Mr. Chairman, I think I should read into the record at this point several paragraphs which I see in this document.
Mr. Moulder. Very well.
Mr. Tavenner (reading):
The national center of the revolutionary industrial union movement in the United States is the Trade Union Unity League, organized in Cleveland, August 31, 1929. The TUUL coordinates and binds all the revolutionary union forces into one united organization. It leads and directs the general struggle of the new union movement. It is the American section of the Red International of Labor Unions.
Is that just what you have been telling us, Mr. Witness?
Mr. Dennett. Correct.
Mr. Tavenner. I desire to read again from page 35 of this document.
In the event of an imperialist war it will mobilize the workers to struggle against American imperialism and to transform this war into a class war against the capitalist system itself.
Do you recall that as one of the objectives of the Trade Union Unity League?
Mr. Dennett. Yes, of course, I do. It is very plain. It is in black and white. I think that it has to be admitted by anyone with any knowledge of the subject that that was the objective, that was the policy. That goes back a long way. That goes back to Lenin’s teaching. It goes back to the teachings of Marx. In fact, it goes back to the teachings of almost any of the philosophers, the idea that when a given set of circumstances becomes impossible to withstand it is to be expected that somebody is going to break the bonds somewhere.