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Ane aetna: i } ans 4 4 mee eee Lee ly va ee heme ee en emai a 536 UN-AMERICAN PROPAGANDA ACTIVITIES It Can't Happen Here, expelled Communist studenta in Michigan, San Fras cisco Communist strikes, Newspaper Guild, criminal auarchists, admission @ alien pacitists to citizenship, prohibition of interstate transportation cf strike breakers, Oklahoma City Federal eouspiracy, Rensselaer Volytechnic Institute Communist teacher, University of Pittsburgh atheist professors, and New Yor 3 Communist cases. =p ibtnalUnitcde States SupelNenianar bas fonnd that “a Stafe may punid ’ utferances erdange oundatioen of orgnnized goverument and threat ening [ts overthrow by unlawful means. ‘These imperil ils own eYistem as a constitutional State. Freedom of speech and press dods not proten disturbances of the pubiic peace or the attempt ta subvert the Govern ment * * *," Yer, in the name of so-called copstitutionality, the American Civil Libertix Unien upholds those who advocate the overthrow of cur form of governmen whose utterances and activities imperil the existence of our cyustitution, state. OFFICERS 1938 In the latest list of officers the following names have been added: Dunbar Bromicy, Cari Carmer, Harold Fey, Johp £. Finnerty, Qswald Frae N p_ Greene, Charles Houston, AJ. iserman. Corlisg Lamont, Mary Vu Kieeck, Raymond L. Wise, Bishop Ecgar , Heywood Bruun, Fra J. Corman, B. Charney Viadeck, Joseph Schlossberg, John Nevin Sayre, Pre William EL. Munn, A. J. Muste~ James H. “Singer, Dr. Henry Linville, John A. Lapp, Sidney Howard. Powers Hapgead- John Dos Masédx. Dr. Elmer Brown; and Dr. Mary E. Weolley has become 2 yice Cliitrhian. § new difisions have been set up this year. These inelude one in Santa Barbe callf.; Kern County, Calif; Indiana Civil Rights Commirtee, B. F. D. No: New Palestine, Ind.: Iowa Civil Liberties Unton at 1126 Paramount Buildi Des Moines; Kansas City, Kans., in the Federal Reserve Building; Mary Civil Liberiies Committee in Baltimore with Mauritz Hallgren as chair ‘\, Weatern Massachusetts Civil Liberties Committee at Amherst, with Colston Warne a8 chairman; Ann Arbor, Mich.: Kansas City, Mo., Bureau; N Jersey Civil Liberties Bureau; Erie County Bnreau; Cincinnati Bureaw; T Bureau in Austin; Tacoma Bureau; Central Wisconsin; ete. in their 1938 report they condemn; The Senate flibuster on the antity bill: Alabama State for keeping Scottsboro Negroes in prison; decision California Supreme Court denying writ of habeas corpus to Mooney; Ma Hague's activities; Chicago police Memorial Day activities; Florida cout cisions in Tampa case; Ohio Nutional Guards in connection with strike Cotton piauter situation in Georvin: New Mexico Supreme Court on eases; Gadsden, Ala. officials; San Antonio police; Memphia City oBiciait San Antonio police officials; the Massachusetts State legislative comm Htee vestivating aubversiviam; the United States Congress for enactment of bill setting up the Committee 10 Investigate Un-Americanism , Congress passing an act prohibiting picketing of foreign embassies in District of Go bia A New York State Legistature for enacting 4 pil} to prohibit holding a by Communists (they express gies over Governor Lehman's veto game): Deportation warrant against anarchist editor; State Depar limitation of stay for alien ©. I. O. president of International Woodwork consarshin of Stute boards of radical films; decisions of Supreme Court eensorsnip OF siitf@ fam Georgia Tar case, its refusal to rehear flag-salute case, its retusa t¢ jurisdiction in case ot alien siacker applying for citizenship; its refusal Teview conviction cases of Pacrto Rican revolutionists convicted for and its refusal to take juvisdiction in the Scotishora case. lt claims it is with the (. 7 QO. suing Mayor Hague for an injrnetios restrain interference with C. ¥. O, rights in New Jersey. It oeviticizes the Government for shutting out William Gallacher, 4 { Communist in 19288. The financial report of this organization as of January 41, 1947, is: 3 $98 404,97: expenditures, $25,186.34. Its trust funds show: Receipts, ga.) at a ppenditures $145.47. Its revolving fund, $441.07; loans due, piiev | a. fer Communist International Labor Defense}, It shows totnl asset D8 49 - Habilities of $1,868. HbeTujy the vear it published and circulated in addition to its regular 1 weekly, monthly, and annuaily, some 42 pamphlets and books, ng the militiz, Congress, alien interference, so-calied labor "| UN-AMERICAN PROPAGANDA ACTIVITIES Supreme Court, eensorships, etc. On Becresary doKes entitled Nations in Night ‘Sates eanlets wag an says {tw ght fn the next (1939) Congr : i » ess fo i and deporrayton laws “to end all restrictions” 8O O56 to nde sil we ' It will fight against miltary tralning in schools and colleges nea the Bag salute and loyalty oath regulations where existing. _ It will, it says, fight for the release of all “political ris 7 ed in tee tee syndicalism laws. Prisoners” Ja t will fgbt to prevent declaration of marti law during Strikes. It will fight post eee todo ean, te bene freedom of our colonies, ete, : -_ mowie eens ootnote: Open letter of Fred Beal, def ; . ‘ended by th Uaiou during the Gastonia, N. C., civil-warfare trials wid nih, eens only to yet ed up on Commuuism in Ruesia 2nd to rety ne Ut to serve 2 20-year sentence: Hen to the Un “Roark Batpwin, “Sonn Dower, American Civil Liberties Union, Now ent sugerican philosopher and educetar, Hanae Wane the American Socialist Party, eae eT oF the Onion Theological Seminary, “Industriai czpert of Russell Sage Foundation “You atid the hundri i - . diets dictatorship in Suriet Russia.’ Fu Tn 1938 the American Civil Liberti p ; Tties Union joined th Labor Defense in having several bills introduced in oe Hance ipple t re use of the National Guard in serious uprisings ue of eae at asted pubitcations denouncing the police and the Nat miainat tenchers! oaths, “Ieeoutingcs ite wedvitie: ie genet é § . § achivi and has recently taken up the cudgels for the C10" benalf of th CHIOsGO CIVIL LIBERTIES COMMETTEE— (JUNE, 3) Office ré.— Honorary chair mn, Judge William H. Holly : thairn ii f , an my Sot ‘te: T ce Ge WN ura; ¥ice chairman, Charles P. iwartz reasurer orge i 1 fT . Edgar Bernhard; Counsel, William E. Rodriguez; Executive 4ilmor aminer. &. iv zceutive board.—Edgar Bernhard, Jessie F. Binford, Robert T Charles W. Gilke | . y, Carl Haessler, Pearl M. Hart, D tewee Te A Licbman, Georgla Lloyd, Prof. Rebeca Ere + Quilici. William E. Rodriguez, Charles P, Schwartz. | ba tn, Rohert B ey Ln no en en 2] fo) or Adu tay. Zaylor, Paul E. Thurlow, and Rev. W. B, Walt. ouory board.—Robert §. Abbott, Rev. Norman B. Barr, Prof.” dr. Prof. Percy Hf r - Ber ¥ H. Boyoton, Prof. &. P. Breckinri P Cooke, Prof. William EF. Dodd, Earl B. Dickereea. Prot Pat Prof. Thoma Wargnret Pee tot Dr. Edwin R. Embree, John M. Fewhes, A Wactnan Mae ode 4 Prot. A. Hustace Haydon, Titian Hersteic, Dr. mon, EF. Esther L. Kohn, Prof. James Weber Linn, Rabbi Louis L wrence Martin, Catherine W. McC nee in, Cathe W. ulloch, Rev. Civde McG. en, Dr. Chartes C. Morrison, Joseph L. Moss, Ruth W. Port W. ‘ Reese, Amelia Sears, Pro?. T. V. Smith, Rev. Ernest F. Titth q. Todd, Dr. James M. Yard and Vietor & Yarro: 4! ae =] Yard, and Vi