Excerpt from Investigation of Communist Activities in the Seattle, Wash., Area, Vol. 1: Hearings Before the Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, Eighty-Fourth Congress, First Session, March 17 and 18, 1955 And they had their attorney at this conference who gave an ex planation Of the case, an explanation Of the law, and outlined the program of the International Labor Defense for the purpose of trying to win that case. I was very much impressed by his presentation. Later on, years later, I was still more impressed when I learned that he actually had met with success, because after the persons who were charged then had been convicted he appealed the case to the United States Supreme Court, and the United States Supreme Court handed down a decision in the case of Dirk De J onge which held that the criminal syndicalism statute in the State Of Oregon was invalid. And the decision was reversed. Those convictions were reversed that way. SO you see that my interest and introduction was Of a twofold char acter: One, I was impressed with the economic problems that were not being solved. I was also impressed with what appeared to me to be an invasion of the civil rights of individuals to think and act as they pleased in political matters. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.