In the long run, the Report of the Special Committee on the Federal Loyalty-Security Program of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York will undoubtedly have a profound effect on the national government's complex of programs designed to ferret "security risks" out of government, industrial and maritime jobs. Indeed, the short-run impact has been impressive. In sum and substance this is a very fine report, my own criticisms notwithstanding. In addition to the portions of the report discussed in detail above there are excellent chapters on the issues involved, the Communist threat, the operation of the current programs and an excellent appendix which includes statistics on the programs, important statutes, orders and regulations. This report should be studied by all lawyers and others interested in conserving our great Anglo-Saxon tradition of freedom and justice.
Contains: Public Law 84-138; House Report 84-912, part 1 and part 2, 84-1071; Senate Report 84-383; Senate Bill S. 2090; House Bill S. 2090. ; Mode of access: Internet.
Speech delivered by House Un-American Activities Committee staff director Richard Arens at the 1959 Pepperdine College Freedom Forum regarding the threat posed by the Soviet Union and Communism to the United States. ; x1959
The M. H. Ross Papers contain information pertaining to labor, politics, social issues of the twentieth century, coal mining and its resulting lifestyle, as well as photographs and audio materials. The collection is made up of five different accessions; L2001-05, which is contained in boxes one through 104, L2002-09 in boxes 106 through 120, L2006-16 in boxes 105 and 120, L2001-01 in boxes 120-121, and L2012-20 in boxes 122-125. The campaign materials consist of items from the 1940 and 1948 political campaigns in which Ross participated. These items include campaign cards, posters, speech transcripts, news clippings, rally materials, letters to voters, and fliers. Organizing and arbitration materials covers labor organizing events from "Operation Dixie" in Georgia, the furniture workers in North Carolina, and the Mine-Mill workers in the Western United States. Organizing materials include fliers, correspondence, news articles, radio transcripts, and some related photos. Arbitration files consist of agreements, decisions, and agreement booklets. The social and political research files cover a wide time period (1930's to the late 1970's/early 1980's). The topics include mainly the Ku Klux Klan, racism, Communism, Red Scare, red baiting, United States history, and literature. These files consist mostly of news and journal articles. Ross interacted with coal miners while doing work for the United Mine Workers Association (UMWA) and while working at the Fairmont Clinic in West Virginia. Included in these related files are books, news articles, journals, UMWA reports, and coal miner oral histories conducted by Ross. Tying in to all of the activities Ross participated in during his life were his research and manuscript files. He wrote numerous newspaper and journal articles on history and labor. Later, as he worked for the UMWA and at the Fairmont Clinic, he wrote more in-depth articles about coal miners, their lifestyle, and medical problems they faced (while the Southern Labor Archives has many of Ross's coal mining and lifestyle articles, it does not have any of his medical articles). Along with these articles are the research files Ross collected to write them, which consist of notes, books, and newspaper and journal articles. In additional to his professional career, Ross was adamant about documenting his and his wife's family history in the oral history format. Of particular interest are the recordings of his interviews with his wife's family - they were workers, musicians, and singers of labor and folk songs. Finally, in this collection are a number of photographs and slides, which include images of organizing, coal mining (from the late 19th through 20th centuries), and Appalachia. Of note is a small photo album from the 1930s which contains images from the Summer School for Workers, and more labor organizing. A few audio items are available as well, such as Ross political speeches and an oral history in which Ross was interviewed by his daughter, Jane Ross Davis in 1986. All photographic and audio-visual materials are at the end of their respective series. ; Myron Howard "Mike" Ross was born November 9, 1919 in New York City. He dropped out of school when he was seventeen and moved to Texas, where he worked on a farm. From 1936 until 1939, Ross worked in a bakery in North Carolina. In the summer of 1938, he attended the Southern School for Workers in Asheville, North Carolina. During the fall of 1938, Ross would attend the first Southern Conference on Human Welfare in Birmingham, Alabama. He would attend this conference again in 1940 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. From 1939 to 1940, Ross worked for the United Mine Workers Non-Partisan League in North Carolina, working under John L. Lewis. He was hired as a union organizer by the United Mine Workers of America, and sent to Saltville, Virginia and Rockwood, Tennessee. In 1940, Ross ran for a seat on city council on the People's Platform in Charlotte, North Carolina. During this time, he also married Anne "Buddie" West of Kennesaw, Georgia. From 1941 until 1945, Ross served as an infantryman for the United States Army. He sustained injuries near the Battle of the Bulge in the winter of 1944. From 1945 until 1949, Ross worked for the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, then part of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), as a union organizer. He was sent to Macon, Georgia, Savannah, Georgia and to Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where he worked with the United Furniture Workers Union. He began handling arbitration for the unions. In 1948, Ross ran for United States Congress on the Progressive Party ticket in North Carolina. He also served as the secretary for the North Carolina Progressive Party. Ross attended the University of North Carolina law school from 1949 to 1952. He graduated with honors but was denied the bar on the grounds of "character." From 1952 until 1955, he worked for the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers as a union organizer, first in New Mexico (potash mines) and then in Arizona (copper mines). From 1955 to 1957, Ross attended the Columbia University School of Public Health. He worked for the United Mine Workers of America Welfare and Retirement Fund from 1957 to 1958, where he represented the union in expenditure of health care for mining workers. By 1958, Ross began plans for what would become the Fairmont Clinic, a prepaid group practice in Fairmont, West Virginia, which had the mission of providing high quality medical care for miners and their families. From 1958 until 1978, Ross served as administrator of the Fairmont Clinic. As a result of this work, Ross began researching coal mining, especially coal mining lifestyle, heritage and history of coal mining and disasters. He would interview over one hundred miners (coal miners). Eventually, Ross began writing a manuscript about the history of coal mining. Working for the Rural Practice Program of the University of North Carolina from 1980 until 1987, Ross taught in the medical school. M. H. Ross died on January 31, 1987 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. ; Digitization of the M. H. Ross Papers was funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
Prepared by the Dept. of State and the Mutual Security Agency ; At head of title: 82d Cong., 2d sess. House Committee print ; Mode of access: Internet.
Record is based on bibliographic data in CIS US Congressional Committee Hearings Index. Reuse except for individual research requires license from Congressional Information Service, Inc. ; Indexed in CIS US Congressional Committee Hearings Index Part VI ; Mode of access: Internet.
Mechanics Liens Two cases during the Survey period involve priorities between mortgages and mechanics' liens. They are Southern Blow Pipe & Roofing Co. v. Grubb,' and First State Bank v. Stacey. Before giving a detailed consideration of these cases, perhaps it would not be amiss to sketch in a little background by way of the general nature and scope of these mechanics' liens, as well as a few words concerning priorities with other liens. This introductory material may make the cases at hand a little more easily understood. Origin Nature and Scope of the Lien The term "mechanics' lien" includes all sorts of liens not only of mechanics, but of laborers, material men and other furnishers. These liens have no likeness at common law; they are a creature of statute. We know when the idea entered into our legislation and the occasion. These liens originated, we are told, with a Maryland statute of 1791, and the motive was to stimulate the building of the City of Washington. So popular did the idea become, that every state now has a mechanic "lien law" of some sort. Because these liens are wholly statutory and because the laws creating them have been extremely varied, generalizations are extremely difficult. Furthermore, case law is not reliable because the decisions are meaningless except with reference to the particular statute under which each arose and the precise language of the statute under which the case arose.
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., chairman. ; "Each of these reports has previously been issued as a separate document: . Old-age and survivors insurance (S. Doc. 149) . Permanent and total disability insurance (S. Doc. 162) . Public assistance (S. Doc. 204) and . Unemployment insurance (S. Doc. 206)" ; Mode of access: Internet.
"Each of these reports has previously been issued as a separate document: . Old-age and survivors insurance (S. Doc. 149) . Permanent and total disability insurance (S. Doc. 162) . Public assistance (S. Doc. 204) and . Unemployment insurance (S. Doc. 206)" ; Mode of access: Internet.
Considers (86) S. 3, (86) S. 294, (86) S. 527, (86) S. 1299, (86) S. 1300, (86) S. 1301, (86) S. 1302, (86) S. 1303, (86) S. 1304, (86) S. 1305, (86) S. 1646, (86) H.R. 1992, (86) H.R. 2369. ; Considers S. 3 and related bills, to strengthen Federal statutes relating to subversive activities, including statutes relating to full disclosure by Federal employees, issuance of passports to suspected subversives, and Federal-state coordination in combating subversive activities. ; Record is based on bibliographic data in CIS US Congressional Committee Hearings Index. Reuse except for individual research requires license from Congressional Information Service, Inc. ; Indexed in CIS US Congressional Committee Hearings Index Part VII ; Considers (86) S. 3, (86) S. 294, (86) S. 527, (86) S. 1299, (86) S. 1300, (86) S. 1301, (86) S. 1302, (86) S. 1303, (86) S. 1304, (86) S. 1305, (86) S. 1646, (86) H.R. 1992, (86) H.R. 2369. ; Considers S. 3 and related bills, to strengthen Federal statutes relating to subversive activities, including statutes relating to full disclosure by Federal employees, issuance of passports to suspected subversives, and Federal-state coordination in combating subversive activities. ; Mode of access: Internet.
First ed. published under title: Loyalty in a democracy. ; Prepared from a transcript of a roundtable held under the auspices of the Public Affairs Committee in May 1951. ; Bibliography: p. 28. ; Mode of access: Internet.
