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Honed on my signing a loyal ty oyex has the right to Tha fact that loyalty oaths are By nse workers dees not Justify th vonmen bid, "T beliew that gn ne Political beliefs and asscciations. isW for sovernment emplcyee aud de fe: extension into othar fialds." "whan X accaptad employment it was n @. " Syrek The scccuntant fim said it da. company Policy to requiw leyalty etadexient from all employes even Af thay do not work on the books of crganizations handling classified contracts. Ho did net sreculata whether Syrek would ever have had to’ obtain official Security clearance if he had vemained with the firm as a multilith orerator. a . . The Northern California ACLU decided to test the a mandate in the San Francisco Superior Court. Tt charga: Property without dua Process of law, ction by seeking a writ of id that Syrek was Ceprived "The statement required of Mr. Syrek was vague and indefinite and had no reas able relationship to the Job Mr. Syrek was to Perform," according to. Er director of the ACLU affiliate, "Further, the extracting of loyalty oa employers not engagad in sensitive work, and not required by law, 4s an ef freedom of speech and assembly," cos ° TEST OF NOL BOOK LIST STARTED IN FODERAL COURT . SE SIN FODERAL COURT Publishing and civil liberties circler ere following with special interest book censorship case started in Michigan this fall, . . Five publishers of Paper-bound books have filed suit in Federal District Court: - at Detroit seeking an injunction fesinstthe_prosecuting.attorey -of-St.-Clair- county: tichigan= Wilbur v. Hamm. “Hamm had ordered the two wholesale news distributors |... of Port Huron (St. Clair County), Mich., not to handle any books or magazines listed 85 objectionable by the National Orgenizatdon for Decent literature, a Roman Catholt trganization, Among the titles so banned were "The Search for Bridey Murphy" (on the ological grounds) and a sex book for teen-agers approved by the Detroit Council of Churches, Parent-teacher groups, and Parentts Magazine, S Suit was brought by Bantam, Focket Books, Popular Library, Dell and the New ae . American Library, all of which have titles on the NODL list. Their petition seeks $50,000 damages as well as an injunction, : In a separate but related action, Playb Magazine was granted an injunction Preventing Hamm from banning future issues oF that publication, . After the book publishers! suit was filed and Preliminary hearings had been held, Father Paul J, Hickey, NODL moderator in Detroit, announced that hence forth. the group would not release its lists of objectionable books to civic or religious agenciss, . : s "The NODL wishes to emphasize the fact that the Prosecutor's action (4n publish: ine the list) was his voluntary act," Father Hickey commented. "The NODL denies that’: it ‘persuaded! or in any way, directly or indirsetly, exercised pressure on the Prosecutor to adept the NOL list. . . : - "There never has been and there never will be threats of i2le gaa Pressure or 0! boycott. Wa do, however, intend to exercise to the fullest the Privileges of our ‘- citizenship to protest until the city 4s rid of indecent and lascivious publica tions.' In their petition, the five book publishers Claimed that Harm oxeeeded his per- missible authority in adopting the NODL list as an official guide and that his acti deprived them of Property without due process of law. . : oo ss While commending the NODL for secking to inpréve ‘the standards of books and magazines offered by newsstands, The Detroit News commented editorially: -” . The Detroit News "seethe activities of the NCDL are deeply alarming. The organization operates © normally as a citizens! Pressure group. Its members, equipped with a list of offe: sive publications » Visit merchants and demand the removal from the shelves of P scribed works, If the merchant refuses » they threaten boycott. But few refuse,. There are Plenty of paper books and magazines and no one seems obviously injured if Some are banned..,." a PHILADELPHIA DISTRICT ATTORNEY INSTRUCTS STAFF AGATIST RELEASZ OF WIRE TAP DA’ \y Bocause of protests by the American Civil liberties Union's Qe ~ ay Branch, State District Attorney Victor H. Blane has instructed his\ 7. ~ 7 verhatim transcrip’ wire tap information a