The Daily Worker

RUSH PRESS
GAG TO BAR
BIG SCANDAL
Roosevelt Gang
in
Panic to Hide
Evidence
DOCUMENTS ARE MISSING
Foreign Complications
Are Threatened

WASHINGTON, April 3.-Like a bolt out of the blue, the Democratic leadership in the House of Congress today moved to suspend the rules and brought up a bill providing heavy fines and imprisonment for any one who gives official information to the public on acts contemplated by the government.

This is a continuation of the war-time emergency measures that the Roosevelt Hunger Administration has been carrying out.

The bill came forward with a report from the judiciary committee recommending its passage as "highly essential" and declaring that the executive branch of the government has requested the enactment of this legislation at the earliest practicable date." The House at once rushed the vicious thing to a vote and passed it by a vote of 299 to 29.

Drastic Penalties Provided

This bill to muzzle the press of the country, and to enable the government to imprison anyone who exposes the criminal plots of the government against the workers, the farmers, the war veterans and other sections of the oppressed population carries the most drastic penalties.

The bill reads that any government official, any private individual or publication that reveals anything the government thinks might endanger the "safety of the United States" shall be fined $10,000 and sent to federal prison for ten years, or both.

Publication of such facts shall be regarded as prima facie evidence that the intent was to injure the government, hence all former precedent that specifies that the prosecution must prove intent is set aside and anyone can be railroaded simply for commenting upon acts of the government.

Try To Head Off Big Scandal

The Roosevelt gang are in a panic because it is generally known in Washington that startling secrets concerning another government are in hands of people who will reveal them. It is said that important secret documents of one foreign government involving the Cabinet members of both the late Hoover administration and the present Roosevelt administration have been taken from State Department archives and that their publication will cause an international upheaval.

It was to forestall the publication of these documents that incriminate prominent members of two United States Cabinets that the bill has been rushed through.

Debate was short, only a few objections being raised by Congressmen not in the confidence of the Republican and Democratic machines.

Members of the judiciary committee said sufficient evidence had been presented by administration officials to make its immediate passage imperative without a moment's delay. Representative Hooper, Republican, of Michigan, told the House: "The circumstances under which this bill was drawn up were so serious that my lips are sealed."

It was because of such matters, involving the most underhanded intrigue and duplicity in the drive toward another world war that Cordell Hull conferred with Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of State in Hoover's Cabinet, so that the Wall Street government at Washington would have an uninterrupted policy of imperialist war-mongering and colonial and semi-colonial pillage.