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ACLU — Part 14

35 pages · May 08, 2026 · Document date: Sep 26, 1924 · Broad topic: Politics & Activism · Topic: ACLU · 33 pages OCR'd
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month, The Crusade then began pioketing the White’ House: ~ en Just at this time, however, the ooal strike and: such &@ time. .. 4 "Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist", wag restored to t hem through to a conolusion, he Department of Justice against radicala,. rancis Neylan of San Francisco. ¥t rney in.San Francisco has prepared a-sut is thought, will stop this prasties. .° "(Michigan Raid) The twenty-three defendants, among whom are Wm Poster, Cy. E. Ruthenberg and other welleknewn. rads. axe beir ed ‘by Frank P, Walah,” backed by the ‘Labor’ Defeviad’ Counod]..""! th iberties. Union has been cooperating sotively with the Defense Coun fin an effort to give wide publicity to the unauthorized leray?. "f°" unds to prosecute ‘a state case and in order to expose the tactios of dent saw the firet delegation on amnesty since. before Chriatmag, 0 , ‘and: the strike. of the. jway shopmen, with the consequent industrial unreet, made the Presid, ‘ decide that it was unwise to earry out & pol Loy of releasing radicals at)» "The Civil Liberties Union has consistently taken the position that: "There are now no periodicals or books barred from the mails for the papressions of economic or political opinion, norany pertddicala whic ave lost second class privileges on that’ account. .°. Four books whise ad been barred were readmitted in.1928,. The leet, Alexander. Berkman’; oy S . he mails on September | pewn radicals, .are being .defens |i ani 2 Phe Cteea In San Francisco, where the police have repeatedly raided the Marine ransport Workerg Hall (I.W.¥.), wad emisoed an epee Present on charges |. sy, which are - b smissed in the x court. °.¢ af f vacrancy, which are invariably di mi’ : i againet ths polies. whiten, | Our chief contribution to defense work is furntehing bail through the. | | ational Bail Fund, an independent enterprise which works in close cooper 'e’ House’ on Junetst ‘ana |. continued that daily without a break up to July 19th, the day the Preat. | "After the President's promise on July 19th it was generally agreed among: jthe forces working for amnesty that pioketing should be abandoned’ for: th |=: . |Sixtyeday period, but that intensive work ‘at: Washington. needed to: be kept up with the Pardon Attorney's office and at the: White House, 3” aL 1s nt. would help release a11 bona fide political prisoners on their own.te B yack: , 1922, .- The Post Office Department still has the power of censorship, - - ithough it does not exercise it... - + The Union has been ative in. tak- | - ng up 211 these matters with the Post Office Department, and in pushing ‘| .. In the case of Mies Charlotte Anita Whitney of Oakland, convioted ta one| f the original Communist Labor Party c&ses, an appeal ia being taken. to |. he United States Supreme Court, in which we have’ seoured the. coope a Sta ) sooperatien|”: f Samuel Untermeyer of New York, who will argue the case with Jo Be ie hn _ ion with the Union. The trustees are Albert deStlver, Norman Thomas. ., he total.amount in. the Fund is approximately $69,000, of which $59, 500 s out on bail January 1, 1923. The Ba4l Fond began operation February 5, 1928, with $60,000 in hand. Money is constantly needed for bail 2. . e e GOVEBNMSENT PREVTING OFFICE 7—11¢9
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