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Página 59 - Is guilty of a felony and punishable by imprisonment or fine, or both. The indictment was in two counts. The first charged that the defendant had advocated, advised and taught the duty, necessity and propriety of overthrowing and overturning organized government by force, violence and unlawful means, by certain writings therein set forth entitled The Left Wing Manifesto;' the second that he had printed, published and knowingly circulated and distributed a certain paper called The Revolutionary Age...
Página 3 - Constitution, and by the fourteenth amendment. 3. The confiscation of .private property by governmental decree, without the due process of law and compensation guaranteed by the fifth amendment. 4. Restriction of the rights of religious freedom, of speech, and of the press as guaranteed by the first amendment. These specific purposes by Communist admission are to be achieved not by peaceful exercise of the ballot under constitutional right but by revolutionary upheavals, by fomenting class hatred,...
Página 7 - International is open to all those who accept the program and rules of the given Communist Party and of the Communist International, who join one of the basic units of a Party, actively work in it, abide by all the decisions of the Party and of the Communist International, and regularly pay Party dues.
Página 1 - An Act to punish acts of interference with foreign relations, the neutrality, and the foreign commerce of the United States, to punish espionage, and better to enforce the criminal laws of the United States, and for other purposes...
Página 75 - Whoever, being of the crew of a vessel of the United States, on the high seas, or on any other waters within the admiralty and maritime jurisdiction of the United States...
Página 81 - ... authority. That is not pretended in this case. The force was exerted in opposition to a class of persons •who had the right to look to the Government for protection against such -wrongs, not) in opposition to the Government while actually engaged in an attempt to afford that protection.
Página 56 - Or treats his superior officer with contempt, or is disrespectful to him in language or deportment, while in the execution of his office; 7. Or joins in or abets any combination to weaken the lawful authority of, or lessen the respect due to, his commanding officer; 8.
Página 21 - You must refuse to fight in the interests of the bosses," proclaimed a typical throwaway. ". . . Use your military training against your real enemy, the capitalist class that exploits us and plunges us into wars! You must refuse to fight against the Soviet Union.
Página 81 - If two or more persons conspire to overthrow, put down or destroy by force, the Government of the United States in the Philippine Islands or the Government of the Philippine Islands, or by force to prevent, hinder or delay, the execution of any law of the United States...
Página 4 - Cleveland on April 2 to 8, 1934. The "manifesto" and the "resolutions" incite to civil war by requiring one class "to take power" by direct revolutionary process and then assume dictatorship over the country in the manner followed by the Communists in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics which is frequently mentioned as a guiding example. In pursuance of the revolutionary way to power, the program instructs members of the party to obtain a foothold in the Army and the Navy and develop "revolutionary...

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