Speech #720001676

American labor is not asking for charity or unemployment insurance. but for a job and the right to work and earn a living at substantial wages. There are no more loyal or patriotic citizens in the United States than the free American wage earners. and they have no use for communism. revolutionary radicalism. or any form of foreign dictatorship. under which they would lose their civil rights and liberties and become disfranchised slaves to an autocratic and tyrannical government. The committee of the House of Representatives to investigate communist propaganda and activities in the United States. of which I was chairman. reached the conclusion that there were between five and six hundred thousand communists or communist sympathizers in the United States. and that twothirds were aliens. 20 per cent naturalized citizens and about 10. per cent nativeborn citizens. black or white. The socalled communist hunger marchers will contain a large percentage of foreign born. who will be most vociferous in their assaults upon our economic system. the Congress. and the President of the United States. If these alien communists do not like our ways of doing things. our laws. our free institutions. and our form of government..let them go back home where they can enjoy the oppressive laws. the pitiful wage scale. and the lack of freedom of speech that they have been accustomed to in the past in their native countries. But if they insist on con.tinuing to spew forth hatred of our ideals. traditions. principles of government. and urge the overthrow of our form of government by force and violence. then they should be deported from the United States. These alien communists are not afraid of our police. courts. or jails. the only thing that they are afraid of is to be deported back home. The Department of Labor will be presented with a madetoorder opportunity to find out how many of these alien communists paraders have entered the United States illegally. All those who are here in violation of the law should be deported. and any of those aliens who advocate violence. in violation of existing law. should also be arrested and promptly deported. I want to take this occasion to earnestly appeal to the sound common sense of all Amerioan citizens. and particularly to members of the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars. not to provoke disturbances or interfere with the constitutional rights of American citizens to freedom of speech. freedom of assembly. and of petition. No matter how drastically we may disagree with communist doctrines. nothing would help their cause more than to make martyrs of them and give them the publicity they seek by refusing them their constitutional rights.