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‘ = wr? CAS, é ACEH hn Cc 7°-@ / ~O American Civil Liberties on: a tty \} ERePRobucTION/IN WHOLE on PART WITHOUT, AUTHORIZATION 18 PROHIBITZD. THE AMERICAN LEG! ING BNE ¢ Prepared and Distributed By The Nationa} Americanism Commission, P.O. Box 1055, Indiemapolis, Indiang Subscription rate $3.00 per year PART ITI | VOL. NO. V, NO. 25_. ce inpeyércee. foo December 15, 1956 » AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNIO ee _ ee 7 Readers will recall that the October 15th and November 1st issues of The Firing Line were devoted to reports relative to recent activities og, of the American Civil Liberties Union, Inc, (ACLU). With national offices 3 located at 170 Fifth Avenue, New York City, this 36 year old organization, 9:20 together with 19 state affiliates, claims a total membership of about .- ~~ 35,000. Continuing The American Legion's investigation of the ACLU, this =~ issue of The Firing Line studies another phase of its background and current activities. (See ACLU "Civil Liberties", February 1956, page 3 and ACLU 2) - 35th Annual Report: “Clearing The Main Channels", 1955, pages 132-134). 0-5" _ OME, om, meni ete: DIRECTORS OF ACLU - NATIONAL LEADERSHIP - Based upon a Septe yer 1956 letterhead, the following 24 individuals . are listed as members of th Board of Directors or National Committee of the. ~": : melee aie ede aL 7 BISHOP saves oh Paver, ACLU National Committee member was a 1947 Vice Prestdént OF“the ‘Methodist - Federation For Social Action. According to - & recent report of the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, the Methodist front organization. In 1948, BAKER sponsored the Committee of One Thousand, a "Communist created and controlled front organization"; and was listed as ; @ 1951 initiator and sponsor of the National Committee To Repeal the McCarran ~..=3 Act, another Communist front. (See HUAC, Review of the Methodist Federation For Social Action, 1952, page 82; Committee of One Thousand letterhead, 1948; "Daily Worker", 3-23-51, page 2; Internal Security Subcommittee, "A Handbook __ For Americans", 1956, page 91 and HUAC, Guide To Subversive Organizations and-° *= Publications In The ited States, 1951, page 38). . : OK 42E fies ROGER N< BALDWIN, ACLU National Committee member and Advisor, International Work has been affiliated with over 15 organizations which have been cited as subversive and Communist according to a report in the February 1, 1955 issue of The Firin Line, page 14. A World War I draft evader, BALDWIN Liberties Union upholds the right of aliens or Hationals to advocate murder? 7 a assassination, and the overthrow.aFf :our -overnment/ by--forge Ad violences~ BALDWIN wrote in the Harvard uniieiceey eee Book’ of 193 that he was~for 5 "socialism, disarmament and ultimately for abolishing the Stiteriesexeray fy, instrument of violence and compulsion. Communism is the goal " EfSersSpedial Committee on Un-American Activities, Investigation of Un-AmerA cd! Propaganda — ws The United States, voTume I, 1938, pages 161, 462 and 533) =" - “COPYRIGHT 1956 BY THE aMeRICaN Legion. - OUSA2ZS, Ey 4 ot ; ’ “eh,