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at. . ; { ACTIVITIEG, | "N-AMERICAN ACTI Hy : 186 UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES IN CALIFORNIA i Une os . CUMMUENIST DECEVTH : No better case in point could be cited than the evidence Her uf cleverly or in the documents on Nazi-Soviet Relations, 1939-41, publisn, Teer ate al pune a strike agains! State Department. In other words duplicity is innate in the Co. ee Weethet hee nation the force eo movement which was advised by Lenin to ‘resort to all sorts ui. wo A ee irler % technique of . Pa maneuvers, and illegal methods, to evasion and subterfuge,” ins. caret tp f r : attack ? e accomplish its Purpose. It is in this light that the following Con i age herent Vast the Commuuists . denials regarding the use of force and violence must be consider: eee a ag in Chicago in i. “ay : a . Lise Steel plant im tad | (Statement of William Z. Foster, chairman of the Communiv Qe we bs, | lo were killed. A coroner’s y i U.S. A.:) Pa cat we i ared t i 5. A.:} re on carefully prepare Aig Question. Does the Communist Party advocate the overthrow of the Unites, ~~: batt he a Oa Red Cross supp! ad Government by force and violence or by any other unconstitutional means? fete prevasiany POP AAS then provec iva ; Auswer, We'll let the Supreme Court of the United States answer 1. Tee re Communist press then Dp ae otion for us. In its decision in the Schnelderman case, June, 1943, after ens p . a om st Ps vt oprpot 1 nd the C char = that the ¢ ae ¢ yO at on @ h MU AISE AREA iad oe hr aby if i } Tae 9, 1989, an * violent seizure of power and on the other hand, the practices and dein. j Speake on Nov entber 2 Vv M : i party, including the writings of Marx, Lenin, and Stalin, the Court said: bee neesion of litthe FinJand, ¥. ML. ; “A tenable conelusion from the foregoing is thut the party in 1se7 i. . ae BPeee ce AThirs. brazenly declared : a achieve its purpose by peaceful and democratic means, and as a theoretien. - me n. citigens of the Soviet Ur lf justified the use of furee aud vislence auly ws a method of preventing on ao eee aaent of Finland toward our e& ae forcible counteraverthrow once the party had obtained contrat in a peace! : reer teria the external security of our of a8 a method of last resort to enforce the majority will if at some jidel, gg ame neue a heen initiated by the ] it in the future because of peculiur circumstances constitutional or peaceful wr se we aviet Union and Finland. * * * ¢ ¥ were no longer open,” Frat (Coward-MeCann, Ine., New Xo We Communists accept this formulation as a fair statement ef ours A Debh ntl (foward: : rietim i toward the question of political violence. American Communists have al - Thaw policy of Dlaming the victl i nized the historical fact that parties with advanced sxoeeial prograins cane ae oo violence, drew forth the followin governmental power by conspirationa? methods or by Toinerity coups det * dom . Harlan Stone in the Sehneidermu The danger of violence in such sittationg always comes from the reactionary +. ~ wee arian > sider the much-di who refuse te bow ta the democratic majority will. (New York Herahi i We heel not stop to ire stublished go January 11, 1948, p. 88.) @e te? (orem was to be used if establls Sortie te niake themselves over into prolete Foster did not state that the majority opinion in the Selineihr 1 etl stesatuens or should have } IU JOPNY OBINION ly tae Scunenh! Mec te rnental StTUCLUTES, OF Babe in any ease also declared that ‘‘This court has never passed upon the ur -- a rae subversive a the * peasures : we trey ot pay uals “ whether the Party does 80 advocate, and Ht 15 umecessary for \Mbarudesmam se, United States. 320 U. 8. 118, a 0 80 . ; d fed 1 : ew (is a acrman v. United States, d20 U.S. 148, at p ” As aucther loophole it should be ne t as generally conceded by legal authorities at the present @2ccition prohibits action against © an that the fact that Russia was an ally at the time of the decision w . : : TE RENIN SEATS TARSAL th war lenoeracy, whereby the majority pressing need of national and international unity for the task of | “ hal "I i . ine their ing the Axis Powers, created an atmosphere conducive to a {aie ™ fs uh thelr right to mibited agains decision in this precedent-making ease, of which the court con. dorian Government. Thus the Comm have been unmindful. There js good ground for the belief that af. ¢ Phrnecctiy x that such institutions are not o test case before the United States Supreme Court will result in ade- Me the lnerican people can maintain opinion regarding the party's advocacy of overthrow of governne’. desis or decide that a majority 1 force and violence. In publishing this report, your committee »« ty nee toward the institutions of Ameri aid in clarifying this Wwsue, . , hr on unuediately loses its validity. In his pamphlet entitled “2s Communism Un-American?” Eu: Timse who remember the facility wit. Dennis, general secretary of the Communist Party of the United SB fe i hep conception of the United 5 has voiced a similar denial of advocacy of force and violence: mes tte one of warmongering imperial vestion, The purty’s aim is the v olent overt row of the American syell™ . Hof the Stalin-Hitler paet in ugust, Auswer, The position of the Communist Party on this anestion is det: Seu this obvious, face-saving, jepalistic embodied in the constitution of the Communist Party which states : -_ : sahility of Mr “Adherence to or participation in the activitics of any clique, group of © The sincerity and reliability o . faction or party, which conspires or acts to subvert, undermine. weak aver’? BY oeaey of overthrow of our Governm party, w ‘ undermine, weaken or - any or all institutions of American democracy, whereby the majority of the Am. wrionsly impugned by his avowed host Av exptossed as recently as March, 1948 3 people can maintain their right to determin ponished by immediate expulsion * © #7 “fan. Political Affairs. Were he refers ' “" of two “hostile camps,” that of “im € their destinies in any degree, sh * Force and vielence—resistance to the process of basic social change="* xercised by reactionary clusses bent on maintainisy © t the will of the overwhelming majority. always been initiated and e Dower and privileges agains