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...send the government a list of their members each year, as the McCarran Act did, the amendments empower the SACB to keep its own list, which will be open to the public. The petition says that the SCAB is no longer gathering information--it is now keeping a "blacklist...
While Senator Eugene McCarthy and many others have continued their vociferous protests against the Vietnam War, conservatives in Congress have quietly been trying to revive the "communist" blacklist of the Joe McCarthy era. Conservative efforts have focused on giving new powers to the Subversive Activities Control Board (SACB...
...same time Representative Willis (D-La.) of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) introduced a bill calling on the Attorney General to initiate blacklist proceedings with the SACB against "Communist action, Communist front, or Communist infiltrated" organizations. The bill also requires that organizations listed as "communist" attach this label to all their publicity, written or oral; that dissolution of an organization after Board proceedings have begun shall not stop investigations; and that the courts are forbidden to interfere by any means while cases are pending before the Board. The bill passed the House...
...Blacklist...
...accounts of the arrests of individuals. Less reliable in their detail are reports of bloody clashes, though they undoubtedly indicate that trouble of some sort took place. Attacks on individuals named in posters usually have little validity beyond the important fact that the victims are on someone's blacklist...