Word: affidavits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week for a meeting of the A.F.L.'s 15-man executive council. He was almost cocky as he talked to newsmen. He told them he would recommend that the A.F.L.'s officers get into step with the new National Labor Relations Board and sign the non-Communist affidavit, which is a prime proviso of the Taft-Hartley Act. He was sure that the other 14 members on the council felt the same...
...Side Issues." Abruptly, Accuser Hughes attacked Senator Brewster because of a story which the Senator had given to the press-that a T.W.A. hostess had refused to travel alone in a plane with Hughes. The aviator produced an affidavit from Hostess Harriet Applewick. She called the Senator's remarks "ridiculous...
Provisions banning political activity by unions and corporations: "a dangerous intrusion on free speech." Requirement that all union officers sign an affidavit that they were not Communists: "disruptive." In short, there was not a single thing about it that Harry Truman would admit that he liked...
...President's objection to the anti-Communist provision: "Why should an individual officer refuse to sign such an affidavit if he is not a Communist? If he is a Communist, why should such a union be certified...
...repeated a lie by ... John Roy Carlson that this writer was a member of the "Bund" and a Klansman, both of these statements are false and I will submit an affidavit under oath that I never made application for membership into the German-American Bund at any time, never paid dues therein, never carried a membership card, never attended even one of its membership meetings...