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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... Activities Committee and the McCarran committee - even with the assistance of " friendly " CIO informers - were just too obviously agents of the employers to swing an effective ax against decent unions , the " labor statesmen " who were ...
... Activities Committee and the McCarran committee - even with the assistance of " friendly " CIO informers - were just too obviously agents of the employers to swing an effective ax against decent unions , the " labor statesmen " who were ...
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... activities of potential saboteurs , can better attest to the threat we are now talking about . In addition , the Facilities Protection Board , operating as the agent of the National Security Council , has been deemed responsible to ...
... activities of potential saboteurs , can better attest to the threat we are now talking about . In addition , the Facilities Protection Board , operating as the agent of the National Security Council , has been deemed responsible to ...
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... Activities Control Board , set up pursuant to the provisions of the Internal Security Act of 1950 , we are still left unaided . While that Board has the authority to designate or- ganizations , including trade unions , as " Communist ...
... Activities Control Board , set up pursuant to the provisions of the Internal Security Act of 1950 , we are still left unaided . While that Board has the authority to designate or- ganizations , including trade unions , as " Communist ...
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... activities . That section of the amended statute was adopted by the Congress only after the most exhaustive consideration . For this agency to assume that we can now go further would , it seems to us , be an un- warranted extension of ...
... activities . That section of the amended statute was adopted by the Congress only after the most exhaustive consideration . For this agency to assume that we can now go further would , it seems to us , be an un- warranted extension of ...
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... activities of the committee . that's something that we are going to look into . But you have to distinguish between the Communist leader and the members . I don't think that anybody seriously holds that the majority of the members of UE ...
... activities of the committee . that's something that we are going to look into . But you have to distinguish between the Communist leader and the members . I don't think that anybody seriously holds that the majority of the members of UE ...
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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.