Nat’l. Federation for Constitutional Liberties brochure: 1940 ca.
The National Federation for Constitutional Liberties (NFCL) membership application brochure circa 1940 describes the purpose of the organization, lists its officers and provides a membership form.
The Washington Committee for Democratic Action was an affiliate of the national group that was founded at a convention in June 1940 and later merged in 1946 with the National Negro Congress and International Labor Defense to form the Civil Rights Congress..
The demands of the NCCL were:
Maintain our Constitutional guarantees of free speech, free press, free assembly, free worship and freedom to petition the government—for all, without exception.
Preserve the Wagner Act and enforce its guarantees that labor shall be free to organize, bargain collectively, picket and strike.
Stop labor spying, use of strike breakers and industrial violence.
No government orders for employers who fail to meet fair labor standards.
Halt prosecution of trade unions on the false pretext that they are monopolies.
Give the ballot to every citizen.
Abolish the poll tax in the eight states in which it disenfranchises American citizens.
Confine the FBI to its statuary purposes and put an end to the Gestapo activities.
Protect the right of new parties and minority parties to place their candidates on the ballot and protect the right of citizens to vote as they please.
Prevent exploitation of the unemployed for military or any other purposes.
Pass the federal anti-0lynching law.
Stop anti-Semitism, anti-Catholicism and all racial or religious persecution.
End persecution of aliens and uphold the American tradition of asylum.
No finger-printing or registration.
Government protection for the alien and foreign born, and just and sympathetic administration of the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization.
Abolish the Dies committee.
In 1947, the NFCL was listed as a subversive organization, along with the Civil Right Congress, by U.S. Attorney General Tom Clark.
For a PDF of this 8 ½ x 11, two-sided brochure, see washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2019/12/natl-fed-on-c...
For more information and related images, see flic.kr/s/aHsmKkiomh
The document is courtesy of Papers of the Civil Rights Congress. New York Public Library. Archives Unbound..
Nat’l. Federation for Constitutional Liberties brochure: 1940 ca.
The National Federation for Constitutional Liberties (NFCL) membership application brochure circa 1940 describes the purpose of the organization, lists its officers and provides a membership form.
The Washington Committee for Democratic Action was an affiliate of the national group that was founded at a convention in June 1940 and later merged in 1946 with the National Negro Congress and International Labor Defense to form the Civil Rights Congress..
The demands of the NCCL were:
Maintain our Constitutional guarantees of free speech, free press, free assembly, free worship and freedom to petition the government—for all, without exception.
Preserve the Wagner Act and enforce its guarantees that labor shall be free to organize, bargain collectively, picket and strike.
Stop labor spying, use of strike breakers and industrial violence.
No government orders for employers who fail to meet fair labor standards.
Halt prosecution of trade unions on the false pretext that they are monopolies.
Give the ballot to every citizen.
Abolish the poll tax in the eight states in which it disenfranchises American citizens.
Confine the FBI to its statuary purposes and put an end to the Gestapo activities.
Protect the right of new parties and minority parties to place their candidates on the ballot and protect the right of citizens to vote as they please.
Prevent exploitation of the unemployed for military or any other purposes.
Pass the federal anti-0lynching law.
Stop anti-Semitism, anti-Catholicism and all racial or religious persecution.
End persecution of aliens and uphold the American tradition of asylum.
No finger-printing or registration.
Government protection for the alien and foreign born, and just and sympathetic administration of the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization.
Abolish the Dies committee.
In 1947, the NFCL was listed as a subversive organization, along with the Civil Right Congress, by U.S. Attorney General Tom Clark.
For a PDF of this 8 ½ x 11, two-sided brochure, see washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2019/12/natl-fed-on-c...
For more information and related images, see flic.kr/s/aHsmKkiomh
The document is courtesy of Papers of the Civil Rights Congress. New York Public Library. Archives Unbound..