Show notes from taking sharp issue with the presentation en by the department of labor of the deportation test case against joseph strecker alien and alleged communist representative martin dies chairman chai iman of the house committee investigating un amerl ran can activities tiled filed a brief with the united states supreme court I 1 in which he charged that counsel tor for the labor department volunteered on behalf of strecker and other aliens to create constitutional defenses and immunities to defeat statutory enactments of the congress and that the departments department brief filed recently by robert H H jackson solicitor general raised questions on behalf of strecker which were not presented properly in the case record the department has taken the attitude that upon the supreme courts decision in the strecker ei case will depend future action in the deportation proceedings of harry bridges the principal issue ia a the strecker case lg Is whether membership in the communist party alone constitutes a deportable of tense offense in the strecker case judge joseph C hutchinson new orleans ruled that it did not the house of representatives on february 3 voted to 35 to continue the dies committee tor for investigation ti of un american activities for another year thus carrying to accomplishment one of our los angeles resolutions ona an amendment offered on the f floor I 1 of the house by the committee reduced the time from two years to one year and a report to the congress on jan 3 1940 was directed the house rules committee after a two day hearing on feb 2 had favorably reported the resolution without a dissenting vote E deval developed aped during these dealings dea rings when members of a liberal bloc of the house appeared in opposition to reporting the resolution congressman coffee expressed express ed the sentiment of some of the opponents when he pointed out the dies committee had spent 80 per cent of its time in investigating communism and only 20 pe per r cent on activities of fascist and nazi 7 ro UPS |