RADICALS: The Red Spots

Are some of your best friends Commies? Are you sure? How can you tell a Commie from a non-Commie in the U.S. labor movement?

This week Manhattan's Research Institute of America, owned and edited by lawyer Leo Cherne and advertising man Carl Hovgard, undertook to answer these questions. It issued a report to over 40,000 U.S. businessmen on the Communist Party in U.S. Labor.

Said R.I.A.: American Communists, whose "one principle is Russia first," will do their utmost to foment "class warfare," force the leaders of non-Communist labor organizations into extreme positions, embarrass management and the Administration. "With our stiffening foreign...

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