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Paul Robeson Sr — Part 24
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Party fron other parties is tat the ‘Semaanist Pa Party is basically _ ‘atnitretion
. organization, operating by ‘eben th, omouflage and deceit. Suall compact groupe of
a few dosen nen heave been known ‘to take over large labor unions, spreading their
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erip and influence as they eo along. The sanc methods have and ere deing used to
infiltrate our colleges and cur tecknolegical and Literary intelligentsia associations
and so forth,
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The surface er above-ground set-up ef the Communist Party is, in fact, only &
_ media to recruit members for ite crnesaled infiltration operations § all walks of
gltte.
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~ ‘Depending on the international situation of a country, this type Gey aa
orem isation could be and has been able to selse control in certain countries whes | . &
from five to twenty percent of the population was in aynpethy with it. ocetemt
To perhaps illustrate the effect of this Kind of method with # case close to | ~
home, let us take for example a huge labor union like the United Sleotrical and 2S
Machine Workers Union, which was a participant in the Pobeson Peekskill mecting.
Thies union has been effectively controlled for the last ten yoars by # force of less :
than one percent of its mombership. This one percent was the organized Commnist
groupe operating within it. dn even lesser percentage of Jommunist Party menbers oe
controlled twelve national unions of tha C.1.0, having a membership of 1,500,000. a
I am not mgzesting that the Commnist Party in this country is, at this tine, ready _,
to carry cut the insurrectionary plans indicated above, nor do I suggest that _ the . :
ac~oalled "security goard® is at this time a force sufficiently qualified and orga
Ased to attempt the seizure of Hew York City, but I do say that it is the bogiming _
of suck a force; eles its axiatence would have no sense vhateoover in the total Plane |
activities and program as taught by the High Command in Noscow and as practiced by
many of the Commmniet Parties all over the world. 7s = nae ct h8s
- F.. ceenenunennennattil Sclonon Loroveky, ite General Secretary.
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2 io yoo will see from the quotations I will make of Losoweky's views, Tator unions
“play an important role in the Gommunists' plans of organising quasi-ni litary for=
mations and this accounts, to a large eztent, to the heavy participation of Communi ot
controlled unions in the Fecksril) affair and the "security guard” deployed there.
#...ut is necessary from ‘the very Inception of a strike to commence
organising defense corps, drawing into these corps the most active ns
group of vorkrers. :
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ait is especially destrable ¢ to drew into ‘the pioket-ine ond into”
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