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at SOE AEPOE pa, a ye 232 UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES IN CALIFORNIA a thought for the benefit of others who may try to size up people who deny they are Communists but who follow the “Communist program in every detail. Brother James Rocsevelt abandoned his Incrative job of window dressing for the ICCASP when he came to the conclusion that even _@ Roosevelt might be misled. He didn’t fight the organization but in switching his activities to the Democratic Party organization in California he announced that he was going to keep that organization out of the hands of the Communists. At the time that James Roosevelt joined ICCASP he declared that he had inv estigated and held numerous conferences regarding the organization’s aims and causes and decided that it was his duty to support them. Since it is apparent now that Roosevelts will admit that they an be taken in by Communists, other people shouldn’t feel so badlr if a legislative or congressional investigating committee should present findings that certain organizations, which they have deen duped into joining are in fact Communist fronts. ’ The fact that the Roosevelts would walk unsuspectingly into organizations manipulated by Communists should convince other people that they themselves might not be so bright that they wouldnt be misled into joining a group whose front looked all right but whose manipulators are not known to them. Nor should innocent members of the Communist-front groups be opposed to investigating committees that provide information about such groups. The best material the Communists have had to work on in this ‘Country has consisted of the sincere progressives who would not knowingly support a dictatorship of Communism nor destroy any of the democratic privileges which citizens of this Country possess. By declaring themselves to be ‘'‘ progressives,’’ and announcing their wholehearted support of eauses in which real progressives believe, the Communists have in the past found it very easy to deceive many, including even the late President Roosevelt, whom ther now declare was their ideal. Today Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt, Sr., is participating in an Eastern Democratic group which intends to keep the Communists out, while other ‘‘progressive’’ groups are being formed under the guiding hand of Communists who claim that they are working for the same things for which Mrs. Roosevelt is working. The Communist-front leaders in this country are constantly schooled in the methods of controlling the action of groups in which they may be a smal! minority. They demonstrate their capabilities in labor unions as well as in political groups and speak in the name of people who are opposed to the Communism for which they stand. They believe that as they stir up race, religious “and class prejudices they can eventually come into contro) of this Country of ours. They will never do it if sincere progressives will do their own thinking and not be fooled into accepting the leadership of any per sons who hide their real motives behind the *'progressive"’ label.