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° wewie The "Daily Worker" for November 19, 1940, containec an article entitled "Conference -to Protect City School Tonight". According to this article, more than 500: delegates were expected to attend a conference to "protect democracy in New York schools," on the night of November 19,1940. .. 7 The article states that the conference was expected to center chief attention on the witch-hunt activities_of the Coudert-Rapp Legislative Committee which had attempted to. obtain the membership rolls of Teachers Union, Local 5 ona subpoena. Also on the attempts to force members of College Teachers Union, Local 537 to testify in "star-chamber" sessions of the committee. : According to this article, the conference was called with the aid of the New York Conference for Inalienable Rights. by Professor Franz Boas.of Columbia, Professors Robert S. Lynd and Dr. Wesley C. Mitchell of Columbia and others. — oe 61-7559-A-DW 11-19-40 (7) .