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Se ; -112- Communists were interested." He has made “periodic contributions through Communist Party functionaries to the Communist Party in San Francisco Area in amounts aggregating not less than $500 nor more than $1000 a year during a period approximately four years ending in April 1942." (See United States Atomic Energy Commission, "In/The Matter of J, Robert Oppenheimer," May 27, through June 29, 1954, pagek /4, 7 and 21). BISHOP G. BROMLEY OXNAM, ACLU National Committee member, appeared before the House Committee on Un-American Activities on July 21, 1953 and admitted affiliation with the following subversive organizations and publications: National Council of American-Soviet Friendship; Protestant Dig Soviet Russia Today; American Committee for Spanish Freedom; Medical Bureau and North American Committee to Aid Spanish Democracy; and the Methodist Federation for Social Service. OXNAM stated before the Committee that the A renders "Very valuable service in maintenance of the civil liberties of this country.'' (See HUAC, Testimony of Bishop G. Bromely Oxnam, 1953, pages 3599 3629, 3645, 3653, 3656, 3724 and 3734). . , . a BISHOP EDWARD L7 PARSONS, Vice Chairman of the ACLU National Committee signed an Amicus Curiae Brief in September 1955 to the Supreme Cou of the United States asking that the Court "void" the Internal Security Act 1950. According to the California Committee on Un-American Activities, PARS has contributed to the Communist Daily Worker, sponsored the subversive Cali Labor School, American Committee for Yugoslav Relief, American Youth For Dem and the San Francisco Branch of the American Friends of the Chinese People. (See "The Firing Line", 10-1-55, page 100; California Legislature, Report of Joint Fact-Finding Committee on Un-American Activities, 1947, page 79; and California Legislature, Fourth Report of the Senate Fact-Finding Committee o Un-American Activities, 1948, pages 132, 144 and 185), — JAMES Crk Ton, ACLU National Committee member is also President _of the Farmer’S EducatitonalT and Cooperative Union of. America, commonly known as the National Farmers' Union. PATTON has been affiliated with the Nationa! Committee to Abolish the Poll Tax and was listed as an initiator of the Natic Congress on Civil Rights held in Detroit, Michigan in 1946, out of which eme1 the subversive Civil Rights Congress. He sponsored a testimonial dinner whic was held under the auspices of the American Slav Congress and submitted a sté ment to the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1950 in opposition t Proposed anti-Communist legislation. (See HUAC, Appendix IX, 1944, page 1167 HUAC, Report on the American Slav Congress, 1949, page 106; California Legislature, Fourth Report of the Senate Fact-Finding Committee on Un-Americeé Activities, 1948, page 201; and HUAC, Hearings on Legislation to Outlaw Certé Un-American and Subversive Activities, 1950, page 2353). . oe 7 ELMER RICE, member of the ACLU Board of Directors was reported to have been affiliated with 17 subversive organizations and publications accord to "The Firing Linge” of February 1, 1955, page 16, - ane Firing Lige AUBREW WILLIAMS, editor of The Southern Farm & Home and contributin editor to-The-NeW Southerner, is a member of the National Committee of the ~ ACLU. According to a report of the Internal Security Subcommittee, "AUBREY W —WILLIAMS was identified as President of the Southern Conference Educational F Inc., who had been a member of the Board of the Southern Conference For Human Welfare...MR. WILLIAMS was identified by a witness as one who had been a memb of the Communist Party. He was also identified by another witness as one who accepted the discipline of the Communist Party. ''The Firing Line" was instru in exposing WILLIAMS in its July 1, 1955 issue. (See Internal Security Sub- committee, Southern Conference Educational Fund, Inc., 1954, pages VI and VII and ''The New Southerner," April 1956.)