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...Navy certificate, even without its stool-pigeon phrase, is still an unfortunate document. The purpose of the certificate is to wood out "persons whose conduct or associations ... cast doubt upon their loyalty." It requires signers to detail their association with any of the Attorney General's 173 organizations, and says that this association "may be considered as establishing reasonable grounds for separation of personnel...
...first provision attacked by the petitions, which bear over 2,000 names is the "stool pigeon" clause, This clause compels students to inform upon their fellows who have associated with any organizations listed as subversive by the Attorney General...
...Rats & Stool Pigeons." Bridges lost neither his poise nor his apparent fascination for his own voice during a long and repetitive cross-examination at the hands of soft-spoken Special Prosecutor F. Joseph ("Jiggs") Donohue...
Point by point, Bridges denied the Government's charges that he had attended secret meetings of the Communist Party's top brass. He assailed the Government witnesses with venom, as "liars, rats and stool pigeons," continually reminded the jury that the Government had tried unsuccessfully to prove him a Communist twice before. In talking of the Government's most convincing witness-Newsman George Wilson, who charged that he had seen Bridges at a Communist meeting in San Francisco-the longshore leader cried: "[They were] pointing a gun at him. He looked like a guy who was about...
...petitions that students will be requested to sign ask for elimination of the certificate's so-called "stool pigeon clause." That section of the certificate requires NROTC students to report other persons known to the signer as having associated with groups listed as subversive by the attorney general...