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Mark De Wolfe Howe '23, professor of Law, said yesterday that the decision of the Supreme Court to uphold the Feinberg Law, which enables New York to remove Communists from public school jobs, could also give Massachusetts the power to silence unpopular opinion at Harvard...
...Feinberg Law prohibits employment in New York's public school system of any person who advocates overthrow of the government by force or who is a member of any organization that preaches such a doctrine...
...Supreme Court--splitting six to three--yesterday upheld New York's Feinberg...
...Feinberg Law requires the State's Board of Regents to list subversive organizations. It states that membership in any of the listed organizations is in itself evidence for disqualification for any job in the schools. The law refers to the Communist Party as advocating violent overthrow of the government...
Justice Douglas, in dissent, said: "The Feinberg Law proceeds on a principle repugnant to our society--guilt by association. A teacher is disqualified because of her membership in an organization found to be 'subversive.' The very threat of such procedure is certain to raise havoc with academic freedom. Youthful indiscretions, mistaken causes, misguided enthusiasm--all long forgotten--become ghosts of a harrowing present...