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CG 77-22636 ADMINISTRATIVE (Cont. ) A dead file (CG 100-31908) was established in the Chicago Office on March 1, 1956, to collect information apparently referring to applicant. This was based on an article which appeared in the February 8, 1956, issue of Hyde Park Herald, announcing that ABNER MIKVA, 1105. Hyde Park Boulevard, a young lawyer, was seeking the Democratic nomination for state representative of the 23rd District (to the Illinois Legislature) and was being backed by a coalition of labor and independent groups spearheaded by the Independent Voters of Illinois (IVI). This memorandum includes file reference CG 44-221-615, page three (3), which was_a copy of a report from the Security Unit of the Chicago Police Department regarding activities in the ~ Trumbull Park area (not described) on July 25, 1954. - Levererer tare rficsenibed as. a member of American Civil iberties Union (ACLU), was observed in a vehicle registered to A.eJ. MIKVA (ABNER), 1105 East Hyde Park. Their files veflected that ABNER MIKVA was vice-chairman and later co-chairman of the University of Chicago (UOC) chapter of ACLU in 1949. He addressed the South Side Committee for the Bill of Rights, according to the "Daily Worker" dated December 6, 1953, and he was a member of the Board of — Directors of the IVI in 1954. Another file reference (in this memorandum establishing the dead file) was from . CG ~100-18957-253 reporting from a local UOC school news- paper that ABNER MIKVA signed a petition to the Mayor of New York complaining of discriminatory activities against students of the City College of New York. Another reference CG 100-3466-64, page 37, reported ABNER J. MIKVA as a member of the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) as of 1949. And the ‘last file reference in that memo was CG 100-28680-1A5, in which a former PSI furnished a two page letter on the letterhead of North Side Council for the Bill of Rights dated February 10, 1954, which said ABNER J. MIKVA, formerly of Justice SHERMAN MINTON's office, gave a very scholarly and factual presentation of some of the principle effects of the McGarran-Walters Act. MIKVA said how the Act violates basic American Democratic principles. -B- b6 b7C b7E . COVER PAGE