PEOPLE'S PARTY TO BE LAUNCHED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000401080001-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 17, 2013
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: February 7, 1966
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Inside Labor
People's Party
To Be Launched
By VICTOR RiESEL
In the world of Communist se-
? mates, there is People's pleur-
isy, which one's enemy gets just
before disappearing. There is Peo-
? pie's justice, which one's opponent
gets just before disappearing
And there is People's politics,
which is organized just before ap-
pearing on the surface.
This report is concerned with
the latter since the American
Communists are about to launch
- a People's Party.
It was all worked out at a
mid-January secret meeting. In
the interest of a free press and
an informed public, I believe in
; sharing the Communist' secrets
: ?especially since the People's
, Party will be one of many peace
: parties which are proliferating
as the bombing of the Viet Cong,
' north and south, is escalating.
Some of the peace parties will
, he honest and dedicated. The
, People's Party will be dedicated
the Soviet Union.
' The secret preparatory meet-
ing was held over at the Corn-
' rnunist Party's building on W.
26 St. Some 80 full-time Party
functionaries were summoned
: from the organization's 21 dis-
tricts.
They were instructed, during
the day-long session, 'by Com-
munist Party leader Gus Hall,
who takes to the word "revolu-
tionists" as Marat took to hot
? baths.
, This People's Party must ba-
sically be a labor party organi-
zation, though there must be a
, co-mingling of rural workers, in-
tellectuals, and ultra left-wing
!. Negro activists. These &scrip-
' tions are Hall's.
'. This Brezhnev of American
Communism told the gAtlicrin;
of new youth officials, all na-
tional officers of the Communist
. Party and several ?carefully cho-
sen members of its National
Committee, that they "must
concentrate on the working class
in the U.S., and must involve
laborers and trade unionists in
the campaign for peace in Viet
? Nam."
There was an urgency about
the secret session. There was a
fear. that other peace parties
? would move in before the Com-
munists' official apparatus could
control them and, that they
?would pre-empt the field.
Motif of the day-long sessions
was the (act ,that the Supreme
? ,
Mr. Riegel
Court had ruled that Commu-
nists ? official Communists ??:
no longer were ineligible to hold
office in unions. This decision ;
came last June when the high ?
court declared that the section .
of the LandrumGriffin Labor-
Management Act which banned -
Communists from holding union
office was unconstitutional.
The appellant was self-avowed
Communist Archie Brown, a
leader of the West Coast Inter....
national Longshoremen's and ?
Warehousemen's Union, whose
national president is Harry
Bridges.
Some months later Mr. Brown,.
was elected to the 31-man Ex-.
ecutive Committee of that union's
. Local 10.
? Furthermore, the Court also ,
ruled later that the law ? which
would force Communist Party
members to register with the
Attorney General was uncon- "
.stitutional. Thus, Gus Hall and
his high command decided that ???
the Party now could turn its ?
concentration strategy back on..
the labor movement.
Favorite Conunnnist Labor,
' Commission concentration points :
are New York City, Buffalo, Chi-
cago, Detroit, Pittsburgh and'
Philadelphia on the industrial
? front.
This People's Party is sched-.,
,uled for unveiling later 'this '
month. It will be well connected,.i
well financed, well staffed and;
well camouflaged.
It's first, loud- hurrah will I
come from the assembled mass-
es or parts thereof ? during
the evening public rally sched-
uled to launch the Communist
Party's 18th Convention here.
during the last week in June.
Then, the Party will discuss its.,
Program For a Peaceful Amen-,
? ca, which is about 'to be deny...,
? erect onto the American people
'? in the coming weeks.
To frustrate the ? Federal au- i
thorities?namely the FBI?the !,
Communist Party's 'internal se. .
,curity commission will put some'
300 "guests" who are not Corn-
' =mists on the convention floor.
Thus no one should be able to
tell a Party delegate from a .vis-
itor. ?
' And the Party believes Its
people could pose unconcerned?
ly for convention photos?official
and unofficial'and plunge Into
? ' its renalsstutee,- era. Or., so.'s
hope. ; ? ?.? '? ? '..
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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2013/12/17: CIA-RDP73-00475R000401080001-4 ??.