Investigation of Communist Activities in Seattle, Wash., Area, Hearings, Part 1United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities
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Investigation of Communist Activities in Seattle, Wash., Area, Hearings, Part 1
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities
Communism -- Washington (State) -- Seattle
This, by the way, for those who have been in the Army, you can readily
recognize a similarity of military training with party organization
because there is the method of the emphasis upon maintaining
communication lines between various parts of the organization at all
times, the necessity of having secondary lines of communication in
case the primary lines are destroyed. And there is also the question
of use of passwords. It is all described. The description of how to
use code is also contained here. And I think that some people attach
more significance to it than I do for the reason that I saw military
organization practice virtually the same things.
Of course, that brings up a subject which may be unpleasant to reflect
upon, and I suspect that the average member of the Communist Party
is quite unaware of the similarity of his position as a member of
the Communist Party to that of a person who is a member of the Armed
Forces. He is under discipline. His directions come from above. He has
to obey or suffer the consequences.
Mr. TAVENNER. Mr. Chairman, this is a very unusual document.
I wish the committee had time right now to go into every phase of
Communist Party organization that is referred to in it.
I think all that we can do now is to offer it as an exhibit and have
it made a part of the record with the view of giving it more detailed
study later. So I offer it in evidence and ask that it be marked
“Dennett Exhibit No. 1,” and that it be incorporated in the transcript
of the record.
Mr. MOULDER. The exhibit offered in evidence, marked “Dennett
Exhibit No. 1” for identification, will be admitted as a part of the
record.
DENNETT EXHIBIT NO. 1
HOW THE COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL FORMULATES AT PRESENT THE
PROBLEM OF ORGANIZATION
(By B. Vassiliev)
The Enlarged Presidium of the E. C. C. I. (February 1930), summing
up the international situation, called upon all Communist Parties
to fundamentally change the methods and pace of their work by
concentrating their chief attention on the problems of the
preparation and the carrying out of mass REVOLUTIONARY ACTIONS OF
THE PROLETARIAT--strikes, demonstrations, etc., while at the same
time continuing as far as possible to promote their agitational
and propaganda work. Consequently, in the present conditions, the
Party apparatus, in response to the demands which the direction of
the Comintern puts forward, should in the first place be fitted
for the organization of demonstrations, strikes and other mass
actions of the proletariat. Party leaders who are not capable of
organizing demonstrations and strikes do not answer to the demands
which the circumstances of the class struggle are now placing
before the Communist Parties, and therefore should be replaced by
others who have shown these qualities in the course of the class
battles of the most recent period.
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