DENIES THAT ORDER HE HEADS IS COMMUNIST CONTROLLED BUT ADMITS HE IS RED. Max Bedacht told the Dies committee that the international workers order of which he is general secretary is not Communist controlled, even though he himself is a member of the Communist Party. He said that the group is a "frat

CHAIRMAN OF COMMUNIST PARTY QUESTIONED BY DIES COMMITTEE. William Zebulon Foster, chairman of the Communist Party of the United States, told the Dies committee today that Soviet Russia was justified "100 per cent" in occupying Poland because "it means establishment of a free government." He denied t

TESTIMONY OF REP. MARCANTONIO DISPUTED BY FORMER OFFICIAL OF COMMUNIST PARTY. Following Rep. Vito Marcantonio to the stand before the Dies committee today was Benjamin Gitlow, former executive secretary of the Communist Party who flatly stated that the ILD was established as a Communist front organi

DIES WITNESS. The latest witness to be heard before the Dies Committee on Un-American Activities was Dr. Harry F. Ward, National Chairman of the American League for Peace and Democracy. He told the committee that its chief investigator knows more about the League's inception than he does because the

DIES COMMITTEE TOLD RUSSIA SUBSIDIZED U.S. COMMUNIST PARTY WITH DIAMONDS AND JEWELRY. Testifying before the Dies committee today, Benjamin Gitlow, former General Secretary of the U.S. Communist Party, declared that the party was subsidized in its early years by diamonds and jewelry sent from Moscow.

Charges Communist originated "sit-down" strike. Washington, D.C., Oct. 18. Jacob Spolansky, Detroit, Sheriff's Investigator, today told the House Committee investigating Un-American activities that Joseph Kowalski, described as a Communist representative, was the man "who conceived" in Michigan. Bec

DIES COMMITTEE HEARS FRED BEAL. The Dies committee today called a one-time Communist Party organizer, Fred Beal, from the North Carolina State Penitentiary to tell of his part in the 1929 Gastonia, N.C. strike. The back-ground for Beal's appearance before the committee was laid yesterday, when Ben G

A red "hotbed" in Brooklyn College. Washington, D.C., Aug. 23. Congressional investigators heard testimony today that Brooklyn College, N.Y. "might quite fairly be labeled a hotbed of propaganda" and communist activity. Prof. Edward I. Fenlon of the College's Department of Philosophy made the assert

EARL BROWDER TESTIFIES ON BILL TO RESTRICT ACTIVITIES OF ALIENS IN U.S. Earl Browder today urged a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee to disapprove legislation requiring registration of allegedly subversive groups. Browder compared the legislation to the Alien and Sedition Acts which were passed ruing th