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Freedom of speech -- United States -- History.

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Free the 18, 1944-06

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Identifier: 2006.003.1.1.41
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"Free the 18 leaders of Minneapolis Truckdrivers Local 544-CIO and the Socialist Workers Party now behind prison bars, sentenced under the anti-labor Smith 'gag' Act." Announcement flyer for a radio address, "Free Speech and Labor's Rights" presented by James T. Farrell on WEVD-Radio.

Dates: 1944-06

Justice Denied, 1944-01-15

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Identifier: 2006.003.1.1.66
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"We suppose this is a hopeless suggestion. But we wish that Congress by legislation or the Supreme Court by voluntary action would provide for publication of the votes taken in chambers on applications for certiorari...We hold no brief for the Trotskyites and have differed deeply with them on most concrete issues. But we think them unjustly and unfairly condemned, the victims of a cheap bit of labor politics...."

Dates: 1944-01-15