Communist Party, USA v. Catherwood

We here review the upholding by the New York Court of Appeals of the action of the New York State Indus trial Commissioner terminating petitioners’ registration and liability to state taxation as employers under the New York State Unemployment Insurance Law. N. Y. Labor Law, §§ 511-512, 517-518, 570, 577, 581. This determination was effected under what was conceived to be the compulsion of a federal statute, the Communist Control Act of 1954, 68 Stat. 775, 50 U. S. C. §§ 841-844, which provides, in pertinent part:

“Section 2. The Congress hereby finds and declares that the Communist Party of…