HOOVER REPORTS
continued from page 3
to train additional youths. In
addition, certain Communist
Party, U.S.A., youths will be
asked to go to the South during
the summer of 1965 to work
with civil rights organizations.
Formation of Now Youth
Organization
Ever since the demise in 1957
of the Labor Youth League, the
former youth organization dom
inated and controlled by the
Communist Party, U.S.A., the
establishment of another nation
wide youth organization has
been a goal of the party. A pos
tive step was taken in this direc
tion in late 1963 when Gus Hall
ordered the formation of a Marx
ist-oriented youth organization
to attract non-Communists as
the first step toward their ev
entual recruitment into the par
ty. The founding convention of
this new youth organization was
held June 19-21, 1964, in San
Franciscer, Calif. The name sel
ected for the new organization
was the W. E. B. DuBois Clubs
of America, in honor of the late
Dr. William E. B. DuBois, a
prominent crusader for civil
rights who, at the age of 93,
joined the Communist Party,
tt s A
In memoralizing the late Dr.
DuBois, the new organization ap
parently hopes to win recogni
tion and support from both do
mestic and international civil
rights proponents, African na
tionals, and more particularly
the Negro youth of the United
States. Following the trend of
recent years of playing down
the Communist label, the new
Marxist youth organization is
designed to attract youth inter
ested in peace, disarmament,
civil rights and the like.
Public Appearances by
Party Leaders
The increased number of pub
lic appearances by leaders of
the Communist Party, U. S. A.
in the last few years, whether it
be in the form of press confer
ences, on radio programs, or on
college campuses, is utilized in
an effort to project the image
that the party is a legitimate po
litical party; to gain increased
acceptance and respectability
for the party; to generate an at
mosphere of good will and un
derstanding; and to spread
Communist propaganda.
Since students constitute a
primary Communist target
group, party leaders in their
public appearance continue to
concentrate on college and un
iversity ramniises thmnohnnt
the country. Over the past 3
school yean, party spokesmen
have average 50 campus appear
ances each year. Their audienc
es ranged in size from an inti
mate 13 to a huge 4,000. The
latter number heard Dorothy
Healey, a member of the party's
national committee, when she
spoke in the stadium of the Cal
ifornia State College at Los An
geles, Calif., on May 20, 1964.
Audience from 500 to 800 were
common.
While almost of the public
appearances of party function
aries before students took place
at colleges and universities, sev
eral speeches were niade at sec
ondary educational institutions.
That i^wne success is achiev
ed by the party in the many ap
pearances of its leaders on col
lege campuses is indicated by
the fact that party youth club
have been established recently
at the University of Chicago and
the University of California.
Skillfully imparting the Com
munist line with espousals par
alleling Soviet views, party
spokesmen made 44 appearanc
es before college groups during
tmot. 1QA/1
Propaganda
The Communist Party, U.S.A.
continually makes strenuous ef
forts to increase and expand the
distribution and consumption of
its literature. James Allen, a
member of the party’s national
committee, remarked at a meet
ing of the party’s New York
staff in May 1964, that sales of
party’s publications had increas
ed 7 per cent nationwide.
This increase is important
since the Communists consider
their press and publications to
be the most important and ef
fective vehicle for agitation and
propaganda. Through the dis
semination of newspapers, books,
pamphlets, leaflets, dnd other
printed matter, the party indoc
trinates its members and sym
pathizers and is able to reach
and propagandize the non-Com
munist masses.
The major Communist book
stores operating in the United
States at this time are the Jeff
erson Bookshop in New York
City; New World Book Fair,
Philadelphia; New Era Book
shop, Baltimore; Global Books,,
Detroit; Modern Bookstore, Chi
cago; Mary’s Bookshop, Mil
waukee; International Books,
San Francisco; and the Progres
sive Bookshop, Los Angeles.
In regard to the increased
political activity of the leaders
of the Communist Party, U.S.A.,
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joice over a successful campaign
by a Communist, they also look
to'this activity to obtain other
benefits. In addition to afford
ing opportunities to assert that
the party is a legitimate politic
al party and to lending the par
ty an aura of respectability, this
activity provides publicity and
reduces the party’s isolation
from the mainstream of society.
It enables them to influence vit
al issues of the day; to distri
bute propaganda; to present the
party program to the electorate;
and to advance the cause 6f com
munism.
Some persons may not believe
that a Communist could reach
a position of responsibility in
Government through the elec
tion process. They have only to
consider the thousands of votes
cast for William Cottle. Taylor,
vice chairman of the party’s
southern California district,
who publicly identified himself
as a Communist while running
in the California primary as an
independent candidate for the
Board of Supervisors of Los An
geles County. Although Taylor
was defeated, he rolled up an
impressive 33,576 votes, or
some 13 per cent of the total
vote cast for this office on June
2, 1964.
Communist Influence
In Racial Matters
The ever-increasing evidences
of racial unrest in the country
during the past year have wit
nessed a parallel in the increas
ing emphasis being placed by
the Communist Party, U.S.A. on
the Negro question and the rac
ial movement generally. There
are clear-cut evidences that the
party has not only been “talk
ing,” but also has been direct
ing and urging the increased
participation by its adherents in
the racial movement. As in any
similar party effort at infiltra
tion, where there is particjpa
tion -there is influence in vary
ing degrees..
These party efforts, though
embellished with high-sounding
expressions by party leaders,
claiming a sincere interest in
the Negro and his problems,
are, in reality, just another of
the great deceptions practiced
by the party through the years.
TheirS is only a single aim;
namely, the gaining of Commu
nist objectives looking 'toward
the ultimate goal of the spread
of communism throughout the
United States. The racial unrest,
then, offers the party a ready
made springboard from which it
is able to project its strategy
and tactics. /• .
The-past year found the party
devoting maximum attention to
its efforts to influence civil
rights developments. Always
alert to exploit discontent and
promote disorder, the party
continued to regard the civil
rights issue as one facet of the
class struggle within the capit
alist system. With this Marxist
Leninist analysis as a guide, the
party has an objective the use
of the civil tights issue to create
a Negro-labor coalition which
it would dominate to advance
the cause of communism in the
United States. As in the words
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