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ACLU — Part 14
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.Ppntisconsoription literature in 1917... . There aré’a humber of deporta.
‘ples Union: was, given. during‘ Avgust) 2934, by ‘Roger Ns/Baldwta, Nata ona
fhe whole theory of free speeoh is based upon precisely that kind of a
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"As & result of a general arpeal for-funds to help in'defense work,: plecelt
in the form of advertisements in ‘three liberal publications in December,
921, about: $1,200 was collected. After the-cost of ‘advertising had
een paid, $500 was sent to the National Defense Committee defending
Communist. cases, $300 to the. General’ Defense Committes of. the I,W.W, ang
$200 fo the California Defense Committee at San: Franeiaoo, © Loang have
eo. Committea to meet
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WORK AHFAD. . . Our program, so far @s we can see ahead now, involves
he following matters: Of the cases aotively in the oourta, -conspiouocus
s that of thirteen socialists at Cincinnati sentemed for aistributing
bon’ cases against. radicals which are béing oontested in the courts.
def among these are the oases of Nicholai Mansevioh of Detroit, of Lethe
even I.W.W. éx-politieal prisoners and’ four Communi ate. . so
An effort-will be made in the new Congress in 1933 ‘to secure the repeal
£ the Post Office censorship section of the Espionage Act, which 18
. The latest definition of the atthtude of the American Civil Liber-
r
ireotor of the Civil Liberties Union, New York, as follows:
The right to advocate a violent revolution, assassination, and proletr-
an Red guard, are all clearly within the scope of free spseoh, and have
een so regarded here and in England for decades; The. spectacle of the
lyae Park policemen protecting a street-speaker against the crowd for
dvooating assassination of the King, is one.of the classic examples.
ituation,
There are some within our om organization who dissent-from this view of
00% free speech, and who are a little timid in advocating it in extreme
&ses. They would araw the line somewhere-this side of an ACTUAL DEED
R AN ATTEMPT TO-COMMIT AN AOT, | BUT THEIR VIEW IS NOT: THE OFFICIAL
IEW OF THE ORGANT ZATION."
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