The I. W. W.: A Study of American SyndicalismBrissenden, Paul F. (Paul Frederick)
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The I. W. W.: A Study of American Syndicalism
Brissenden, Paul F. (Paul Frederick)
Industrial Workers of the World; Syndicalism
one of whose purposes or professed purposes is to bring about
any governmental, social, industrial or economic change within
the United States by the use, without authority of law, of
physical force, violence or physical injury to person or
property, or by threats of such injury, or which teaches,
advocates, advises or defends the use ... of physical force,
violence or physical injury to person or property, or threats
of such injury, to accomplish such change or for any other
purpose, and which, during any war in which the United States
is engaged, shall by any such means prosecute or pursue such
purpose or professed purpose, or shall so teach, advocate,
advise or defend....[707]
The penalties proposed in the bill are more severe than in the
Australian law. It would punish by imprisonment for not more than ten
years or by a fine of not more than $5,000, or by both such fine and
imprisonment, anyone who, while the United States is at war, (a) acts
as an officer, or speaks as the representative, of such an association,
(b) becomes or continues to be a member of, or contributes anything to,
such an organization, or (c) publishes or distributes any publication
whatever which defends the use of "physical force, violence of physical
injury to person or property ... as a means of accomplishing any
governmental, social, industrial or economic change." The last section
of the bill would impose a fine of not more than $500 and imprisonment
for not more than one year, or both, upon any landlord who permits on
his premises, while the United States is at war, any meeting of such an
association or any assemblage of persons who teach or advocate the use
of physical force or violence, etc.[708]
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