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WY 100-7629 “imonsonsble or subversive conduct end given no opportunity to Minow the uvidencs eocinst them or to dofénd thimsacives or the tr pupute tion with the consequent loss of their cmployment,! end enlls fon thy Congress end the legisletures of the soversnl ste ‘tes to enact rules of ir play! for the conduct of such investigations, The lution on the McCerran-Walter Anti-Inmigrrtion Act isi 22to climinete the netionnl origins ota s nd other rnacist-bescd provisions, snd to deroli2c tts procedares in accordente with fair and 1 t Go 3 }Y ies 4 n Fa ct ta "The Convention was silent, however, on the civil liberties violetions cntailed by the Smith Act, the MeCarren Internsl Security Act of 1950, end the Communist Control Act of 195u 6 Moreover, in formal cn dorsemcent of the Big Lic which operatc.s os the promise for prociscly thosc violk.tions of civil liburtics which the Associetion ¢condenms, the Convention egain cdonted, without discussion, its resolution recffirmins ‘our re- jection of Communism as nan enti-democratic wey of life,! end ¢alling on cll breneches tto be constrntly olert cgrinet ettcmpts of Communists cnd their svnosthizers...to in- filtrets and rain control of sn; units of our orgenizgetion.! "The Convention clso shiva ewey from curte-in key issucs on which, with little dengzr of sppcosring tteo pro- gressive,’ it might well hkeve adyenecd its position on the gusstion of civil libertics Por uxanpl: the Supreme Court declaration thet the right to t aged sbroud is a ‘natural right! wes handed down during the crrly days of the Convention, and hes subsequently: boon used by several Negro noweprpers mrs the busis for cditeric] dumands thet Paul Roebdcson be prented:. prsport. Also, shortly before the Convention, Federcl Jucee Prien H. Hestic, 2 member of N.A.A.C.P.'S NE irccetors, wrote cn historic disscnting opinion which cxposes the fraud inhersnt in the imprisonment of Communists for ellcg.d violation of the mith Act. But the Convention ignored both of thiee qucstions; snd et the sam time it erve confort to the main OIE i ITE AY