Word: mccarranism
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...social, intellectual and economic life. The nation's highly technical economy needs relatively few immigrant laborers; as rising unemployment indicates, there is not enough work for unskilled Americans. But with industry's chronic shortage of specialists, foreigners who have skills are in demand. The 1952 McCarran-Walter Act, which tied quotas to the national and racial elements already in the U.S., arbitrarily barred great numbers of blacks, Orientals and Southern Europeans, no matter what their skills. To right that inequity, and to satisfy the changing job needs of the economy, Congress in 1965 passed a law that...
...SACB--created by the McCarran Act in 1950--decides whether organizations are Communist-linked. Congress voted in January that unless the Attorney General brings at least one suspect organization before the SACB in 1968, the Board will have to dissolve permanently...
...petition, circulated by Vern Countryman, professor of Law, is part of a campaign by the National Committee to Abolish the House Un-American Activities Committee. The campaign began in January, shortly after Congress passed the "Dirksen Amendments" to the McCarran Act. Countryman, who is vice-chairman of the Committee's New England Region, collected 214 signatures from law professors across the country...
...SACB has been largely inactive for the last five years, since the courts threw out most of the penalties which the McCarran Act holds for Communist organizations. But the "Dirksen Amendments" have given the Act a new set of teeth...
...petition says that the amendments have changed the purpose of the SACB. Instead of requiring Communist organizations to 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...