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Next day, 332 delegates met in the same hall to create its Communist-front successor: American Youth for Democracy. It was to be, according to Y.C.L. ex-President Max Weiss's prospectus, an "advanced anti-fascist youth organization in which Communists play a leading role...
...conferences of the American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born which is now on Attorney General Tom Clark's list of subversive organizations. In other groups he has joined, Communists have climbed aboard. Most notable of these was the Southern Conference for Human Welfare, of which Graham became the first chairman in 1938. The House Committee on Un-American Activities called it "perhaps the most deviously camouflaged Communist-front organization...
...Deep South last week, self-righteous bigotry made votes for Wallace. Barnstorming through Alabama, Senator Glen Taylor, Henry Wallace's running mate, dropped in on a Birmingham meeting of the Communist-front Southern Negro Youth Congress. It was a small meeting-one hundred Negroes and whites gathered in a seedy little Negro church in the heart of the Negro district. But policemen guarded the doors; others prowled the darkness outside. Police Commissioner Eugene ("Bull") Connor had declared roundly: "There's not enough room in town for Bull and the Commies...
Within the next few weeks, Congress will consider and vote on HR 5852, the Communist-front Registration Act, better known as the Mundt Bill. This bill would require all Communist and "Communist-front" organizations to file annual statements with the Attorney General, listing their memberships, sources of income, expenditures, and capital, and providing a maximum penalty of $5000 or five year's imprisonment for failure to register...
...business and going underground. Its members, whose names would be on file for public inspection at the Department of Justice, would be barred from receiving passports or government jobs, and all its business envelopes and periodicals would have to be stamped with the words "Dessimated by . . . ., a Communist-front organization." The inference is clear and the results are obvious. William Z. Foster, the Communist national chairman, has already announced that his party members will go underground rather than register in accordance with the bill, and Professor Kirtley F. Mather, chairman of the Massachusetts Civil Liberties Union has stated that thousands...