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\ AL [Radio Men Call Dies Bill’ oe” |'Native Fascism,’ Ask Defeat CIO Communications Union Says Attack on Communist Is Attack on All Parties % Terming the Dies. activities “a manifestation of native fascism in its worst form,” the New York local of th American Communications Association, CIO, this week emphat! ically condemned the Dies amendment to H.R. 6269, the bill whose ostensible original p' pose was to further limit the activities of agents of enemy governments. The Die’ amendment ffo the bill grouped the Communist Party with Nazis and fase clsts, requiring its registration as a0 “°C 7 ree rt rn nn es “foreign agent.” 1 ‘The New York local of Aca, fh; & resolution adopted at its Iast reg-! ular meeting, pointed out that “this, , attack upon the Communist Party is an attack on a legal political! tS trate efjic Coen . /: tended to trade unions, civic and fraternal organizationg, and lke! bodies.” - } £ “This fifth column atiack fe an attack upon the unity which the{ {American people are achieving in, | thelr struggle against fascism,” thé, JNDEXED ‘resolution emphasizes, ‘The meeting also voted to invest Cnr? $2,000 of the union’s funds in de-° fensé bonds and demanded that the, War Department reject the applica toon of Charle: args for re-- Instatement In theO.". Army. The action on Snes empha Sized that he was “over-age as & Pilot, incompetent as an eeronaul 1 adviser (as evidenced by 1 This is a clipping from z of the dgments on the relative air powd! { of European nations) and @fth columnist politically.” an 8 re) Clipped «t the Seat “ps 4g vy 8 of Government. FEB Lv i942