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1, ame ear eld SA vo, r * ne” ee alee ee biteinTe tp or a el so en a stan Mullet ~ nian BR a at ants at IO ata SE et ee le ee a ea eer 4 Southern Christian Leadership Conference (3CLC) ogee lay len Pat 1. ' APPENDIX i SNR NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD fi The "Guide to Subversive Organizations and _. Publications,” revised and published as of December l, 1961, prepared and released by the Committee on Un- American Activities, United States House of Represent- atives, Washington, D.C., contains the following concerning the National Lawyers Guild: "National Lawyers Guild ‘ "1. Cited as a Communist front. (Special Committee on Un-American Activities, House Report 1311 on the ~ CIO Political Action Committee, March 29, 1944, p. 149.) * fs C4tnd anion Aarmmiinteat Snee ee Cited as a Communist front which the foremost legal bulwark of the Communist Party, its front organizations, and controlled unions’ and which ‘since . its inception has never failed to rally to the legal defense of the Communist Party and individual members thereof, ‘including known espionege azents.' (Committee on Un-American Activities, House Report 3123 on the National Lawyers Guild, September 21, 1950, originally related September 17, 1950.) "3. '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 Party itself. Among these organizations are the = * # National Lawyers Guild. When the | Communist Party itself is under fire these offer a bulwark of protection.! ; (Internal Security Subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Handbook ; for Americans, S. Doc. 117, April 23, 1956, p. 91.) Looe 8 ae CONCNANTIN _ a an a, ae - 29° \ ; .