Yup, of coarse, that anti-semite, Christian Identity loon, Pete Peters, was wrong, in saying Gus was Jewish. He was a Finn. ("In Like Finn!" I mean Flynn...who was Flynn, btw? Not Elizabeth Gurley Flynn...)
The Kominsky book is very good, btw. Even if marred, by a real streak of Popular Front fellow travelling naivite about the fSU. Available in most public libraries. Michael Pugliese P.S. The www.abbc.com website, I think, is Radio Islam.
Also see "The Hoaxers, Plain Liars, Fancy Liars and Damned Liars", Morris Kominsky, Branden Press, 1970, SBN 8283-1288-5 ALLEGED QUOTE "We must realize that our party's most powerful weapon is racial tension. By pounding into the consciousness of the dark races, that for centuries they have been oppressed by whites, we can mold them into the program of the Communist Party. In America, we aim for several victories. While inflaming the Negro minorities against the whites, we will instill in the whites a guilt complex for their supposed exploitation of the Negroes. We will aid the Blacks to rise to prominence in every walk of life and in the world of sports and entertainment. With this prestige,, the Negro will be able to intermarry with the whites and will begin the process which will deliver America to our cause."
Jewish Playwright Israel Cohen, A Radical Program For The Twentieth Century Also entered into the Congressional Record on June 7, 1957, by Rep. Thomas Abernathy
RESPONSE (1) The above quote is #399 from the anti-Semitic document http://abbc.com/quotes/q351-400.htm "1000 Quotes by and about Jews". It is available in similar form from many sources, but not necessarily with the same number. David S. Maddison (maddison at connexus.net.au)
(From Usenet message.) This is a famous forgery. It was read into the Congessional Record by Mississippi Congessman T.G. Abernathy in June 1957 allegedly taken from a book called "A Racial Program for the Twentieth Century" (you can't even get the title right) which was supposedly published by Englishman Israel Cohen in 1912. In August 1958 New York Congressman A.J. Multer questioned the quotation's authenticity. He pointed out that there was NO communist party in Britain in 1912 and that the expression "Communist Party" did not come into use until AFTER WWI and that no such book was ever written or could be found in the British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books or the Library of Congress. Also, there was no record of a person called Israel Cohen who was a communist that lived in Britain.
Multer read into the Congressional Record an articled called "Story of a Phony Quotation - A Futile Effort to Pin it Down..." and an article about it appeared in the Washington Star, Feb 18, 1958. The Star traced the phony quote to, guess who?...Eustace Mullins, Jr! who claimed to have copied it from a Zionist publication in the Library of Congress in 1952. However, Multer noted that "He was discharged years ago from his probationary job as a photographic aid in the Library of Congress because of his authorship and circulation of violently anti-Semitic articles.
Source "They Never Said It", P.F. Boller and J. George, Oxford University Press, 1989, isbn 0-19-505541-1
Also see "The Hoaxers, Plain Liars, Fancy Liars and Damned Liars", Morris Kominsky, Branden Press, 1970, SBN 8283-1288-5
Kominsky gives VERY extensive treatment to this forgery. http://www.cei.org/UpdateReader.asp?ID=1310 These bourgeois media, always "union boss" or "communist boss" never ""bourgeois boss"!!! M.P. "I've got the bourgeois blues..." as Leadbelly sang...
GUS HALL Gus Hall. (1910-2000) Long-time leader of the Communist Party USA. Hall was born Arvo Gus Halberg ... www.geocities.com/redencyclopedia/bios/gushall.htm
Gus Hall (1910-2000): Stalinist operative and decades-long ... ... Gus Hall (1910-2000): Stalinist operative and decades-long leader of Communist Party USA. By Fred Mazelis 6 November 2000. ... www.wsws.org/articles/2000/nov2000/hall-n06.shtml
CNN.com - Gus Hall, American Communist Party boss, dies at ... ... Gus Hall, American Communist Party boss, dies at 90. Gus Hall, chairman of the American Communist Party, sits in his office in this January 1996 photo, ... www.cnn.com/2000/US/10/16/obit.hall.ap/
From David Walters, Trot on the SF Labor Council. Michael Pugliese
Hall came from a long line of leftist Finns from northern Minnosota (know, variously, as the West Coast of Norway/Sweden/Finland). Some of the sharpest battles in the US class struggle were fought among these early immigrants.
After the crusing of the Finnish Workers Revolution in 1918 (where 1/4 of the working class was wiped out), divisions in the American Finnish community surfaced, and took on the looks of a full fledged armed civil war. Like today, most American workers are armed and the Finns in Deluth, Hibing and Virginia , MN were no different. The communities divided between "whites" and "red" and they shot it out around the state. The Reds included SP members as well as CP members and a very large dose of Wobblies, who probably outnumbered them all. [in fact, it was only about 10 years ago that the Finnish language IWW/Anarcho-Syndicalist newspaper folded!--published in Deluth].
After the fighing stopped, around 1920, the divisions remained. After the Soviet invasion of Finland in 1940, most Finns turned against Stalin's Russia but the divisions remained. There is, to this day, family's that are considered "reds" and those that are "whites" and often times they hated each other, even though politics was now long forgotten.
Hall came from this background.
David Walters