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Between the Great War and Pearl Harbor, conservative labor leaders declared themselves America's ""first line of defense"" against Communism. In this surprising account, Jennifer Luff shows how the American Federation of Labor fanned popular anticommunism but defended Communists' civil liberties in the aftermath of the 1919 Red Scare. The AFL's ""commonsense anticommunism,"" she argues, steered a middle course between the American Legion and the ACLU, helping to check campaigns for federal sedition laws. But in the 1930s, frustration with the New Dealorder led labor conservatives to redbai

Anti-communist movements --- Communism --- McCarthy, Joseph, --- American Federation of Labor. --- AFL-CIO --- Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions of the United States and Canada --- AFL --- AFT --- AF of L --- A.F.L. --- A.F. of L. --- Amerikanskai︠a︡ federat︠s︡ii︠a︡ truda --- Federação Americana de Trabalho --- United States --- Politics and government