Speech #860298730

Security of Government Employees Legislation should be enacted to enable the executive branch of the Government to determine and dismiss. if necessary. those who are security risks in both sensitive and nonsensitive Government positions. Each branch of the Government should be empowered to dismiss any employee who refuses to answer. before a congressional committee or before duly authorized officers of either the executive or judicial branches of the Government. queries concerning Communist Party. Communist front. or other subversive affiliations." Aliens The executive branch of the Government should be empowered to interrogate aliens awaiting deportation concerning their subversive activities and associations. They should include the power of the executive branch of the Government to deport aliens who are Communists at any time after they enter the United States.39 The following incident recently came to light which highlights the necessity for corrective action. Irving Potash was deported in 1955 after being convicted under the Smith Act in 1949 and sentenced to a 5year prison term. After his deportation to Poland he reported to Moscow and was sent to Red China and finally returned to Poland. He secretly returned to the United States where he was arrested by the FBI on January 4. 1957. On January 18. 1957. Potash was sentenced to a 2year prison term and fined $1.000 for illegal entry into the United States and was released on August 26. 1958. The Immigration and Naturalization Service immediately arrested him and tried to deport him again. Potash is now in New York under supervisory parole. and while under the supervision of the U.S. Government he is serving as National Labor Secretary for the National Committee of the CPUSA. In March 1960 Potash broke his parole by helping to plan a secret meeting of the CPUSA and going to Chicago. Illinois. Again the Immigration " Yates v. U.S.. 354 U.S. 298. See resolution IV approved House of Delegates February 1959 of ABA Special Committee Communist Tactics Strategy and Objectives Report. 13Note 136 and Joint Report with Committee on Individual Rights and Affected by National Security.