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those so subjected must submit tt
medical examination, furnish informa
ton as to circumstances, habits, as
lsociations and activities" and mus
confor INTO reasonable" written re
strictions on conduct and activities
These provisions establish conditions
amazing similar to the fascist prac
tice of house arrest. They impose a
regime of restriction and terror
whose only purpose can be to prevent
the full exercise of democratic rights
on the part of all our people.
These bills, moreover, permit ar
rest without warrant, detention with
out bail, and Imprisonment for long
terms, some of which may amount
to life, without jury trial Thus, there
is Incorporated the principle and pro
ceedures of the fascist concentration
| paratus.
Furthermore, these bills seek to
create new class of deportable
aliens by prescribing certain political,
social and economic opinions. This
is a clear limitation ON our demo-
cratic rights of free speech, assembly
and press. The effects of this pro-
vision will be to spread fear, and to
open the way for wholesale persecu-
ton, vietimization and discrimination
of those whose views may differ from
those of the advocates or administra-
tors of the measure. Here again is
pattern of fascist RECOMMENDATION.
We are convinced that the Hobbs
Russell bills are actually a disguised
attack on our American democracy,
promoted and advocated under the
pretext of national defense. They
purport, of course to deal only with
certain deportable aliens; but substi-
tuted for the tolerance and under
standing with which the problems of
the non-citizen should be considered,
are the principles and procedures of
fascism-house arrest, the concentra-
tion camp, prescription of opinion.
These principles and procedures,
once established for the non-citizen,
may readily be extended to our four
teen million naturalized citizens and
to native born citizens. To think that
concentration camps will be confined
only to one section of our people is
to ignore the lessons of contemporary
history, to be blind to the methods of
fascist encroachment on democracy.
For the reasons we have outlined,
WI haIinun that fhn DnhhC- n nodpI1
bills, or similar legislative proposals,
are undemocratic in intent and in in
evitable effect. We, therefore, urge
the congress of the United States to
defeat the Hobbs-Russell eoncentra-
ton camp bills.
Congress of the United States urging
defeat of the Hobbs Russell Concen-
tration Camp Bills:
Josephine Truslow Adams, Swarth-
more College, Pa.
Rev. William c. Anderson, Bremen,
Indiana
Emily Green Balch, Honorary Inter-
President, Womens' Interna-
tional Legue for Peace and Freedom, |
Mass.
Herbert Benjamin, Secretary, Inter-
national Workers Order, New York
City
Dr. Viola Bernard, New York City.
Lewis Alan Berne, President, Fed
Grafton of Architects, Engineers,
Chemists and Technicians
Alice Stone Blackwell, Boston, Mass.
Marc Blitzstein, New York City
Dr. Ernst Boas, New York City.
F. j. Bogacius, President, Lithua-
MAN Alliance of America, Boston,
Mass.
julius Boross, President, Steel
Organizing Committee, No.
L218, Pittsburgh, Pa.
James L. Brewer, Rochester, N. Y.
Joseph gladden., Secretary, American
Youth Congress, Washington, d. C.
Dr. Abraham Cronbach, Hebrew I'm
on College, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Joseph Curran, Vice President, Con-
,ress of Industrial Organizations,
Jew York City.
Hugh De Lacy, Chairman, American
Committee for Protection of Foreign
Born.
Prof. Leslie C. Dunn, Columbia Uni
'ersity, New York City. H
Elmer o. Fehlhaber, Vice President,
ohio Clio Council, Cleveland, Ohio.
Prof Ernst Feise, Johns Hopkins
Baltimore, Maryland II
Frederick V. Field, Secretary, Amer
can Peace Mobilization, New York
lily.
Rev. Stephan Friedman, Chairman, II
Unitarian Youth Commission. Boston.
Pearl NJ. Hart, Chairman, Women's H
league for Democratic Rights, Chi
ago.
Donald Henderson, President, United
,annery, Agricultural, Packing and
.llied Workers of America, Chicago.
Rockwell Kent President, United
.rtists Union, Ausable Forks, N. Y.
ev owen A. Knox, Chairman, Ma
ional Federation for Constitutional
liberties.
Leonard Lageman, Secretary, Mimi
sofa State Industrial Union Council.
William Levner, President, W.P.A.
eachers Union, New York City
Lucius Littauer, former Congress
ian, New York City.
Herman Long, Chairman, Southern
'egro Youth Congress, Birmingham,
labama
Rosalie Manning, New York Con
.rence on Inalienable Rights.
NJ T. Martentz Secretary, Armen-
n Progressive League of America,
ew York City.