Steele called attention to one Alexander Bittelman. a highranking Communist. who was drawing $88.10 a month as social security benefits. even while serving a 3year sentence in the Federal penitentiary at Atlanta. Ga.. for conspiring to overthrow the Government of the United States by force and violence. This Mr. Bittelman was convicted as one of the founders of the Communist Party in our country. He entered the United States in 1912. after having been deported to Siberia by the czar. for revolutionary activities. He was one of the 13 Communist leaders convicted under the Smith Act in January 1953. In spite of his conviction as a Communist and a traitor.
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