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ACLU — Part 14
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month, The Crusade then began pioketing the White’ House:
~ en
Just at this time, however, the ooal strike and:
such &@ time. ..
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"Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist", wag restored to t
hem through to a conolusion,
he Department of Justice against radicala,.
rancis Neylan of San Francisco.
¥t rney in.San Francisco has prepared a-sut
is thought, will stop this prasties. .°
"(Michigan Raid) The twenty-three defendants, among whom are Wm
Poster, Cy. E. Ruthenberg and other welleknewn. rads. axe beir
ed ‘by Frank P, Walah,” backed by the ‘Labor’ Defeviad’ Counod]..""! th
iberties. Union has been cooperating sotively with the Defense Coun
fin an effort to give wide publicity to the unauthorized leray?. "f°"
unds to prosecute ‘a state case and in order to expose the tactios of
dent saw the firet delegation on amnesty since. before Chriatmag, 0
, ‘and: the strike. of the.
jway shopmen, with the consequent industrial unreet, made the Presid, ‘
decide that it was unwise to earry out & pol Loy of releasing radicals at)»
"The Civil Liberties Union has consistently taken the position that:
"There are now no periodicals or books barred from the mails for the
papressions of economic or political opinion, norany pertddicala whic
ave lost second class privileges on that’ account. .°. Four books whise
ad been barred were readmitted in.1928,. The leet, Alexander. Berkman’; oy
S . he mails on September |
pewn radicals, .are being .defens |i
ani 2 Phe Cteea
In San Francisco, where the police have repeatedly raided the Marine
ransport Workerg Hall (I.W.¥.), wad emisoed an epee Present on charges |.
sy, which are - b smissed in the x court. °.¢ af
f vacrancy, which are invariably di mi’ : i againet ths polies. whiten, |
Our chief contribution to defense work is furntehing bail through the. | |
ational Bail Fund, an independent enterprise which works in close cooper
'e’ House’ on Junetst ‘ana |.
continued that daily without a break up to July 19th, the day the Preat. |
"After the President's promise on July 19th it was generally agreed among:
jthe forces working for amnesty that pioketing should be abandoned’ for: th |=:
. |Sixtyeday period, but that intensive work ‘at: Washington. needed to: be
kept up with the Pardon Attorney's office and at the: White House, 3”
aL 1s
nt.
would help release a11 bona fide political prisoners on their own.te B yack:
, 1922, .- The Post Office Department still has the power of censorship, - -
ithough it does not exercise it... - + The Union has been ative in. tak- | -
ng up 211 these matters with the Post Office Department, and in pushing ‘| ..
In the case of Mies Charlotte Anita Whitney of Oakland, convioted ta one|
f the original Communist Labor Party c&ses, an appeal ia being taken. to |.
he United States Supreme Court, in which we have’ seoured the. coope
a Sta ) sooperatien|”:
f Samuel Untermeyer of New York, who will argue the case with Jo Be ie
hn _
ion with the Union. The trustees are Albert deStlver, Norman Thomas. .,
he total.amount in. the Fund is approximately $69,000, of which $59, 500
s out on bail January 1, 1923. The Ba4l Fond began operation February
5, 1928, with $60,000 in hand. Money is constantly needed for bail
2. . e e GOVEBNMSENT PREVTING OFFICE
7—11¢9
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