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ACLU — Part 14
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month. The Crusade then began pioketing the White: House on June
continued that daily without a break up to July 19th, the day the
dent saw the firet delegation on emunesty since. before Chrigtmas;
the foroes working for amnesty that picketing should be abandoned:
sixty-day period, but that intensive work ‘at: Washington needed
kept up with the Pardon Attorney's office and at the White Hous F
Just at this time, however, the coal strike and: the strike. of the
“The Civil Liberties Union has consistently. taken the position that:
would help release 411 bona fide political Prisonere on their own
"There are now no periodicals or books barred from the mails for :
expressions of economic or politioal opinion,. Rorany periddioala 40)
pave lost second class privileges on that’ account.’ .°. Four books ‘whi
aa been barred were readmitted in 1922,. The last, . Alexander... Berkma;
"Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist", waa restored to the
hem through to a conclusion,
f (utchtgan Raid) The twenty-three defendant
>, CoE. Ruthenderg and other wellekno’
ed ‘by Frank P. Walsh,” backed by’ the ‘Labor Def a
siberties. Union has been cooperating actively with the. Defense
nan effort to give wide publicity to the unauthorised use of I
as to prosecute a state case and in order to: expose the tactics of
he Department of Justice against radicals,
f the original Communist Labor Party cases, an &ppeal ia being taken
f Samuel Untermeyer of New York, who will argue the oase with John
rancis Neylan of San Francisco.
In San Franoisoo, where tha police have repeatedly raided the Marine
t ;
Pee onent. will stop this practioe. . .
5, 1928, with $60,000 in hand. Money is constantly needed for bail
"After the President's promise on July 19th it was generally agreed am
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way shopmen, with the consequent industrial unrest, made the President
ecide that it was unwise to carry out a Ppolioy of releasing radicals
euch &@ time... =
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mails on September
» 1922, - The Post Office Department still hag the power .of censorship,
ithough it does not exercise it... » The ‘Union hag been ative in tak"
bine up all these mattera with the Post Office Department, and in pushing ‘| »
In the case of Mise Charlotte Anita Whitney of Oakland, convicted ia one!
he United States Supreme Court, in which we ‘have’ seoured the cooperation te
ransport Workers Hall (1.W.¥.), al eataeea te pene. Present on charges
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fevenseney? oentgh ote inveriabl pared a °suatagsinee ths Serres whegk,
Our chief contribution to defense work is furnighing bail through the. i
ational Bail Fund, an independent enterprise which works in Close cooper
ion with the Union. The trustees are Albert deSilver, Norman Thomas. a
he total.amount in the Fund ig approximately $69,000, of which. $59,500 i
8 out on bail January 1, 1923. The Bail Fund began operation February
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