The California Criminal Syndicalism Law

Download or read book Criminal Syndicalism and the Law in California: 1919-1927 written by Woodrow C. Whitten and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theme of this study is the attempt by legislative enactment and judicial processes to define a new crime in California--the crime of syndicalism. Criminal syndicalism is a legal concept, the essence of which is the prohibition of doctrines and activities involving the use of violence as a means of social change. This concept owed its origin to the growth of syndicalist and other revolutionary labor movements in the United States during the first two decades of the twentieth century and became embodied in a series of state laws known as criminal syndicalism laws, the California law being but one of twenty-four similar acts passed during the strenuous war and post-war years of 1917-1922.