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This article states that George Baldanzi, ident of the CIO Textile Workers Uion, addressing a ba to the UAMFCIO Educational Conference at the Schroeder criticized the Government'strial of the twelve Communist stated "we can't lickCommunism by jailing a few Communists. Y0u munism by proving the Democratic doctrine is far superior to any the have to offer."

The article further states that Professor Robert Lynd of University threw a couple of monkey wrenches into the well-oiled machinery The three Beuthers-Welter, Roy and Victor-squirmed in their as land put in a strong plea for a Labor Party; and the delegates loudly applauded. land said "If labor is to seize the initiative it has to go - political, I mean form.a Labor Party There is no use of ouY twins to *" over the Democratic Party. All your policies have got to be political Labor Party would have to make up its mind about capitalism and about national planning "

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"Twentieth Centtiun-3iAut;horstz Er. and Hrs. Robert Lynd were among the persons who contributed - to the fund collected for the defense of Clifford T. Hcltvoy, former 6 Commissioner of Welfare for . This collection was made | the auspices of the New York Conference for Inalienable Rights. I

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The Reference Catalog at the New York Public Helen Lynd was joint author with Robert Staughton Lyndvof , study in contemporary Americanculture. NJ. Harcourt Brace and Co. - 1 and "Middletown In Transition", a study in cultural conflicts. N.Y. and Brace Co. - 1937!. - L I New YorkLetter, 3/28/A9, Re:' "HelenMerrell Lynd T' Spcurity Matter - C" ' 100-357382-2 ! 6! i

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I On hay 19 19b9, Dr. J B Matthews I for the state's Seditious Activities Invest I of the State of Illinois, testified before a I that body at snringfield, Illinois. During his t Dr Matthews quoted from a document which he iden second year course in a three year sequence in the dated september l9h8, published by the University of and entitled "Social Sciences II-Syllabus and selected Volume I, Matthews testified "I wish to read a sectio and ask you to note carefully as I read to determine or not you think this is pro-Comunist indoctrination. euote Whatever one may think of the over-all rightness wrongness of the Soviet Union, the Social scientists cannot . ' approve the soundness of the social activism it encourages i individuals. A member of the Comunist Party in the USSR | expected to be active politically, culturel , and in his union. As a result, these individuals undertake respons for helping, through their active social participati build or to operate some small part of the social This SOCla1 activism spread beyond Party members, al Party remains the instigating nucleus. As a result, 1 over half of the entire adult population of the city of for instance, is estimated to be actively engaged in of this socially integrative work Children of our Bo age begin to learn habits of socially d1P¬Cted partic in the Young Pioneer Organization, while in the late I and early twenties, the Consumoles Jr. party members undertake such work in earnest. Underlying such acti 1 the two assumptions that is bar for a culture to participants to become socially lost in the shuffle human being has somewhere within him an active or a interest in something, which, if shared with others, both him and the culture stronger. To a student 0 Living any such organized effort to build .- --»-~ city, or a-collective-drm,_socially of individuals, stands out in sharp lease in regard to such things.

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If cities and strangling countrysides-are not to isolate'an unduly large number of individuals, and t O their potentialities for group,living, some such_ My sound selective and organizational program of social a will have to be adopted and pushed for all it is worth Whether such a program can be developed within.the devisive dynamics of private capitalism is another question, unquote Dr. Matthews testified that the material from which he was quoting was used in a required course for every person who graduated from the University of Chicago, in the» second year of study. when askedto identify the pages from . which he was reading he replied that he was reading from l,§* pages 157and 158, that the context of the passagewas ]*"'v ;_ , from Section Threeof the Selected Readingsand the pagsagi 1 had as its author, Robert S. Lynd. He stated that the ti of that section was: The Pattern of American Culture and Professor Robert S. Lynd was a Professor of at Columbia University who had been cited scores of times as a veteran Communist fellow traveler. Matthews stated that Lynd was the author of this entire section which begins"on page 123 and goes on to theend of the book, page 18h. According. Matthews the entire section is a stinging attack upon the American way of life and the only references to the are the favorable ones such as he had read. ;

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