NEW ORGANIZATION

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 201, 23 May 1944, Page 5

NEW ORGANIZATION

U.S. Communist Party Dissolved . . NEW YORK, May 21. The national convention of American Communists unanimously voted to dissolve the party and renounce partisan advancement in the interest of national unity. It also decided to form a nonparty educational organization to contribute to the common cause of the progressive majority of the American people. The secretary, Mr. Earl Browder, addressing the convention, announced that the Communists would support President Roosevelt in the Presidential election. in which victory and lasting peace were at stake. Mr. Browder declared that hundreds of millions of Asiatics outside China should be mobilized on our side by the unequivocal promise of independence after the war. However. British agreement to this would not be obtained unless their well-founded fears of American post-war trade competition were allayed. The British did not cling to their obsolete colonial system because of their supposed innate conservatism or incapacity for change, but because they had no other instrument to avoid being overwhelmed by the gigantic forces of American capitalism. Unless those fears were allayed by

equitable agreements there was not the slightest prospect of dissolving the AngloAmerican rivalry which was blocking .t common strategy in Asia.