Red purge

[joanna bujes]

At 04:59 PM 03/05/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>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.

Yes, well, when I became a teaching assistant at UC Berkeley, I had to take 
the same oath. So, to expand on Carrol's point the red scare did purge the 
labor unions and the employed intelligentsia of "commies."

Joanna