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~. ‘ Abbott .Howard Hot Jan e, Le APPENDIX ce 2. en NATIONAL EMERGENCY CIVIL Eee LIBERTIES COMMITTEE (CONT'D). oA xa when he appeared during the Atlanta as) hearings. #* #* * \;,ILKINSON has sino2 been convicted of contempt of Congress and sentenced to one year in jail.' ‘Disputing the non-Communist claim of the organization, the committee finds that a number of other individuals connected with the ECLC also have been identified under oath as Communists.* * *! {Committee on Un-American Activities, Annual Report for 195&, House Report 187, March 9, 1959, pp. 34 and 35.) "2,'To defend the cases of Communist law-breakers, fronts have heen devised making special appeals in behalf of civil Liso2rtics and reaching out far beyond tne Cone ns ot “he Communist Party itself. Arnone ese sogenizatjons are the + Emerzis:c¥ riya Taber les conm**tee, When the Cossumics Paty doch’ is urser fire these fronts ¢crfcr eae tulwarr of tvotecsion.! (Internal Sccurivy Sutcommistee of the Senate Judiciary Conmict2e, tandlook for Amevicans, S. Doc. 117, Apri 23, 1956, p. 92.)" "The New York Tints", a New York city daily newspaper, in its Aprii 1, “968, 4ssue, page 13, contained an item captioned, ‘“I[raft Dissenters to Get More Help", which related that at a nz. cenference held by the Emergency Civil Liberties Uemmittee (ECIC) on the previous day, it was announced that “Zhe organization was changing its name to the National Emsrgeney Civil Liberties Committee (NECLC) "to reflect cur detsrmination to develop a vital national civil liberties organization in all 20 states as rapidly as possible." ET: -. NECLC is located at 25 East 26th Street, New York City.