11 Facts About Criminal syndicalism

Criminal syndicalism has been defined as a doctrine of criminal acts for political, industrial, and social change.

Criminal syndicalism became a matter of public attention during and after the World War I period, and has been used to stymie the efforts of radical labor movements.

Organizations like the American Civil Liberties Union believe laws on criminal syndicalism were aimed to punish doctrines or memberships in unions.

Criminal syndicalism laws were enacted to combat the efforts of radical labor unions.

Senator W G Walker of Idaho, the nation's first state to enact a criminal syndicalism law, introduced the criminal syndicalism legislation to the Senate with an anti-IWW speech.

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The California Criminal Syndicalism Act of 1919 alone, only five years after its enactment, was responsible for over 500 arrests and 164 convictions.

On February 19,1917, the criminal syndicalism bill was introduced into the Idaho state legislature.

The Idaho criminal syndicalism bill served as a prototype for many other similar bills passed in various state legislatures in the following four years.

In 1924, Kansas' state criminal syndicalism law was challenged by a Supreme Court ruling in the case of Fiske v Kansas, which would become critically important in the future of legal battles over freedom of speech, and which was an early case supported by the American Civil Liberties Union.

Criminal syndicalism was later prosecuted under Ohio's criminal syndicalism law and was found guilty.

The Supreme Court ruled in 1969 that Ohio's criminal syndicalism law used to prosecute Brandenburg was unconstitutional.