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_ Demonstrations Starting September = ~~ CONFLDEYLIAL 29, 1968, Prote ng the House Ur-American Activities Committee .CHUAC) Hearings po Washington, . r> D.C. on the Chic._»o Disturbances é) ae Internal Security - APPENDIX Sad Miscellaneous te 2. NATIONAL EMERGENCY CIVIL LIBERTIES COMMITTEE (CONT'D) when he appeared during the Atlanta hearings. * * * WILKINSON has since been convicted of contempt of Congress and sentenced ioe ato one year in jail.'! Nisputinz the non-Communist claim of the orzanization, the committee finds that a number of other individuals connected with the ECLC alsohave been identified under oath as Communists. * * *+ Committee on Un-American Activities, Annual eport for 1958, House Report 187, March 9, 1959, pp. 34 and 35.) "2.'Po defend the cases of Communist law-breakers, we: fronts have been devised makin? special appeals a ‘ in tehalf of civil liberties and reaching out a far beyond the confines of the Communist vy Party itself. Among these organizations are the —— * * * Emerzency Civil Liberties Committee. —_ When the Communist Party itself is under fire these fronts offer a bulwark of protection.' ae (Internal Security Subcommittee of the Senate de . Judiciary Committee, Handbook for Americans, aR ; S. Doc. 117, April 23, 1956, p. 91.)" — "The New York Times", a New York City daily newspaper, in its April 1, 1968, issue, page 13, contained —_ an item captioned, "Draft Dissenters to Get More Help", which related that at a news conference held by the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee (ECLC) on the previous day, it was announced that the orgahization was changing its name to the National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee (NECLC) "to reflect our determinaton to develop a vital national civil liberties orgenization in e121 59 states as rapidly as possible." . hat the . NECIC if lonatead nt. rt, ork city. ,