And here's another "socialist" history that his "
saint wayne morse" believed in....
LID
On September 12, 1905, a small group of socialists (under the leadership of Jack London, Upton Sinclair, and Clarence Darrow) met at Pecks Restaurant in NY City. Out of this meeting came the Intercollegiate Socialist Society - although the Fabians of England had urged that the word socialist be kept out of view. The Intercollegiate Socialist Society was founded for the stated purpose of "promoting an intelligent interest in socialism among college men and women...and the encouragement of all legitimate endeavors to awaken an interest in socialism among the educated men and women of the country." (1,4)
The Rand School of Social Science, formed by Fabian socialists, became the NY headquarters of the Intercollegiate Socialist Society. Harvard was selected as the primary center for nourishing and spreading the virus of socialism. By 1915, the Intercollegiate Socialist Society had chapters on 60 college campuses. (1)
The 1917 Bolshevik seizure of power in Russia stimulated a ferment of activity among socialists in the United States. Some, like John Reed (Harvard, 1910), joined the Bolshevik movement outright. While some American Fabians retained their cover of respectability and sympathized secretly with the Bolsheviks, others abandoned deception, and helped form the communist party of the United States (September, 1919).
The socialist bloodbath in Russia, and the activities of American socialists, stirred such angry reaction in the United States that American Fabians tardily took the advice of their British friends - to push the word socialist into the background. In 1921, the ntercollegiate Socialist Society became the League for Industrial Democracy (LID); but its purpose did not change. (4) LID remains the oldest socialist organization in the United States - a parent group of other fronts which have been set up since, spreading the poison of socialism, badly contaminating thought streams of the entire nation.
Below are names of a few prominent individuals who are, or were, influential in LID. CFR after a name indicates membership in the Council on Foreign Relations; ADA means membership in Americans for Democratic Action; ACLU, American Civil Liberties Union:
Roger N. Baldwin - Founder and head of ACLU
Charles A Beard - historian
Daniel Bell - labor editor, Fortune
John K. Benedict - professor, Union Theological Seminary, CFR
Andrew J. Biemiller - former U.S. Representative, founding member of ADA, now AFL-CIO official
Carroll Binder - editor of the Minneapolis Tribune
Ella Reeves ("mother") Bloor - communist party official (deceased)
Ralph J. Bunche - UN Under Secretary General, NAACP official, CFR, ACLU
James B. Carey - Secretary/Treasurer, AFL-CIO, ADA founder
Everett R. Clinchy - first President, National Conference of Christians and Jews, now head of Conference on World Tensions (World Brotherhood, Inc.), CFR
George S. Counts - author, educator
Max Danish - editor of Justice, Garment Workers Union Official, ADA founder
Babette Deutch - writer, mother of Adam Yarmolinsky
John Dewey - "father" of progressive education (deceased)
Paul H. Douglas - Democrat Senator from Illinois, former professor at University of Chicago, ADA founder, ACLU
David Dubinsky - head of Garment Workers Union, head of NY Liberal Party, ADA founder, CFR
W.E.B. DuBois - communist party member, official of NAACP, author (deceased)
George Clifton Edwards, Jr., - Judge, Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, ADA founder
Morris Ernst - chief attorney for ACLU, NAACP official, ADA founder
Samuel A. Eliot, Jr. - author, educator
James Farmer - head of the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE)
Felix Frankfurter - former Harvard professor, Supreme Court Justice, CFR, ACLU (deceased)
Lewis S. Gannett - author, editor of NY Herald-Tribune, NAACP official, CFR
Sidney Hook - author, educator
Quincy Howe - author, radio commentator
Hubert H. Humphrey - Vice President of the United States, founding member of ADA, CFR
Jacob K. Javits - Republican senator from NY, ADA, CFR
Nicholas Kelley - retired VP of Chrysler Corporation, CFR
William H. Kilpatrick - educator (deceased)
Freda Kirchwey - publisher of The Nation
Corliss Lamont - Franklin Roosevelt's secretary while President
Joseph P. Lash - UN correspondent for the New York Post, former intimate of the late Eleanor Roosevelt, ADA founder
Harold J. Laski - professor, Harvard University and London School of Economics (deceased)
Owen Lattimore - author, educator, alleged communist, CFR
Herbert H. Lehman - retired investment banker, former Democrat Governor of NY and former U.S. Senator, ADA founder, NAACP official, CFR, ACLU (deceased)
Max Lerner - writer, professor of American Civilization, Brandeis University
Alfred Baker Lewis - President of Union Casualty Company, NAACP official
Trygve Lie - First UN Secretary-General
Walter Lippmann - author, columnist, CFR, ACLU founder
Robert Mors Lovett - author, educator
Jay Lovestone - founder of U.S. communist party, now International Representative for AFL-CIO
George Meany - President, AFL-CIO
Wayne Morse - Democrat Senator from Oregon, ADA official
Will Maslow - Director, Commission on Law and Social Action, American Jewish Congress
Lewis Mumford - author, CFR
A. J. Muste - official of National Council of Churches
Reinhold Neibuhr - Vice President of Union Theological Seminary, ADA founder, CFR
Harry A. Overstreet - author, educator, official of United World Federalists
Victor G. Reuther - Assistant to Walter Reuther
Walter P. Reuther - President, United Auto Workers, Vice-President of AFL-CIO, ADA founder, official of United World Federalists
Eleanor Roosevelt - ADA founder (deceased)
Harold O. Rugg - author, educator
Stanley Ruttenberg - Director of Research and Education, AFL-CIO
William L. Shirer - author, radio commentator, CFR
George Harry Soule, Jr. - educator, long-time editor of The New Republic
Monroe Sweeland - editor of Oregon Democrat, ADA founder
Norman Thomas - long-time head of socialist party
Alexander Trachtenberg - communist party official (deceased)
Rexford G. Tugwell - Roosevelt "brain-truster"
H. Jerry Voorhis - ADA founder, former Democrat Representative in Congress from California, Executive Chairman of Cooperative League of America, United World Federalists member
Harry F. Ward - professor emeritus of Union Theological Seminary
James Wechsler - editor of New York Post, ADA founder
Charles Zimmerman - Vice-President of Garment Workers Union, NAACP official
ACLU
Having found that Americans could be led to support socialist causes only if socialism were falsely called something else, American socialists created many fronts which appealed to some emotion or prejudice of factional groups in the population. Leadership and tactics of socialist fronts came largely from the parent group, League for Industrial Democracy. For example, Roger N. Baldwin, prominent in LID, was one of the initial founders of a socialist front which ultimately became the American Civil Liberties Union. In a letter to a socialist agitator, Baldwin said:
"Do steer away from making it look like a Socialist enterprise....We want also to look [like] patriots in everything we do. We want to get a good lot of flags, talk a good deal about the Constitution and what our forefathers wanted to make of this country, and to show that we are really the folks that really stand for the spirit of our institutions." (1)
Formed in the spring of 1917, the Roger Baldwin group was first called American Union Against Militarism. It pretended to be a pacifist organization, devoted to defense of all who objected to the draft during WWI; but, in reality, it was a legal wing of the socialist movement. Jane Addams, Adolph A. Berle, Max Eastman, Norman Thomas, and Rabbi Stephen S. Wise were among prominent socialists who joined Roger Baldwin in founding American Union Against Militarism.
On November 1, 1917, the organization became the National Civil Liberties Bureau. It had enormous influence during WWI, because: (1) it received support from individuals such as Walter Lippmann, Felix Frankfurter, Frederick Keppel, Colonel Edward Mandel House; and (2) it received money from the Carnegies. (1)
On January 12, 1920, the National Civil Liberties Bureau was reorganized as American Civil Liberties Union, under the guidance of Roger N. Baldwin, Felix Frankfurter, Louis F. Batons, William Z. Foster, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Jane Addams, Arthur Garfield Hays, Robert Morss Lovett, A. J. Muste, Norman Thomas, Harold J. Laski and others. (1) Batons, Foster and Flynn were prominent officials of the American communist party.
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