Word: syndicalisme
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4. Orientation to specific issues: Ideology is suspect. Also, given the variety of points of view among participants, it would be completely divisive. There is no more chewing on the beard of Karl Marx, although there is a certain blindness toward the leftwing authoritarianism of Cuba and China, even though...
Last week four bombings, the arrest of over 50 local Negroes, and a massive influx of state police brought tensions to a peak. Sixteen local Negroes are still in jail under charges of criminal syndicalism.
As national attention shifted away from Mississippi and the FBI cut down its force in McComb, a new wave of bombings beatings, and arrests struck the area. There were four bombings last week and right now 16 local Negroes are in jail on charges of criminal syndicalism
The bill would prohibit "criminal syndicalism," difined as a doctrine of precept which "advocates, teaches, aids, or abets" the commission of "crime.... violence and force ... as a means of accomplishing a change in agricultural or industral ownership or control . . . . or in affecting any political or social change."
Criminal syndicalism would be punishable by fines of $200 to $1000 or by a jail sentence of one to ten years.