Commonsense Anticommunism: Labor and Civil Liberties between the World Wars

Contents

Contents Acknowledgmentsix Introduction1 PART I. The AFL and the Origins of Modern Civil Liberties 1. Labor and Liberties: The American Federation of Labor, 1886–19159 2. Spycraft and Statecraft: Surveillance before the Great War32 3. Sedition and Civil Liberties: The AFL during World War I46 PART II. Becoming Commonsense Anticommunists 4. Communism, Civil Liberties, and the Red Scare63 5. Secrecy and Surveillance: Anticommunism and the Bureau of Investigation81 6. Surveillance Scandals and the Downfall of the Bureau of Investigation100 PART III. From Commonsense Anticommunism to Red-baiting 7. Commonsense Anticommunism and Civil Liberties121 8. Labor’s Counter-Reformation: The American Federation of Labor and the End of Reform142 9. Anticommunism, the Dies Committee, and Espionage169 10. Labor’s Red Scare: The AFL and the Architecture of Anticommunism, 1939–1941187 Epilogue214 Notes225Bibliography261Index281 This page intentionally left blank Illustrations $“Here Puss, Puss!”19 $“Assorted Cargo for the Return Trip”36 William J. Burns85 Harry M. Daugherty116 J. Edgar Hoover124 $“Welcome card,” AFL convention, 1937152 $“Measuring the Results of the Latest Peace Efforts”155 Martin Dies173 John P. Frey and Howard Smith189 $“Russia in the making!”197 This page intentionally left blank ...