Red purge

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Taft-Hartly made it illegal for anyone who supported
the overthrow of the US govt by force or violence to
hold union office. Is that still the law, Nathan?
Seems like a 1A violation. It isn't enforced today if
it is still technically on the books, but back in the
late 40s-early 50s, it certainly was. Many unions
still require technical loyalty oath. My sister's
union, the Carpenters, required her to swear that
shewasn't any kind of a commie.

jks

--- Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
> 
> 
> joanna bujes wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Also, I seem to remember reading somewhere that
> what decimated the CP in
> > the U.S. was not McCarthyism as much as
> Krustchev's official owning up to
> > the reality of Stalinism in the SU.
> >
> 
> There were a number of factors operating of course,
> but one of the
> greatest successes of Trumanism (a more accurate
> label for the red hunt
> than mccarthyism) was the driving of not just CP
> members but of anyone
> sympathetic to communism out of the labor unions:
> i.e., the barring of
> reds or "reds" from coalition activities. That made
> a big difference in
> the quality of the '60s movement, which would have
> been quite different
> had there been a significant radical presence in a
> number of major
> unions.
> 
> Carrol
> 
> 
> > Joanna
> 

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