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Bk Ot te te ated ee al wen Gebaty bine yee Ubi et eklten e dete adie oe! ap aS neitide alee oe mri a ot 9 he eat Sas Male aelee Bld ne BE Cie ea? . = a . i Re: Conmunis{<Party, United States © of AmerioOu ~- Negro Question ’ . Communist Influence In Racial Matters . internal Security - C i. - APPENDIX 4 — NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD CoN y The "Guide to Subversive Organizations end Publications", revised and published as of December ], 1961, prepared and released by the Comnittee on Un- American Activities, United States House of Represent- atives, Washington, D.C., contains the following concerning the National Lawyers Guild: “National Lawyers Guild "1. Cited as a Comiuunist front. (Special Committee on Un-American Activities, House Report 1311 on the C10 Political Action Committee, March 29, 1944, p. 149. "2. Cited as a Communist front which 'is the foremost leral bulwark of the Communist Party, its front orzanizations, and controliea unions! and wnich 'since its inception has never failed to rally vo the legal defe::se of the Communist Party ang individual meinbers thereof, including known espionage arents. ! (Committee on Un-Anerican Activities, House Report 3123 on the Naticnsal Layers Guild, September 21, 1950, originally related September 17, 1950.) "3. 'To defend the cases of Communist lawbreakers, fronts have been devised making special appeals in behalf of civil liberties and reaching out far beyond the confines of the Communist Party itseif. Among these organizations are the * * # National Lawvers Guild, When the Communist Party itself is under fire these offer a buluvark of protection.! (Internal Security Subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Handbook for Americans, S. Doc. 117, April 23, 1956, p. 91.)" -~ 8 SMR ar A iih- co} “ \ fa fa OO. “eRe aes Oy Pata tee ES al wet tb