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7 é- THE AMERICAN mo ay FIRING tine Prepared and Distributed By The National Americanism Commission, P. 0, Box 1055, Indianapolis, Indiana Subscription rate $3.00 per year VOL. NO. V, NO 25) INDE KE fo December 15, 1956 - © wate AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNI PART III - en ee. oo . . . ¥ - a . Readers will recall that the October 15th and November Ist issues _ of The Firing Line were devoted to reports relative to recent activities of the American Civil Liberties Union, Inc. (ACLU). With national offices located at 170 Fifth Avenue, New York City, this 36 year old organization, . together with 19 state affiliates, claims a total membership of about - ~~. 35,000. Continuing The American Legion's investigation of the ACLU, this - issue of The Firing Line Studies another phase of its background and current activities. (See ACLU "Civil Liberties", February 1956, page 3 and ACLU 35th Annual Report: "Clearing The Main Channels", 1955 Pages 132-134), = 2 “ ars wriannn ; DIRECTORS OF ACLU - NATIONAL LEADERSHIP re Based upon a September 1956 letterhead, the following 24 individuals are listed as members of th Board of Directors or National Committee of the American Civil Liberties on: frie oes BISHOP J, BAKER, ACLU National Committee member was a 1947 Vice Prestuént oF “t odist- Federation For Social Action, According to - &@ recent report of the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, the Methodist a "Communist created and controlled front organization"; and was listed as a 1951 initiator and sponsor of the National Committee To Repeal the McCarran - Act, another Communist front. (See HUAC, Review of the Methodist Federation . For Social Action, 1952, page 82; Committee of One Thousand letterhead, 1948; “Daily Worker", 3-23-51, page 2; Internal Security Subcommittee, "A Handbook wee For Americans", 1956, page 91 and HUAC, Guide To Subversive Organizations and- ** Publications In The ited States, 1951, page 38). . ___ ROGER Ne{BALDWIN ACLU National Committee member and Advisor, International Work has been affiliated with over 15 organizations which have been cited as subversive and Communist according to a Yeport in the February 1, 1955 issue of The Firin Line, page 14. A World War I draft evader, BALDWIN testified before the Special Committee To Investigate Communist Propaganda in the United States in 1930 "which was to the effect that the American Civil Liberties Union upholds the right of aliens or fationals to advocate murder? assassination, and the overthrow-af ours guernmient/ by-forge gad-violencefi~ BALDWIN wrote in the Harvard University ~y, Book’ of 1935 that he was-for—— "socialism, disarmament and ultimately for abolishing the st! rey ie SEER ES Gn instrument of violence and compulsion, communism is the goat " eS ersseecial Committee on Un-American Activities, Investigation of Un-Amer DE rOpaganda awe The United States, voTume I, 1938, pages 161, 462 and 533) ney POPYRIGHT 1956 BY THE AMERICAN LEGION - 004425 KF TION 18 PROHIBITED. . IN WHOLE OR PaRT WITHOUT, AUTHORIZATION 1S & “ as cate 3 ODUCT TON