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"As & result of @ general &rpeal for funds to help in defense work, place in the form of advertisements in three liberal publications in December, 931, about - $1,200 was collected. After the cost of ‘advertising had een paid, $500 was sent to the National Defense Committee defending , Communist. cases, $300 to the. General’ Defenae Committes: of the I.W.f, and [8200 fo the California Defense Committee at San Franodsce, « Loang have een made.at. various times ‘to the: National Defense: Commi ttea to meet . jemergencies in the conduct: o rte work... ae er WORK AHFAD. . . Our program, so far aa we can see ahead now, involves he following matters? Of the cases actively in the courts, conspiououg | . s that of thirteen socialists at Cincinnat4 sentemied for aQietributing |. -patisconsoription literature in 1917... , There area humber of deporta. | > jtfon: @ courts,. 7 , 2 ¢ & MECN AS SL RONBOV Of. Detroit, of |. jseven I.W.W. ex-politioal prisoners-and’four communtatia, (i 50 ffAn effort. will be made in the new Congress in 1923 to pf the Post Office censorship section of the Espionage till in force; of the section of the obscenity statute which relates to xpressiors of political opinion; and of the. sections of the Immigratioh et excluding or deporting aliene because of thsir ‘political views. ... "/- secure the repeal Aot, which 145 - The latest definition of the attitude of the American Civil Liber- ples-Union wes, given. during’ August) 1934, by Roger: Ns Baldwin, Natt onal irector of the Civil Liberties Union, New York, as follows: — The right to advocate a violent revolution, asaaasination, and proletr~ fan Red guard, are all clearly within the scope of free speech, and have een so regarded here and in England for decades, : ‘The- spectacle of the. yde Park policemen protecting & street-speaker against the crowd for Vdvoocating Assassination of the King, 1s one.of the classic examples. he whole: theory of free speeoh 18 based upon precisely that kind of a situation. mo, . oe ciate There are some within our own organization who dissent -fron this view of 00% free speech, and who are & little timid in advocating it in extreme ages. They would draw the line somewhere-this side of an ACTUAL DEED R AN ATTEMPT TO-COMMIT AN ACT, BUT THEIR VIFW IS NOT THE OFFICIAL IEW OF THE ORGANIZATION, ® Se Cae aa “She.