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THE RECORD is here, docu- mented and annotated—the record of more than 30 years of betrayal of the people of the United States —and the peoples of the world. It is a terrifying record, one that cannot help but make its readers realize the perilous road the U.S. has been travelling, one that will arouse them to an understanding Of the graye dangers that face the American people today.

Here, in Albert E. Kahn’s High Treason, is the history, brought together for the first time, of the assaults upon the U.S. Constitu- tion and its Bill of Rights in the period between the end of World War I and 1950.

here is the record of the plots by monopoly capital to overthrow the U.S. government by force and violence.

Here is the sordid story of the force and violence used against the people by U.S. capitalists; the murder of working people trying to organize into trade unions; the terror invoked against the labor movement; the lynchings and mob violence against’ the Negro people; the attacks upon the foreign-born; _ the gagging of people demanding their rights.

Here is exposed the far-reaching power cf the FBI, the U‘S. secret police.

: Here the halo is torn from the

‘new heroes of U.S. capitalism, dredged from the slime of corrup- _ tion. Here they are revealed as greedy monopolists willing to have murder and pillage done to main- tain their super-profits out of the expleitation of the workers.

Kahn’s ‘Hig betrayal of

Here is the proof that the “anti- Communist” screams of the cap- italist un-Americans are only the noise to hide their aims and en- slave the people in order to insure ° their profits and to force the U.S. into the terror of an atomic war against the Soviet Union, China, and the New Democracies of Europe.

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ALBERT E. KAHN, with the able assistance of Arthur Kahn, has done an immeasurable service by bringing together this record of betrayal. .

It is so easy to forget, in: the swamp of propaganda, what has happened to American liberties in the past, It is easy to fail to realize the full scope of the destruction of these rights as they are whit- tled down bit by bit. Kahn’s book serves to give the reader the full impact of the vastness of the con- . spiracy against the people, and how far along the. road toward fascism the United States has al- Teady been forced. —

Further, it sounds a grim warn- ing to those leaders of labor, lib- erals and the Negro people who think they can save their own skins by being in the forefront of the anti-Communist hunt. For they will be destroyed, too, when the monopolists find their useful-_ ness ended. f ‘

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I CANNOT LEAVE this other- wise most admirable book, how- ever, without commenting on what appear to be weaknesses.

h Treason’ records

U.S. liberties

In the discussion of the New. Deal period there is a slurring over of the dominant role played: by the working class and its allies in achieving the gains then made.

Secondly, there is not enough about the struggles of the people to defeat the betrayal by -the > monopolists in this 30-year period.

Thirdly, there is not enough to explain that the anti-Communist mask of the monopolists covers their aims against the entire peo- ple, or that if the Communists are attacked that other sections of the people will be attacked next.

It should be made clear that the attacks on the Communist party create the danger of the loss of one of the most positive forces in American society. Certainly his- tory is plain on this point. ©

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Let us take the period begin- ning with the economic crash of 1929. It was possible at that time, with 14,000,000 workers jobless and with the labor officials collaborat- ing with the bosses against the’ workers’ interests, for the mono- polists to impose fascism.

It was the Communists who gave the lead to the unemployed to struggle for food and jobs against their enemies, the mono- polists. ‘ ;

When the Negro people, worst hit by the economic crisis, were abandoned by their official lead- ers, it was the activity of the Communists that set them into motion in struggle for their rights with the impetus of the Scotts- boro case. —

And it was the Communists who in this same period provided the stimulus for the organization of the industrial unions of the CIO.

Thus, the Communist party cre-

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peace, in outlawing the atomic and hydrogen bombs, because they be-

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Whatever your talent, you will have the opportunity to express it in the peace postér and song contest being sponsored by the Pacific Tribune in conjunction with the annual Labor Picnic to be held at Confede- ration Park on August 13.

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They helped protect the first victims of Franco’s butchery in 1936 when fascism made its first bloody grab at the human race; they refused to bow before cen- sorship by dollar tycoons of our: culture, Above all, they knew that people talk better than money, that people are stronger than money.

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