Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-29
Senate Is Asked
To Outlaw Bund,
Connnnun6tParty

Reynolds Bases Fight
on BiddIe's Decision in
Deportation Of Bridges
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elected leader of thousands OF
organized American workers.
Harry Bridges and the oganiza-
ton he represents are today CIV
ing the nation and our Allies the
utmost In service for rapid and
efficient shipment of war sup
plies to the fighting fronts
throughout the world"
In reaching his decision-tht
first of its kind ever issued by ar
official of the fed
eral government-Biddle hewed .
path that:
Provides a case for even
tual decision by the Supreme
Court on the purposes of the
Communist Party in this coun-
try.
2-Supplies the legal ground
work for the dismissal of any
Communists who may be in the
employ of the federal govern
ment or who receive benefits
from the government.
The first point is covered by tn,
questions at stake in the Bridge
case.
When this case first was init
ated in 1888 the 1918 law then OF
the statutes was not sufficient,
clear as to whether an alien, Il
be deportable, had to be a member
of party advocating violent over
throw of government at the time
of his arrest.
NONE APPEALED
Some lower federal courts il
the intervening years had hel,
that the Communist Party advo
Gated the violent overthrow o
government and had ordered alien
who were or had been member
deported. However. none of thes
cases was carried TO the Suprem
Court.
In 1889, a year after proceeding
had been instituted agains
/ Bridges, the Supreme Court final
received a case involving this as
pect of the 1918 law, and held tina
unless il could be shown that tn
alien currently was a member G
a party advocating the violen
overthrow of government, tn
alien was not deportable.
This was the famous Strecke
case, and in making its decision
the court avoided any ruling O
whether the Communist Part
advocated the violent overthrow {
government.
Later in 1899, the Bridges cas-
was heard by Dean James N
Lands of the Harvard Law Schoo
sitting as a trial examiner for tn
immigration service, and he foun
that Bridges was not a membe
of the Communist Party at tn
time of his arrest and was there
fore not deportsble under the 81
Ipreme Courts ruling in tn
Strecker case.
LAW AMENDED
In 1910, Congress amended tn
1918 law to make an alien de
portable who lat any time" afte
entering the United States was
member of a party advocating viz
lent overthrow of government. an
last year the department of justic
ordered the Bridges case reopenet
Biddle. In his decision. sustaine
the findings of the second trit
examiner, Judge Charles B. Scar
of Buffalo, N. Y, and overrule
the immigration appeals boart
which had reversed Judge Scar
In his ruling that Bridges ha
been a member of the Communis
Party after his entry into thi
country and that the party advc
Gated the violent overthrow {
government.
The second aspect Of Biddle
decision puts teeth into numerou
laws passed by Congress whic
were aimed at severing con-
munists from federal funds.
CURB BY CONGRESS
For the past several years, ever
appropriations bill enacted b
Congress has carried this blanke
clause:
mo part of any appropriation
contained In this act shall be
used 20 pay the salary or wages
Of any person who advocates, or
who IL . member Of m organ
ization that advoc ates, the
overthrow Of the government of
the United States by force or
violence"
This blanket provision applies no
only 10 all government nav rolls