Word: membership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first of these three categories concerns the case of two faculty members. Phillips of the Philosophy department and Butterworth of the English department, who have admitted current membership in the Communist Party. The faculty committee report on them was composed of a report of five members who recommended that the men be retained; a disagreed with the majority reasoning: and finally the dissenting reports of three members who also felt that the two men should be dismissed...
...first report defined the nature of the Communist Party of the United States. Within this definition it then stated that "it is impossible to conceive how the mere fact of membership in the Communist Party could in any way affect the competency of respondent Butterworth as a teacher of Old English Literature." It might, the report found, be a possible deterrent to the competence of a philosophy professor. However, the testimony of Phillips' colleagues and students all Issued his competence and objectivity...
...report likewise found that membership in the Communist Party cannot be considered either immoral or in neglect of duty. However, this report of five members indicated that it might be desirable to change the code so that membership in the Communist Party would be sufficient for dismissal. The dissenting report of the three men who also felt that both Phillips and Butterworth should be kept on the faculty concerned itself mainly with the last point. These three men were definitely against prohibiting members of the Communist Party from teaching...
...dissenting opinion of the three members who felt that both Phillips and Butterworth should be fired was that membership in the Communist Party per se "disqualified" the respondents "for retention on the faculty of the University of Washington...
Edelman said he may have been "naive or misinformed," but "it was my understanding that this didn't constitute membership." He added that both he and his wife dropped out of the picture when they found that they didn't agree with the Communists, either in theory or practice...