During the 50s, what did the anti-communist believe that got government workers fired

Answer 1

Here are excellent sites on the McCarthy era.

http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/schrecker-blacklist.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism

http://www.trackedinamerica.org/timeline/mccarthy_era/intro/