John Stanford, Texan (1924-2013) Page: 2 of 3
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On February 17, 1951, Governor Allan Shivers signed into
law one of the vilest measures ever to be saddled on the people
of Texas. The Governor signed-without pausing to think of its
unconstitutionality-Marshall Bell's Communist Control Law, a
state law modeled after the infamous McCarran Law.
The real purpose of the law is to silence the mounting
discontent of the people with Wall Street's war effort. The law
was intended as a club to beat down the workers' resistance to Big
Business' efforts to make them shoulder the costs of the war; to
terrorize further the Negro people; to preserve the un-equal status
of the Mexican-American population of our state; to force neighbor
to spy on neighbor; and generally to deprive the people of freedom
to think, meet, organize, and act in their own best interests.
Under this law any individual is liable to imprisonment up
to ten years and to a fine of up to $10,000 if he "in any manner
advocates, or acts to further, the world Communist movement."
Any political opponent of those in power might be so charged.....
The writer is a native of Texas and a member of the Communist
Party of Texas. For the following reasons I do not intend to register
under the Communist Thought Control Law:
...The law defines the Communist Party as an international
conspiracy headed by the Soviet Union and having as its objective
world control, to be brought about by force, violence, sabotage,
etc.....Contrary to the fascist lies of the Communist Thought Control
Law, the Communist Party of the U.S.A. bases its policies solely
on the best interests of the American working class. It has no
organizational ties with any foreign power or party whatsoever.
But the Communist Party does hold that the workers of all countries
have common interests; and it seeks to further international
working-class solidarity in the fight for peace, democracy, and
general well-being. The Communist Party subscribes fully to the
statement of Abraham Lincoln, "The strongest bond of human
sympathy, outside of the family relation, should be one uniting all
working people, of all nations and tongues and kindred.".....
The history of the Communist movement in Texas dates back
almost a hundred years. The record of these hundred years proves
the falsity of the lies of the Communist Thought Control Law.
What the enemies of the people could never prove in open court,
they have decreed in a fascist law.
The first Communist newspaper in the United States was
founded in San Antonio by Adolph Douri, a close friend of Karl
Marx, back in 1853. The Communists of that period opposed
slavery and Texas' participation in the Civil War. Communists
have always opposed everything that would push the common
people of our state down, or limit democracy. Communists have
always supported everything that would help the common people
and that would broaden democracy.....
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Stanford, John W., Jr. John Stanford, Texan (1924-2013), pamphlet, 2013?; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1261240/m1/2/?q=%221951~%22: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Private Collection of Mario Marcel Salas.