64 INVESTIGATION OF COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA rnvnsrremor or oonnnnrsr rroraeanra. 65
zzzzitzit;;b;5;2;51¤e;2s;;;;;t3;E;;.;t*’;$F§;aS1&;1t¤%.;;:q0;**2;;- e grmciples and   ofthe Communist Party of the Umted
-¤ ¤ · ¤ P - P P _ Y - tates of America, sect1on of the Communist International, and be
VICE labor, in order to intelligently and properly enforce the provi- TQ wasted to take H JTO www action to have Said why excluded
sion of the tariif act of 1930, section 307, which reads as follows: f _q . PI . P* . . . P
_ _ _ rom, or denied recogn1t1on, as a political ent1ty,
All goods, wares, articles, and merchandise mined, produced, or manufactured ]{(m_ Chm-lcs Evans }j{urehCS HOW Chief Jugtlgg Of the Su rome,
wholly or in part; in any fO1'€lgI1 country by convict labor or/and forced labor f · O- ° OO d b ·p d
or/and indentured labor under penal sanctions shall not be entitled to entry at qourt 0 th(3Umt€d  ina i . page r%Bm0r&§   Su mgtigit tm
any of the ports of the United States, and the importation thereof is hereby @16 Samlte anuary ~ a ~ v In Us Culzacl Y as; awe MY 0 34 Ga
prohibited, and the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to devoted many pages to the VVOrke1‘s ((lOmmuI11st) Party programs
v ` presciribe such regulations as may be necessary for the €¤f01‘C€meI1i1 of this ` regarding “f01‘c& and Vl0lB1lC6,” and is quoted lll purl; as follows:
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pm S D_ _ _ _ _ * * * It will be seen that the question of whether communist programs
The d1lHCUll?y H1 &dH”11H15t€I`1Hg l?h€ 13W hi1$ b€€H to PTOVG that 091* contemplate the use of force and violence has been passed upon by every ‘
tain shiploads of pulp wood or lumber are specifically produced by T class or tribunal lvvhich could pass upon it, namely, Federal and State courts,
Comet tahoe UP to HOW the Treasury Department has been umm ‘g$,‘€2..1‘§;§§;;‘:§;"itti:‘?;“2$i$$231JSS‘iti"£é;€r2"}i2;tt§§¤25.b§$‘;p£°§‘2§“%r‘;"§O§i?§;
“’ P*`°“’ the use of °°“"“’“ 1."b°" m °F’I?n€°“°“ llflth my Spetlilc °”‘ that rm-ee alla violence are inseparable from communist piogr-ams)
goes, and tne recent regulations requiring a certificate of origin and M H 1 t t d if tl _ . tl _ t tl tg
good character on each shipment to the effect that convict labor is * . I`- ug ws S il 8 ur *6% m IG Smne YQPOY ¤ W
not used is not sufficient for the protection of free American labor It is believed that the evidence presented by the Department or State estab
— and induSt1·y_ lishes the unity of the Bolshevik organization known as the Communist Party,
If the Serie G<¤*¤¤*¤1¤€¤* Sheuld refuse Such e mS¤¤¤bl¤ request 235t‘$it§?§li€££°§§ili“$55115ii?i£%?v$%‘§F3`l‘?§'i¤}$§§L"i?Ii?r1i?Sz,§‘Ll1c°§).,lll§f£
; Us SQHFIIHLT America? mSP€CtOI`S to Investigate the use of Convlqt ' bureau of the Russian Communist Party. Second, thc spiritual and organic
T labor in the production of lumber and pulp wood when approxi- . eonneotion between this Moscow group and its agents in this country-
mately a thousand Russian engineers and Soviet subjects are roam- gre tamelgrcgru ilommuiift Party   its tregal eczgugterigargi the txlgorkirf
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me about at mu lathe Umted States g¤*>h¤¤¤e =¤U¤¤ Whmh reads as follows: and flowing out of the program elaborated for them by the Moscow group.
  ch;-E13,S¥;"‘]E`,iS;‘3“SDr°f(,§£’gi, S°?Ct§;g¤;`1$;1*;‘;iH#%L(;°b g%°d;dW?*§S· aI`§i°1%S·_“{1dtm€*g To further carry out the statement of Mr. Hughes given above, ‘
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Q labor, shall take effect on January 1, 1932; but in no case shall such provisions . the Xvmkgls “Party mfldugd to In hls repoit has HOW c},HK]g€d· Its
E be applicable to goods, wares, articles, or merchandise so mined, produced, or Han? to tht? C0mmuH}Sl? Party of the United States O mamcar
; manufactured which are not mined, produced, or manufactured in such quanti- sectmn of the Communist International?
A gggtg the United States QS to meet the cmsumptive demands of the Unlwd There is a sharp distinction between the right to advocate in an
i "Forced labor/’ as herein used, shall mean all work or service which is afmdgmlg Way any doctrme We hk°» and the mght’ Whlcb IS- notta
l exacted from any person under the menace or any penalty for its nonperrorm- right under any reasonable interpretation of_ our Constitution, 0
ance and for wrneutne worker does not offer himself voluntarily. (see Trade preach and plan the overthrow of our republican form of Govern-
lr and Commerce Section.) V ’ ment by force and violence, · U _
T (13) That immediate consideration be given by the Congress to _ One of these programs is to appeal to publ1c_op1n1_on; the other,
- l the placing of an embargo on the importation of manganese from in the case of communists in the United States, 1S a military plan of
Soviet Russia. revolution, directed from abroad by a foreign government. _
(14} That the Communist Party of the _United States of it _ While the communists call themselves a party, they are not in the
A America, section of the Communist International, be declared American sense a party at all, and this word is a misnomer, for the
illegal, or any other counterpart of the Communist Party advooat- reason that communists openly d1savow~the_purpose of accompl1sh—r
ing the overthrow of our republican form of government by for-oe ing their ends by parliamentary or constitutional methods._ Nor are
s and violence, or afhhated with the Communist International at they seeking or expectingto wm the approval of a majority of the
l Moscow, be declared illegal; and that the executive authority ofeaon people, any more than in Russia, where 150,000,000 people are
‘ State and the legislature thereof be informed of the revolutionary g0V€{'H€d by 1,500,000- _ Th'5 5001201-SE government of _K€I`;‘mSl{Y _U1
` Russia was overthrown lov a mere handful of commumsts msi mfi-
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