Macfadden Denounced by Dickstein As ‘trouble’ Tool

Castigating as a “manufacture by the Silver Shirts and other American Fascist organizations” a bill introduced last week into the House of Representatives calling for suspension of immigration from countries failing to pay debts to the United States, Representative Samuel Dickstein yesterday denounced Representative Louis T. MacFadden of Pennsylvania as playing into the hands of American trouble-makers.

In an interview here Dickstein declared, “MacFadden is trying to make a joke of our legislative bodies and he is doing his worst to hoodwink the country into calling for the ‘nationalist’ policies of the Silver Shirts and other renegade outfits. Last week the Congressman from Pennsylvania introduced a bill into the House, which reflects his own and the national bigotry of his Silver Shirt henchmen.”

SILVER SHIRTS INFLUENCE

The bill to which Dickstein referred is HR 8223, which demands that no aliens applying for permission to enter the country be-granted a visa if he be a subject of any country in the eastern hemisphere which has not met its debt obligations to the United States. The bill provides for enforcement sixty days after enactment and sets five years as the period before it can expire.

“The whole thing is really a joke,” Dickstein exclaimed. “Under the provisions of the bill the only nationals who would be allowed to come into this country would be the Finns. Finland being the only country who is out of the red as far as our ledgers are concerned.”

Dickstein said the influence of Silver Shirts particularly, besides other anti-Semitic bodies is being felt at Washington. It is understood that the Silver Shirt organization, led by arch anti-Semite William Dudley Pelley, has recently created a militant lobby at the capital, said to be one of the strongest lobbies of any small political, racial, or religious group existing.