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ee es we ae AS mee ee . CHAPTER NINE RESPECTABILITY AND SUCCESS THREE events, one in the US. political field, the other in the economic field and the third in the international field of diplomacy, established the American communist movement as a factor in the political, social and economic affairs of the country. Y } , American communism owes its rise to prominence to the election 4+ of Roosevelt as President in 1932, to the organization of the Committee - . on Industrial Organization in 1935, to the recognition of the Soviet " ~" Union by the United States in“ 1933. Though Roosevelt's New Deal program and organization ranks first in immediate importance to the growth of communism in the United States, the organization of the C.1.O. from the communist standpoint is much more basic and of lasting importance to the move- ment, even though the organization of the C.1.0. without Roosevelt's blessing a and endorsement would never have taken place. The recog- nition of the Soviet Union facilitated Soviet and Comintern penetra- tion of the United States and opened wide the doors for the infiltra- tion of the government by communists and their satellites drawn from @ growing army of fellow travelers. Communist. endorsement of the Roosevelt administration and the New Deal did not come suddenly. When Roosevelt was Governor of New York State, the communists kept up an incessant barrage against Roosevelt as a reactionary tool of Wall Street. In 1932 the communists nominated Browder for president to run against Roose- . velt. Browder charged, in his campaign speeches, that Roosevelt's election would mean a continuation of Hoover's reactionary hunger policies. The communists branded the first Roosevelt Cabinet as “the new Wall Street hunger and war cabinet.” Of Henry Wallace, who “was appointed Secretary of Agriculture, whose pro-Soviet line today receives the most active support of the communists and the endorse ment of Soviet Russia, they had this to say: This Wallace is an alleged friend of the farmer. He hails from Des Moines, Towa, and Orda dart G|-/5#4-47 inherited the ; was Secretary « got the Repu Wallace's Fart. job in the Ra bankers and pg tion, Wallace's by the Harvest “Wallace,” a dictator to t the poor farme: Roosevelt ; the ‘New Deal liberal in the Vi ican liberals.” Ear] Brow. July 8, 1933, di trial Recovery « steps towards tl ican fascism.” The comm velt’s company- Browder, at vention of the ¢ “Roosevelt is th years.” When a Roosevelt and |] The masses feel clothing, more i The comm New Deal Fasc’ rv wae. Fl. ae eR only girls Mrs. } millionaire fam: participate in or; theless, when th: New Deal, they Roosevelt in ma What took | the New Deal?