The Daily Worker Finds Friends

The Liberals never protest federal action against tax-delinquent papers—unless they are Communist. Then it’s “interference with freedom of the press”

This “raid,” as it came to, he called, was in no way unprecedented, and the manner in which it had been carried out was in every way routine. Since January 1955, the Communist Party and the Daily Worker, unmolested until then for reasons which the American public will never know, had balked at requests to begin belated compliance with the Internal Revenue statutes. The Party had blandly brushed aside all inquiries from tax agents by saying that “we keep no books” and “we’re tax exempt.” Party attorneys conceded that they had never applied for tax exemption, as the law requires. Nor had they ever filed a statement of income and expenditures with the Congress, as legitimate political parties must do under the terms of another statute.

RT

About the Author

Ralph de Toledano

Featured Tags

The Liberals never protest federal action against tax-delinquent papers—unless they are Communist. Then it’s “interference with freedom of the press”

This “raid,” as it came to, he called, was in no way unprecedented, and the manner in which it had been carried out was in every way routine. Since January 1955, the Communist Party and the Daily Worker, unmolested until then for reasons which the American public will never know, had balked at requests to begin belated compliance with the Internal Revenue statutes. The Party had blandly brushed aside all inquiries from tax agents by saying that “we keep no books” and “we’re tax exempt.” Party attorneys conceded that they had never applied for tax exemption, as the law requires. Nor had they ever filed a statement of income and expenditures with the Congress, as legitimate political parties must do under the terms of another statute.