Educators Try For New 'Red Bill' Hearing

State educational groups and institutions, including the University, are trying to force a new hearing for a bill now before the House Committee on Education. The bill would make college and school presidents responsible for any Communists on their staffs.

The bill was flied in the House by Rep. William F. Keenan (D-Suffoik) in the first session of the year. Backers of the bill set a surprise hearing the morning before the legislative bulletin was distributed, reportedly so that the opposition would not be represented at the hearing.

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Rep. John C. Breenahan (D-6th Essex District) a member of the committee on education, last night stated that the committee had not yet completed its report on the hearing.

The bill states that "the president or trustees of the several colleges and several Schools of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts are hereby ordered to expel Communists or any professor or teacher who supports or advocates the objectives, policies, teachings, principles or practices of Communism as expounded by Marx, Lenin, and Stalin from their teaching staffs after a hearing as guaranteed by the fourteenth amendment.

"Failure to comply with the provisions of this set shall be punishable by a fine of five thousand dollars or three years imprisonment or both."