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WEEALYBULLETIN1779 Pecember 3. 1o5s lane informad ths Acll tiat transcri; f telephcn cnirsatiens bataasnal- racheteers and othsr persens were giveh o the press last sunmer.without hia autherity or knowlaigo while ha nas aleent drum hiladszhia, He added that, Jike the Aciu branch, he regaids the act as a viclation of civil liberties. .... hhile still condemning the release of ths tranecripts, the Aclu cancelled plans): to ssk Attornay Ceneral Herbart Brownell if the release violated tha Federal Cammuni cations Act. cfficers. "In light of the district attorney's orders against further release of verbatim. transcripts, (the Aclu board of directcrs) believes that no useful purpose would be. terved by.requesting the Attorney General of the United States fer a dsclsratcry Ful Ing ccncerning the legality of such releases," said a statement from the Philadelphia Franch. till exist between AcLu and lay enforcement officers, including Blanc, a pr:. ng would be scheduled soon for general discussion of the problem.>. Blanc is a member of the Philadelphia AcLu board and until recently was treasurer of the branch. AcLu emphasized that election of a new treasurer had no connection with the wire tap controversy. Release of the transcripts had been condeaned also by the committee on civil rights of the Philadelphia Bar Association. Both that group and AcLu pointed out that the names of reputable persons who had no relation to crime had been menticned in the racketeers' conversations recorded. SOUTHERN CALIF. ACLU ASKS STRENGTHENING.OF SEARCH-SEIZIRE DECISICN The Arerican Civil Liberties Union's Southern California Branch has urged the! California State Supreme Court to reaftirm an earlier ruling. that evidence secured/ illegally cannot be introduced in court. It so pleaded in a friend of tlx court brief dealing with the case of her apartment. The arresting officer acted on information frcm an unnamed informer "knom to be reliable to the arresting officer." Information of that nature does not justify an arrest without a search warrant the brief declared. "There must b9 a means of aiding police officers without presenting them at. formula by which the safeguard of the constitutional provisions are by-passed and: 79stigate because of the nature of the case, then there is no reason why they cannot resolve this difficulty by seeking the issuance of a search warrant." "How the veracity of the arresting officer could be tested has not yet begn. demonstrated," ths brief continued.. "Confronted by this unverified and untested. statement even the scrupulous law enforcement agent would soon drift into the patter of this formula and our constitutional safeguards would become devoid of significang While arrest of persons on information they possess narcotics.is not unlawfu. Tho aearch must be reasonable and incidental to the arrest. CIVIL LIBERTIES BRIEFS nemorandun declaring that while tho use of campaign stickers was not illegal it was regarded as "contrary to the spirit of the law.. The Sc chairman--exempt from they object to stickers on sEc employes' vehicles. And a Civii Service Commission spokes mar said that group felt car stickers were merely expressions of opinion, and did'not corstitute political activity...AcLu praised AFL-cIo President George Meany for prmptly ordering an investigation of the alleged kidnapping and toating.of New York. local officials of the International Union of Bakery & Confectionery Workers in con. nection with an internal umion dispute. Said AcLu: nyour action certainly makes. clear organ'rod labor's d9terminatior. to deal with such problems, by which it will