"Anyone willing to put forth the Communist line can get an invitation from a college," says Sam Kushner, Illinois correspondent for The Worker. Last week alone, Party Boss Gus Hall made two speeches at the universities of Chicago and Wisconsin. National Secretary Ben Davis earlier drew 6,000 students for a speech at the University of Minnesota. The Communist lecture bureau in New York City is beside itself in gleeful culling of invitations from some 100 campuses this year, against two dozen or so last year.
When they win a podium, the Communists deliver set pieces praising "socialist life," denouncing segregation and U.S....
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