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7 . _ Abbott Howard (*:°fman APPENDIX Qo * RATIONAL EMERGENCY CIVIL LIBERTIES COMMITTEE (CONT'D) when he appeared during the Atlanta te tin Re ee te ‘€ on) hearings. * # * \;ILKINSON has sinoe been Rese 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 4 number of other individuals connected with the ECIC also have been identified under oath as Communists.* * *!? (Committee on Un-American Activities, Annual | Report for 1950, House Report 167, March 9, 1959, pp. 34 and 35.) '2,'To defend the cases of Communist law-breakers, fronts have hecy devised waking special appeals in behalf-ot civ:1 7.4 arties and reaching out far beyond “re corti. of the Communist 2 Party itselv’. Ae, nose orgon.cations are the —- * * * Emerecuer Govi: fdber iss von ctee, when the Conmoniis Gti y gd stle us unser fire these front: ¢ffer @ ‘ntlwo.. of verotestion.! (Internal Svcurzsy Suceorvrsea of the Senate 3 2 Judiciary Cuvmistie, tandicok for Amevicens, S. Doc. 117, Apri 22, 1955, p. 9l.)” "The New York newspaper, in its Apri. Tinos", a Nev Yor City daily . 1. 2965, iscua, page 13, contained a an item captioned, L:2ft .sserters to Get More Help", which related that at co nz..: corference held by the Emergency Civil Liberties committee (ECLC) on the previous day, it was announced that Tne organivation was changing . — its name to the Natic:al Evv-yvgency Civil Liberties Committee (NECILC) “to reflect cur det:rmination to develop a vital national civil liberties organization in all 50 states as rapidly as possible.” NECLC is located a mast 2otn Street, Nev York City. =e i WAR Aco ugy spe aero A tie Da