To Make Better Provision for the Government of the Military and Naval Forces of the United States by the Suppression of Attempts to Incite the Members Thereof to Disobedience: Hearings Before the Committee on Military Affairs and Subcommittee No. 10, House of Representatives, Seventy-fourth Congress, First Session, on H. R. 5845, March 1-19, 1935U.S. Government Printing Office, 1935 - 92 páginas |
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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 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 59 - ... academic discussion having no quality of incitement to any concrete action. It is not aimed against mere historical or philosophical essays. It does not restrain the advocacy of changes in the form of government by constitutional and lawful means. What it prohibits is language advocating, advising or teaching the overthrow of organized government by unlawful means. These words imply urging to action. Advocacy is defined in the Century Dictionary as: "i. The act of pleading for, supporting, or...
Página 3 - ... the rights of freedom of speech and of the press as guaranteed by the first amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Let us not also forget...
Página 1 - An Act to punish acts of interference with the 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 2 - Freedom of the press may protect criticism and agitation for modification- or repeal of laws, but it does not extend to protection of him who counsels and encourages the violation of the law as it exists. The Constitution was adopted to preserve our Government, not to serve as a protecting screen for those who while claiming its privileges seek to destroy it.
Página 78 - You must refuse to fight in the interests of the bosses ! When you are called into war, follow the example of the Russian soldiers and sailors. 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 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 73 - No soldier ever sees these socks.' It was in no way necessary that these expressions of opinion should be addressed to soldiers or men on the point of enlisting or being drafted. Most judges held it enough if the words might conceivably reach such men.