President Franklin Roosevelt signs 1934 bill, forerunner of executive order five years later increasing FBI powers to target unions and “subversives.” FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover is directly behind Roosevelt. Below, Raid on Socialist Workers Party office in Minneapolis, June 1941. White House aimed to silence SWP and Teamster union leaders campaigning against rulers’ plans to send workers and farmers into second imperialist world war.
By Barbara Kline
September 29, 2022