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

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 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.

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

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

Destruction of Democratic Party aim communists, Dies Committee told. Washington, D.C., Aug. 22. Resuming his testimony before the House Committee investigating Un-American activities today, Dr. J.B. Matthews, former communist organizer, charged that communist strategy in America calls for the destru

UAWU President appears before Dies committee. Washington, D.C., Dec. 1. After declaring he was only appearing because he was subpoenaed, Homer Martin, President of the United Automobile Works Union, told the Dies Committee Investigating Un-American Activities that communists are active in both the C

DIES COMMITTEE HEARS O'SHEA. Thomas Humphrey O'Shea, former New York subway worker, told the Dies committee today that Communist leaders in the transport worker's union have "absolute power" to paralyze the industry and maintain "gun clubs" for regular target practice.

Maritime Labor leader a communist charged before House Committee. Washington, D.C., Oct. 24. Harper Knowles, Oakland, Calif., Chairman of the radical research committee of the American Legion, today told the House Committee investigating Un-American activities, that Harry Bridges, West Coast labor l