Communist Domination of Unions and National Security...: Hearings...March 17, 18, 19, June 6, 11, 13, 17, 19, 27, and July 8, 19521952 - 530 pages |
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... American people owe the trade - union movement a great debt of gratitude and appreciation for the every effective and active manner in which the major organizations of labor , the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of ...
... American people owe the trade - union movement a great debt of gratitude and appreciation for the every effective and active manner in which the major organizations of labor , the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of ...
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... American unions have a membership made up of loyal Americans , interested in doing their daily jobs for the benefit of their country and their families . Unfortunately , a few unions may have fallen under the leadership and control of ...
... American unions have a membership made up of loyal Americans , interested in doing their daily jobs for the benefit of their country and their families . Unfortunately , a few unions may have fallen under the leadership and control of ...
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... American industry is predicated would be fraught with the greatest danger . As the chairman of this committee pointed out recently , the indiscrim- inate labeling of " communistic " to actions undertaken by loyal union leadership to ...
... American industry is predicated would be fraught with the greatest danger . As the chairman of this committee pointed out recently , the indiscrim- inate labeling of " communistic " to actions undertaken by loyal union leadership to ...
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... American trade - union organiza- tions . Let us talk , for example , about the American Federation of Labor . You are familiar with the American Federation of Labor and its leadership . Do you regard the American Federation of Labor and ...
... American trade - union organiza- tions . Let us talk , for example , about the American Federation of Labor . You are familiar with the American Federation of Labor and its leadership . Do you regard the American Federation of Labor and ...
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... American trade - unionism . I worked in the American Federation of Teachers in the early days . I helped fight Communists in the American Federation of Teachers when they were attempting to infiltrate and take over . I know what we had ...
... American trade - unionism . I worked in the American Federation of Teachers in the early days . I helped fight Communists in the American Federation of Teachers when they were attempting to infiltrate and take over . I know what we had ...
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Page 510 - ... that he is not a member of the Communist Party or affiliated with such party, and that he does not believe in, and is not a member of or supports any organization that believes in or teaches, the overthrow of the United States Government by force or by any illegal or unconstitutional methods.
Page 86 - If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
Page 64 - The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent.
Page 81 - ... whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundations on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.
Page 86 - The greater the importance of safeguarding the community from incitements to the overthrow of our institutions by force and violence, the more imperative is the need to preserve inviolate the constitutional rights of free speech, free press and free assembly in order to maintain the opportunity for free political discussion, to the end that government may be responsive to the will of the people and that changes, if desired, may be obtained by peaceful means. Therein lies the security of the Republic,...
Page 81 - This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
Page 63 - ... no danger flowing from speech can be deemed clear and present unless the incidence of the evil apprehended is so imminent that it may befall before there is opportunity for full discussion. If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.
Page 81 - Government are the trustees of the public, and as such accountable for their conduct ; wherefore, whenever the ends of Government are perverted, and public liberty manifestly endangered, and all other means of redress are ineffectual, the people may and of right ought to reform the old or establish a new Government. The doctrine of non-resistance against arbitrary power and oppression is absurd, slavish and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind.
Page 359 - Provided, that nothing in this act, or in the national industrial recovery act, or in any code or agreement approved or prescribed thereunder, or in any other statute of the United States, shall preclude an employer from making an agreement with a labor organization (not established, maintained, or assisted by any action defined in...
Page 65 - The constitutional guarantee of liberty implies the existence of an organized society maintaining public order, without which liberty itself would be lost in the excesses of anarchy.