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& ° ow ne Intolerance in america by launching the poster "amerita=~ . A tation of One People from Many Couatries," by arrang- RG ing a pub.icity photo of irs. F, D. Roosevelt presenting $e the original poster fo Dean William F.fClarke, of DePaul le Law School, at our Civic Opera House meeting. (26) Awards Ag for meritcrious service on behalf of civil liberties dure iS: ing 1939 were awarded to. the Chicaco TIMES and accepted ay for the publisher by Editor Richard} Finnegan, and to Wil-f*- a lard LX King, chairman-of the civil’rights comittee of ia the Chicago Bar Assn., and accepted by Adlai Stevenson, first chairman of that comittee. PhillipfWain made a as special audit of the lirs. Roosevelt lecture-benefit. an "(27) Cooperated with tational mnergency Conference Se for Democratic Richts (Franz/Boas and Alfred K.f{Stern, Be, chairmen) in taking a "Poll of Popular Sentiment" on the Geyer anti-roll tax bill among 200 organizations--with : replies representing a million voters for the bill. (23) fe In cooperation with the .CLU, National Emergency Confer— ence, American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born and the Foreign Languaze Information Service the Committee ae purchased and distributed over 5,000 pamphlets on anti- ™ alien and anti-civil rights bills in Congress. The Com “ . mittee printed 5,000 of its owm prospectus. ‘The Committee RE ‘ printed and distributed 3,000 copies of the address on "Civil Liberties--The Individual and the Community" by a lis, Franklin D. Roosevelt. (29) Complaint of Commnist Clud of U, of C. that Earl Browder had been ruled off the 5 canpus while under sentence was investigated and the dean of students held that Brtowder or anyone might speak to aw le wig fete se student groups in their closed meetines but that those mectinzs whicn were to be advertised and open to campus a (and off-campus) audiences would have to be approved. os, President Hutchins had held that Browder could speak, prior ~ to his conviction, in spite of considerable criticism. s (30) ‘the committee supzorted the ACLU demand on President nee ok MR Ohtake wees. +