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oe eR OW me - | EMERGENCY CIVIL LIBERTIES COMMITTER The "Guide to Subversive Organizations and Publications", revised and published as of December 1, 1961, by the Committee on Un-American Activi- ties, U. S. House of Representatives, documents the Emergency Civil Libertie Committee as follows: . ' t » "To defend the cases of Communist lawbreakers, fronts have been “devised making special appeals in behalf of civil liberties and reaching out far beyond the confines of the Communist’ Patty itself. Among, these organiza _tions are the * * * Enefgency Civil Liberties Committee. When the Communist : ” Party itself is under fire, these fronts offer a bulwark of protection." _ (Internal Security Subcommittee of the Senate ~ Judiciary Committee, Handbook for Americans, S.- Doc. 117, April 23, 1956, p. 91) A source advised December 21, 1957 and January 6, 1958 that LZECNARD BOUDIN, constitutional lawyer and legal counsel for Snergency Civil Libertie Cormittee, made a speech December 20, 1957, accepting the Fhiladelrphia Assoc: as a group to work with the national organization. This occurred at a Bill « Rights Day ce’ 2bration sponsored by tne Philadeiphia Associates, Emergency C: Lioerties Cormittee, at the Adelpnia dotel, Philadelphia. A second source advised on May 23, 1962 that the Philadelshia Agso0ciate3 have .ot “een activa in the past two years, have no current activ memoersnip and do not vaintain a headquarters in Fhiladelphia. e