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en Sere er - : we . - . to - - arte et * * ~ naio . -_" . . 7 ~ * . ee . i ; . smmieipiitinedintgnety " 2 ‘ } ae SURVERSION IN RACIAL UNnceT. -. ir oe 42 ' : WITNESS: JOGEPH KORNFEDER ~ ~ " * Jams; Negroes less—according to Marx’s theory, the south should a - be leading the United in Communist development. Well, ac- ‘o,17 * > jelly, £8 fust didn't work out that way. It was just to the contrary. , annth proved to be a hard nut and it n’t conform to the doc- - aa Srwee pew wees — as ase they tried out various methods of getting at the south and one of those — the most cunning one — was the Institute — the Peo- - ple's Institute of Applied Religion. They decided that the big block get there. As one of the leadera of that outfit, Claudes a erend, sald, “Why use Marx to preach against Religion, when you could _ use Religion to justify Marx?” ‘That is, they would take certain parts - out of the Bible, where Christ chased the money changers out of the — temple, and say, “Well, He was against capitalism.” Where Christ ad- | wocated the worth of the individual and was against Roman slavery, they ay, “Well, He was a revolutionary, He was against slavery, in- ~~ eluding wage slavery,” and so on and so forth. Well, they began to- - “: 7 ° interpret-- use the Trojan Horse philosophically, ea it were, and weave it into religion in order to get at the south. That was the idea of The People’s Institute of Applied Religion. . - Te was a conning idee, but, I don’t know, somehow that one didn't _ work ao well either. .. - 7 ety @ Was not the Southern Conference for Human Wellare in tbe same cat- =, egory as the People’s Institute of Applied Religion? .— - . A. Well, it was In the same general direction of getting at the south by ee using the Iberals in the south and those who are concerned about the : * yacial problem. Get them into one combination and get at the south in the name of the aouth, as it were. Until then it was always some porthern organization trying to operate in the south. Well, here they created a new approach of southerners operating upon the south, and that one, wi with the the ee of the administration, went aione oretty a well: and they had great hopes upon it until, well, the House Committee (U. 8. House of Representatives Committee on Un-American Activities) ‘got it into thelr heads to go and have a look at it. Then they (the ._ House Committee) of course found what could have been found Jong = ve. ‘before that, namely, that it was one of the most important strategic -Hc%' Communist operations intended to get at the south. ee Q. You my it had the support of the administration. Actually, Mrs, Blean- <)>. - or Roosevelt was one of the leaders in the Southern Conference Por Hus! | ‘man Welfare. was ahe not? ; . , eet et -.. A She was. Ghe was one of the principal lesdere at the time, res Bo was a former Senator Graham. - ~- of : tars : st eo -_ Thats Prankigrotam trom Horth Carlin wpe Taegan reat ote .& That's right. the Chairman of if = = = - «= <a? “ee Q Was the Sharecroppers® Union & Communist frent or Communistcoo- - . trolled organisation? Are you familar with that orgenimion? tote ee ee