Most of them do not speak English and they get their information largely through a daily Filipinolanguage program and through Communist Filipino leaders In their unions. I would like to make clear for the record that the formal duespaying membership of the Communist Party. which is organized on an underground basis. is no index to Communist strength. because the people attached to these small units are the generals of the army. They do not need a large party so far as formal and official membership is concerned. and the Communist leaders are particularly careful to keep the number of formal members among the aliens as low as possible to protect them from deportation. I am of the opinion that the Senate committee should make a thorough study of Communist methods of organization. with a view to possibly some changes to make our present immigration and naturalization laws fully applicable to the conditions in Hawaii. The Communist Party In Hawaii. In effect. operates on a different structural basis from the mainland.
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Suggesting that Filipino immigrants are easily influenced by Communist leaders and do not speak English.