Word: budenz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eisler acted as though he did not understand. Who had said this? A man who knew him-Louis Francis Budenz, ex-managing editor of Manhattan's Daily Worker. Eisler peered through his hornrimmed spectacles with a gentle smile and asked the gentlemen...
...Budenz there is no question that this thesis must be conveyed to the public and that "Red Fascism" is the No. 1 menace threatening the general welfare. Conceding that the present Spanish government is undesirable, he claims fiercely that Spain "is now being used as a diversion for keeping the real issues out of reach" and that "I have ways of knowing that a Republican Spain will turn out to be a Red-directed Spain, aimed at the United States through Latin America...
Long affiliated with the labor movement, Budenz once edited "Labor Age," organ for the AFL and the mine workers' union. He was arrested and acquitted twenty different times for participation in anti-injunction activity, and modestly remarks that he was probably the "best informed man" on personalities in the left wing...
...answer to a union member's query about John L. Lewis, he said that it "would be a great mistake to confuse Communism and Labor." Later he termed former Congressman Hugh de Lacy a Communist. You can also tell when "particular demonstrations of a particular sort" occur repeatedly. Budenz warns not to be too harsh upon "soft-hearted, soft-headed liberals and innocents with political hopes," but lets loose his full fury upon "connivers . . . who deliberately make alliances...
Dubious as it may be to the man in the street, the prestige in the "National Leader" title of the CP runs high to those ideologically deep scarlet. For years, Budenz reports, William Foster continually sought to anticipate policy changes (they have been know to be drastic) and "jump the Line" on Browder. Through this period the Editor of the Daily Worker may have been near to getting the goods, but from the standpoint of documentary evidence, he still has to prove that he was not extremely far. It is difficult to swallow cloak-and-dagger melodrama in a land...