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...Massachusetts House yesterday adopted a measure which would outlaw the Communist Party and all organizations considered "subversive" by the courts. At the same time, the Harvard Liberal Union announced that the group would circulate a petition in the dining halls requesting that Governor Paul A. Dever veto any anti-Communist bill which passes both House and Senate...
Like a small child caught smoking his father's old briar, state legislators can come up with the most impassioned irrelevancies. When the Blanchard Report recently appeared, implying that the Dever Administration corporation taxes were responsible for the flight of local industry from the Commonwealth, everyone started yelling. In the debate, no one has faced the main problem--how to end the State's progressive industrial anemia...
...made its contents widely known, and its release is no longer a significant issue so far as the problem of Massachusetts industry is concerned. However, the arguments have gone on so long that neither side can back out. The Republicans have moved to file contempt charges against DelMonte, and Dever has announced that he will fully pardon his Labor Commissioner of any penalty that the Senate may propose...
This Report is only one of many that have indirectly attacked Dever's tax policy, but it is the first one to stir up a real controversy. This is hardly encouraging, however, because the debate is purely partisan. With elections a full year away, the legislators can afford to forget politics and work on solving the most pressing problem Massachusetts now faces. If the State House does not find a way out soon, there will not be enough industry left in the State to even write reports...
Only Governor Dever stands between Massachusetts and the loosely drawn anti-Communist bill recently passed by the State Senate. This bill defines a subversive organizations as one formed "for the purpose of advocating, advising, counseling, or inciting the overthrow of the government by force or any other unlawful means." Anyone who remains in a subversives, organization, rents an auditorium to subversives, or contributes to a subversive organization is liable for fines up to $1,000 and three years in jail. Any person converted of being a subversive is able to a $10,000 fine and one year in jail...