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Public Law 84–330
To prohibit the employment by the Government of the United States of persons who are disloyal or who participate in or assert the right to strike against the Government of the United States, and for other purposes.
Approved August 9, 1955
Statutory text
AN ACT
To prohibit the employment by the Government of the United States of persons who are disloyal or who participate in or assert the right to strike against the Government of the United States, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That no person shall accept or hold office or employment in the Government of the United States or any agency thereof, including wholly owned Government corporations, who—
advocates the overthrow of our constitutional form of government in the United States;
is a member of an organization that advocates the overthrow of our constitutional form of government in the United States, knowing that such organization so advocates;
participates in any strike or asserts the right to strike against the Government of the United States or such agency; or
is a member of an organization of Government employees that asserts the right to strike against the Government of the United States or such agencies, knowing that such organization asserts such right.
Sec. 2.
Except as provided in subsection (b), every person who
Affidavit.
accepts office or employment in the Government of the United States after the date of enactment of this Act, shall, not later than sixty days after he accepts such office or employment, execute an affidavit that his acceptance and holding of such office or employment does not or (if the affidavit is executed prior to acceptance of such office or employment) will not constitute a violation of the first section of this Act. Such affidavit shall lie considered prima facie evidence that the acceptance and holding of office or employment by the person executing the affidavit does not or will not constitute a violation of such section.
An affidavit shall not be required from a person employed by
Emergency work.
the Government of the United States for less than sixty days for sudden emergency work involving the loss of human life or the destruction of property. This subsection shall not relieve any person from liability for violation of the first section of this Act.
Sec. 3.
Any person who violates section 1 of this Act shall be guilty
Penalty.
of a felony, and snail be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than one year and a day, or both.
Sec. 4.
The following parts of Acts are hereby repealed:
Repeals.
Section 612 of the Housing Act of 1949 (42 U. S. C., sec. 1445);
Section 9A of the Act entitled “An Act to prevent pernicious political activities”, approved August 2, 1939 (5 U. S. C., sec. 118j);
and
Section 305 of the Labor Management Relations Act, 1947, as
amended (29 U. S. C., sec. 188).
Approved August 9, 1955.