Myer Symonds
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Myer Symonds was a Hawaii labor lawyer.
HUAC
Myer Symonds and Harriet Bouslog represented the 39 reluctant witnesses before the US.House Un-American Activities Committee and Senate Judicial Internal Security hearings and hadthem take the Fifth Amendment.
They also represented the Hawaii Seven, including Jack Hall, in a seven and half month trial, when the Seven were charged under the Smith Act with conspiring and teaching the overthrow of government by force and violence. [1]
NLG
Harriet Bouslog and Myer Symonds were both founding members of the National Lawyers Guild, and they challenged the territorial Unlawful Assembly and Riot Acts, fought injunctions against strikes, and defended the 1949 dock strike.[2]