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...when the U S labor press typically billed The Class Struggle as an "irrepressible conflict between the toilers and the parasites." Today's labor press has climbed off the barricades, calmed down and grown up. In shifting from diatribe to dialogue, it has locked out such epithets as scab, fink and goon; it treats the bosses almost as respectfully as the workers. Amateur polemicists have been mostly replaced with professional journalists; the trend is from bombastic pamphlets to smoothly written, fact-filled newspapers that reflect a labor movement no longer on the defensive...
...last week, despite sporadic huddles between negotiators and politicians, the city and the picketing welfare workers were as far away as ever from a sensible solution. From their ranks in the picket lines, the strikers hurled highly unsocial curses and epithets ("Scab!" "Fink!") at nonstrikers, while some union officers began calling for welfare families to mobilize and march on the centers...
Although the SCAB can no longer hope to get the Communists to register as an organization, it can still persecute individuals whom it believes are party members. Furthermore it is free to take action against "front" groups and "infiltrated" organizations. Already the SACB has ordered two dozen such groups to register, including the International Union of Mine. Mill and Smelter Workers and the United Electrical Workers...
...dangers of the SCAB's powers are multifold and its benefits to internal security are imperceptible. As the courts have already held in the case of the Communist Party itself, the McCarran Act is a patent violation of the Fifth Amendment. This logic clearly should protect any organization or any individuals that the SACB might order to register...
...real evil of such a quasi-judicial board is its power to prosecute without a trial and the threat it poses to free speech. The SCAB merely has to prove that a person belongs to an organization which it deems to be of a Communist nature. Then, whether or not this person has actually committed espionage or any other illegal act, he can be forced to register (and suffer the consequences) or can be penalized by the courts for not registering. In the words of Justice Black, the McCarran Act is "a classical bill of attainder which our Constitution...