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Before determining disciplinary action, Moskoff attempted to discover not only past membership in subversive organizations but also the extent and duration of such membership and whether the severance was complete, final, and in good faith...
...Saul Moskoff, Assistant Corporation Counsel, who is conducting the present inquiry in behalf of the Superintendent, referred to a 1939 law for legal precedent. The Devany Law required all applicants for employment and promotion in the school system to answer questions about Communist, Fascist and Nazi ties...
According to Moskoff the major problem of the investigators is the kind of subversive being sought and dismissed; "It is plain that any person who actively supports a totalitarian government or who seeks to impose a totalitarian government on the United States by membership . . . in such organization, is unfit to teach in our schools. It is recognized that in our democracy individual citizens are free to believe as they wish, even in Communism, Fascism, the Ku Klux Klan, or Nazism, but it is not conceded that such right to such belief includes the right to crystallize these beliefs into action...
...interview before me is not a trial or hearing and that a teacher participating . . . is not under charges of any kind, every effort is made to keep from the public generally and even from other employees of the Board (of Education) the fact that a teacher is so summoned," Moskoff said. And the evidence bears out the great secrecy of the interviews at which a lawyer may accompany the summoned teacher. If any charges are levied against a teacher he has the right to a public trial, to counsel, to confront and cross-examine accusers and to testify...
...question often asked of Moskoff is why a teacher does not have a right to refuse to give evidence against himself when interrogated by the school authorities. In a recent edition of Strengthening Democracy, a Board of Education publication, Moskoff answers...