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PART II

A Conditional Citizenship

John Raker (Democrat, California). If a man appears before a court with his witnesses and soft pedals himself through, and he is an anarchist at the time, and within five years after he has received his papers he commences to practice anarchy, there is no provision whereby you can take his naturalizations papers from him.

Mr. Crist. There are judicial decisions by which that has been done, in construing the present law.

[Raker:] Do they go so far?

[Crist:] Yes, sir. There have been several cases, and the Wurstenbarth case is an outstanding case.

[Raker:] If all the proceedings are in good shape, but within two, three four or five years he begins to practice sabotage, becomes an anarchist or I.W.W., and it can be established that at the time he was naturalized he held those views, can you cancel his certificate of naturalization?

[Crist:] I think so.

Albert Johnson (Republican, Washington) Chairman. We intend to provide a means for reopening such a case.

—House of Representatives, Hearings Before the

Committee on Immigration and Naturalization,

October 19, 1921