolutionaries crying "Capitalism has failed" to start rioting and violence on a huge scale . Preparation for this moment is going on all over the United States with the full knowledge, support and encouragement of the Roosevelt regime. Such a debacle would give Roosevelt, or some other affiliated radical executive, the excuse to proclaim that in order to avoid Communist violence "emergency measures" must be taken and to snap the handcuffs on the wrists of American Constitutional liberty, setting up a communist dictatorship, perhaps under some more pleasing name. If Roosevelt, as Soviet officials have claimed very recently, IS only the Kerensky of the "Roosevelt revolution", as his followers fondly call it, perhaps a stronger man would take his place. 

Why Does Roosevelt Do This? 

It is my personal surmise that Roosevelt is merely an ambitious rich man's son, eager for honors and dictatorial power and flattered with the idea that his "reign" is a beneficent one, and that he has been promised enjoyment of the Presidential plum and still more power if he continues to "behave." If he but takes the time to smile for publicity cameras, and to deliver some prepared radio speeches in a warm fireside manner, the Red ruling clique running him and the Government with his full approval and cooperation are well satisfied. 

The program goes on with or without him. Whatever he says now or has said in the past can be reversed at the will of the powers-behind-the smile. Meanwhile, he has time and leisure such as only retired plutocrats usually have to fish, cruise on millionaire's yachts, and vacation constantly. 

Roosevelt Is But the 

Fruit of a Movement 

A study of the personnel and program of the radical Conference for Progressive Political Action, that group of Bolshevik-minded men who have been working effectively for years to socialize America by legislation and propaganda and who are backing President Roosevelt, whether they label themselves for convenience "New Deal Democrats" or "Progressive Republicans" ; a study of the program of the Communist Manifesto, the "Bible" of Communism-Socialism, and its rules for communizing a State, written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in 1848 ; a study of the Socialist and Communist Party platforms compared with New Deal legislation and achievements, a study of the Red affiliations of Mrs  Roosevelt and of the New Deal appointees of the President, a study of the use of Government funds for the purpose of aiding the Red cause and stifling opposition-these studies will convince any intelligent person that America is facing a crisis in its history . 

Not a Question of Party 

Those Red forces which secured the nomination and election of Roosevelt are determined to capture the Republican Party as they did the Democratic Party and elect a Congress of "Republicans" and "Democrats" whom they can control, under the guise of "liberalism" or "progressivism". Their success or failure will depend upon the enlightenment and opposition of the people. Many forces oppose the real enlightenment of the people. The Red network extends into both Parties, into high places, embarrassing to newspapers, organizations, and individuals having dealings with highly-placed radicals. 

There are few who dare to go all the way and tell the whole truth. Then there are four billion, eight hundred million dollars to reckon with. Many will pocket principle along with an immediate salary. There is the egotism, apathy, and indifference of ignorance. There is the belief in a Party label, regardless of the "contents of the bottle". There is the selfish desire to remain undisturbed by disagreeable realities; it is more comfortable to ignore annoying truths . 

"Patrick Henry's" Needed 

But there is also fine unawakened patriotic fire and self-sacrifice latent in America, in the awakening of which lies our only hope of preserving Americanism. There is many a "Patrick Henry", now sleeping, who, when fully aware of the facts, will make his voice heard . The question is : Will it be too late, will the "Red Front", now advancing, capture America as it has Russia, Spain, Mexico and France? All of these countries are being controlled by small but determined Red minorities .

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AMERICA'S LEADERS 

HELP RED CAUSE 

Red Promises in Russia 

Before the revolution which changed Russia into the U.S.S.R., Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the great promising slogan that won over the people was, "Peace, Bread, and Land to the Peasants!" This sounded so fine to the war-weary, land-hungry peasantry that they obligingly did as they were told, shot their army officers, blew up ammunition, sacked the homes of the wealthy, and returned from the front to put into power the few Communist "promisers" of this Utopia. 

Recently, I read in the "Questions and Answers" column of a Communist magazine the question whether or not it was correct for the Bolsheviks to have put forward, as the slogan of the Russian revolution, "Land to the Peasants", when they knew that all land would be nationalized . The answer was that this was correct ; that we must aid the revolution at all times by any possible means ; that the Bolsheviks had no "illusions" about the land but had to "take the peasant as they found him" and appeal to him with "transitional slogans" . In other words, they had to lie to the people to get into power. 

What Actually Happened in Russia 

In the nineteen years since the Russian revolution, the peasants have had, instead of "Peace, Bread, and Land", poorer food than they ever had before and than those on the dole in capitalistic lands have today, and in addition two of the greatest famines in modern history, the last, recent one being a man-made Soviet Government famine for the "liquidation" of opponents in the Ukraine . 

Instead of "peace", they have had the un-abating threefold war 

(1) Against God and family ; 

(2) Against each other in civil or  "class" war ; 

(3) Against the whole world and its governments, which, they are told, they must "Socialize" by revolution through the instrumentality of the Soviet-Government-supported Communist Parties of the world (the Communist International, or "Comintern"), before their own revolution will be complete and successful. 

Instead of having "land" of their own, the peasants have been deprived both of those farms and lands they already owned and of the right to own any, and "collectivized" on penitentiary-like State farms under shotgun persuasion. Even the new aristocracy, those million and a half Communist Party members who hold down 160,000,000 Russians, have no peace. 

They spy not only upon the people but upon each other. Frequent Party "purges" are held, in which thousands, even a million, of the members may be ousted . They have the constant dread that they themselves may be suspected of not exactly following the "line" laid down by the Party, which is, in fact, the ten-man "Polit-Bureau" of Joseph Stalin which also governs the Comintern and runs the Soviet Government for some careless remark may cause them to be denounced by a jealous or ambitious fellow Party member to the fate of a Trotsky, or worse. 

Would those millions of peasants who have died in the great Red famines, who have been exiled to Siberia to freeze and die under the most brutal conditions known to the modern world, those Christians who now see their churches turned into stables, atheist theatres and anti-religious museums and their children trained in contempt for God and for parental affection and authority-would those millions have aided the revolution or failed to resist it in time, had they foreseen their fate? Will America, too, sleep and be enchained by Utopian promises? 

Chamberlin, Disillusioned Correspondent 

Wm. Henry Chamberlin, following a residence of ten years in Russia as newspaper correspondent, after his return, expressed in "Controversy" (Dec . 1935) his irritation at those who, while posing as non-communist "liberals", denounced (as he had) the execution of Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti and the imprisonment of Anarchist-Communist Tom Mooney, and rail against fascism in Germany and Italy, while condoning the immeasurably greater cruelties of the Communist Soviets. 

He says he was shocked at the indifference of these same "liberals" "when 48 Russian intellectuals were slaughtered in the autumn of 1930 by the O.G.P.U. without trial, even an unjust one" and their actual justification of "the shooting of 117 persons without any kind of an open trial after the mysterious assassination of one of Stalin's chief lieutenants, Sergei Kirov" (late in 1934) . 

He, like the Ukrainians whom I know who have relatives in Russia, lays the responsibility for the Russian famine of 1932-33 squarely on the doorstep of the Soviet dictators . Causes of the famine, originally, were threefold, he says : "unfavorable climatic conditions, ruthless requisitions which for several years had stripped the villages of all food reserves, and a mood of apathetic hopelessness among the peasants, which led them in some cases to neglect the cultivation of the fields. 

Results of "The Great Experiment" 

"The Soviet Government decided to treat the inevitable consequences of its own rash and merciless agrarian policies as peasant `sabotage'. It carried out food requisitions as energetically as usual in the hungry regions and let millions starve to death ." 

This act could not have been carried out in a Democratic country, he points out, where the newspapers could have printed descriptions of the famine and where elected representatives from the Ukraine and Caucasus, where the famine centered, could have protested . 

As he states, one need not depend upon personal accounts to ascertain the truth about Soviet repressive policies. 

The texts of these decrees are published in the official Soviet press. I myself, read in the Moscow News of the edict of Aug.7 ,1932, which decreed the death penalty for theft of state property, which, as he says, in the Soviet Union means almost all property . Women were shot for hiding a few grains of wheat from their collective fields in their aprons. He mentions also the decree of June 10, 1934, "which makes innocent relatives hostages for Soviet citizens who flee from the country" and "the enactment of Nov. 1932, which punishes a single day's absence from work with dismissal and deprivation of food card and factory living quarters." 

Mass Production of "Political Prisoners"
 

"A Soviet official communique is authority for the statement that 71,000 prisoners received partial or complete amnesty after the completion of the Baltic-White Sea Canal . This figure exceeds by many times the number of political prisoners in Italy and probably is far in excess of the numbers of individuals ever confined in German concentration camps . And it refers to part of the inmates of one of Russia's numerous hard labor concentration camps ." 

Morris Gordin, Disillusioned Communist 

I recently became well acquainted with Mr . Morris Gordin, an idealistic Russian-born Jew who came to Chicago years ago and was a protege in radicalism of Jane Addams' Hull House. (His statement that no one could get far in the Red movement without the approval of the Hull House group supports my own impressions from research .) From Hull House, he was sent to live at the home of a University of Chicago professor whose heiress wife was, supplying $1,000 a week to Red strikers, for further tutelage . He organized for the pro-Soviet Amalgamated Clothing Workers' Union under Sidney Hillman, now of Roosevelt's National Labor Board (see pages 104 and 290 of "The Red Network"), and left from the Communist Party, of Chicago to go to Russia, where he acted as Press Commissar of the Comintern and as a Party leader in the Ukraine. 

He completely  lost his illusions concerning Communism over there and escaped a number of years ago . Recently, he completed his second anti-Communist book, became a Christian, and is studying at Moody Bible Institute in order to be able intelligently to oppose the Communists in their plans for capturing the Church, in which plans they are making remarkable headway . 

He said, "We have a saying in Russia, `A fish stinks from the head' . Here in America, one finds much the same situation that we had in Russia before the revolution. We had a millionaire, Rosov, head of the textile industry, who was supporting the Communists regularly . He had to commit suicide after the revolution. Communist propaganda was coming from the universities, from part of royalty even. It came from the `head'. Here, the same rotten propaganda is coming from heads of universities, from the professors, from some of the churches, even from the White House ." 

Foundations Aid Communism 

As he knows, we have the millionaire Carnegie Foundation modernizing the plant for communistic Commonwealth College at Mena, Arkansas, and subsidizing a great range of radical-pacifist propaganda agencies favored by the Reds . There is no greater center of radicalism than Columbia University, which is headed by Nicholas Murray Butler of the Carnegie Peace Foundation. There, many New Deal `brain-trusters" have been nurtured. We see the Russell Sage Foundation supporting socialistic Survey Associates, of which Mrs . Roosevelt is a member, and red Mary Van Kleeck, active on Communist platforms and fellow author with the secretary of the Communist Party of a Communist pamphlet, who uses the Foundation rooms for Red meetings. 

We see the capitalistic Rosenwald Foundation, headed by Edwin R . Embree (member of the committee which organized the communist Am. Lg. Against War and Fascism Chgo. br.), appropriating huge sums for "furthering socialized medicine" (Chicago Daily News, 5/20/35), while the Rosenwald family donated $10,000 as an extra gift to the University of Chicago with words of commendation for its policies, after the Illinois Legislative investigation had aired its radicalism . 

Edward A. Filene and His 

"Twentieth Century Fund" 

We see the Boston millionaire, Edward A . Filene, "angel" of the unconstitutional socialistic N.R.A. until Congress appropriated funds for it, now setting aside $1,000,000 for socialistic cooperative stores, organized as the Consumers' Distributor Corporation . "Within ten years the stores are to take over the corporation ." (From eulogy in the communist People's Press, 2/8/36 .) These stores are to compete with private business. His "Twentieth Century Fund", financed by the millions he earned under the American capitalistic system, is managed by a board of eleven persons, seven of whom have Red records listed in "The Red Network" . 

 When Filene became ill in Moscow at the time the Comintern (Communist International) was in session there, two Kremlin doctors and two Kremlin nurses, together with the medical director of the Soviet Government travel agency, were sent by the Soviet Government to attend him . Although oranges and lemons needed for him could not be procured in the Soviet "paradise" capital and had to be rushed by plane from "benighted" Berlin (I .N.S. 8/10/35), yet, on his return Filene praised Russia saying, "Other nations should be thankful to Russia for making the gigantic experiment she has undertaken", and that Russia is the only country governed by fact finding research (A.P. 10/17/35) . He had announced his support of Communist-Socialist Upton Sinclair and is credited with having selected two out of three members of Roosevelt's Labor Relations Board, Edwin S. Smith (Labor Commissioner of Massachusetts and formerly employment manager of Filene's department store) and Lloyd Garrison (of the University of Wisconsin, which is headed by Filene's protege, Glenn Frank). 

Rockefeller Millions 

We note the pernicious use of Rockefeller funds, under the inspiration, possibly, of their pro-Soviet "Christian Socialist" minister, Harry Emerson Fosdick, who agitates himself in behalf of Communist causes such as the Scottsboro and Herndon cases and the case of dynamiter Mooney, whom he craves to have set free, although Mooney himself states that if liberated he would aid Communist revolution in the United States (see "The Red Network", page 199, for Mooney's letter to Stalin). 

Rockefeller millions are spent to support the University of Chicago, where the principal Negro and white Communist Party agitators preach their revolutionary doctrines in University halls, in defiance of the Illinois Sedition Law, sponsored by University authorities and professors with the approval of President Hutchins, who is himself a board member of the communist State University of Moscow summer school, recruiting American college students to go over to Russia to be trained in Communism by Soviet experts. Atheism (Philosophy of Dialectical Materialism) was the first course of the day scheduled for the summer of 1935 (its third year) . 

When the Hearst newspapers raised a fuss from coast to coast over this seditious venture, 200 U. S. students arrived in Moscow to be told without further explanation from Soviet officials that the summer school would not be held . Among its notorious Soviet teachers in 1934 were Karl Radek, Gregory Skolnikov, and Prof. Mirsky. Roosevelt's "Ambassador William C . Bullitt will address the opening session of the school", the newspapers announced (A.P. 8/20/34). 

Swift Aid 

The Swift packing company sent out a well-justified plea to investors to protest socialistic New Deal legislation threatening the packing industry ; but when one glances at the list of financial supporters of Abraham Lincoln Center, where the Chicago Communist theatre players are trained and where Communist congresses and organization meetings are listed by the director as part of the official activities of the center, one sees that many of the members of the Swift family are listed as contributors . Curtis Reese, the director, has a militant Red record. The president of the board, William H . Holly, Roosevelt appointee to the Federal Bench, is a founder of the Chicago branch of the Communist-aiding American Civil Liberties Union and served as chairman of the communist All-America Anti-Imperialist League, Chicago branch, etc ., etc . (See "The Red Network"). 

Harold Swift, vice president and director of the very company sending out the plea, very dapper, very self-assured, with flower poised decoratively in the lapel of his pretty light suit, testified proudly at the University of Chicago Legislative Hearings about the length of time he had served as president of the board of trustees of the University of Chicago, how thoroughly he knew the students, professors and policies, and how proud he was of what was going on there . He is a member of several radical organizations . 

I looked at this rich man's son, so pleased with himself, so conscious of the admirable impression he was making on the hearing room packed with U.of C . radicals, who later applauded the Communist "Internationale" as loudly as they had him, and I thought of a pre-election meeting of the Communist Party at the Chicago Coliseum, which I had attended, where a forthright soap-box Party agitator harangued about the "rotten rich," mentioning by name the Swifts, Silas Strawn, and others, and saying that after the revolution the "workers" would "take care of" them. I thought also of the communist Daily Worker article along the same line which irately listed Harold Swift's own salary, to stir the jealousy of the Reds and incite them to end such "injustice" . 

More Capitalistic Help 

We read in the society columns about millionaire industrialists like Vincent Bendix convoying about and entertaining in their homes and on their yachts, Communist Soviet officials, foolishly aiding their own and their country's bitterest foes for the sake of a few dollars profit. A Communist Commissar once said, "Capitalists will commit suicide for the sake of temporary profit ." 

Kate Crane Gartz, of the wealthy plumbing family, is one of the financial backers of the Communist movement. One Communist training school for agitators acknowledged in its catalogue that its sessions would have been impossible but for her money . 

The American Telephone 

and Telegraph Company 

We see capitalistic concerns like the American Telephone and Telegraph Company subsidizing such advocates of revolutionary Socialism as "The Nation", weekly magazine, and socialistic "Survey Graphic" with full-page advertisements, while excellent, interesting,patriotic, anti-Red publications like the "National Republic" (511- 11th St ., N . W., Wash ., D . C.) and "The Awakener" (110 W . 42nd St., New York City) "starve" for lack- of support. 

I wrote long ago to the president of the Am. Tel. and Tel. Co. Walter S. Gifford, asking why he followed such a policy. The reply, a short and snooty one, came from his advertising manager, to the effect that they considered such publications a good medium. 

Walter S . Gifford, of course, may have acquired kinked ideas during his residence at Hull House . He was a member of the honorary committee for the 20th anniversary celebration of the communist Garland-Fund-supported Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, held in Washington May 3rd, 1935, Mrs . Harold Ickes being chairman of the arrangements committee, at which Jane Addams, its founder, who' had long been accepting Red "class war" money as a "peace" advocate, was eulogized by Reds over an international radio hook-up . Socialist Arthur Henderson spoke from London, Lenin's widow, Krupskaya, and Litvinoff's wife praised her from Moscow, and Soviet Ambassador Troyanovsky eulogized her from the platform. (Wash. Post. 5/4/35 .) 

One can only say "Ho-Hum" to read of the current persecuting inquiry being carried on by the socialistic Roosevelt regime against the Am. Tel . and Tel . Co. One's pity is for the 800,000 stockholders, rather than for the management, whom one might say have long "asked for it" . 

Even the "House of Morgan" Not Immune 

The very name of the Wall Street firm of J . Pierpont Morgan is a bull's-eye objective for every Red sling shot. It was ironically amusing when Thomas W. Lamont, Morgan's radical partner, was being pilloried by the radical Nye inquisition on munitions to recall that Lamont himself is a national councilman of the Foreign Policy Association, which has long been known for its constant dissemination of subtle intellectual pro-communistic propaganda for the consumption of eager culture-hounds, who are advised to read Communist books by its bulletins and are cleverly misinformed by propaganda favorable to Russia. 

Mrs. Lamont, who is a director of the Foreign Policy Association, is a trustee of the very left, pro-Communist New School for Social Research ; she was a director when Mrs . Roosevelt was on its board. Their son, Corliss, is national head of the communist Friends of the Soviet Union and is a Communist writer, specializing in atheism . Yet ambitious Nye "razzed" Lamont like an enemy. 

Forums 

Pursuant to a deliberate policy adopted by the Communist Inter- national several years ago, the lecture forums of the U. S. are now largely in the hands of the radicals . While anti-Communist American- ism work, such little as is done, is being strugglingly carried on by valiant .poor to middle-class people, one may constantly read in the society columns of the wealthy, socially-prominent persons supporting Town Hall and similar lecture courses, proudly paying huge fees to Socialist and Communist speakers, in order that they may applaud their would-be destroyers . 

The fatuous pose of acquiring "culture" by "hearing both sides" justifies these dilettantes in their own minds for "sipping" revolutionary doctrines as they would a new alcoholic drink. There is a "kick" in it, even though it be a destructive one to themselves . It has become fashionable to pride one's-self on "swamp" broad-mindedness, on an attitude of tolerance toward everything, whether it be moral filth or one's own financial or physical murder.[Interesting choice of word there...swamp DC] 

Rich "Rabble Rousers" 

It is rich men like Roosevelt, Ickes, Morgenthau, Vincent Astor, and their clique who seem to play best the Socialist game of raving and ranting against the rich in their race for personal power . While Ickes "denounces coupon clippers" and "calls critics `the coupon clipping gentry and the 'Lord Plush bottoms of the club windows (I.N.S . 1/3/36) for the applause of the "masses" whom he wishes to follow him, one wonders if the half million dollar estate left him by his wife, recently, is all invested in real estate and not in coupon-bearing securities. His Winnetka, Illinois, estate, well staffed with servants, where he raises prize dahlias, is far more luxurious, individualistic, and capitalistic than a Lord Plush bottom's mere tenancy in a club "collective" could possibly be. 

The Guillotine for Americanism 

As Well As for Wealth
 

It is scant comfort to the American patriot of modest means who wishes to preserve the American capitalistic or private-ownership system of freedom and opportunity for all, but who cannot match a small part of the flow of millions provided by "suicidal" or ambitious capitalists for Red universities, ministers, and propaganda agencies, to know that it was the Russian and French dilettante aristocrats who similarly aided their revolutions who were first to have their heads lopped off into waiting baskets when the revolutionists came into power. 

Like the fish of the Russian adage, it is from the "head" that America reeks. The awakened members of the middle class are so far fighting a losing battle against gutter Marxism financed by creampuff millionaires . If the so-called "capitalist class" actually withdrew their financial support from Marxism, its foam would collapse into the dirty puddle that it really is.

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WHAT IS COMMUNISM--SOCIALISM? 

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels Marx and Engels wrote ponderous tomes, awesomely regarded by followers because of their pompous poly-syllabled words and pedantic style, perhaps deliberately obscure . They utilized grains of truth to build up gigantic lies, such as the Theory of Surplus Value, which claims that the laborer is entitled to every, cent of the sale price of the article he produces, allowing nothing for advertising, overhead, or management, and that his employer is an "exploiter" or a thief if he does not give it to him . Their vain attempt to explain man and the entire history of the world as a Godless, unplanned clashing of purely material forces leading to Marxian "dictatorship of the proletariat" indeed required plenty of explaining . As "dialectical material- ism", militant atheism, is an integral part of the entire Marxian theory and formula, it is only the ingenue, dupe, or decoy, who talks of "Christian" Marxism. Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, and the principal Socialist authorities explain this repeatedly in their writings. 

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Socialism and Atheism 

The last words of "Religion in the U.S.S.R." (by E . Yaroslavsky, President of the League of Militant Atheists of the Soviet Union, and put but by the official Soviet publishing house in the U.S., International Publishers, New York) are 

"We are entering the 16th year of the proletarian revolution with great gains to our account in the field of atheism . But these gains are insufficient, our work must be improved, consolidated, expanded, deepened. The banner of militant atheism must be raised still higher. The ranks of militant atheists must be increased to include millions . "Remember that the struggle against religion is a struggle for Socialism!" 

Red Atheism in the U.S.A. 

On the preceding page, in discussing the activities of the Communist international atheist movement and its Proletarian FreeThinkers International, it says 

"The growth of godlessness in the United States, the closing of churches in other countries, are inevitable accompaniments of the decay of capitalism . Of course, in these countries, too, the priests are trying to adapt themselves to the social changes that are taking place. Whenever necessary, they flirt with socialist theories . But the exposure of the role of the church and of religion will proceed at a growing pace in the countries of capitalism and create a mighty army of militant atheists throughout the world ." (To fight for the "scarlet colored beast full of names of blasphemy" at Armageddon?) 

It is hard to hang on half way down a chute-all gymnastic "Christian-Socialist" Harry Emerson Fosdick's to the contrary notwithstanding . 

The Marxian "graduate" turns out to burn and destroy churches, as in Spain, Mexico and Russia, in order to "free mankind from the shackles of superstition". 

Abolishing Capitalism 

Nonchalantly, Marx and Engels get rid of private property ownership, religion, marriage (a form of "private ownership"), and parental control of children, and the individual is rewarded for this abnegation of liberty and human rights by the assurance that he will be first looting and fighting, then working, for the "cooperative commonwealth", instead of for his own personal gain . "Production for use and not for profit" is the slogan, whereas production for use and for profit is the essence of capitalism . But clergymen, oblivious of the knowledge of political corruption, grow so rapturous over this cooperative, profitless feature that they are willing to overlook Socialism's determination to exterminate religion and clergymen . 

The Marxian Penitentiary System  

If the collectivized victim of Marxism is docile, he is to be given a share of the mass employment, housing, recreation and education "planned" for him by "brain trusters" . If he is not docile, he must be "cracked down" upon and exterminated as a counter-revolutionary bourgeois lackey of capitalism (good mouth-filling Communist Jargon!). 

Since penitentiaries have long solved unemployment and operated much the same system without a flood of eager applicants, but rather release their inmates sooner for good behavior, it is difficult to understand the lure which the Communist-Socialist system holds for brash young rioting college youths and wordy egoistic intellectuals who delight most in their liberty to oppose and offend all conventions . 

How scathingly do devotees of the Marxian penitentiary system dub those who prefer the liberty of capitalism, with its hazards, opportunities and responsibilities, as "reactionaries", "Tories", "100- percenters", and "professional patriots", and flatteringly call themselves "modern" and "Progressives", loftily ignoring the historical fact that State dictatorship and ownership are neither modern nor progressive but the oldest and most reactionary system in the world. 

The Lure of Socialism 

To many, no doubt, the prime lure of Communism-Socialism is the looting and fighting, while to others perhaps it is the secret belief that they will be the Red political bosses under the "new social order", enjoying the sweet sensation of power, controlling other human beings as underlings, "planning" their lives. The Napoleonic emperor complex has always been a part of human nature . With some, it is, no doubt, mistaken altruism. 

But nothing irritates an ambitious Socialist more than to have it inferred that he might be seeking power over others for any reason except the altruistic desire to give "abundant life" to the "forgotten man". Yet there is nothing a convict likes better than to become a ; "forgotten man" to his jailer. 

Socialists and the "Profit Motive" 

While working to abolish the "profit motive" which they decry, Socialists and Communists do nicely for themselves. Norman Thomas' and Lincoln Steffens' capitalistic holdings, for example, are far from "proletarian". Morris Hillquit, Socialist leader, left a scheduled estate of some $200,000.00 from his work toward abolishing capitalism. The banking irregularities charged to Seymour Stedman and other Socialists would indicate no obliviousness to the "profit motive" on the part of those preaching against it. 

The epitaph on a tombstone in Shakespeare's graveyard applies to the Socialist reformer (of others) 

"What faults ye see in me, pray strive to shun . Look at home! There's something to be done." 

The Red rulers of Mexico-Calles, then Cardenas, etc .-who rode to power by so ardently advocating the distribution of the wealth of others, while in power command great estates, luxurious limousines, gambling concessions, and magnificent homes and gardens, some of which I have seen. Stalin has numerous chauffeurs (one was intimate with friends of ours in Moscow), has a fleet of private Packards, Rolls Royces, etc., and live's like an emperor. 

One hears nothing about the donation of the Roosevelt estates to the "forgotten man", though the tax measures demanded by Roosevelt would practically confiscate the businesses and estates of others. 

Secretary Wallace and the "Profit Motive" 

Scripture-quoting Secretary Wallace is one who, like Roosevelt, throbs oratorically for "social justice" and passionately derides "greed", rugged individualism, and the cut-throat competition of the capitalistic "laissez faire" system (Radicals love to use that French phrase meaning "to let do"). He made a failure of his own inherited business, which was sold for a mortgage of $2,224,742 to the Dante M. Pierce Corporation (Chicago Tribune 12/8/35), after having been guilty of monopolistic greedy trade practices in violation of the antitrust laws, according to the court decision of 3/27/36. 

A fine of $37,000.00 was imposed. To quote from the Chicago Tribune of 3/28/36 : 

"Wallace's Farmer and Iowa Homestead, a farm paper of which Henry A. Wallace, secretary of agriculture, is now `editor on leave of absence', and four other farm journals were ordered yesterday to pay damages of $37,000.00 for violation of the Sherman anti-trust law." 

"The case involved advertising rates charged by the farm paper group during the period from 1928 to 1932. Accusations were made that the farm papers in the combination had acquired a substantial monopoly of the advertising in this type of paper, and that the setup destroyed competition and was an unlawful conspiracy in restraint of trade." 

"According to the charges in the pleadings, the defendants, including the Wallace Publishing Company (of which Wallace was the head at the time of the practices complained of), sought to freeze out competitors. It was charged that, beginning in 1928, the defendants offered joint advertising contracts whereby advertisers were given a special low rate if they advertised in all the papers published by the defendants." 

Wallace's Counterbalancing Seed Corn 

While Wallace insisted that U . S . farmers cut their corn acreage 20°fo to decrease crop production, his company advertised, at the exorbitant price of $6.50, $7 .50, and more, a bushel, the "Wallace Hi-Bred Seed Corn", guaranteed to boost production 20% (Chicago Examiner 2/12/36), thus nullifying, and destroying any possible justification for, the crop reduction order. 

Not satisfied with the volume of this profitable business we learn "Wallace's Corn Company Seeks to Beat Seasons :The Hi-Bred Corn Company of Grimes, Iowa, founded by Secretary of Agriculture Wallace and in which he still retains a family interest, now is striving to beat the seasons. It is embarked on an experiment of growing hybrid corn in the Argentine this winter for the 1936 planting season in Iowa . Attaches of the Hi-Bred farm at Grimes, Iowa, report that word has been received that the experimental planting south of the equator started about November 1, and will be finished by December 1 ." (Chicago Tribune 11/19/35 .) 

Control for You 

Wallace said, in socialistic vein : ". . . we must accept some social discipline . . . . Certain controls have been made during the last year and may perhaps be necessary for a number of years ." (N. Y. Post 7/5/34, report of his Fourth of July speech at Chautauqua, New York.) 

He should have said "you" must accept some "social discipline", instead of "we." 

A Socialist's Definition 

Morris Hillquit, late head of the Socialist Party of America, defined Socialism as follows 

"The Socialist program requires the public or collective ownership and operation of the principal instruments and agencies for the production and distribution of wealth-the land, mines, railroads, factories, and modern machinery . This is the main program, and the ultimate aim of the whole Socialist movement and the political creed of all Socialists . It is the unfailing test of Socialist adherence, and admits of no limitation, extension or variation. Whoever accepts this program is a Socialist ; whoever does not, is not ." 

Russia-Socialism in Action 

The name of Russia since its socialization is the U.S.S.R.- Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The words "Communism" and "Socialism" are synonyms. However, in 1919, the Socialist movement split into two main organizational, not creedal, divisions designating themselves as "Socialist" and "Communist", respectively, and for some time they exhibited considerable rivalry toward each other . 

Family Rivalry of Red Internationals 

The reason for this break was in part the disorganization of the international Socialist movement by the World War, but also largely the triumph of the Russian Socialists, who seized their government and thus gained control over the national money bags with which to help finance World Revolution. Cockily, they then sent out a call from Moscow to the Anarchists, I.W.W's and Socialists of the world to send delegates to them, to form a new international world alliance of revolutionary parties under their control . 

They scornfully pointed out that the Second International, of which Lenin himself had been a member, had gone "yellow" during the war, since many Socialists had gone back on the Socialist creed of fighting their own government and turning its war into Red revolution and, instead, had fought for their government. Among such "yellow" Marxians were many German Socialists. However American Socialists were so "valiantly" seditious that some 1,500 of them had to be imprisoned by the U.S. Government (With Red applause, President Roosevelt restored their citizenship) . The Socialist Party official resolutions called for such treasonable activities (see N . Y. State Lusk Report). 

The Socialist Parties of some countries, the Italian, Norwegian, Swedish-Left, for example, went over en masse to the new leadership, entitled the "Third" or "Communist International" (abbreviated to "Comintern") . The Socialist Parties of other countries, including the United States, split, part of the membership remaining in the Second, or Labor and Socialist International, the rest joining the Third under Moscow control. They are now drawing together again all over the world under national agreements authorized by the Second International . 

Debs for Socialist Unity 

Eugene V. Debs, nominated as Presidential candidate by the Socialist Party of America while he was in prison for sedition, urged the entire Socialist Party to join the Communist International (See "The Red Network", page 276). 

And now we have a President whose wife publicly honors the Debs Memorial Radio Station, WEVD, maintained by Reds to "perpetuate the voice of Debs" ! (See page 188 .) 

Karl Marx, father (with Friedrich Engels) of Socialism-Communism, whose works are the "Scriptures" and creed of the entire Communist-Socialist, I.W.W., revolutionary movement, finally captured the First International (see "Internationals", "The Red Network"), which was called the International Workingmen's Association and was formed in 1864. After being riven by Marx' battles with the Anarchists for control, it broke up, moved to New York and passed out there. 

The Second International, purely Marxian and still extant, was formed in 1889 after Marx' death by his followers . 

World Red Front Re-forming Now

 

As Earl Browder, Secretary of the "Communist Party U.S.A., section of the Communist International," says in his printed report of the 1935 Comintern Congress at Moscow (which I also heard him deliver in Chicago, 10/16/35) : " . . . 1919 was a period of breach in the Socialist movement ; we are now in the period of healing." [The grandfather of Bill Browder D.C]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Browder

United fronts have been formed by the Socialist and Communist parties of Austria, Germany, and Italy underground, and openly in France and Spain, where they now jointly control those two governments in the first step toward sovietization.

In Moscow at the Communist Congress in August, 1935, Gil(bert) Green(berg), as head of the Young Communist League of the U.S.A., jubilated over their formation of the American Youth Congress and announced that they also expected soon to combine in the U.S.A. the student organizations of the Socialist and Communist Parties . True enough! December 28-29, 1935, at the Y.W.C.A. (the "C" supposedly standing for "Christian") Auditorium in Columbus, Ohio, where despite patriotic protests the conference was held, this was accomplished. The Student League for Industrial Democracy of the Socialist Party and the National Student League of the Communist Party amalgamated, adopting the name "American Student Union", with the blessings of Earl Browder, Norman Thomas, Sinclair Lewis, Francis Gorman of the A.F. of L ., etc . (Young Worker, official organ of Young Communist League, 12/31/35 ; Daily Worker 12/30/35 ; etc .) . 

Not only locally, but internationally, the Socialist and Communist youth, and other of the Red groups are uniting . 

The Communist Party Daily Worker reported the five-point united front program signed by A. Victor of the Comintern's "World Committee of Students against War and Fascism" and L. Boutbien of the "International Socialist Student Federation", hailed in the U.S .A. by Gil Green (Communist) and Joseph Lash (Socialist), and says : 

"In the United States the affiliated organization of the International Federation of Socialist Students is the Student League for Industrial Democracy and the member organization of the World Committee of Students against War and Fascism is the National Student League." (Communist.) 

"A united front pact for the defense of Ethiopia against the criminal invasion of Italian fascism, providing . . , for a five point program of joint action in every country has just been concluded by the Inter- national Socialist Student Federation and the World Committee of Students against War and Fascism, representing Socialist, Communist and other anti-fascist students, official documents received here yesterday revealed ." (Daily Worker 11/8/35 .) 

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SOCIALIST-COMMUNIST EMBRYO 

REVOLUTIONARY ARMY 

Roosevelt Sponsored 

With revolutionary threats, the Socialist Party's organization for agitating the unemployed, the "Workers' Alliance", which is a section of the League for Industrial Democracy, amalgamated with the Communist Party's "Unemployed Councils ." 

The "marriage" took place in none other than the U.S. Department of Labor Auditorium! The "Socialist Call" for 4/18/36 reported that "at the beautiful Labor Department Auditorium, Washington," the week before, 700 delegates representing a membership of 800,000 completed the amalgamation of the Workers' Alliance . (Socialist), Unemployed Councils (Communist), and the Unemployed Leagues (of the American Workers' Party, Communist followers of Trotsky and A. J. Muste). 

Its Personnel 

The name "Workers' Alliance" was agreed upon, and David Lasser, head of the Workers' Alliance, was chosen as national chairman, Communist Herbert Benjamin as national organizer, and Angelo Herndon, the Negro Communist Party organizer jailed for sedition in Georgia, as national vice-chairman . Ben Gray, Ohio, Merrill C. Work, N.Y., John Muldowney, Pa ., Herbert Nusser, Pitts ., were elected to the national executive board from the communist "Unemployed Councils", Ted Selander, Ohio, and Sam Gordon, Pa., from the Trotskyite-communist "Unemployed Leagues", and fifteen executive board members were to be chosen from the "Workers' Alliance" (Socialist) slate consisting of: Paul Rasmussen, at large, Mittie Johnson, Ill ., Ed Morgan, Ill., Hugo Rasmussen, Ind ., Secora, Ind ., James Handy, Ia ., David Benson, Fla ., Reynaldo Waters, Md ., Gieber- house, Neb ., Ray Cook, N . J . (a leader of the riotous seizure of the State Legislature at Trenton, N . J.), Nelson Meagley, Ohio, Robert Lieberman, Pa., Lyle Olson, Wis ., John Spain, N . J . (another active leader of the Trenton "revolutionary rehearsal" of the Workers' Alliance proudly proclaimed an "insurrection." N. Y. Times 4/25/36), Paul Boyd, Wis., Hillard Bernstein, Va. The mob which seized the Legislative hall is called an "army of occupation" by the Communist Party's Daily Worker (4/29/36) . 

Patriotism, Regulations and Decency 

Flouted James True (National Press Bldg., Washington, D . C.), in his "Industrial Control Reports" (4/18/36), expresses admirable indignation over this amalgamating, agitating session. 

"Recently, several hundred `delegates' of the Communist Workers Alliance came here to demand an increase in doles . Their meetings were 'held on government property-the auditorium of the Department of Labor. 

"A government regulation, relative to the use of public property of the kind, promulgated by `Honest' Harold Ickes, states that use of the auditoriums shall be restricted to organizations sponsored only by government agencies . Also that no collections shall be taken up in or about an auditorium in connection with meetings held therein . 

Mrs. Roosevelt the Sponsor 

"An exhaustive attempt to determine the department or individual who sponsored the Communist meeting was met with evasions and buck-passing. Finally Mrs. Roosevelt admitted to press representatives that she sponsored the meeting. A prominently displayed sign on the desk demanded `Registration Fee 50 cents', and Communist papers were openly sold. 

"While this group was in session the Red flag was displayed . Several of the speakers, using a government auditorium at taxpayers' expense, denounced our system of government and demanded its overthrow by force and violence. 

"Secretary Perkins gave permission to several of the `delegates' to sleep in one of the Labor Department conference rooms . Police report that the swines failed to use the toilets a short distance away and left the walls and floors of the room in a vilely filthy condition ." 

Revolutionary "Practice" at Trenton 

The Communist press rumbles with menacing reports of "marches" planned by this embryo revolutionary army of 800,000 "unemployed" organized by the Communists and Socialists to demand more and more-or else! They seized the Trenton, N.J. legislative halls and "camped" in them night and day for nine days, running a mock legislature from the legislators' own seats, and proudly announced, "This is an insurrection." Of course, they were aided by radical ministers. 

Plotting Violence 

To quote the communist Daily Worker (6/2/36) "The Workers' Alliance of America and its 800,000 jobless membership in 41 states and the District of Columbia will seek $6,000,000,000 unemployment aid . `This new $1,425,000,000 appropriation will simply aggravate the existing problem,' Lasser said . `In the course of the next six months we are going to see things in this country that none of us will be responsible for .' . . . The Workers' Alliance will stage mass hunger marches this summer demanding the government increase the $1,425,000,000 appropriation for 1936- 1937 work-relief David Lasser organization president, predicted today ." 

A riot was staged in the Chicago City Hall, 7/8/36. 

Because of its sinister activities and close connections with the Roosevelt regime, the socialist-communist League for Industrial Democracy, of which the Workers' Alliance is a section, is of interest . 

L.I.D. Speakers 

The 1935 report of the League for Industrial Democracy announced that the following Roosevelt New Dealers and appointees were speakers for their national broadcast radio programs : Isadore Lubin (Dept. of Labor) ; socialistic Edward A. Filene*, N .R.A. "angel" ; also his "Republican" protege, Glenn Frank ; Socialist Chas . Edward Russell* ; A.A.Berle Jr. ; Socialist Paul Douglas* ; "Dr." Rex, Guy Tugwell* ("Doctor" of Marxian "Foolosophy") ; Henry A. Wallace* ; Senator Edward Costigan* ; Raymond Moley ; Socialist Francis J. McConnell* (vice-president of the League for Industrial Democracy and a Roosevelt appointee) ; Socialist Stuart Chase* ; radical David Cushman Coyle ; Mary Heaton Vorse* (Communist writer drawing $3,000 per year in Ickes' department).
*See The Red Network for radical affiliations 

According to a League for Industrial Democracy report, they received 1,000 to 1,500 requests after each broadcast for copies of speeches, which, if supplied gratis, would mean that they are financed to spread Red propaganda on a grand scale. 

Financed by Capitalists 

The L.I.D. "National Advisory Council on Radio in Education" (see "The Red Network") is "financed according to the current report of the Council by John D. Rockefeller, Jr . and by the Carnegie Corporation." (Awakener 1/15/35 .) 

Robert Maynard Hutchins*, Rockefeller's University of Chicago president and a Roosevelt appointee, is a member of the above Radio Council . 

God help us, if the American Civil Liberties Union puts through its program with Roosevelt's help, as now seems probable, forcing all radio stations to give radio time to revolutionaries like Earl Browder, to organize, or if public ownership of radio is effected with a man like Hutchins given the job, which he has advocated be created, of Cabinet-member Federal director of all education . We would be spoon-fed by forced feeding on a diet of such Socialist fare as the above speakers provide . 

Why Not Set an Example Instead? 

Patriots in modest circumstances, distressed at their inability to finance any opposition, wish that some small slice of the Rockefeller or Carnegie millions might be spent to fight the socialization of America. They wish in vain . One would wish at least, that millionaires who finance Socialist-Communist agitations would instead set a . peaceful example by turning over their own properties to the state . 

Some of Roosevelt's L.I.D. Appointees 

Vladimir Karapetoff of Cornell, from 1924 until recently vice- president of the L.I .D., is a Roosevelt appointee as (of all things!) Lt. Commander, U.S. Naval Reserve . He was a lecturer at the red Rand School, 10/21/35, in a course on "Technology and Revolution"! 

Norman Thomas, Socialist Party head and director of the L.I.D., is associated with Mrs . Roosevelt as a committeeman and sponsor of the Emergency Peace Campaign which she inaugurated. 

Bishop Francis J . McConnell, vice-president of the L.I.D., is a Roosevelt appointee . 

Karl Borders was former head of the Midwest, Chicago, headquarters of the L.I.D. and organizer of the L.I.D. Workers' Alliance until he went on the Roosevelt payroll. At last report he was in Harry Hopkins' department. 

Nicholas Kelley, director of the L.I.D., is also director of the National Consumers' League, of which Mrs. Roosevelt is vice-president; he is also a Roosevelt appointee. 

Paul Douglas, Chicago L.I.D. executive, is a Roosevelt appointee. 

Frederic C. Howe of the L.I.D. N.Y. Council is a Roosevelt appointee. 

Stuart Chase, author of "The New Deal", a long-time L .I .D. executive, is an unofficial Roosevelt advisor. 
*See "The Red Network" for radical affiliations . 

Robert Asher, formerly of the Chicago L.I.D office, married "Miss" Ethel Watson, Chicago, of the same office, when she divorced her husband Clarence Senior, Secretary of the Socialist Party, and they both went to Washington to work for Roosevelt. 

Glenford Lawrence, a chairman of the Chicago L.I.D. "Workers' Committee on Unemployment" went into Roosevelt's F.E.R.A. Workers' Education Dept. in 1934 . 

John A. Lapp of the Chicago executive committee, L.I.D., is a Roosevelt appointee. 

A.J. Muste, of the New York L.I.D. Council, is the leader of the communist American Workers' Party (an amalgamation of his followers with the Communist followers of Leon Trotsky, organizer of the Red Terror in Russia and exiled, through jealousy, by Stalin) . Muste's "Unemployed Leagues" were one of the three revolutionary organizations for the unemployed which united in the U . S . Dept. of Labor Auditorium provided by the Roosevelt regime for this purpose. 

Others associated with the L.I.D. as officers or committeemen include 

Kirby Page, also of Mrs. Roosevelt's Non-Intervention Citizens' Committee. He, with red George Lansbury of England and Mrs. Roosevelt, launched the Emergency Peace Campaign, 4/21/36. 

Paul U. Kellogg, of Mrs. Roosevelt's Non-Intervention Citizens' Committee (Mrs. Roosevelt is a member of his Survey Associates) ; Horace M. Kallen, of Mrs. Roosevelt's radical New School for Social Research ; Dorothy Kenyon, of the N.Y. office of the Communist- aiding American Civil Liberties Union, Mrs . Roosevelt's luncheon companion, according to her newspaper column ; Florina Lasker (of the A.C.L.U) and Walter Lippmann, Mrs. Roosevelt's associates in 1931 on the advisory board of the radical New School for Social Research ; red Clarence Darrow, Roosevelt appointee ; Anarchist Leonard D. Abbott, Roosevelt appointee ; Socialist-Communist Upton Sinclair, Roosevelt supporter (the latter three are founders of the L.I.D.) . 

What the L.I.D. Has Done 

Since 1905, when it was organized (by Jack London, Clarence Darrow, Upton Sinclair, Leonard D . Abbott, A. A. Flower, J . G. Phelps Stokes, Wm . English Walling, Oscar Lovell Triggs, Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Charlotte Perkins Gilman), the League for Industrial Democracy, first called "The Intercollegiate Socialist Society", has penetrated practically every college, forming socialist "Liberal Clubs" and Forums to disseminate Socialism and has trained countless students in the principles of the Communist Manifesto and other Red literature, and conducted yearly organizing and lecture circuits reaching hundreds of thousands of people with the propaganda of Socialist-Communist speakers . In recent years, it has conducted regular and frequent nationwide radio broadcasts. 

Communists Alexander Trachtenberg, Carl Haessler, Robert W . Dunn, and many others received their training for the Red revolutionary movement from the L.I.D., long ago anchored by faculty members in colleges supported by Christians and business men who pooh-poohed or resented any suggestion that Socialist-Communist propaganda was being financed by their donations. Now, they are taking orders from L.I.D. "graduates" in Washington.

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