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The Wooster Voice (Wooster, OH), 1961-03-24
This issue of the Wooster Voice features a report on the election of the Wooster Queen, a lecture by a returning Wooster professor on Christianity, a report on student elections, and a proposed change to the etiquette enforcement policy of the school. Page 2 features an editorial of the Wooster Voice calling for campus reforms with regard to several policies such as mandatory church attendance. Also prominently featured is a report on the actions of the House Committee on Un-American Activities, and an editorial calling for reform to the campus election policy of keeping the vote count secret. Page 3 is the sports section. Page 4 contains another report on the House Committee on Un-American Activities and continues the debate over Wooster\u27s religious policies from previous pages.https://openworks.wooster.edu/voice1961-1970/1007/thumbnail.jp
The Wooster Voice (Wooster, OH), 1961-03-24
This issue of the Wooster Voice features a report on the election of the Wooster Queen, a lecture by a returning Wooster professor on Christianity, a report on student elections, and a proposed change to the etiquette enforcement policy of the school. Page 2 features an editorial of the Wooster Voice calling for campus reforms with regard to several policies such as mandatory church attendance. Also prominently featured is a report on the actions of the House Committee on Un-American Activities, and an editorial calling for reform to the campus election policy of keeping the vote count secret. Page 3 is the sports section. Page 4 contains another report on the House Committee on Un-American Activities and continues the debate over Wooster\u27s religious policies from previous pages.https://openworks.wooster.edu/voice1961-1970/1007/thumbnail.jp
J. Edgar Hoover, Speech Before the House Committee on Un-American Activities (26 March 1947)
J. Edgar Hoover fought domestic communism in the 1940s with illegal investigative methods and by recommending a procedure of guilt by association to HUAC. The debate over illegal surveillance in the 1940s to protect national security reflects the onâgoing tensions between national security and civil liberties. This essay explores how in times of national security crises, concerns often exist about civil liberties violations in the United States
The Maine Annex, vol. 2, no. 11
The Maine Annex begins to discuss the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HCUA), growing fears of private and public citizens suspected of fascist or communist activities, and whether war with Russia was inevitable. The paper also notes the pending presentation about Islam by British Army officer and adventurer Colonel R. V. C. Bodley
Labor Law - Arbitration - Right of Employer of Discharge Employer Who Refuses to Testify Concerning His Communist Affiliation
A member of the United Electrical Workers Union was discharged from the J. H. Day Company because of his refusal to testify concerning his communist affiliation before the Ohio Un-American Activities Committee and because of the unfavorable publicity which had resulted. Under grievance procedure, the union brought the matter before arbitration. Findings, there was no just cause for dismissal. The employee is entitled to back pay and to reinstatement subject to security clearance. J. H. Day Company,. 22 LAB. Aim. RBP. 751 (1954)
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW--INVESTIGATORY POWER OF CONGRESS--VALIDITY OF THE UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES COMMITTEE INQUIRIES INTO PROFESSIONAL AND POLITICAL AFFILIATIONS
The recent probe into the motion picture industry by the House Committee on Un-American Activities and the resulting indictment of ten witnesses for contempt of Congress have served not only to keep this controversial committee in the publicity spotlight, but have also raised some constitutional questions which have long gone unanswered. The indictment of the ten recalcitrant witnesses under Title 2, section 192, of the United States Code followed their citation for contempt by the House of Representatives for refusal to give direct answers to the Committee\u27s questions: Are you a member of the Screen Writers Guild? and Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the Communist Party? There is a good chance that some of these cases may reach the Supreme Court, but in any event the problems involved warrant study at this time, particularly in view of the growing boldness of the committee in projecting its inquiries into a field dangerously near the dividing line between private affairs and legitimate Congressional objectives
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