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NY ¥ 20020789 APPENDIX SECTION The "Daily Worker", an east coast. Communi st : daily - newspaper, issue of October b, 1951, page 1, columns 4 and 5 in an article entitled "150 Notables Form Emergency Civil Rights Committee", reflected that the formation of the Emergenoy Civil Liberties Committee (ECLC) had been announced on ~ Octeber 7, 1951. It was showm that the purpose of the ovganie gation would be te help mobilize publie opinion in support ef the traditional Ameriaan eanstitutianal “guarantees ef aivil~ liberties and to render aid to victims of abridgment of these liberties in politics, education, and the ‘professions, W a founders, according to the article, ineluded more than 50 members of the clergy and many educators and professionals A confidential informant, who was in a position to furnish reliable information, on October 21, 1955, furnished information reflecting that the Commnist Party (GP) felt that help should be extended in building a “united front civil liberties organization" in the United States which, while not led by the "left", would eontain labor, liberal and “left forces" within it in a eonmmonly agreed program, including defense of the rights of Comminists . (ie The information further indicated that the CP felt that this aim can best be achieved by helping the ECLC to become a national organizati th local ehapters operating on the basis of its progran. The headquarters the ECLO is located at 421 fth Avenue, New York City.