COMMUNISM IN AMERICA

Hawera Star, Volume L, 1 December 1930, Page 9

COMMUNISM IN AMERICA

GR AVE THREAT TO! INDUSTRY

T (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright-'' WASHINGTON, Nor. 29. Representative Fish, whose Congiessional committee has conducted an investigation into Communism activities in the United States lasting several months, declared to-night m a natron wide radio talk that there were 500,<X)0 Communists and their sympathisers in America, with 100,000 in. New ions Citv alone, and their activities, are far more extensive and pernicious than anticipated before the investigation beFish said Communism would be a serious threat to American industry but for the efforts of the American Federation of Labour. ... “The United States cannot stand id'iy bv.” said Mr. Fish, “and see American industries demoralised because Congress and the Federal Government continue blind to the facts.”