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5 “‘~ jaw 419 (Rev. 9-97-56) British Communist oer Praises Justice Black ” LONDON, June 22 ().—Lon- don's Communist Daily Worker praised United Stafes Supreme Court Justice Hugo mack todayy. in the newspaper ev pro fe of the' week.” graphy of Justice Black said: “Wictims of McCarthy during America’s dark years of prejudice and persecution have been con-! sislently defesyied by Justice Hugo Lafayette Black . . , “Unknown neeroes, the trag- ically well-known Beasenbergs, aliens and deportees, radical; professors, trade unionists and Communist leaders have heard the voice | of Justice Black speak: oul for their rights as laid down) by the American Constitution”. The paper quoted from a: number of Justice Black's deci-| sions and underlined that he “wanted all 14” Communists: The unsigned short bio-'; | & month hands down jadements on appeals on every conceivable -,-point of law, and whose dissent~- ing opinions on behalf of the rights of man will remain ioneer in men’s minds and more thumbed in the law books than many majority opinions?” The Daily Worker sald he was named Hugo aiter “the great French radical writer Victor Hugo whose book his niother was reading when he was born.” It said Justice Black joined the Ku Klux Klan “as a South- rn lawyer seeking advancement n politics,” and that opponents f Franklin Roosevelt's’ New eal exploited his membership in the Klan from which he re- signed. “A lesser man would have acquilted in the Supreme Court’s'been destroyed,” said the Com- and send for victed California Communists. decision this week to free five|Mmunist Party organ, retrial nine con-/calmly rode the storm and tre- rained to write court opinions, “but Black “What sort of man is this,”|which show him as the cham- asked the Daily Worker, “who|pion of every humanuricht de- {67-zv-years on three Mondaysinied by the Kian.” a i Hollom, Gandy t : With Mp 7, Wash. Post and Times Herald Wash. News Wash, Star N. Y. Herald Tribune N.Y. Journal- American é } N, Y. Mirror N.Y. Daily News N. Y. Times Daily Worker - / ; / The Worker { — / New Leader SS NoT RECORDED A+ 7 ———— 454 TST ————— ! a a ee ST ne + Ln a vos *, se ee ne ra cn ye ? me a a ee ee ee ee Ng te ee TN