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-1TZ- NO hoe. hy ar) m 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, pages 4,-7 and 21). ; BISHOP G. BROML XNAM, ACLU National Committee member, appeared before the House Committée*ontn=Américan Activities on July 21, 1953 and admitted affiliation with the following subversive organizations and publications: National Council of American-Soviet Friendship; Protestant Di 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 renders ''very valuable service in maintenance of the civil liberties of thi country." (See HUAC, Testimony_,of Bishop G. Bromely Oxnam, 1953, pages 359 3629, 3645, 3653, 3656, 3724 and 3734). Mw . . BISHOP EDWARD Le-PARSONS , Vice Chairman of the ACLU National Committeé“ Signed” an’ Amicus*Curiae-Brief in September 1955.to the Supreme Co of the United Stateg# askifg that the Court "void" the Internal Security Act 1950. According to the California Committee on Un-American Activities, PAR has contributed to the Communist Daily Worker, sponsored the subversive Cal Labor School, American Committee for Yugoslav Relief, American Youth For De 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 o 3 Joint Fact-Finding Committee on Un-American Activities, 1947, page 79; and "~~ California Legislature, Fourth Report of the Senate Fact-Finding Committee Un-American Activitigay 1948, pages 132, 144 and 185), JAMES G PATTON, ACLU National Committee member is aiso President of the Farmer's Educational~and Cooperative Union of America, commonly know: as the National Farmers' Union. PATTON has been affiliated with the Nation: Committee to Abolish the Poll Tax and was listed as an initiator of the Nac- Congress on Civil Rights held in Detroit, Michigan in 1946, out of which eme the subversive Civil Rights Congress. He sponsored a testimonial dinner wh was held under the auspices of the American Slav Congress and submitted a s: ment to the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1950 in opposition proposed anti-Communist legislation. (See HUAC, Appendix IX, 1944, page 11: . HUAC, Report on the American Slav Congress, 1949, page 106; California Legislature, Fourth Report of the Senate Fact-Finding Committee on Un-Americ ~~ ‘Activities, 1948, ge 201; and HUAC, Hearings-on Legislation to Outlaw Cert , , Un-American and S versive Activities, 1950, page 2353). —— ELMER’ RICE, member of the ACLU Board of Directors was reported to have been affiliated’with 17 subversive: organizations and publications accor to "The Firing Ling of February 1, 1955, page 16. 4d i . a _AUBREY-WILLIAMS , editor of The Southern Farm & Home and contributi foe to The New Southerner, is a member of the National Committee of the A CLU.. ‘According to a report of the Internal Security Subcommittee, "AUBREY 7° WILLIAMS was identified as President of the Southern Conference Educational Inc., who had been a member of the Board of the Southern Conference For Hume Welfare...MR. WILLIAMS was identified by a witness as cone who had been a men of the Communist Party. He was also identified by another witness as one wh accepted the discipline of the Communist Party. ‘The Firing Line" was instr in exposing WILLIAMS in its July 1, 1955 issue. (See Internal Security Sub- committee, Southern Conference Educational Fund, Inc., 1954, pages VI and VI and "The New Southerner," April 1956.) ,