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Peden eg TA ee ate a Comittee tor Eastern Policy Committee to End Sedition Laws Committee .for Equal Justice for Mrs. Recy Taylor, an auxiliary of International Labor Defense Committee for the First Amend- Vemouratic far McCarran Act Nationa! Council of the Arta, Sc1- ences and Professions National Council of. American-So- viet Friendship Nationa] Negro Congress National Negro Labor Council ment Nature Friends of America Committee for the Negro in the| New Drama Arts New Masses Committee for Peaceful Alterna- tives to the Atlantic Pact Committee to Secure Justice in Rosenberg Case ' Commonwealth College Communist Party ‘Consumers Union New York City Council: of the American Youth Congress New York Committee for Protec- tion of Foreign Born New York Community Divisions of the Committee to Free Ear! Browder tha Z wit ‘ined so that the readers may more “rally understand their activities. All definitions are taken from “GUIDE TO | SUBVERSIVE ORGANIZATIONS AND PUBLICATIONS” _ published January 2, 1957 by the U. S. House of Representa- tives Committee on Un-American Activities, Washington, D.C. AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR PROTECTION OF FOREIGN BORN aeuraeae “To defend the cases of Com- munist lawbreakers, fronts have been devised making special ap- peals in behalf of civil liberties and reaching ovt far beyond the confines of the Communist Party itself. Among these organizations are the . . American Commit- tee for Protection of Foreign Born. When the Communist Party itsel: is under fire these offer a bul- wark of protection.” AMERICAN YOUTH CONGRESS “It originated in 1934 and. . has been controlled by Communists and manipulated by them to in- fluence the thought of American youth.” CIVIL RIGHTS CONGRESS Cited as an organization formed at a Congress on Civil Rights heid in Detroit in Apri! 1946 as a mer- ger of two other Communist-front organizations (International Labor Defense and the National Feders- tion for Constitutional Liberties) ; it was “dedicated not to the broad- er issues of civil liberties, but spe- cifically to the defense of individ- val Communists and the Commun- ist Party” and “controlled by in- dividuals who are either members of the Communist Party or openly loyal] to it.” COMMONWEALTH COLLEGE A “Communist enterprise” citec as subversive by an investigating Committee of the Arkansas Legis- lature. It received money from the Garland Fund. EMERGENCY PEACE , MOKILIZATION Cited «as o Communiat fron. which came forth, after Stalir. signed his pact with Hitler, to op- pose the national defense program, lend-lease, conscription, and othe: amiesarnr oe. id American “war-mongering” efforts It immediately preceded the Amer- ican Peace Mobilization in 1040. LEAGUE OF STRUGGLE FOR NEGRO RIGHTS “The Communist-front movement in the United States among Ne- groes is known as the Nationa. Negro Congress. Practically the same group of leaders directing this directed the League of Strug- gie for Negro Rights, which was, until 2 years ago, the name of the Communists front for Negroes. The name was later changed . 1935 to the National Negro Congress.” METHODIST FEDERATION - FOR SOCIAL ACTION “With an eye to religious groups, the Communists have formed re- ligious fronts auch as the Method- ist Federation for Social <Ac- tion...” | > Communist Party, credits Fraonril te fim Ineckaan, yithern A-fairs Commission credited with the establish- Fund.; ead Southern Con- anizotions ore recognized hove interlocking director- 15, 1957, referring to the ent, filed in the Superior ia, listed the nomes of five Or. Rufus E. Ciement, Ralph of Atlanta, Georgia; Dr. ssseea (now deceased); and th Ceroline. (See Petition . 64-67, 1-644; and “The i dn I of the Peopics : Veterans against Discrimination of Civil Rights Congress ef New York . Veterans Fighting Fund for Eu- gene Dennis Voice of Freedom Committee” Washington Committee for Demo- cratic Action Westchester Peekakill Committee Wingdale Lodge ; Win-the-Peace Conference * Wire to President Truman to Veto the McCarran Bill Workers Alliance Young People’s Record Club Young Progressives House Committee Citations NATIONAL COMMITTEE TO REPEAL THE McCARRAN ACT “To defend the cases of Commu- nist lawbreakers, fronts have been devised making special appeals in behalf of civil liberties and reach- ing cut far beyond the confines of the Communist Party itself. Among these organizations are the... National Committee to Repeal the McCarran Act. When the Com- munist Party itself is under fire these offer a bulwark of protec- tion.” NATIONAL NEGRO CONGRESS “The Communist-front movement in the United States among Ne- groes is known as the Nations! Negro Congress. ... The officers of the National Negro Congress are outspoken Communist sym- and a majority of those pathisers, on the executive board are out- right Communists.” NATIONAL NEGRO LABOR COUNCIL “Mine of tha wee Vi ee Cammnnie WRG Meoe 28 ee currently active in seeking to de- ceive American Negroes into serv- ing the Communist cause is the Na- tional Negro Labor Council .. . The organization was formally founded at a conference held in Cincinnati, Ohio, October 27 and 28, 1061, under the direction of leading Negro Communists in the ‘| United States, such as Abner Ber- ry, Sam ‘W. Parks, and Coleman A. Young. According to the latest available information, Young is the present National executive secre- tary of the organization, from which post he controls and directs NNLC activities... A study of the operation of the council shows that, rather than helping the Ne- (Continued on page 4)