Letter from the National Conference of Jewish Women, Passaic Section to President Harry S. Truman

Flder Passair Sertion National Council of Jewish Women X76-C HUMANITY Passaic, N. J. November 24, 1947. RESOLUTION To President Harry S. Truman: Whereas the inquiry held by the House of Representatives' Committee on Un-American Activities into alleged communism in Hollywood, is a threat to the basic principles of democracy, inas- much as the accused are deprived of their fundamental right to defend themselves and to cross-examine their accusers; and Whereas in such proceedings of said committee the accused are exposed to public censure regardless of whether or not the charges are proved; and Whereas such investigations heretofor undertaken by the aforesaid committee are the work properly belonging within the scope of the F.B.I.; and Whereas there is danger that the precedent heretofor established by said committee may be carried over into other aspects of American life, creating grave danger to civil liberties; It is therefore unanimously resolved by the Passaic Section of the National Council of Jewish Women that the kind of investigation conducted by the House Committee on Un-American Activities does not properly fall within the scope of a Congression- al Committee, and in order to prevent further inroads into the civil liberties of the American people, we urge that these hearings be ended and not resumed.