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He was fiercely anti-Communist during the McCarthy era of the 1940s and 50s. According to [https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=DS19650622.2.13&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 his 1965 obituary], "An active campaigner against communism, Dilworth sponsored the first bill to keep communists out of state government employ. He also introduced the bill which took the communist party off the ballot in California and authored the Dilworth Act [of 1953] which gave school board the authority to fire communist school teachers.... Always what he himself called an 'old fashioned patriot,' Dilworth was one of the first to recognize the threat to freedom in the Communist party. He was a member of the controversial Committee on Un-American Activities under state Senator Jack Tunney."^[2] He is quoted as saying, "It is often true that many things which, in the end, bring benefits and satisfaction are very difficult to get started in the beginning. So it is going to be hard to save America from those who are pushing us and taxing us downhill into a form of state socialism. And there is no time to lose."^[3]

The 1953 Dilworth Act specified that "no person knowingly a member of the Communist Party shall be employed or retained in employment by a school district" and that all school district employees have a duty to answer, under oath, questions about their membership in the Communist Party.^[4] Refusing to answer such questions constituted grounds for dismissal.^[5]

Dilworth was born in Ohio in 1890. His family moved to Los Angeles when he was 7, then moved to the Coachella Valley in 1903.^[2]

Dilworth was first elected to the state assembly in 1936, where he served until he was elected to the state senate in 1944.^[3] He commuted from his home in Hemet to the state capitol in Sacramento until he retired from the legislature in 1960, at age 70.^[2] During his tenure in the state senate, he served as chairman of the Senate Investigating Committee on Education.

Although he lived in the Coachella Valley for most of his life, [https://www.cusdk8.org/Page/15 an elementary school] in San Jose is named after him.

References

• The Mount Barker Courier And Onkaparinga And Gumeracha Advertiser
• The Mount Desert Islander
• The Mount Dora Ghost Walk
• The Mounted Band of the Life Guards
• The Mounted Stranger
• The Mount Elbert Gas Hydrate Site
• The Mountie (film)
• The Mounties
• The Mount, Nottswood Hill
• The Mount School (disambiguation)
• The Mount School, Mill Hill
• The Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine
• The Mourholme Magazine of Local History
• The Mourning Son
• The mouse and the lion
• The Mouse From H.U.N.G.E.R.
• The Mouse (nickname)
• The Mouse on 57th Street
• The Mouse, the Bird and the Sausage
• The Mouse Trap
• The Mousetrap and Other Plays
• The Mouth and Foot Painting Artists
• The Mouth of a Cave
• The Mouth of the Canyon
• The Mouth of the Wolf