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Ny 1000-98816 "HAROLD ADRR, Left Wing President of the Communis dominated Los Anceles Teachers Dnion of AFL, carried. floor tight to gag JOHN BROY, “orgariizer for the Texti Workers, CIO, from proposing His measure to ban Communi yand fellow travelers from the organization. LD: “ASCHIMBERG of the Communist American Youth for Demosi 3 ‘publicly defended the orgarifzation's position in including Communists in the new orgsnization.® nn ne Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade The following is guoted from a photostatic copy of an unidentified typewritten document dated at New York city, February <1, 1940 and bearing the caption "Protest FBI Actions In Detroit On Raid Gbneerning Spain Veta. "A group of 125 people in all walks of life from - Dopes down to Communist leaders have sent the following ietter to President ROOSAVELT and Attorney General ROBERT. - JACKSON: : See EG SRRE be NE "To FRALMLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States and ROBERT JACKSON, Attorney General of the United States: hee ogee "'The nation-wide drive against members and friends. of the Abraham Lincoln Erigade not. only violates. every solemn pledge of liberalism made by the Administration but outrages every instinet of Democracy and honest ©” Marxism. . . oe cane Pen ; . “tWe especially deplore the asgault on’ human”. decency by the FBI ofiicials in’ Detroit, who jerked ou of bed at 5 ofcleck in the morning 12 reputable citizens ;s including two physicians, brought them inte court in chain eld them in_jail_by_prohibitive.batl, —up-te-$20,000 eae. and placarded them as criminals before the nation on n other charge than their alleged ald to those Ame who offered their lives in Spain...' 0 ~ ee "Yet now the FBI suddenly resurrects a law’ mo than a century old, passed under different conditions