U. S. CIVIL LIBERTIES SAFER THAN BEFORE
U. S. Civil Liberties Safer Than Before SUPREME COURT decisions in the past few years provide a protection against governmental infringements of civil liberties such-as occurred in the last war,...
...Three other Chicago guard services also agreed to court orders requiring them to obey the wage-hour law...
...Civil liberty is weak in time of war or national crisis because it is a relative rather than an ob-solute matter," he explains...
...workers are slated for dismissal during May in orders promulgated by Colonel Francis C. Harrington, works commissioner...
...None of them, so far as found by a wide survey, printed anything about an order issued by the F. T. C. against, the Southern Vitrified Pipe association...
...Ry opening his mouth or wielding his pen In protest against abridgments of civil liberty, he may not singlehandrd correct a serious abuse, hut he may strengthen the hands of the public officials and organizations who can correct them...
...Ten Progressive senators offered a resolution in the senate directing Harrington to keep his roles at present strength and nullifying the Woodrum amendment, requiring the W.P.A...
...D. C—When labor unions are charged with violating the anti-trust laws, newspapers spread the story all over their front pages, : and add sensational comments by editors and columnists...
...Cushman sees a new and increased threat to civil liberties from professional patriots and witch-burners througn an extra-legal suppression of minority righls...
...U. S. Civil Liberties Safer Than Before SUPREME COURT decisions in the past few years provide a protection against governmental infringements of civil liberties such-as occurred in the last war, concludes Robert E. Cushman in "Safeguarding Our Civil Liberties," a pamphlet released by the Public Affairs committee...
...RICHMOND, Ind...
...through July...
...to make its money last the full 12 months of the fiscal year...
...and by other methods prohibited by the anti-trust laws...
...Guards and watchmen working in Chicago worked as long as 84 hours a week for as little as 20 cents an hour, the wage-hour division found...
...President Roosevelt has requested a billion dollars for next year, with authority to use it in eight months if necessary...
...How the Dailies Treat the News WASHINGTON...
...If the resolution is approved, it will be necessary to vote about $65,000,000 to carry the W.P.A...
...They were the Central Watchmen s Service, the Kane service, and the Kedzie Protective Patrol...
...200,000 To Be Laid Off Jobs on WPA WASHINGTON, D. C—More than 200,000 W.P.A...
...Pres, James B. Carey of the United Electrical Radio & Machine Workers (CIOI told the TNEC...
...Cushman, "are a potential threat to civil liberty in time of national peril...
...All our rights are dependent on the co-existing rights of others and the demands of national security...
...Cincinnati, and its "officers, directors and members...
...Boas for his work In combatting Nazi racial theories and anti-Semitism...
...This danger is held to be greater now than during the last war because our incredibly efficient system of nation-wide communication allows the organized forces of intolerance far greater scope than ever before...
...Nor is the influence of the individual citizen too trivial to be of value...
...There are two typical examples this week...
...That story was barely mentioned in some newspapers and was ignored by others...
...This drastic step, held necessary to keep within the appropriation, added to the uneasiness which exists in congress over the relief situation...
...It Is only a step from the doctrine that civil liberties are relative and must yield to the necessity of preserving the safety of the nation to the simple and brutal slogan that the end Justifies the means...
...NEW YORK CITY—Seventeen V. S. railroads abandoned all of their tracks in 1939...
...This was not regarded as an encouraging sign...
...The Federal Trade commission Issued a formal "complaint" against the Wholesale Liquor Distributors association of Northern California, and the Liquor Trades Stabilization Bureau of San Francisco, charging them with fixing prices by "discrimination against certain dealers...
...Since the World war," Mr...
...These modern streamlined methods of propaganda," says Mr...
...Franz Boas, professor of anthropology at Columbia University and chairman of the Committee for Democracy and Intellectual Freedom...
...Jerome Davis, former president of the AFT, praised Dr...
...New York City...
...In general the decisions . . . have tended to strengthen the protection to civil liberties...
...There ran be no such thing as an absolute freedom of speech...
...Cushman points out that "civil liberty Is not secured merely by the enforcement of the federal and state bill of rights, but that Its protection depends fundamentally on the understanding and the will of a liberty-loving people . . . "There Is no civic organization so insignificant that it cannot render useful service by publicly demanding the even-handed safeguarding of our constitutional rights and by condemning any official or unofficial invasion of those rights...
...WASHINGTON, D. C—Technological advances destroy purchasing power faster than they cheapen prices...
...But when business men are charged with monopoly, the papers print just as little about It as possible...
...Last year Mrs...
...Meanwhile the house appropriations committee began consideration of the relief appropriation for 1941 by launching an investigation of the W.P.A...
...Product of three years' struggle, a CIO contract is In effect at the local plant of the Intl...
...Balanced against this gain...
...Pinkerton Has to Obev Wage Laws WASHINGTON, D. C. — Employes of Pinkerton's National Detective agency, once the nation's most hated labor spy and strikebreaking agenlces, learned first hand what union labor fought for as the wage-hour division forced payment of $8,000 in back wages due 1,000 guards and watchmen under the wage-hour act...
...In addition the company agreed to pay 30 cents an hour for a work week of 42 hours...
...A new threat has arisen "with the revival of the irresponsible legislative redbaiting committee . . . Our forefathers had had no experience with legislative committees...
...Branch lines totaling 1,783 miles were also dropped...
...Boaz for His Service NEW YORK CITY—The American Federation of Teachers (AFL) has awarded its medal for "outstanding services in the cause of education for democracy" to Dr...
...Cited as illustrations of this tendency are the recent court decisions in the Hague...
...Harvester Co...
...It was recalled that a year ago the committee engaged in a "smearing" expedition preliminary to slashing funds for the needy and imposing harsh restrictions on its spending...
...Cushman, who is professor of government at Cornell university, points out, "the Supreme court has had an opportunity to clarify the law regarding the freedom of press, speech, assembly, and unreasonable searches and seizures...
...It requires all the self-discipline that a great nation can muster, and sometimes more, to make sure that the step is not taken...
...In presenting the award Dr...
...Honor Dr...
...Institution of court atcion resulted in a constant decree as a result of which Pinkerton said $8,000 in wages due the workers...
...After summarizing the oonstitutional provisions designed to protect our basic liberties, Mr...
...The commission ordered them to stop "restraining price competition" and maintaining monopoly in the sale of vitrified clay sewer pipe, throughout the vast territory east of the Mississippi and south of the Ohio and Potomac rivers...
...Eleanore Roosevelt received the award...
...neither the constitution nor our laws provide protection against this type of slander against a person's reputation...
...Herndon, and Strecker cases...
...Dangers to civil liberties are not confined to war," he adds...
Vol. 10 • May 1940 • No. 18
