Speech #830240173

Another cause which contributed to Communist influence in America was the failure of our Government to deport and exclude Communist aliens. In 1932. my bill to deport and exclude Communist aliens passed the House of Representatives but was stymied in the Senate by the liberal bloc headed by Senator La Follette. If my bill had become a law. 90 percent of these Communist aliens would have been deported and the thousands who came after 1932 would have been excluded. In the committees report filed on January 3. 1939. is the following finding: The committee received considerable evi.dence of the activities of Communist. Nazi. and Fascist aliens in the United States. * * * A large part of unAmerican activities is inspired and carried on by these aliens. * * * The committee believes that It will be difficult to ever cope with unAmerican activities and propaganda in this country so long as the Department of Labor follows its present policy with reference to deportation.* * * We further believe that greater care should be exercised in permitting aliens to enter the United States. In the committees report filed January 3. 1940. we recommended: The mandatory deportation of aliens who advocate any basic change in the form our Government. While about 300 Communist aliens cited by our committee were finally deported. and 77 Communists cited by us were convicted under the Smith Act. this recommendation was more or less ignored. Another cause of Communist influence in the United States was their control of some of the powerful labor unions in our country. Through these labor unions Russia was able to wield great political influence.