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| - . CONFTPENTIAL 8) i ~ " Apbott Howard Hoffman APPENDIX 7 2. “A NATIONAL EMERGENCY CIVIL a 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.’ :- , & ot —— snc fehr ‘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 cath as Communists.* * *! (Committee on Un-American Activities, Annual Report for 1956, House Report 167, 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 Zis2rtices and reaching out far beyond tne certincs of “he Conmunist Party itself. Arcus “s1ese organizations are the * * * Emeracney Givi: Tabervies Jomm**tee, When the Conmuniss Pasty jiself’ is urder fire these fronts crfer @ bulwart of rvotestion.! (Internal Se:uriny Suseomrivcee of the Senate Judiciary Committee, handbcwk for Amevicans, S. Doc. 117, Aprii 23, 1950, p. 91.)" i “The New York Tines", a New York City daily newspaper, in its Aprit 1, :968, issue, pase 13, contained an item captioned, “Lreft Dissenters to Get More Help", which related that at a news conference held by the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee (ECLC) on the previous i day, it was announced that -:ne organization was changing its name to the Naticval Emergency Civil Liberties Committee (NECLC) "to reflect our determination to develop a vital national civil liberties organization in all 50 states ya as rapidly as possible." D i: 2 NECIC is st 26th reet, New York City. CONFIRENTIAL ale « ee nee a peewee ee me ee mn ee te ee tet