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Q-(Sec. IV) Statesman, Salem, Ore., Frf., May 4, "50
U.S. Commie
Party Plans
r Convention
- i SEW YORK Ift-Tbc Amerl
',1 can Communiit party will hold
- iU first national convention in
, ' tlx veart la Dece-soher. -
' - The convention call was an-
, Bounced Wednesday after a four-
, oar meeting 01 about mi top
' party leaders 'Which was describ-
; ed la a party news release as
"the most self-critical in the
party's history." t
, - Most of the self -criticism at
" the top escheloa meetinf report-
, : ' d)y Involved gettinf in step
- vita Moscow on tne new policy
J.;: cf downgrading Joseph Stalin,
the late Russian leader.
Details of the convention, In-
eluding site and date, will be an-
Bounced later. Most pan conven
Z i Bona were held in Mew York.
I , Mistakes listed :r
- - Party headquarters issued a re
.. !l port by Eugene Dennis, general
aecretary of the American Com
,X tnunist-party, which emphasized
the party's "short-comings and
- mistaken estimates" during the
-. past Itt years. :
, The announcement said the re
' port wu adopted unanimously by
" ' the national committee "alter a
vigorous three-day debate,"
t 'ibe party conclave apparently
wu the first for American Cum-,
wunlits since party secretary
, fcikits Khushchev denounced the
"cult of individualism" Stalin
worship at the recent 20th eun
- gress of the Communist party
.: it the Soviet Union.
; . Behiad Red Leader
i ' The Dennis report put Ameri
, Can Communists four-square be
. . . hind the Kussian leaders, viewing
- the "shortcoming and mistaken
"" . estimates' of the American party
t as- "mainly left-serrelarisn in
' ' character."
. ' Three major errors were list
; ed: "Mistaken estimates po the
, imminence of war . . . tendency
to underestimate, the deep demo
. .. cratic traditions among the peo-"-
pie and their willingness to tie
I . fend the bill of rights, Xand)
an overestimation of the immi
nence of a deep cyclical econo
nic crisis."
Dennis was quoted as saying
- the mistskes frequently led to
"wrong tactical conclusions,"
' The announcement noted that
"the idea of I peaceful transition
to tocialism had been developed
'" In the American Communist
, movement years ato."
. - Former General Secretary Earl
Irowder advocated a similar ap
' preach la 1949 and wu stripped
. ef his party offices and expelled
from the party for his stand.
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OverU
Shop
nion
Argued
. WASHINGTON If) - The power
of Congress te override state laws
' outlawing the union shop was
challenged ana defended Wednes
day before tne Supreme court.
Tbe argumenst involved a itui
amendment te the National Rail
. way Labor Act it permits labor
. organisations -Jo negotiate union
4 ahop agreements with railroads,
state laws to the contrary not
withstanding. In a union ahop a
. Worker must jdia the union or
Jose bis job.
.-. Asst. Atty. Gen. Robert A. Nel-1
ton of Nebraska ' told the court
'; his state and 17 others enacted
'rlght-to-work" .laws to assure
' fundamental rights guaranteed by
the Bill of Rights.
; "Such a law cannot be struck
down by Congress,'' Nelson said.
. - Lester P, Schoene, attorney for
18' railroad labor organisations,
, fended the Railway Act amend-
inent as "a proper exercise ot
?Q power of Congress to regtikir
Interstate commerce."
1 ' ""That power has been exercised
; tot over years lo regulate the
- specific subject of union security
! agreements between railroads and
- their employes," Schoene said.
-." Atty. Edson Smith ol Omaha.
tyke Nelson, argued that a work
Vat hat a constitutional right to
. Join or not loin a labor union.
',, Insisting that union shop agree
Xnenta do not infringe upon con-
stitutional guarantees, Schoene
' Z laid Congress hu not "required
anion membership by law and has
not required the making of any
- anion shop agreements."
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