U.S.A. COMMUNISTS

Grey River Argus, 22 May 1944, Page 2

U.S.A. COMMUNISTS

Decide to Dissolve

WANT ASIATICS TO GET INDEPENDENCE. 1

(Rec. 10.40) NEW YORK, May 21. At their national convention, the American Communists have unanimously voted to dissolve their Party and to renounce partisan advancement in the interest of national unity. The conference decided to form “a non-Party Educational Organisation to contribute to the common cause of the progressive majority of the American people.” The Party Secretary, Mr. Earl Browder addressing the convention announced that the Communists would support Mr. Roosevelt in the Presidential election, in which he said, victory and a lasting peace were at stake. Mr. Browder declared: ‘‘Hundreds of millions of Asiatics outside of China should be mobilised on our side by giving them an unequivocal promise of independence after the. war. However the agreement of the British to this will not be obtainable unless their well-founded fears of American post-war trade competition are allayed. The British will not cling to their obsolete colonial system because of their supposed innate conservatism or their incapacity for change, but because they have no other instrument to avoid being overwhelmed by the gigantic forces of American capitalism. Unless these fears are allayed by equitable agreements, there is not the slightest prospect of dissolving the British-Ameri-can rivalry, which is blocking a common strategy.