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NY 100-1615 te — 2. —— NATIONAL FMERGENCY CIVIL $f, when he appeared during the Atlanta hearings. * * * WILKINSON has since been convicted of contempt of Conzress and sentenced t? one year in jail.! isputing the non-Communist claim of the orzanization, the committee finds that a nmanter of other individuels connected with the ECLC alsohave been identified under oath as Communists. * * *! (Committee on Un-American Activities, Annual Report for 1958, House Report 187, March 9, 1959, pp. 34 and 35.) "2,.'To defend the cases of Communist lew-breekers, fronts have been devised making special appeais in behalf of civil liberties and reaching out fer beyond the confines of the Communist Party itself. Among these organizations are the * * * Emerzency Civil Liberties Committee. When the Communist Party itself is under fire these frcnts offer a bulwark sf rrotection.! Internal Security Subcommittee of the Senate udiciary Committee, Handbook fer Americans, S. boc. 117, April 23, 1956, p. 91.)" "The New York Times", a New York City daily newspaper, in its April 1, 1¢65, issue, page 13, contained an item captioned, "raft Dissenters to Get More Help", which related that at a news conference held by the . Fmergency Civil Liberties Committee (ECL!) on the previous day, it was announced that the organization was changing its name te the Natienal Emergency Civil Liberties Committee (NECLS) "to reflect. our determinaton to develop a vital national eivil liberties organization in ell 59 etates ‘as rapidly as possible." rLo) that tha ew Tork Dor tet mata CG TR Chg ot