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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... problem of Communist - dominated unions and national security is something else again , and on the answer to this problem we have no preconceptions . I want to emphasize that , because there have been those who distort the purpose of ...
... problem of Communist - dominated unions and national security is something else again , and on the answer to this problem we have no preconceptions . I want to emphasize that , because there have been those who distort the purpose of ...
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... problem , and it is not only the Communists who are emotional about it . There are lots of active and energetic anti - Communists who are emo- tional about this problem , too . And I think with good reason . The Communist label has ...
... problem , and it is not only the Communists who are emotional about it . There are lots of active and energetic anti - Communists who are emo- tional about this problem , too . And I think with good reason . The Communist label has ...
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... problem . As is to be expected , the responses show differences of opinion on how to meet the problem although there is general agreement that the problem existed . In general , the answers are broken down as follows : One group holds ...
... problem . As is to be expected , the responses show differences of opinion on how to meet the problem although there is general agreement that the problem existed . In general , the answers are broken down as follows : One group holds ...
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... problem without becoming so neurotic by fear and paralysis that we fall heir to the ills which we are trying to cure ... problems in a constitutional democracy . It is this nagging question to which these hearings are addressed . May I ...
... problem without becoming so neurotic by fear and paralysis that we fall heir to the ills which we are trying to cure ... problems in a constitutional democracy . It is this nagging question to which these hearings are addressed . May I ...
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... problem is that no one agency of Government can bear the entire responsibility for solving the problem . For instance , although the Department of Defense has a primary interest in protecting its defense contracts and the industrial ...
... problem is that no one agency of Government can bear the entire responsibility for solving the problem . For instance , although the Department of Defense has a primary interest in protecting its defense contracts and the industrial ...
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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.
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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,...
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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.
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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.