Word: emspak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Singer's trial on the contempt charges was originally scheduled for February, 1955, but a Federal Judge delayed the case to await the Supreme Court's decision in the Emspak, Quinn, and Bart cases, also involving a witness' refusal to testify before a Congressional committee. The Court's ruling in these cases, announced late last month, contained a generally broad intrepretation of the Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination and may be relevant to the Singer case as well. In the majority opinion setting aside the contempt conviction of United Electrical Workers' official Julius Emspak, Chief Justice Warren wrote that...
...United Electrical Workers' James J. Matles knew just how to bait the House Un-American Activities Committee without getting gored. Unlike his Redlining colleague, Julius Emspak, who arrogantly refused to answer the committee's questions and was sentenced to jail for contempt of Congress (TIME, March 12), Matles carefully prepared his line of retreat. In Washington last week, the same federal judge who convicted Emspak threw out a similar contempt charge against Matles. Though their manners had been the same, a careful reading of the testimony convinced the judge that the committee understood "this defendant properly invoked...
When he was hauled before a House Un-American Activities subcommittee in 1949, Julius Emspak, secretary-treasurer of the Red-run United Electrical Workers Union, decided to teach the committee a little lesson. "I don't think," said Emspak, "a committee like this, or any subcommittee, has a right to go into . . . my beliefs [and] my associations . . ." He went on trumpeting: the committee was a "Kangaroo Court," its members "corrupt," its questions a "beautiful frame to hang people...
...House charged him with contempt for refusing to answer its questions. But Emspak blandly explained that his surly accusations had merely been his way of invoking his constitutional rights against selfincrimination. Then he sat back to enjoy the committee's discomfiture. Last week Julius Emspak discovered that he had doped it out all wrong. In Washington, a federal judge decided that he had not properly claimed his constitutional rights, gave him six months in jail and a $500 fine for contempt of Congress...
...past year. Thirty-nine were Hawaiians who defied questions asked by committeemen during an on-the-scene investigation of Communism in the territory; four were scientists who worked on atomic bomb projects; the others were various Reds and officials of the Red-run United Electrical Workers Union, including Julius Emspak and James Matles. Conviction may bring $1,000 fine, a year in jail...