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O-f (7-86-55) - Q a A petition for a “Christmas nngety” for Communist Party ers convicted undez he mith Act “commuting the ntence of 16 men and women now in prison to time already gerved,” and a plea for -post- - ponement of tial in the more - ‘]than 100 cases sow pend- - tan of Union inal -Stiminary; , Lewis Mumford; Norman Thornate = Elmer Rice, playwright, Chaplain ; john Sf_Krumm of Columbia Uni. ; Vérsity, Stephen Cary, secretary of | the Ameficin “S*€€bon, American , ; Friends Service Committee, Phil- fentence of the 16 men tnd w pease: Henry Steele Comms T, tg ‘prison ander the Columbia University, A J. Muste ie ‘ “The petitioners point out that they “are in fundamental disagree- | iment with the philosophy of the Communist Party and with essen- tial elements in its program and are motivated im their present action by their attachment to the dem-. . ocratic way of life”. > . The statement es the dis- ‘ senting opinion of Justice Black ~ when the coaviction of the 11 top Communist Parr leader: wac fore the Supreme Coutt to the ‘tion by ' elect that the defendants were Gemocratic way not charged with “acts of any 5° ; ki | 5 to ~~ . em 2 + . e 940) 3s time already government” oor with “saying or writing anything sean 7 to oe the ; complish that objective but Only 444 the trial of Communist Pacty with the purpose to “use speech or + under dissen , mewspa rs mn the future to teach jenocm 8m his ed bar mie rand te the forcible over- “Recemly the Supreme - the Supreme Coust has agreed to hes sorupnized the aprropriat ' sider review of the California lor . ‘second look’ at the Act. convictions under the Smith Act] “among the 16 for whom t is urged that an amnesty sow are ‘requesting *® Christmas “a would give proof of our fon tpesty are elderly and "Sidence in democratic institutions,” |Tp- and ce ing - peri ‘cold way’ and a he y Mf fnspir- lin a ‘period of the ' =: United States jin an atmosphere gand winning Dew ones. | ‘ortuns ; The t said in part: by ser ooditvons have nat a pinenty commuting fie {ills aed ae akon