Sample Resolution from the United Public Workers of America Local 536 to President Harry S. Truman

74/28/47 UNITED PUBLIC WORKERS OF AMERICA Local/536 Chisholm, Minn. 252-K SAMPLE RESOLUTION ON THE PRESIDENT'S EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 9835 ON LOYALTY DISMISSALS WHEREAS President Harry S. Truman has issued Executive Order No. 9835 supposedly for the purpose of removing disloyal employees from the Federal service, and WHEREAS This order guarantees to an accused employee none of the con- stitutional and legal protections regarded as traditional and inalienable for American citizens -- neither a specific state- ment of charges, nor the right to confront his accuser, nor the right to a fair trial by a jury of his peers nor the right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty, and WHEREAS This Order calls for the dismissal of employees who were members of, affiliated with, or were in sympathetic association with any organization or group of persons designated by the Attorney Gen- eral as "subversive"; but the term "subversive" is neither de- fined nor limited in any way, and WHEREAS This Order permits an employee to be fired at the whim of an of- ficial or board, on unfounded charges brought by an anonymous crackpot or personál enemy, even though to be branded as disloyal to our Government is tantamount to being guilty of treason, and means that a man is blacklisted for life, and WHEREAS This Order calls for the establishment of a vast army of secret police to pry into the personal lives and opinions of millions of Americans, now, therefore be it RESOLVED That this body UPW Local #536 believes that Executive Order 9835 will remove the last vestiges of civil liberty, freedom of thought and freedom of speech from government workers who had al- ready been relegated to second-class citizenship, and be it further RESOLVED That we consider this Order to constitute a direct threat to all Americans with respect to their right to form free organizations and express their opinions on any and every matter of public pol- icy and interest, without the fear that some Attorney General may disagree with their opinions and label them subversive; and be it further RESOLVED That this Order is dangerously similar to some of the measures promulgated by the Nazi and Fascist governments of Germany, Italy and Japan in their early stages; and be it further RESOLVED That UPW Local #536 does now go on record as urging President Truman to rescind Executive Order No. 9835, and to substitute for it an Order guaranteeing the full rights of citizens to government employees, and be it further RESOLVED That copies of this resolution be sent to the President of the United uopwa 27 States, to the United Public Workers of America, and to the press.