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...Daily Worker was caught with its ideological pants down and Editor Budenz's name still on the masthead. After a seething silence, Communist hierarchs formally excommunicated Budenz from the Communist faithful, calling him a deserter and blaming the "political looseness and carelessness" of ex-Party Chief Earl Browder's regime...
...converted Communist was the managing editor of Communism's U.S. mouthpiece, the Daily Worker. Louis Francis Budenz, 54, ten years after becoming a Communist, announced that he had rejoined the Roman Catholic "faith of his fathers." He forthwith attended the baptism and confirmation of his ex-Unitarian wife and his three children, and was off to Notre Dame to be assistant professor of economics. As a teacher he hopes to "show up Communism in theory and practice." Said Budenz: "Communism, I have found, aims to establish a tyranny over the human spirit; it is in unending conflict with religion...
...Convert Budenz, whose excellent record as a labor organizer includes 21 arrests, issued a statement that sounded like a long sigh of relief: "Reason and faith have led to this happy step. . . . The privilege of returning to the sacraments is one to be deeply prized; it is, after a long journey, the true returning home...
...speakers will include A. J. Muste, Dean of Brookwood Labor College; Elmer A. Carter, Editor of Opportunity, official organ of the National Urban League, a Negro organization devoted to the advancement of the colored race: and Louis F. Budenz, Leader of the Kenosha and Nazareth Strikes and Executive, Secretary of the Conference for Progressive Labor Action...