Communist Party , in the United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...COMMUNIST PARTY , in the United States in the United...named the Communist Labor party, was led by...out the Comintern policy line established...increased. However, its policies isolated the Communists...and in 1944 the U.S. Communist party...Hartley Act of 1947 denied the facilities...the National Labor Relations Board to unions that...1947, President Truman barred Communists...overthrow of the U.S. government. In...provisions of the McCarran Act by providing severe...the same time many states passed "little Smith Acts," with such provisions...loyalty oaths from state employees and the...Senator Joseph McCarthy s hysterical search...W. Z. Foster, History of the Communist...1947, rev. ed. 1972); I. Howe and...