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NY 100-161445 | «APPENDIX NATIONAL EMERGENCY CIVIL LIBERTIES COMMITTEE (CONT'D) when he appeared during the Atlanta hearings. * * * ‘;ILKINSON has since been convicted of contempt of Congress and sentenced to one year in jail.' yy aa : i a Ae us ar a % ra4 *y - 'Disputing the non-Communist claim of the organization, the committee finds that a_ number of other individuals connected with the ECLC also have been identified under oath as Communists.* * #! (Committee on Un-American Activities, Annual Report for 1956, House Report 187, March 9, 1959, pp. 34 and 35.) "2.'To defend the cases of Communist law-breakers, fronts have heen devised raking special appeals in behalf of civil 2i-:2rtics and reaching out far beyond tne con?iucs of the Communist Party itself. Amcnc Uneseé *7ganiza*sjons are the * * © Emergency Givii jdberites Comms *tee. When the Communist va.ty disci’ is uncer fire these fronts ¢cfficr-a brlwact of protcction,'! (Internal Sezuriny; Suncomm stee of the Senate Judiciary Committ2e, Kandicok for Americans, S. Doe. 117, Apr?i 23, 1955, p. gl.)" owe "The New York Tinas", a New York City daily newspaper, in its Aprii 1, :968, issue, page 13, contained an item captioned, “Dreft D.issexters to Get More Help", which related that at so nes conference held by the Emergency Civil Liberties Uommittee (ECLC) on the previous day, it was announced that -ne organization was changing its name to the Naticral Excrgency Civil Liberties Committee (NECLC) "to reflect cur determination to develop a vital national civil liberties organization in all 50 states as rapidly as possible.” a: 670 NECIC is located at 25 Eas reet, vw York City. -~ 88 CO - ~ ras ot Ss