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NY 1000-99810 ~ REUTHERS - WALTER, ROY and VICTOR - aquirmed in their. chairs as LYND put in a strong plea for a Labor Party and the delegates loudly applauded. LYND said, "If. © Labor is to seize the initiative ithe .to go political I mean form a Labor Yarty. There is no use of trying» to make over the Democratic Farty.~ All your -policiea« have got to be political. A Labor Party would ha make up its mind about Capitalism and about the D national planning". . 3 mocratic Continuing, the article stated that there were more REUTHERS squirming when LYND told the conference there were two classes in America, the working clasa and the employers and an unceasing struggle between them would continue. Co On May 19, 1949, Dr. J.B. MATTHEWS, interrogator for the State's Seditious Activities Investigation Com- mission of the State of Illinois, testified before a hearing held by that body at Springfield, lllinois. During his testimony Dr. MATTHEWS quoted from a document which he identified as a second year course in a three year sequence in the Social Sciences, dated September - 1948, published by the University of Chicago Press and entitled "Social Sciences II - Syllabus and Selected - Readings, Volume I", MATTHEWS testified: — - - "T wish to read a section of this, amd ask. you to note carefully as f read to determine whether. or not you think this i¢ pro-Commmnist Indoctrination.’ | Quote: Whatever one may think of the over-all rightness or wrongness of the Soviet Union, the Social Scientiste - cannot but approve the soundness of the socLal: activism it encourages in individuals. A member of the Communist Party in the USSR is expected to be active politicall culturely, and in his trade union. Aa a result, these”: YHTvidiials undertake responsibility for helping; thro their active social participation, to. build or to operate gome small part of the sccial structure. This social activism spread beyond Party members, although the Party remains the instigating nucleus. As a result, “somethin aver half of the entire adult population of. & of.