Subversive Influence in the Educational Process: Hearings Before the Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws to the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eighty-second Congress, Second Session[-Eighty-fourth Congress, First Session], Part 1

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Page 178 - ... Party. May I state this: Quite frequently we have witnesses before us who say under oath that they are not now members of the Communist Party. I do not understand how any patriotic American citizen can stay so close to the Communist outfit yet when they come before this committee claim the privilege as to whether or not they are members of the Communist Party at the time they are in the witness chair. Do you understand what I am saying to you ? (The witness conferred with her counsel.) Mr. DOYLE....
Page 322 - It is necessary to agree to any and every sacrifice * * * to resort to all sorts of devices, maneuvers, and illegal methods, to evasion and subterfuge, in order to penetrate the trade unions, to remain in them and to carry on Communist work in them at all costs.
Page 164 - Mill are consistently directed toward the achievement of the program and the purposes of the Communist Party rather than the objectives and policies set forth in the CIO constitution.
Page 325 - In the achievement of this task we turn to the people because we have faith in them and we oppose all those who would violate this American emphasis of respect for human dignity, all those who would use power to exploit the people in the interest of alien loyalties.
Page 338 - Section 4. No individual shall be eligible to serve either as an officer or as a member of the Executive Board who is a member of the Communist Party, any fascist organization, or other totalitarian movement, or who consistently pursues policies and activities directed toward the achievement of the program or the purposes of the Communist Party, any fascist organization, or other totalitarian movement, rather than the objectives and policies set forth in the constitution of the CIO.
Page 382 - The task of the Communist Party must be first and foremost to arouse the teachers to class-consciousness and to organize them into the American Federation of Teachers, which is in the main current of the American Labor movement.
Page 312 - Green of the American Federation of Labor ; and be it further "Resolved, That President Counts be used to send copies of this resolution to all locals of the American Federation of Teachers...
Page 353 - Among these other national educational organizations, the single exception which seeks classroom teacher membership is the American Federation of Teachers, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor.
Page 302 - Sigerist, director of the Institute of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University, has long been known for his progressive views. He is the author of "The University at the Crossroads...
Page 378 - On the contrary, iron discipline does not preclude but presupposes conscious and voluntary submission, for only conscious discipline can be truly iron discipline. But after a...

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