I should like to take a few minutes to make some observations with reference to the Secretary of Labor. I do so because I have sat on the floor of the Senate time after time in the few short months I have been here and heard accusation after accusation made against the Secretary of Labor which. in my opinion. if the accuser were called upon to prove. he would fail to prove just so surely as a Member of the House of Representatives who introduced a resolution of impeachment of the Secretary of Labor failed a year or so ago when the resolution of impeachment was introduced. I admire thu Senator fromNorth Carolina for the fight he is making with reference to the aliens in this country who should be deported. I admire him for the fight he made against the lendlease bill. because I am sure of his sincerity. but I think it is incumbent on me. I think it is incumbent on any other Senator. when a member of the Cabinet of this great country is attacked day after day. at least to call the attention of the Senate to a few facts with reference to her. We hear her condemned nearly every day in the week because Harry Bridges was not deported. but I call the attention of the Senate to the fact that she did everything she was called upon to do under the law to deport Harry Bridges. I call the attention of the Senate to the fact that the Secretary of Labor ordered the deportation of Joe Strecher. who was accused of being a Communist. One of the circuit courts ruled that the evidence against Joe Strecher was so meager. so unsupported. that the court issued a writ of habeas corpus telling the Labor Department to discharge him and give him his freedom. The Secretary of Labor was not satisfied with that decision. and appealed the matter to the Supreme Court of the United States.
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