The People's Voice

TRESPASSING AT THE CAPITAL
Will Not Follow Dies

Everything isn't exactly milk and honey right now on the so-called Dies committee. And it's all because Mr. Martin Dies, determined to grab the front-page headlines, war or no war, recently submitted a list of some 1,200 names of alleged "communists" in government service to the department of justice.

This column is informed that at least one member of the committee has resented Dies' action so strongly that he has taken the pains to let the department of justice know that he had no hand in it, and that hundreds of innocent persons are in danger of being smeared.

The list of the names presented by Dies to the justice department was compiled, it is said, from the membership lists of what Dies calls "Communist front" organizations, and not from any Communist party membership list.

Undoubtedly, there are names of Communist party members on this list, since the Communists have been active in some of these organizations. The percentage of Communists on the list, however, is very small; the vast majority are just ordinary liberals, who probably have never attended a real Communist meeting in their lives.

That's why violent dissention has again broken out in the committee; some of the members of the Dies committee have a sense of justice and of fairness. But what's smearing a thousand or so innocent persons to Mr. Dies so long as he can keep in the limelight! Furthermore, Dies has told members of congress that new deal liberals are in reality more dangerous than are the "reds."