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Omaha Steve's Labor Group

Omaha Steve

(99,660 posts) Tue Nov 17, 2015, 08:48 PM Nov 2015

11-17-15 The Anti-Communist Witch Hunt in 2:00 (Raygun)

http://laborhistoryin2.podbean.com/e/november-17-the-anti-communist-witch-hunt/

November 17, 2015
On this day in Labor History the year was 1947. That was the day that the Screen Actors Guild voted to make all SAG members take an anti-Communist loyalty oath. The late 1940s were the dawn of the US Cold War with the Soviet Union. Anti-Communist hysteria swept the country.

2:00 minute audio at link.

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