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“AMERICAN € eIvil LIBERTIES union, 170 FIFTH AVENUE, EW YORK |' ERNEST ANGELL - 7 EDWAPD J, ENNIS = PATRICK Chairmen OSMOND K. FRAENKEL - Bcerd of Divoctore an = PARENT TEN EYCK Tes Genera! Counsel {| ORagon 5 S990 ; / a Alan Reitman, Ausistont Director : Lt wh POD Ove : th Charge of Public. Relations WEEKLY BULLETIN ar” . a ve Tey December 3, 1956; oy z ACLU HATIS Gov'T LEGAL PARL TO_ENFORCE NON-DISCRIMINATICN IN IVTRA-STATE TRANSIT a OO aaa asa The American Civil Liberties Union hailed recently the announcement of Attorney,” General Herb3rt Brownell; Jr. that thé Justice Department will hold a ccnference with U. S. Attorneys in scuthern states te work out methods of compliance with the United: 8 States S:prema Court's decision barring discrimination in intra-state | bus _ transpor tation. . . a f watt! the Departnent'!s action "demonstrates that teaderehip at the ® highest government. level. | The Union, in a telegram from its executive director : Patrick Murphy Malin, ‘paid. W411 not be forfeited. ~ —. ao "The high court!s decision was in keeping with its recent rulings that segrega ticn_ and diseriminatien are unconstitutional and have no place in American life. .~ While there are bound to be difficulties to overceme in achieving compliance, the - Federal Government has an important role to play in assuring that the law is uphel The cenfersnee you have caljed will provide encouragement to all those who support the court's decisione" . . In schaduling the Necember 10 conference, the Attorney General a soar , "Pricer to the Supremes Court's decision a number of states, counties, municipal ities and other agencies of local government had adopted discriminatory measures of. this kind. It is now clear that any such law, statute, ordinance or regulation must be regarded as a dead letter. ae Me "It, is alse clear that the enforcement or observanee of any such di seriminatory). measure by any cemmon carrier of passengers will constitute in the future and in the’. tight of the unmistakable declaration of the federal courts a wilful deprivation by: the carricr of the constitutional rights, privileges and immunities of those dis-:; Criminated against end a crime against the United States. Title 18, United States Coda, section 2h2,. Anyone who commands, induces, procures, counsels, aids or abet the carrier in the commission of any such crime is s equally guilty. Title 18, .. United States Code, section 2." i U. S. Attorneys from Alabama, Arkensas, Florida, Georgia, ; Kentuely ; > Louisiana Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma > South Carolina , Py Tennessee , Texas, and Virginia were invited. © . . _ ess : “ mi in Malt famia. NEW NEW KIND oF LOKALTY OATH PROBLEM ARISES IN “CALIF. © id _— h ‘A different sort of penalty for refusal to sien | a loyalty oath has ‘turned There. the American Civil Liberties Undo. of ‘Northern California Jearned that Sa! l ei-year-old multilith operator, Marion Syrek, was ienied unemployment compensation’. 4 because he was fired from his non-sensitive job in prasmte business for Ssclining’te toy Sign en oath. Such oaths were not required by law. - - . ; . . Nonths ago, when Syrek first applied for unemployment: ingurance benefits, : “hie: . inform:d the State Unemployment Service that he did not want to seek a civil service’: vob because he opposaii loyalty oaths in Principle. Weeks later he saw and answered: ‘4 an advertisement for a multilith operator, inserted in a “newspaper by A derson “ “& Company » a Re accountant and auditor. —¢ aM, P 'P y wi?” ffi a 7 bole was ‘hired but ran into difficulty three SREP he was ‘asked to~ . | 84gn a loyalty oath, He declined, was fired, end apylipd: for 18@hployment compensa’ «| tien. Zt was denied on grounds that his refusal to comply constituted "miscondus te = \ [on the job and quitting "without. good cause," This decision. woe es : rT REST W PER ERY eenedaMite INFORMATION FUR a - eee