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...recent refusal of the DuBois Club to register as a communist-front organization has brought to public attention once again the unnecessary and unjust presence of the Subversive Activities Control Act. Passed in 1950 over President Truman's veto as the first section of the McCarran Act, the law helped spawn the McCarthy era. After that first blazing notoriety, it has proceeded through its numerous litigations in relative quiet; but the law is far from dead...
Described by the Attorney General as a "registration" law, the McCarran Act has far wider ramifications. Organizations which are labeled "communist-action" or "communist-front" groups are required to register with the Attorney General with lists of their officers and activities. Since no organization would do this willingly, ethe Attorney General has the power to request the Subversive Activities Control Board to determine the status of an organization...
...Subversive Activities Control Act, serves only to confuse and excite. Mark DeWolfe Howe '28, professor of Law, an executive committee member of the National Commission for the Repeal of the McCarran Act, calls the law "a terrible old act which has done nothing but harm." Even though the clause for individual registration has been thrown out by the Supreme Court, the law is still powerful enough to cause unwarranted injury. For this reason the McCarran Act must finally be repealed...
...explained that the club is being formed to protest Attorney General Nicholas DeB. Katzenbach's demand that the national DuBois Club register as a Communist-front organization. "The DuBois Club must not be the first of a string of dissent organizations to dissolve simply at the mention of the McCarran Act" Barus said...
...club gains University recognition, it plans a joint conference with S.D.S. and local civil liberties groups to discuss the McCarran Act, the 1950 law which requires Communist-front organizations to register with the Subversiva Activities Control Board...