Speaking at a meeting in Asbury Park, N.J., Tilford Dudley, national assistant director of the Political Action Committee of the CIO, is reported in a news dispatch to have declared that “one-third of the United States Congress are evil, corrupt men.”

Congress should summon Mr. Dudley to Washington forthwith and make him produce book, chapter and verse to justify his vicious attack on the legislative branch of government.

That is the sort of statement about Congress which might be expected to come out of Moscow and to be repeated by Communists in the United States. Made publicly by an official of a large labor organization, and made without any attempt to produce sustaining evidence, it is a cowardly and contemptible effort to wreck the faith of the people in their government and in the men they elect to represent them.

Mr. Dudley should be forced to put up or shut up.