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oe hts ~ JPM: vf =20— NY 100-4933 The "Daily Worker" issue of Mey 17, 1956, Page 2, ; Column 1, cerried an arucie captioned!" Ask Kentucky Dismissal of Sedition Indictments," This article pointed out that the defense attorneys for six defendints, charged with sedition under an old Kentucky Statute, had filed a motion for diemisszl of the indictment and cited the recent United States Supreme Court ruling invalidating state sedition statutes as the basis for their motion. Smith Act Arrests The "Daily Worker" issue cf Ney 22, 195 Column 1, cortains an editorial entitled:"Whe Me This eaitorial brands cs "a deliberate lie" the statement of tre custice Depertment thes the arrest of seven persons on a Boston Smith Act indictnent is a "move desicned to breal the bacx o> an active Cemmaunist under- crowd in New England." It states:"All the persons arrested were living and working at known zddvess¢s.” |’, The editorial concludes by st ctins: Meehe wappeal cf a group of citizens, hea Ged by is. Eleanor Roosevelt for a halt to all Smith Act prcsccoutions end the recent cemand of the smaigameted Clothing Workers onvention ‘to serep all these thousht-control lars, “pecote especially urgent in the light of the Boston events.” - 122 -