OUR COMMUNISTS ARE SO SORRY THEY WERE GOOD BOYS

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST
for their wartime policy of
`eeclass peace," America's Com-
PUPPET OUT: Browder, purged from U. S. Com-
munist leadership for advocating `!class peace."
ey Were (ioid,I1,.oys
By STANLEY' HIGH
ITH the unanimity' peculiar to Communist
\ NA VI "democracy,"' delegates of the American
Communist movement met in New York
City on July, twenty-eighth and, on orders from the
world Communist enterprise;! shed their widely.ad-
vertised' devotion. to national unity; ended their
policy of' co-operation with - capitalist-democratic
America and, under cover of the phrases`of freedom
and progress, militantly returned to their first love,
the business of disruption.
Thus 'tlie -certain was rung down 'on- one of the
best 'acts' which' the Communist Party puppets in
this country?have ever 'staged. For several years;
during which Soviet Russia stood in sore need of
American military and economic succor, the ?,Com=
munists have been among our most fervent evangels
of everything that, was good and true and'beautiful:
Their patriotism was without visible blemish. They
espoused "free, enterprise "'as though they had in-
vented it:='Hoine'arid Mother and; God were among
their 'eternal ?tverities. Their' platform read much
less likeKarl, Marie than St. Paul: " Finally, brethren,
whatsoever things are true; whatsoever things are
honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things
are pure; wh'atsoever'things are-lovely, whatsoever
things Tare of good report; if 'there be' 'any'' virtue-,
and :if'there be any'praise, think on these things."
For the same unpropitious reasons that prompted
tliem'to,stage that'act;'the Communist's have-now
called it off. The 'instrument' of their devotion 'to
America, to' its"national unity and progress, was the
Communist Political Association. At their recent
convention they liquidated it. The author -of that
policy was. their veteran , and lately loved leader,
Earl Browder. They 'liquidated' him. As a contribu-
tion to they national well-being, the Communist
Party had been dissolved. They resurrected it.-The
Communist leader ' who had most ' steadfastly ' op-
posed the pro-America 'policy was William Z. Fos-
ter. They'elevated'him'to Browder's position.,
They laid the foundations for a postwar program
of three major objectives. The?first is to prepare the
Communists of America to take decisive advantage
of those' postwar economic dislocations and' dis-
EUROPEAN
PUPPET IN: William Z. Foster, new Commu-
nist fiihrer, old hand . at. exploiting unrest.
ommirnists are So Sorry
turbances ?which they-now-eagerly anticipate and,
if they live up to their record, can be counted on to
promote.
The second objective, aimed to facilitate the first,
is a militant revival of Communist penetration into
strategically important positions in the American
labor movement and a militant revival of agitation
among Negroes and the unemployed.
.. The third objective is to intensify the Communist
effort to establish Soviet Russia, in the mind of all
"progressive" Americans, as the chief source ? of
postwar economic and political liberation; to estab-
lish also' Soviet Russia's policies, aims and ambi-
tions as,-an ideal for America and other nations-as
the only guarantee of "a people's triumph" against
".the, forces of reaction. . '
.A policy based on such objectives is an ominous
warning . to America. -Americanshave 'had oppor-
tunity to observe.tlie Communists' tal'e'nt for in-
filtration into political and economic positions of
key importance. We have had experience with their
genius for using those positions for obstructive and
destructive purposes. We know, from their past,
that Communists promote their aims without re-.
gard for the truth or the cost to America.
But there appears to be an even more ominous
significance in this Communist return to disrup-
tion. The Communists, at least, are sure that they
know exactly where the orders for that return came
from: That accounts for their unholy rush to obey.
them. If they are right, as they seem to be, then
the non-Communist observer must conclude that
Communism's prewar world enterprise is in process
of aggressive revival.
In the previous period of Communist world or-
ganization and action, orders to America's Commu-
nists came direct from the Comintern, the Commu-
nist International, in. Moscow. But in order to
escape the provisions of the United States law re-
quiring the registration of alien-affiliated organiza-
tions, United States Communists in 1940 severed
their visible Moscow connections., In 1943, when
Russia was in desperate need of the ' aid of non-
Communist nations, Stalin .dissolved the Comiri-
PUPPETEER: After Moscow visit, Duclos pulled
strings which put our pals back on old line.
Publicly spanked by Duclos,
powerful French Communist,
tern. Neither connection has yet been formally re-
established.
. ~ The latest orders to the Communists of the United
States came, therefore, via Paris and a Frenchman;
one Jacques Duclos. There is probably no Commie-
nist anywhere outside Russia itself whose. choice
for such- a duty - would - leave so little doubt in any
Communist .mind as to the ultimate source of his
authority. Jacques Duclos is a leader of the French
Communist Party. With membership nearing 1;000,=
000; that party is the largest, save for 'the Russian,
in the world.. No other is growing so rapidly in
numbers, and power. .None has such high Moscow
rating or closer ties with the Soviet Fatherland.
.- Duclos is secretary of that party-a position
similar to that which, in the Russian. party, is held
by Stalin himself. He-was a member of the.execu-
tive.committee of.. the Comintern.:; Moreover, Du-
clos, despite these connections, didnot: come cold to
the task of reversing the American.party line. First
he 'went'to Moscow. His orders were transmitted
while - he. was . still -'fresh ? from that fountainhead.
They appeared in a signed article in last April's is-
sue of the French party magazine, Les Cahiers du
Communisme. ? If Duclos meant what .he seemed to
say and if-the Communists,. who ought to' know; are
'right in their interpretation of it, -thenwe have-been
given a preview of the postwar objectives not alone
of Communism in the United States but of a re-
surging world Communist movement. '
The Duclos article examined American Commu-
nism's then-current party line at great length, and
at great length condemned it because it was aimed
"toy make democracy work within the framework
of ? the present system." That, Duclos said, is "a
false- concept .of the ways'of social evolution in the
United States." He condemned it because it gave
support to the Browder principle that "we do not
-want disaster for, America, even 'though it results
in Socialism." That principle, according to Duclos,
-','.swerved dangerously from the'victorious Marxist-
Leninist doctrine." (Continued. on Page Ili)
rnies have reversed .themselves
again, .'kicked out the benign
.Browder and returned to their
strategy of di,ruption.
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Portrait of a Fullback
By PE'T'E M llR'1'IN
believes Blanchard "may be" the finest back foot-
ball has ever known. " He isn't that now," Shaugh-
nessy thinks. "Right now, such fullbacks as Na-
gurski and Standlee haven't been surpassed. But
Blanchard is a prodigious player, a terrific ball
carrier, a tremendous blocker. And he's football
smart."
McKeever, Thistlewaite and Shaughnessy were
taking in a lot of territory-a territory on whose relief
map loom such man mountains as Nevers, Molenda,
Joesting, Thorpe, Heston, Savoldi, Maulbetsch,
Standlee and Nagurski. It is hard to believe that
any mere mortal constructed of the usual comple-
ment of flesh, blood, bones and sinews can live up
to Blanchard's advance billing. But it is equally
difficult to dig up a dissenting opinion about his po-
tential greatness. If he ends by rating alongside the
Nagurskis, the Savoldis and the Standlees the game
has known, perhaps even standing alone at the top
of the list, it will be largely because his dad planned
it that way. Blanchard's father took a leaf from an-
other father's book, a Frenchman named Lenglen.
Only Blanchard's pere's specialty was football, and
the hope of the Blanchard family was a stocky, red-
cheeked son instead of the skinny, long-nosed
daughter named Suzanne whom Father Lenglen
taught,to play tennis better than any other woman
of her time.
A cousin who visited the Blanchards when young
Blanchard was one day old said, "His dad had put a
AST fall, when Ed McKeever, Notre Dame's
coach, took a busman's holiday to scout the
Army team, he wired back to South Bend:
HAVE JUST SEEN SUPERMAN IN THE FLESH. HE
WEARS NO. 35 ON HIS ARMY JERSEY, HIS NAME IS
FELIX (DOC) BLANCHARD.
In midwinter, McKeever packed a satchel of note-
books crammed with plays and moved on to Cor-
nell, hoping to shove the Big Red team over into the
black, or victory, side of the ledger. This spring he
wrote to a friend, "I don't know what I'll have this
year, but I'm sure of one thing. I can relax and be
happy, for we don't have to meet Doe Blanchard."
When Blanchard was a North Carolina freshman,
Glenn Thistlewaite, former coach at Northwestern,
saw him play. "I have seen all of the great full-
backs," Thistlewaite said, "but this boy will be the
greatest." Clark Shaughnessy, Pittsburgh's coach,
football into the crib for luck." As soon as his son
could toddle, the elder Blanchard bought him the
best football equipment money could buy and lec-
tured him on punting and kicking, and taught him
how to carry a ball so that an opposing player
couldn't bump it from his grasp.
Felix Blanchard, Senior, knew about those things.
He had played for Tulane in the years between 1917
and .1920. He was a natural football player, and,
although he weighed nearly 250 pounds and wore a
Size 12 shoe, he was as fast as a blooded race horse.
His parents were dead set against the game. They
were Louisiana French, which is just another way
of saying they were ultraconservative. If they had
known he was playing, they would have yanked
him out of school, so he played under the name of
Beaullieu: Tulane wrote to the schools on its sched-
C_
ale to explain matters, and they sportingly agreed
to the deception.
Leaving Tulane, Blanchard finished his medical
education at Wake Forest, returned to Tulane for a
while, married Mary Gilchrist Tatum, of McColl,
South Carolina, and settled down to practice medi-
cine in Bishopville, South Carolina, a town with a
population of 3000. When a son was born to the
Blanchards, he was named Felix Anthony Blan-
chard, Jr., but he was called Little Doc, since, with
the easy informality of a small Southern commu-
nity, his dad was called Doc.
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Big Doe saw to it that his son had not only foot-
balls but baseballs and tennis rackets as well. And
Little Doc took to carrying a football with him
wherever he went around Bishopville. When he
went swimming and diving at near-by Lake Delano,
where Bishopville's young fry try their fins, he was
usually the leader in "follow the leader."
The boyhood of Felix Anthony Blanchard, Jr.,
was as typically American as joining the Boy Scouts,
playing mumble-the-peg or hooking school. At the
age of four, he tried his father's pipe and set the barn
on fire. In the summertime, he earned pocket money
as a delivery boy for the corner grocery. He had a
brush with the law over a broken window, and the
incident was settled with a ten-dollar bill contributed
by his dad. When he was old enough to drive, he
shared a stripped-down jalopy with his young sister.
Like many other parents, the Blanchards had
difficulty in keeping their son in clothes. Invari-
ably, Little Doc outgrew his before he wore them
out. When he was thirteen, he weighed 159 pounds.
A year later, he weighed 180 and was still growing.
Scientists who delve into the mysteries,of genetics
should be interested in Little Doe's growth and
amazing physical equipment, for not only was Big
Doc a remarkable specimen of manhood . but
Felix, Jr.'s, mother is exceptionally robust, and both
of Big Doe's brothers were hefty.
Until Little Doc was old enough to go out for the
Bishopville High team, his dad took him to see the
home games. The first game in which Little Doc
played was Bishopville's annual contest with its
arch rival, Bennettsville. When the coach sent Lit-
tle Doe in as sub fullback, a Bennettsville back car-
ried the ball over him for a score on the first play.
Little Doe thought seriously of quitting football,
but after a heart-to-heart talk with his dad, he re-
versed his decision. The next time the Bishopville
coach sent him into a game, he brought down a ball
carrier with a bone-jarring tackle still remembered
in' South Carolina's Lee County.
A year later, when Big Doc entered him at St.
Stanislaus College in Bay City, Mississippi, his let-
ters home were as brief as the letters all sons away
at'school write to their parents. "Dear mother and
daddy," he wrote, I made a pretty good report
this week. Thanks ' for the two dollars. Made first
,team. Will write later. Love, Anthony."
While at St Stanislaus, he made the All-Gulf-
Coast-Region , Class A team, and played on the
teams that appeared twice in the New Orleans Toy
Bowl as a 'curtain raiser for the Sugar Bowl game.
When he finished his St. Stanislaus career, in spite
of the fact that Notre Dame's All-American Marcby
Schwartzhad preceded him at the Bay City school,
the school paper printed the headline: BLANCHARD
HAS RECORD AS, GREATEST FOOTBALLER IN STAN-
ISLAUS' HISTORY. Colleges all over the country
wanted Little Doe. Brother Peter, then head of
St. Stanislaus said,. "During the next six months a
procession of big-time coaches came to woo him-
and and the disappointment on various campuses was
bitter when he finally chose North Carolina."
Little. Doe's first cousin, Jim Tatum, was respon-
sible for his going to North Carolina. Tatum had
returned to North Carolina in 1939 as director of
freshman athletics and head freshman football
coach. He used no high pressure on Doc, Jr., to
enroll him at North Carolina. He had his cousin
over to Chapel Hill. for a few days, and he liked it
there, so he stayed. That was all right with Big Doc.
His son had considered only Tulane, Duke and North
Carolina, and, since Big Doe's health was bad, he
hoped his boy would pick either North Carolina or
Duke to make it easier for him to see him play.
The relationship between father and son was" a
special one. Big Doc helped his boy in every way he
knew-he even packed his trunk for him when Little
Doc went off to college-yet he was careful not to
spoil him. A spoiled son, he knew, would be poison.
During his stay at Chapel Hill, Little Doc starred
in every game the North Carolina freshmen played.
The-Tar Babies won the state title that year.
Little Doc was looked upon by the North Caro-
lina coaching staff as the best fullback who had ever
entered ,the university. He weighed 210, was six
feet one and a half inches tall, ran the 100-yard dash
in ten seconds, and cracked into the line like a
locomotive. "There were several men on the varsity
who got' so they wouldn't try to tackle him,". said
R. A. White, who trained the North Carolina frosh.
"Once he knocked out two would-be tacklers on the
same play."
Bob Madry, who handles press relations for
North. Carolina, recalls Blanchard's attitude, about
personal publicity with awe. Little Doc never came
near his office or sought press clippings or. photo-
graphs of himself. His lack of ego was unique in
Madry.'s experience with a succession of scrapbook-
happy athletes. ;
While at Chapel Hill, Blanchard was pledged
Sigma Nu. Along with the other pledges, Little Doc
was subjected to that part of the initiation called
Hell Week-an institution having to do with
paddles, hazing and goofy stunts abrasive to the
body and to the sensibilities. French blood has
never been notable for its. sluggishness. and, during
Hell Week, Little Doc decided that he didn't like
it and walked out. He was followed by the entire
group of pledges. For a while, the fraternity won-
dered if it would have any new men that fall, but
a few hours later Blanchard changed his mind and
came back, bringing the' other pledges with him.
Once when he was on a trip with. a group of.fra.
ternity brothers, he thought that a hotel manager
was giving them a raw deal, and he ripped a
steam radiator from the floor with his hands, pipes
and all.
In 1943, at the close of his freshman year at North
Carolina, he volunteered for the Army, after having
been turned down by the Naval unit at Chapel Hill
because of defective sight; as a boy, one of his eyes
had caught a mud pellet thrown by a playmate.
Also, the Navy claimed that he was overweight for
his size, a reason for his rejection that dumfounded
the Tar Babies' opponents, to whom Blanchard's
weight had certainly seemed no handicap. In an
The late Felix Blanchard when he was a star at Tu- effort to reduce his weight and have him accepted
lane. He put a football into his son's crib for luck. by the Navy V-12 course, Jim Tatum put Little
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 OUR COMMUNISTS
ARE SO SORRY
THEY WERE GOOD BOYS
(Continued from Page 17)
He condemned its "perspective for
Europe minimizing and to a great ex-
tent eliminating altogether the threat
of, civil war after the international
war" and for its belief in and support
of "a long period of peaceful relations
in the world before the general advent
of Socialism." These, he said, were
"erroneous" conclusions "in no wise
flowing from a Marxist analysis of the
situation."
%"The concept," said Duclos, "of a
long-term class peace in the United
States, of the possibility of the sup-
pression of the class struggle in the
postwar world and the establishment
of harmony between labor and capital
is 'a notorious revision of Marxianism.
By, a political platform of class peace,
American Communists are sowing dan-
gerous opportunist illusions which will
exercise a negative influence on the
American labor movement if they are
not met with the necessary reply."
Browder's contention that "the prin-
cipal internal problems of the United
States must in the future be solved'
exclusively by means of reforms"
could only result in "reducing to a
minimum or completely suppressing
methods of struggle and opposition of
force to force in the solution of internal
problems of each country."
The true doctrine, said Duclos, is
the old one that "Socialism cannot be
achieved without the conquest of
.power." The Communists of the
United States, as their "necessary re-
ply," must return to that doctrine.
There must be a "countermanding"
of- the policy of "peace between the
classes" and a new policy based upon
the;" opposition of force to force in the.
solution of internal problems."
All 8000 words of this article were. printed 'in the Daily Worker of May'
twenty-fourth. They were introduced
by a groveling note in which Earl
Browder hinted that, though.the voice
was the voice of Duclos, all'the com-
rades ought to know whose the hand
was. "Unquestionably, while this is a
personal article of Jacques Duclos,"
wrote Browder, "it reflects the general
trend of opinion of European Marxists
in relation to America and thus de-
mands our most respectful attention."
The Communists began to shed their
skins immediately. In the party press
they poured out their calculated peni-
tence, cursed the old, embraced the
new and acknowledged their shame
that they had even briefly tried "to
find means of peaceful coexistence and
collaboration" with America.
Their words were servile paraphras-
ing's of Duclos. "We were guilty of op-
portunism." "Marxist-Leninist clas-
sics were distorted to rationalize our
opportunist policy." "We have been
guilty of opportunistic revisions of the
worst kind." "We were conformists."
"I'feel very deeply my own weakness
in failing to recognize the liquidationist
tendencies inherent in our political
line."
They left no doubt of their under-
standing that disruption was. hence-
forth expected of them. "Our theory
and practice led to the disarming of
the working class." "False" was "our
conception that our country can act in
a consistently progressive direction."
"While it is imperative to utilize the
contradictions within the camp of the
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THE. SATURDAY. EVENING POST_
thieves" (Britain.and--America) "it is
impermissible, false sand dangerous: to
believe that long-term collaboration is
possible.". . "The whole policy of class
peace, our rosy postwar perspectives
weakened the labor movement."
The unprincipled ruthlessness with
which they turned on Earl Browder
was unsurpassed save,, perhaps, by the
Moscow trials of 1936-38. and the
liquidation of virtually a whole-genera-
tion of veteran Communists.
Browder,had been general secretary
of the party, its chief executive, for
fifteen years. He was president of the
new Communist Political Association,
editor in chief of the Daily Worker, a
member of all the party's important
boards and committees, author of its
most authoritative' books and, pam-
phlets-Twice he had been the Commu-
nist candidate for President of . the
United States. .
On May twentieth; the occasion of
his, fifty-fourth birthday, the Daily
Worker published the greeting to Brow-
der of the national 'board of the Com-
munist Political. Association. "We ex-
press what all of us feel so deeply about
you, the beloved 'leader of our move-
ment. . . . Your bold, mature Marx-
ist leadership. . . . You are one of the
great leaders of the people. . . We
have the highest confidence that under
your firm guidance we shall. continue
to make an honorable. and. vital con-
tribution. . . ."
* * *?* * * *
ON MANNERS
Most children these days are
similar in many disrespects.
-JOHN NEWTON BAKER.
The Duclos article was published
five days later. Browder's late friends
could hardly move fast,enough to con=
fess themselves his enemies.. The Daily
Worker gladly furnished space for. their
attacks. '.' Browder's policy is the crass-
est form of opportunism." ".Browder's
approach tends to place a strait jacket
around the struggle for peace and se-
curity." He has been "dispensing in-
tellectual trash in the name of Marx-
ianism." He is a "bourgeois reformer";
a champion of "reactionary. capital-
ism." "His erroneous and. utopian
perspectives: for the postwar world
could not but have.a particularly dan-
gerous effect." , '
. The national board : of the C.P.A.
now solemnly resolved. Browder to be
"the chief architect of the revisionism
in our Communist movement" and
charged him with "a, proportionately
greater share of responsibility than any
other individual or member for the op-
portunist errors and mistakes in the
recent.period.".
When the, nationalconvention met
in July, the skids were ready. Browder
was deposed: as party; leader, stripped
of all party; offices, `and reduced, with
neither friends nor a job, to a proba-
tionary status where,-according to Wil-
liam Z., Foster, ; his successor, he must
prove, in action, his; right 'to . even a
rank-and-file party membership..:
Foster, sixty-four, one-time organ-
izer ; for the . I. W. W.,, ~ a Communist
since about 1921, the party's expert on
trade-union penetration and three
times its candidate .for President, had
opposed and never. been reconciled to
Browder's program of "class peace."
For his persistent devotion to disrup-
tion, he narrowly escaped expulsion
from..the party. .Now, that the official
return to disruption has lifted him to
leadership, he publicly, asserts what,,
previously, he said.only in private...
A program. "based on class peace,"
he declared at the time of his election
to, leadership, "would be' a first-class
disaster to the. workers and the people
generally, as' well as to our party."
Labor-union penetration is now a first
essential since, said Foster, "the aims
of the trade-unions cannot be. achieved
by a harmonious agreement between
labor and capital." The ' Communist
Party in the United States will hence-
forth be prepared to take, full, advan-
tage of the dislocations and. upheavals
in America ; which every. Communist
-pow counts on. . .
"It may be stated," said Foster,
"that Stalin is one of those who' think
that.an economic -crisis after the war. is
inevitable in the United States. Stalin
is right in his forecast of an American
postwar crisis." .
"Our task in this. respect . is not to
spin capitalist utopias." The "concep-.
tion of postwar national unity is ab-
surd." Under Browder, the Commu-
nists had aggressively supported the
effort to extend labor's no-strike pledge
into the postwar period. Under Foster,
Communist approval of a i no-strike
policy. was limited to the war period,
thus opening the way for "the future
battles "which will become sharper as
we go along."
In preparation for those battles, de-
clared the editors of the New Masses,
"THE COMMUNISTS CLEAR DECKS"
and have "begun to create a new policy
that accords with reality; to. 'recognize
the grasping role of American imperial-
ism and what to do about it."
It is possible that these procedures
and threats may have no Moscow con-
nectionwhatsoever and, therefore, no.
more than local American significance.
The government of the Soviet Union
may regard the Communist Party in
the United States as of no better than
nuisance value and not at all as an im-
portant instrument and agent of the
Soviet's ambitions or of Communism's
world aims.
In such case, American Communists
have been misdirected. into a serious
disservice to the Soviet Union. Before
that disservice. reaches damaging pro-
portions either to- the internal. situa-
tion in the United States or to Soviet-
American relations,, the Soviet' govern-.
ment may feel obliged to end it.with a
forthright disavowal.
But if America's Communists are'
wrong, so,' obviously, is the highly '
placed' and trusted Jacques Duclos.
So, also, is the French Communist
Party, which cabled formal congratu-
lations toy the American party. on its
new policy.. So is the Swiss party,
which . specifically::-congratulated its.
American-comrades -for :their "con-'
.,que'st: of Browder." So are the, parties
of,nuinerous other nations which sent'
similar,,_messages.. .Error, on such a
:scale .is. hardly, likely. That, would be'
.the ultimate in. misunderstanding. Be-
,cause it involved a ,disservice to the
Soviet Union it. would-be the; ultimate;
in:'Communist high treason.,:
It..is clear from the-devious and de-`
ceptive Communist record,that.the one
dependable Communist loyalty is. loy-
alty to the Soviet Union. ,The single
consistency in, the party line has-been
its attempt to mirror and promote the
Soviets', aims and ambitions. ? In all its
weavings ;it has had no other trust-;
worthy. purpose. The party's .recent;
history is proof of the shrewd and un-
principled zeal with which that pur-
pose is promoted. , It is that history,-
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which gives the. new party line its
ominous significance.
Prior to the war's outbreak in Eu-
rope, the Soviets were under, the sub-
stantial fear that the Fascist nations
might-gang up on them. In that period,
therefore, the Communists were .our
fiercest anti-Fascists. Then Stalin shook
the world by his pact with Hitler. At
once the Communists changed the
names of their anti-Fascist organiza-
tions, dropped their boycott of Ger-
man goods and sought to sellthe coun-
try on the ? idea that appeasing Hitler
was, as Earl Browder said, "a master
stroke for peace."
? When Hitlei attacked one European
country" after another, not a Commu-
nist could be found who hated Fascism-
enough to raise his voice -in protest.
On the' contrary, Browder declared
that, as between the Fascist and demo-
cratic nations in the war; "there is
nothing to choose." United States pro-
duction of war goods to aid the democ-
racies and 'destroy Fascism was de-
scribed by the New Masses -as "col-
laboration with the enemies of the peo-
ple." To weaken the anti-Fascist war
effort, Communists fomented a whole
series of destructive strikes in critical
American war industries.
Then, on June 22, 1941, Hitler at-
tacked Russia.- In. a miracle of un-
scrupulousness, the Communists re-'
versed themselves overnight. THE
IMPERIALISTS' WAR was now THE
PEOPLE'S WAR OF NATIONAL- LIBERA-
TION. LIBERA-
TION-The party slogan, Nor A CENT;
NOT A GUN, NOT A MAN quickly .was
changed to THIS HOLIEST OF CAUSES.
WARMONGER ROOSEVELT became OUR
SUPERB LEADER. THE YANKS ARE--NOT
COMING was dropped from the party's
songbook. Into its place went FIGHT,
AMERICA, FIGHT. '
When Pearl Harbor put the United'
States into ? the war, Russia was fight-
ing with her back to the wall in 'Eu-
rope. Fearful that we might first fight
in the Pacific and thereby delay aid to
Russia, our Communists turned.loose
their -entire' propaganda' 'machine to
convince the nation that Europe, was
our first job.
Side-Line Generalship '
When. it became apparent that we
proposed to fight ? in Europe also, the
Communists, with' Russia's back still
to the, wall,: originated the political
agitation for a second front. The Daily
Worker specified, that only a front along
the North European coast, where pres-
sure on Germany - would most quickly
relieve pressure on Russia, would be
Opening prayers were prescribed for
gatherings of the Communist Amer-
ican Youth for Democracy. The New
Masses ran a featured series of articles
On OUR CALVINIST LEGACY. When The
New York Times revealed the wide-
spread inadequacy of American history
instruction in our high schools, no pub-
lication was so deeply shocked as the
New Masses at this appalling state of
affairs." "'In a war for national sur-
vival,. a deep immersion in American
history is of crucial importance."
. As a climaxing act of this" campaign
of purposeful good faith, Browder an-
nounced the impending dissolution of
the Communist Party at an immense
and wildly cheering meeting in Madi-
son Square Garden in January, 1944.
That announcement was unanimously
ratified at a special party convention
the following spring. The Communist
Political Association was unanimously
created-in place of the party.
The Red Lexicon
"The Communist Political Associa-
tion," said its constitution, "is a non-
party organization of Americans which,
basing itself upon the working class,
carries forward the traditions of Wash-
ington, Jefferson, Paine, Jackson and
Lincoln. It-upholds the Declaration of
Independence, the United States Con-
stitution and its Bill of Rights and the
achievements of American democracy
against all the enemies of popular lib-
erties."
From this vantage point of unsullied
Americanism, the Communists carried
forward what they conceived to be
their Soviet mission. Wherever, in Eu-
rope or Asia, a government or resist-
ance movement showed itself to be
pro-Soviet, they quickly enfolded it
with -the most meaningful. American
phrases. Those not" pro-Soviet were
.condemned in language likely to sound
most derogatory to Americans.
Thus the swallowing up of Estonia,
Latvia and Lithuania was described as
liberation." When an early Italian
regime excluded Communists, it was
labeled as "a shadow regime -which is
hated by the. Italian people as deeply
as are Hitler and Mussolini." The
excluded Communist elements were
called- "the party of liberation."
For having come to amicable terms
with the Soviets, the Czechoslovak
government, was eulogized for its
constructive and consistent role.". In
Rumania, the non-Communist govern-
ment of Nicolae Radescu'was made up
of "reactionaries" and engaged in
"sabotage." The Communist opposi-
tion, however, was "the strongly anti-
irig campaign to maneuver themselves . The fact that, the Communists are
into a position from which, once Russia now, returning to disruption does not
was militarily out of the woods and vic- call for the ending of this effort, under
tory in sight, they could lend a, helping democratic disguise, to support the in-
Communist hand in the' shaping of terests and aims of the Soviets. On the
the world's ' postwar political setup. contrary, the newly adopted constitu-
On the assumption that the first and tion of -the newly revived Communist
foremost Soviet objective was to make Party is -alive with such phrases as
Russia and Russia's political friends "democracy," "popular liberties," "the
the ascendant power in Europe;- Asia welfare of the people _ and the nation."
and wherever else it could be managed, It even offers itself as a "guarantee" of
they undertook to dress up that pros- "the full realization of .the right to life,
pect to look like something 'which liberty and the pursuit to happiness."
America' would welcome, and, perhaps, " Thus ""Communists and - non-
even help to bring about. Communists, all progressives and anti-
They ostentatiously shed everything Fascists, can be rallied" in support of
which, 'might provoke ? unpleasant the continued attempt to make it ap-
thoughts in the American mind toward pear that. the prospects for a free,
Communism and, thereby; toward 'the peaceful, progressing postwar world
Soviets. They ostentatiously -identified are everywhere identical with the, plans
themselves with the best features of the and purposes of the Soviet Union.
good: life in order. to persuade us -that ? "The atom bomb which shattered a
the good life, on .the American plan, Japanese, city -last I Sunday;" . declared
was exactly what Russia had, in mind. the Daily' Worker of August ' ninth,
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and military bombshell of even deeper
significance: the Soviet declaration of
war on Japan. The Soviet bombshell
represents the greatest guaranty thus
far that there will emerge a genuine
peace and a new Asia."
It is likely the Communists' newly
adopted disruptive program will, sooner
or later, foul up these democratic,
American disguises. That, doubtless,
will lead to the undeceiving of some
of the "progressive elements" with
which-to serve the Communist pur-
pose-they are now seeking alliance.,
That prospect does not seem to bother
the Communists. They evidently figure
that, long before that happens, Russia
will be so well along in the postwar
political settlements that further effort
on their part will be unnecessary.'
Then, from the decks so lately
cleared of such obstructive policies as
PORTRAIT
OF A FULLBACK
filling Scrapbook No. 3. Mary Eliza-
beth Blanchard's idea of fun was to
get out and scrimmage with a boys'
football squad herself, nor did she
mind an occasional bloodied nose ac-
quired in so doing.
Ralph Davis-Glenn Davis' twin
brother-is Blanchard's best friend at
The Point. They bunk together on
team trips. His favorite gag is to dig
up a D drag-deficient blind date-for
Doc. o But," Davis hastens to add,
"when Doc dates a girl himself, she is
usually mighty attractive." .
Blanchard has no particular formula
for keeping himself fit. The Point rou-
tine takes care of that. Every cadet
participates in athletics, even if only'
intramural soccer. The various athletic
squads-with the exception of the A
and B footballers, who ride busses to
practice-trot over The Point's paths
on the double on their way to the
athletic fields. Blanchard stands no
chance to grow soft or short of wind,
for his athletic program is a strenuous
one, involving fall football, winter in-
door track, spring football practice and
late-spring outdoor track.
Any cadet's daily schedule is so
chockablock that even a pause to pass
the time of day cuts things dangerously
fine. A typical Blanchard day goes like
this:
5.50 Reveille.
6:20 Assembly to breakfast.
.7:00 Back to room.
7:45 to noon Classes.
12:15 to 12:45 Dinner.
1 to 3 Afternoon classes.
3:30 Football practice.
5:50 to 6:00 Finish football practice.
6:15 Dinner for rest of corps.
6:30 Dinner for football squad.
7:00 Finish dinner.
7:15 Call to quarters. Study.
10:30 Taps.
When a cadet invites a drag to The
Point for the week end, it means that
he expects to spend most of his Satur-
day and Sunday waking hours with
her. But in the fall Blanchard takes
_'part in football practice or a game on
Saturday afternoons, and doesn't be=
gin to act as a squire of dames until
Saturday evening, when he can take
his date to the movies before escorting
her to the week-end hop. The Point's
dance regulations specify that a cadet
must hold the girl with whom he is
dancing at a "proper distance," which
means that daylight must show be-
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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST
"co-operation," "collaboration," "re-
form" and "class peace;" the party
can go into, action for "Socialism
through the seizure of power." To
preparation for that event and to its
hastening, the Communists ` of the
United States have now dedicated
themselves. The results of that dedica-'
tion, if the Communists live up to their
past, will not be long in appearing. .
They 'will' be even less delayed if the
party lives up to what it believes to be
its future. Supported and impelled by
Soviet Russia's monumental triumphs,
Communism, to the Communist, is
now a surging, cosmic' tide. To the
Communist, the recent party upheaval
had behind it a power even more com-
pelling than the orders transmitted by
Duclos. It was,' as the editor of the
New Masses declared; "of a piece with
the tremendous events moving across
the world. . THE END
tween partners. Once at a hop, he
can't leave the dance floor until he is
ready to go home. Like other Army
football players, Blanchard sleeps late
on Sunday morning during the season,
and wakes in time to -have luncheon
with his drag at The Thayer-West
Point hotel, after which he can take
her for a walk or sit with her in the
Thayer'soda bar, where a mammoth
scoop of ice cream dripping with hot
fudge costs fifteen cents.
At St. Stanislaus, Blanchard de-
voured comic books, although officially
they were frowned upon. -At The
Point, he has shown a weakness for
Western fiction, his favorite authors
being Zane Grey and Max Brand. His
favorite movie star is Betty Hutton,
but his Hutton fixation was somewhat
dissipated by the star's recent mar-
riage.
Those who know him say of him,
"Outwardly, he's not nervous before a
game, but he's mighty sincere about
football." He talks in his sleep on the
night before a game, and yells such
things as "Get him! Get him!" while
slumbering. Once, on a football) trip,
while still asleep in a lower berth, he
began to move his legs as if running
through and over tacklers on a broken
field. A teammate in the berth above-
thought the train was coming apart.
Leo Novak, the Army's track coach,
believes that with Blanchard's natural
timing and co-ordination, he could ex-
cel at any sport.
"Blanchard is a tremendous man,
and he's fast," said Novak. "He came
out for track last December. At first;
he did only thirty feet with the sixteen-
pound shot. A month later he was hit-
ting forty-one feet. Then on ? March
third, at the ICAAAA Indoor Cham-
pionships in New York, he won the
shot with a heave' of forty-eight.feet,
three and a half inches."
On Saturday, May_ twenty-sixth,
Plebe Blanchard won the shot in the
Army-Navy dual meet with a distance
of fifty-one feet, ten and three quarters
inches, to establish a new meet record.
Novak has seen men gain two feet with
the sixteen-pound shot in a season,
even five feet, but he had never seen an
athlete lift his distance twenty feet in
six months. Despite the fact that he
must have known that he was tutoring
his friend to replace him as the Army's
No. 1 weight man, Ralph Davis had
almost as much to do with making Doc
a top-flight shot putter as did Coach
Novak. "Ralph put him hep to the
fine points," said a cadet who knows
them both, "and Doc did everything
Ralph told him to do."
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"The boy is well coupled," Novak
explained. "And he's good for ten flat
in the hundred." While ten flat is fast,
it is no longer regarded as phenomenal.
It's only phenomenal when a. boy
weighing more than 200 pounds does
it. "Where Blanchard excels as a run-
ner is on his getaway," Novak said.
"He's ahead of everybody up to fifty
yards, and that fast getaway helps him
when he is lugging a football. He's
popular and he's not conceited. He's
always wrasslin' with Ralph Davis.
They're like a couple of puppies."
Both Novak and Ralph Davis, how-
ever, make it clear that Blanchard
doesn't fool around when the chips are
down "In competition, he's a differ-
ent man," Novak declared. "In prac-
tice, he'll get the shot out around forty-
one or forty-two feet. Then, on Satur-
day, when it counts, he tosses it fifty."
"In football, you have to hit him
low if you want to stop him," Ralph
Davis said. It is an easy trick to prove
that Blanchard plows into an opposing
tackler with an impact of 6750 foot-
pounds, and,. as if this momentum
were not enough, he has a habit of
turning on an extra notch of speed in
the split second before he hits an oppo-
nent-a device the most rugged tackler
finds sharply disconcerting. Blanchard's
natural color is florid, but his face
grows even redder when he's excited or
angry and his lips tighten into a
straight line. He really hits for keeps
then.
In last year's Army-Notre Dame
game, the South Bend back, Kelly, was
running with the ball when Doc Blan-
chard came up to make the tackle. An
official made the mistake of getting
between them, and Blanchard went
through him as if he were made of
paper to drop. Kelly. The other officials
called time out for their injured co-
worker.. Later in the game, the same
striped-shirt wearer got in Blanchard's
way once more, and after this second
collision he was a stretcher case.
Lawson Robertson, coach of many
American Olympic teams, thinks that
the secret of Blanchard's success as a
shot putter lies in his legs and thighs.
"The impetus that sends the shot out
beyond the fifty-foot mark starts in the
legs and travels upward," Robertson
said. No one who has seen Blanchard
in a track suit will forget his thighs.
Seeing them, it was easy to believe
Novak when he said, "If that boy
pulled a muscle, he wouldn't even
know it."
Those legs may become as famous in
time as the gams of Dietrich or Grable.
Scarlett O'Hara's waist measured only
seventeen inches when cinched in, but
Blanchard's thigh bulges the tape
measure at least eight inches more than
Scarlett's waist; and his calf looks as if
it had been removed from the statue of
David by Michelangelo. . Such under-
pinning contributes enormously to
Blanchard's muzzle velocity when he
cannonades into the line, just as the
sixteen-inch calf and twenty-five-inch
thigh of Jumping Joe Savoldi and the
eighteen-inch calf and twenty-six-inch
thigh of Bronko Nagurski made those
human projectiles hard to stop.
Andy Bershak, end at North Caro-
lina in 1937, and a member of the Tar
Heel coaching staff while Blanchard
was a freshman, once remarked to Jim
Tatum, "Jim, I know some folks would
rather see a pretty girl with a lovely
figure than anything else. Personally,
I'd rather look at Blanchard getting
dressed for a game than any pretty girl
I've ever seen! What a build!"
It is Army's policy to use Blanchard
as a flanker in its T formation. " When
Blanchard is out on the wing," said
George Munger, the University of
Pennsylvania coach, whose team lost
to Army last fall 62-7, "he's not only
a good ball carrier-last year he gained
five hundred and fifty-six yards for an
average of seven and one tenth yards-
but he's a hot pass receiver and blocker.
He puts tremendous pressure on the
end and the backer up. You never
know whether he'll block the end,
block the back or keep on going and
catch a pass, and that uncertainty
helps open up things so All-American
Glenn Davis can romp through."
Like a boxer, Blanchard possesses
not only speed but timing. His blocks
are razor-edge timed, so that the end
can't get up and make the tackle after
he's been blocked. An end must play
Blanchard direct, instead of keeping
one eye on the ball carrier. Doc is a
vicious tackler. He moves in when he
makes his contact and keeps driving
with his legs. When he hits a ball car-
rier, that carrier is usually stopped or
driven back.
One coach who scouted most of the
Army's games last year says of him,
"He's a better-than-average punter.
When he warms up before a game, his
punts average better than fifty yards.
Some of them sail out as far as sixty-
five or seventy yards. He kicks off for
the Army, and seventy per cent of his
kicks go over the goal line; many of
them through the goal posts. His kick-
offs average fifty-six and one tenth
yards per boot. Many times after
kicking off, he gets down to make the
tackle himself."
On pass defense, Blanchard is a ball
hawk. He's a great pass receiver and
takes them on the run out in the flat-
a tough angle in which to catch a
pass-as well as down the field. Dur-
ing a game he has composure. He en-
joys every minute of it. He's not flighty
or fidgety. He knows how-to relax.
It is inevitable that Blanchard
should be compared to the game's
other great fullbacks. ? Steve Owen,
coach of the pro New York Giants,
said of him, " He's as good as Nagurski,
only he has more finesse." Oscar Hag-
berg, coach of the United States Naval
Academy, who has reason to know,
said, "He reminds me of both Savoldi
and Nagurski. He's terrific."
Clark Shaughnessy's estimate of
Blanchard's place 'among fullback
greats is more-dispassionate, although
Shaughnessy has a sentimental interest
in him. For it was Shaughnessy who
was coaching at Tulane when a young
buck from the bayous named Blan-
chard played for the Green Wave un-
der the name of Beaullieu.
in September, 1942, Shaughnessy
was in a Durham, North Carolina,
hotel room when a knock came at the
door. "As the door opened, I saw a
man filling it," he said. "His name was
Felix Blanchard. I hadn't seen him for
twenty years, when I coached him at
Tulane. Right behind him, sort of jut-
ting out all around his edges, was his
son. He was a second edition of his
dad, who was certainly proud of him.
He'd done everything he could to de-
velop the football ability that had been
born in his son. He'd be even prouder
now, if he were still alive. Big Doc
Blanchard used to leave some mighty
fast footsteps, but just as he seemed to
jut out around the edges of his father
that day I saw him in the doorway,
Little Doc does everything his father
did, and does it a little better."
With such tributes beating down on
him like a hot white light, Blanchard
was on the spot this fall. If he turned
in a performance of merely All-American
caliber, there was tongue clucking and
head wagging in the press box. But when
he took up this fall where he left off last
year, there was no falling off in his
stellar qualities. The New York Times
compared him to a machine powered by
atomic energy and-after the Michigan
game-to a "charging wild buffalo."
In the Army's opener, the P.D. Com-
mand game, he kicked off twice into the
end zone, and on both occasions tackled
the receiver. Against Michigan, he
tallied twice, once on a line buck, and
again burst through the line for sixty-
eight yards. On a seventy-yard run by
Davis, Blanchard helped throw one of
the blocks that cleared the way.
After the Michigan game, one sports
writer wrote, "Army won because of
two reasons. One was Felix (Doc)
Blanchard. The other was Glenn
Davis. If one were to eliminate them,
the fray would have been a toss-up."
Blanchard and Davis would be the first
to put the blast on such a statement.
They would point out that, after all,
there was a one-man task force named
DeWitt Coulter in the Army line, and
that there was a bullet back named'
Shorty McWilliams in the Army back-
field, and that a number of other for-
midable characters such as Pitzer and
Tucker helped out manfully. But they
can't brush aside the fact that between
them they scored three of Army's four
touchdowns in the Michigan game-
one paper called them the "twin high
executioners"-and gained 370 of the
380 yards the Army made by rushing.
Early in this present season there
was a tendency on the part of coaches
to say that this year's Army team is
the best collegiate one ever gathered
together, and that it would be capable
of standing toe to toe with the best the
pro leagues have to offer. Almost in
the same breath, the same coaches
make the point, "Of course you can't
tell really how good the Army is be-
cause they are playing against teams
denuded of their natural strength and
power by the loss of key men to the
armed services." The size of last year's
Army scores may well have reflected
that situation. Despite the fact that
this year its opponents have been'
bolstered almost weekly by returnee
stars, how well such players as Davis
and Blanchard will do against a prewar
type of opposition will not be revealed
until next year-perhaps not until the
year after. However, when Blanchard
was acclaimed the greatest star St.
Stanislaus ever had, and the finest full-
back ever to enter North Carolina, the
teams on which he played had no
special advantages over the ones they
met. And when .he starred against
Navy last year he was not playing
against a team weakened by enlist-
ments or inductions.
The official attendance at last year's
Army-Navy game was 66,639. Un-
officially it was 66,640. Somewhere in
the crowd was a huge block of a man
with thinning hair and a soft Louisiana
accent. Despite his bulk, he took up
no room, for he wasn't there in the,
flesh. He had died seven months be-
fore. But a little thing like death
wouldn't have kept Felix Anthony
Blanchard away from -the. Baltimore
Municipal Stadium where his son was
meeting his sternest test.
At least twice during each season
while Little Doc played for St. Stanis-
laus, Big Doc made the trip from Lee
County, all the way to Bay City,
Mississippi, to see his son run .with the
ball. When Little Doc moved on to the
University of North Carolina as a col-
lege freshman, Big Doc followed the
Tar Babies even more faithfully. It is
only natural, therefore, to suppose that
he was among those present at the
Baltimore Stadium last year when the
Army and the Navy decided the 1944
national football championship.
In the third quarter Little Doc cov-
ered nine yards for the score that blew
the game open. When he took the ball,
veered slightly and burst through the
left side of the Navy line, the score,
stood Army 9, Navy 7. When he
crossed the goal line carrying three
frantic Navy hitch-hikers with him,
the game was Army's.
Before Little Doc reached that nine-
yard line, Army Back Glenn Davis had
intercepted a Navy pass and had
downed it on the Army's forty-eight-
yard line. A Baltimore paper described
the Army's march from that point:
"Blanchard raced around Navy's right
end to the Navy thirty-two. . . .
Blanchard hit left tackle for three... .
Davis added three at right end. . . .
Blanchard hit the middle for a first
down .on the Navy twenty-one. . . .
Minor gained a yard at left guard... .
Blanchard bullied his own hole at right
tackle to gain a first down on the Navy
nine. . . . Blanchard ripped through
the middle for Army's second touch-
down. . . . Score Army 15, Navy 7."
Thereafter Doc and Glenn Davis
brought the ball down the field for
another score.
This year's Army-Navy game will be
played on Saturday in Philadelphia's
Municipal Stadium. Last year, the
Blanchard clan was represented, for
both mother and sister came North to
see him play, and his cousin, Ed Ta-
tum, Jim Tatum's brother, made the
journey too. Unless something unfore-
seen happens, they'll be in Philadel-
phia this December. And once more
the official attendance figures will
differ from the unofficial by one, for an
invisible giant of a man who once put a
football in his son's crib for luck will
be on hand.
Last year after the game, Little Doc
said to Ed Tatum, "He was there, Ed.
I could feel him patting me on the back
after each play and saying, `Hit like
your daddy did, son."' THE END
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Stop This Ra!lro~ ding of
Workers to Prison!
LABOR UNIONS AND ALL organizations of
workers and "dirt" farmers-in fact, all
groups and persons interested in questions of
political and economic rights of the masses-
should give quick and sharp attention to the
attempt in Michigan TO EXTINGUISH WITH
ONE BLOW THE SUPPOSED CONSTITU-
TIONAL RIGHTS OF FREEDOM OF OPINION,
FREE SPEECH,
FREE PRESS AND
FREEDOM OF AS-
SEMBLAGE.
C.E.Ruthenberg
Sentenced !
T HE Michigan Su-
p r e m e Court's
sustaining o f t h e
conviction of C. E.
Ruthenberg, national
executive secretary
of the Workers
(Communist) Party,
with his condemna-
tion to the peniten-
tiary at Jackson,
Michigan, under a
savage sentence of
three to ten years
and a $5,000 fine,
and the opening of
prosecutions against
thirty-one "leaders of
that party-for noth-r!
sembling" and holding certain political opinions
-is a blow at the foundation of whatever rights
the masses are supposed to have. It is an effort
to establish something like martial law over all
organizations of the working people throughout
the United States, in time of peace, to be used
permanently to crush labor organizations.
The fight of REACTION to fasten new chains
upon the Labor movement, twice condemned by
the Michigan State Federation of Labor and
denounced repeatedly by numerous progressive
Labor bodies, and which all hoped had come to
an end-has been re-opened with redoubled vigor.
Robert Minor Next to Be Tried
B ACKED by the same old "open shop" gang of
strike-breakers of William J. Burns and
Harry M. Daugherty, with expenses cared for out
of large sums of money cdrtt i & from-. some
secret source, the local prosecutor at St. Joseph,
Michigan, has announced that Robert Minor,
nationally known as a labor journalist and one
of the leaders of the Workers (Communist)
Party, will be the next defendant to be brought
to trial, beginning in February. Robert Minor is
known to the entire Labor movement of the
United States for his
work in organizing
the defense of Toot
Mooney in the fa,m
mous frame-up
of San Francisco,
growing out of the
street-car strike of
1916. The intended
hanging o f T o m
Mooney on infamous
perjured testimony,
was one of the first
items on the program
of the open , shop
drive of that year,
and the work of
rallying more than
fifty A. F. of L. un-
ions to a nation-wide
defense organization
and of securing the
official endorsement
of the defense by the
whole of Organized
Labor in America, as
well as arousing the
European Labor
movements to protest against the outrage, which
thus prevented the hanging of Mooney, was led,
inspired and organized by a group of workers
among whom Minor was a chief leader. Now a
case no less infamous than the Mooney frame-up
(even while Mooney still lies in prison) faces
the Labor movement. The Burns crew of strike-
breakers and the sinister open shop forces
behind them are bending all energies to the con-
viction of Minor, with the expressed intention of
taking every one of the other Michigan cases and
filling the Michigan penitentiary with workers to
be condemned to years of penal servitude under
no other charge than that of "assembling" peace-
fully and holding certain views regarding the
struggle between Labor and capital.
An idea of the full significance of the cases is
obtained from the following facts:
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William Z. Foster to be Again
Prosecuted
1L IILLIAM Z. FOSTER, noted leader of the great
Y Steel Strike in 1919-20, founder of the Trade
Union -Educational League, now national chair-
man of the Workers (Communist) Party, candi-
date'of that party in the election of 1924.for the
presidency'ePthe