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Bulletin CONNECTICUT ACLU GROUPS STATE POSITION ON STATE LEGISLATIC Legislation affecting civil liberties nou before the Connecticut State Legis. lature has drawn the.attention of the Hartford and New Haven branches of Acw. They. are making known their support of or opposition to the bills at committee hearings? and through letters.to committee chairmen. . regard to initiating complaints under the Public Accommodations Act and ordering: employers to hire or rehire,.reinstate or upgrade employees discriminated against? Also supported are bills to increase the mumber of employers covered under the Fair. Employment Practices Act, to prevent discriminatory advertising for public accommo-. dations or for employees and to increase the number of court terms, so that persons unable to furnish bail would not have to wait several months in jail before trial ; to conspire to injure, threaten or intimidate any person in his exercise of ary right granted by the Constitution.or the laws of the state.. However, the AClu chapters state that a more detailed statement of the scope of the prohibited conduct would be desirable. missal of any state employee who invoked the constitutional privilege.against self-- Another bill would create an internal security. commission to investigate state?. employees. and discharge them if they are found' to be disloyal. Disloyalty in this? cating overthrow of the goverrment, or which has adopted a policy of such advocacy, or which aprroves the commission of acts of force or violence to dery persons their. constitutional rights. The commission would be authorized to hold hearings, sunmon, witnesses and secure state police aid for this purpose when necessary. The Aclu. chapters state that the grounds for establishing loyalty or disloyalty are much too. broad and rest entirely on guilt by association, adding that the proposed commission also would.have a repressive effect on free discussion.. A bill removing all legal rights, privileges and immunities from the Communist. force or violence is opposed by the AcLu chapters because "the outlawing of any political group is a dangerous precedent.". Also opposed is a bill providing for security clearance of children's camp nersonnel, applying to any camp where five or more children fran 7 to 18 stay during the summer months. Persons employed at such camps would.have to file statements on.. Sheir loyalty, under oath, with the Commissioner of State Police, declaring that they. rere not, and never had been, members of any organization advocating overthrow of ,overnment or acts of force denying other persons their constitutional, rights. the iCLU groups' stated there is no apparent danger .to the nation's security in this The field, the bill relies on guilt by association and the definition of proscribed Jrganizations is broad enough to permit varied interpretations. AVRO MANHATTAN BOCK CALLED NON-MAILABLE BYPOST OFFICE World Freedom" by Avro Manhattan to be "non-mailable" in this. country. The action government. The Attorney General's opinion held that such material could be treated 'a. ailable. Under the law politicalpropaganda is.defined as including matter which is esigned'to "promote in the United States racial, religious'or social dissensions." under the same law. "Catholic Imperialism and Worid Freedom" was first published in 195? by Watts. id Co. of London, England and had circulated freely'in this country until the fall On the other hand, the Post office has been permitting'libraries, researc