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ALEALY SUiLEVIN #106 ey CU wOANCS bac I Cn land _ \e SLU _AITS SUSINESSHAN FENSLIZED F «> y Sth AMSNDENT ~ ° . > : m- | The AneMbcan Civil Liberties Union has interveded fh hat manufacturer who has been prerented from bidding on governcent business be -be, invoked the Fifth Azendment during Fedoral investigations. : . est Nee In a latter to Secretary of the Aray Wilber M. Brucker, he Union's staff coumsel, . Rowland Watts, seid thet these "serious civil Liberties questions are raised" oy tho case! a *The imposing of an illegal sanction upon an individual who exercised his consti- tutional rights under the Fifth Amendment. . "The depriving of an individual of his property without due process of lew through the prolonged and continuing investigating process, ‘which presumably could continus _ forever without any opportunity for (the individuel) te be informed of the charges : . < end the outcome of the investigation, and of an oppertunity to properly dafend himself. ee - "A situation whare punishment in‘the form of debarrent was promulgated by the a Department of the Navy, and now on the sene major facts, suspension by the Deprt- ‘ ment of the Arny, thus resulting in a double punishrent for the sam offerse, if any.* told ACLU he had been under continuing investigation for four years. This fall, he ; paid, he wes notified ty the Arcy that "the suspension previously effected shall re=- f main 4n force until such time a3 matters pertaining to prior Department of Defense : procurerent fron you have been investigated completely by the Executive and > e Legislative Branches of the Government." i The case concerned Sol 0. Schlesinger of the D/B/A Ideal Uniform Cap Company, who " . Schlesinger pleaded the Fifth Amendment during « Treasury Departrent investigation : . and later befcre the Sonate Fermanent Subccnmittee on Government Operations, which was investigating alleged aispractices in the nilitary procurerent field. The letter elainad that by this acticn be had "forfeited any right to engege in future business with the Government. . In ary other Executive branch (of the government), Mr. Schlesinger would have re- - , l4ef under the Adcinistrative Procedures Act," Watts rrote. ®T am confident that you : : will went to see him have at least equivalent relief by the Department £ the arty.® CENSORSHIP CF RADIO AND TV CRITICIZED BY PCC COMMISSIONER 7 Efforts to censor radio and television broadcasters were decried by Robert T. Sertley, a netber of the Federal Commmications Cornission, before a recent mesting ' of broadcasters. Addressing a regional corference of the National Association of Redio and Tale= . vision Broadcasters, Bartley declared that “not only should there be no censorship of the brosdeaster by the Goverment, but there should also be none by ery other groups. ® . Bs referred to various pressure groups wrich he seid sre constently trying to impose cetsorship upon the broadcaster, and he urged broedcasters to resist such effarts. Bartley traced the areas in which the FCC must see that the ler is carried out. These ecncerned clear identification of progrex sponsorship and materials, equal treatnant of cendidetes fer public office and for controversial issues; and cases of news-slentinc, He saic, hovever, that the broadcaster ®shculd not be reluctent to take an editorial pesiticn in various public issues, butee.then he takes such a posi- tion, he should identify it as such, and should take affirrative ateps to see that equel time is provided for ell other sides of the questicn.* Be termed cases of news-slanting "an abuse of the license privilege which cannot eeebde condoned by the Commission." . Bartley celled on brcadcasters to familiarize Corgressionel committees with the yroblercs surrcunding eenserstip and urged that progra=t abuses be curbed threurkh eelf= regulation, ie said thet tke Sunstion of the FCC is to review the stewardsnip af @ radio or TY station, and explained that this fincticn nad nething to do with censorship. - CIVIL LIS=PTIES BRIEFS © . It is reperted that large farns in the Princeton, Flee, erea nov have three sets -Of toilet facilities: one for whites, cne for Nogroes, and a third for Puerto Ricens es:The Kew Haven Civil Liberties Council recently held a special. dinner to honor den fensa counsel in the recent Connecticut Snith Act triel. The attorneys were cited "for upholding the finest traditions of the Anerican Bar in the representation af un- potuler cavses"...The Nessacnsetts legislature has been asked again to eprrove & bid Te . : Clearing the nares of 22 persons cordenred to dean as witches in Salem in 1692-936 ©. a This is tia first tina suck « measure has been ir.roduced, ,