vol. 21, no. 9

TESTIMONIAL DINNER

IOP PARSONS

_ SLATED FOR OCT. 19

The Board of Directors, members and friends of the

American Civil Liberties Union will gather to pay tribute to

Bishop Edward L. Parsons, upon the occasion of his retire-

ment from his position as chairman of the Board at the

American Civil Liberties Union Annual Meeting and Testi-

monial Dinner, October 19, Mrs. Alice Heyneman, Board

Member, has announced.

Bishop Parsons, who will be

retiring after 15 years as chair-

man of the northern California

ACLU board, is also vice-chair-

man of the National Board. Na-

tional board and committeeman

and staff, other national civil

liberties leaders, and friends of

the Bishop, will be invited to the

inner, which will be held in the

Gold Ballroom of the Sheraton

Paalace Hotel, Friday, October

19.

Mrs. Alice Heyneman, Berke-

ley civic leader and Board mem-

ber is in charge of the program.

She has appointed Mrs. Helen

Merret of Kentfield, California,

to be general chairman for the

banquet and annual meeting to

follow. Assisting Mrs. Merret

will be Mrs. Harry Lewenstein,

San Carlos, as publicity chair-

man; Mrs. Ansley Salz, San Fran-

cisco, Awards chairman; Mrs.

George Stewart, Berkeley, invi-

tations. Others who are serving

-on the General Arrangements

Committee are: Sali Lieberman,

Mrs. Nancy Swadesh, John

Lynch, of Marin County; Mrs.

Frances Steiner, Mrs. Carl Han-

son, Mrs. Bernard Coffman, Jr.,

Mrs. Arthur Bierman, of San

Francisco; Mrs. Jerome Good-

man, Mrs. Alex Skolnick from

San Mateo; Mrs. Hannah Zon-

licht, Berkeley.

Members may attend the ban-

quet and program, or come only

for the meeting which will fol-

low the dinner.

Closed Sessions

C ondemned In

SantaRosaTrial

Superior Court Judge Donald

Geary "went too far" in exclud-

ing the public and press for the

entire Santa Rosa murder trial of

Mrs. Charlotte Black, 63, last

May, the Third District Court of

Appeals in Sacramento ruled. On

August 8, Justices Andrew Shot-

tky, Peek and presiding Justice

B. F. Van Dyke, concurred in the

decision censuring Judge Geary

for his action. (c)

NO EXPLANATION

When the defense counsel for

Mrs.

closed trial, giving no explana-

tion, the ACLU had opposed such

action as the denial of access to

the source of information, in-

herent in the freedom of the

press. No defendant, out of a

desire to escape public attention,

has the right to waive public

trial, ACLU held. Judge Geary

did amplify, in out-of-court re-

Mrs. Black's assertion that her

marks, hat the justification for

his action lay in the nature of

testimony would involve descrip-

tion of unnatural sex acts.

EXCLUSION UNJUSTIFIED

In the decision, the justices

wrote, `We cannot agree that the

waiver by a defendant is suffi-

cient to justify the court in ex-

cluding the public... in view

of statutory provisions that the

sittings of every court of justices

shall! be public, we think the

court went too far in making its

exclusion order effective as soon

as the taking of testimony was

begun, and continued throughout

the entire trial."

That Judge Geary was within

tsnop War 5 arsons

--Photo Courtesy S. F. Chronicle

Black had requested a

Passport to

e e 9

Peiping?

NEW YORK (Aug. 10)-In"

a letter to Secretary of State

John Dulles the American

Civil Liberties Union urged a

reconsideration of the State.

Department's refusal to vali-

date the passports of Ameri-

can reporters invited to visit

Communist China. Wrote na-

tional ACLU director Patrick

Malin, "The people of the

United States need on-the-

scene information about Com-

munist China... for our gov-

ernment to stand in the way

. . conflicts with the spirit of

the constitutional guarantee

and the tradition of freedom

that our press enjoys." (In

Hong Kong, on August 19,

American newsmen from

NBC, UP, AP, and the Chi-

cago Daily News foreign serv-

ice, indicated their intention

of proceeding to China des-

pite the State Department rul-

ing. Said U. S. Consul General

Everett F. Drumright in Hong

Kong, of the projected trip,

"any attempt to enter Com-

munist China would be con-

sidered disloyal to govern-

ment policy." On August 21,

following President Eisen-

hower's support of the State

Department action, NBC, UP,

and AP and the Chicago Daily

News Foreign service an-

nounced they would acqui-

esce in the State Department

policy.)

Editor James Wechsler of

the New York Post. said the

newspaper had not yet receiv-

ed a reply from the State De-

partment to its request for an

affidavit of identity for "Post"

correspondent Seymour Freid-

en.

~his purview to exclude the press

and public during Mrs. Black's

testimony if he felt their pres-

ence prohibited her from testify-

ing "freely and completely" the

Justices agreed.

Indignant at the exclusion,

three local daily newspapers

were joined by State Attorney

General Edmund "Pat" Brown,

in protesting the action, and in

petitioning the District Court of

Appeals for a writ of mandate,

which would have admitted the

public and press.

Mrs. Black is now in Corona,

serving a 5 year to life sentence

for the second-degree murder of

her husband, Martin.

American

Civil Liberties

Union -

Volume XX]

San Francisco, California, September, 1956

Number 9

Army Discharge

In Security Case

Reversed

The automatic review being

given all army security dischar-

ges as promised by the Secretary

of the Army has resulted in

changing an Undesirable Dis-

charge previously given to a

young University of California

graduate to that of an Honorable

Discharge.

At the time of-his entry into

the army, this dischargee had re-

fused to sign the loyalty oath

form presented to all inductees

and enlistees. He was not in-

formed that it was mandatory

that "he should sign. Subsequen-

tly,. he received security charges

alleging, in addition, that he had

attended meetings of the Labor

Youth League and had signed a

petition and registered to vote

for the Independent Progressive

Party. Similar allegations were

made against his wife. A hear-

ing was held at Ft. Ord in which

he was represented by Ernest

Besig, Executive Director of

ACLU, at which all of his com-

pany officers testified that he

had an excellent service record.

The young private took the

stand to explain the circumstan-

ces under which he refused to

sign the loyalty form but de-

clined to discuss his pre-service

political beliefs and associations.

-Continued on Page 3

Canadian Pacifist

Wins US. Citizenship

By Max Barbour

Last month, after 8 years

of delays and bad advice

from the Naturalization Serv-

ice, a Grass Valley house-

wife, Mrs. Lucille Webster,

with the aid of the local

ACLU finally obtained her

United States citizenship. A

conscientious objector, Cana-

dian born Mrs. Webster

had become entangled in an

impossible morass with law

superceding law.

Mrs. Webster, raised in the

Church of "Brethren, first ap-

plied for citizenship in 1948 in

Santa Ana. The naturalization ex-

aminer, provoked by her refusal

to promise to serve in the armed

forces, delayed acting on her

petition for 2 years. When she

moved to Grass Valley in 1950,

she was advised by the Naturali-

zation Service to cancel her pend-

ing petition, instead of having it

transferred. By the time she was

able to file a new petition, the

much stricter McCarran-Walter

Act was in effect. :

JOINS METHODISTS

Since there was no Church of

Brethren in Grass Valley, she

and her husband, (a wartime C.

O.) joined a local Methodist

`PACIFISTS CHOKING

PATRIOTISM', DILWORTH

by Norman Tipton

"WHERE WILL ALL THIS END?"

asks State Senate Investigation Com-

mitee on Education in California, in

the closing of their 178-page report

on education which was recently com-

pleted.

The report, which deplored the ac-

tions of pacifist groups in California

high schools and colleges, had rec-

ommended that the State Senate de-

sign legislation to further "strengthen"

California school `systems against pa-

cifism.

The Committee, under the chairman-

ship of Nelson Dilworth, prefaced their

report with "This is not a report on

communists .... However, the report

continued to suggest that many or

most pacifist movements are commun-

ist-inspired, or at least communist pro-

`pagated. More pages were devoted to

listing the "leftist group affiliations

of leading pacifists than in illustrating

the actual movement of pacifist groups

in our educational system.

ACLU CITED

While the ACLU and the Friends re-

ceived prominent mention in the study,

the Fellowship of Reconciliation and

A. J. Muste, secretary emeritus of the

FOR, received more thorough study.

The Committee stressed that it "rec-

ognizes the right of any person to for-

mulate their own opinions on patriot-

ism, military service and all policies of

government, and their own right to ex-

-press these opinions. "We do not, how-

ever, consider that this includes any

privilege to use the public schools as

a forum or a contact to propagandize

impressionable youth with pacifist ideas

_of refusing to serve in the defense of

their country when lawfully required to

do so,' the report went on to say.

"Obviously, legislation is desirable in

this field to prevent the perversion of

the loyalty of school pupils,"' the re-

port states.

The committee in a study of text

books used in 1920, as compared with

40 texts used today, condemned the

lack of patriotic sayings in modern

texts. Listing six patriotic sayings, such

as "Give me Liberty or Give Me

Death," the committee said 14 texts

in 1920 made mention of these six say-

ings 45 times. None of the 40 modern

texts consulted mentioned the quota-

tion of John Paul Jones and Commo-

Senator Nelson Dilworth

-Photo Courtesy S. F. Chronicle

dore Perry; only one quoted Nathan

Hale. "Don't give up the ship" was

"quoted in only two of the 40 modern

text books. .

NO MORE THRILL

"Since American history has been

buried in a mass of `social studies,' and

the thrilling stories omitted of the sac-

rificial efforts of early patriots, youth

has lost interest, and who can be sur-

prised? They are no longer given the

incentive in history studies,"" warned

the committee. :

By listing quotes from pacifist or-

gans, old speeches of Russian Com-

munist leaders, and such publications

as The People's World, the committee

pointed out how pacifists may be used

as tools of communism without openly

advocating communism themselves. The

committee said' communists desire to

strip America of its defenses and there-

by allow communist nations to over-

run the country with little opposition.

The committee also indicated that

pacifist influences in education could

well be a reason why one of every three

Americans taken prisoner in the recent

Korean conflict were either sympathiz- ~

ers or collaborators during their im-

prisonment. +

"The humane law of the United

States dealing with conscientious ob-

jectors was designed to meet the reli-

gious convictions of Quakers and one

or two oher sects that believed in a

Supreme Being, Almighty God, and

objected to war as a violation of the

commandment, "Thou shalt not kill," in

total disregard of the many other

teachings of the Bible on this subject.

Now, we find groups that do not be-

lieve in a Supree Beingm and have no

regard for the Bible, claiming a phil-

osophical right to be excused from

military service."

church. The Naturalization Serv-

ice examiner in Sacramento ad-

vised her that he would recom-

mend a denial of her petition on

the ground that the Methodist

Church did not hold pacifism as

one of its cardinal tenets. Also,

he held she was not qualified to

take the oath for C.0.'s in which

they promise "to perform work

of national importance under

civilian direction when required

by law" since she refused to

promise to work in munition

plants. This interpretation had

the effect of barring almost all

conscientious objectors from citi-

zenship and was the point in

issue in the recent case of Ilse

Scaccio, which was won by the

Northern California ACLU. `In

1955; Mrs. Webster enlisted the

aid of the ACLU. In January,

1956, the Naturalization Service

issued instructions to all exam-

iners ordering them not to ask

the munitions factory question.

In June Mrs. Webster was

given a favorable recommenda-

tion by Naturalization Examiner

Daniel Lyons, surprisingly, on

the grounds that the Methodist

church of which she was then a

member recognizes pacifism as a

tenet of the church.

On July 18, 1956, Mrs. Web-

ster became a citizen - eight

years after she first started on

that path. ,

Ending on a happy note, Mrs.

Webster informed the ACLU

that she is currently studying

for a degree in education and

she felt her citizenship would

materially aid her in finding a

teaching position.

Edward J. Ennis

To Speak Sept. 2

To Marin ACLU (c)

Edward J. Ennis, general

counsel of the national Ameri-

can Civil Liberties Union,_ will

address the Marin County Branch

of ACLU at a garden reception at

the home of Dr. and Mrs. Russell 0x00B0

Merret, 75 Rock Road, Kentfield,

on Sunday, September Z, 06 3

p.m.

Mr. Ennis, who will speak on

"Changing Perspective in Civil

Liberties" is richly qualified,

said Board Chairman Milen

Dempster. "With his background

in civil and human rights as well

as immigration matters, we are

indeed honored to have him as

our guest."

"In addition to being the gen-

eral counsel to the ACLU, Mr.

Ennis is presently chairman of

the American Immigration Con-

ference, composed of 40 non-

sectarian and religious national

organizations in the field of im-

migration. He is director of the

Common Council of American

Unity, director of the American

Association of International In-

stitutes, board chairman of the

National Council on Naturaliza-

tion and citizenship and counsel

to the Japanese American Citi-

zens League," said Dempster.

The Marin county speaker has

served as assistant United States

attorney in charge of the civil

division for New York City, as

assistant solicitor general of the

United States, as special assist-

ant to the Attorney General of

the United States, as the first

general counsel of the Immigra-

tion and Naturalization Service,

and as chief of the Enemy Alien

Control Unit of the Department -

of Justice during the war. e

OUTSPOKEN OPPONENT

As an outspoken opponent in

-Continued on Page 4

Hail, Hail!

The Ban's All Here!

For. a while it looked as if the free press of this country

were going to treat the State Department edict, banning

newsmen from Red China, in a manner which would have

made old Peter Zenger proud. Zenger, as you may recall,

started the free press rolling in this country in 1734 by print-

ing material in his newspaper which the government felt

would be better left unsaid. A jury subsequently acquitted

Editor Zenger.

The news services' first reaction to the State Department

ban was one of defiance. No government agency has the

right to ban newsmen from news sources which are avail-

able-so' said NBC, UP, AP, and many newspapers in in-

structing their newsmen to apply to Red China for entry

permits, anyway.

~ However, the free press then acted less than free and sub-

mitted to the death blow: the State Department's jubilant

announcement that its policy had the "full concurrence" of

Presiden Eisenhower. Only Editor James Wechsler of the

New York Post continues to oppose the State Department's

ruling; and he awaits an affidavit of identity from the State

Department for one of his reporters to go to Red China.

It does indeed seem.a curious way for this country to

fight Communism by infringing on, not one but two con-

stitutional rights, that of the free press and that of the right

of citizens to travel where he pleases.

The State Department's justification"is that "it is not

- considered in the best interests of the United States" to allow

such visits until Red China frees ten Americans now held in

Chinese jails. This is a nose-decapitating argument, if there

ever was one. -

And the phrase, "best interests of the United States,"

which explains nothing, is being used with increasing fre-

quency by government officials to lend an aura of respect-

ability to decisions which can not withstand objective exami-

nation. This phrase is even more unhappily frozen into law

in several sections of the McCarran-Walter Act and the pass-

port regulations.

As for the fear that American citizens would be harmed

in a country where there -is no American diplomatic repre-

sentation, it seems inconceivable that Mao Tse Tung would

allow any American correspondent coming in under such

circumstances to be harmed in any way. In any case, the

- newsmen have specifically indicated they would waive our

country's protection. |

Perhaps the most insulting justification advanced is that

American newsmer might be seduced by Red Chinese pro-

paganda. This argument is based on the same type of auth-

oritative thinking that would abolish the free press.

To the argument that the appearance of American news-

men would add to the prestige of the Chinese government,

the San Francisco Chronicle has editorially responded: "If

this be true, the State Department, it appears to us, is paying

an exorbitant price for the real or fancied advantages its

refusal order may yield; it is using the rights of American

citizens and the freedom of the press as currency."

The Chronicle editorial continues: "The State Depart-

`ment again throws out a reminder that its policy is backed

by a law which makes the violation of passport regulations

punishable by five years' imprisonment and a fine of $2000.

We suggest again that this law is one of doubtful constitu-

tionality that needs testing in the courts."

Many other newspapers and news services throughout

the country criticized the State Department ruling, but in the

light of the "full concurrence" of President Eisenhower,

limited their actions to verbal objections. Perhaps the final

threat that sent the press into retreat was the warning of

the U.S. Consul General in Hong Kong that any entry into

Red China would be considered "disloyal to government

policy." We cannot help but wonder who is really being dis-

loyal to the guarantees of the Bill of Rights. :

-Lawrence Speiser.

~ YOUR BOARD MEETS.....

~The July 5th Board Meeting of the Northern California

ACLU, the last meeting of the summer, was held at the Sutter

Street YWCA. Your Board, among other matters:

.. granted authority to the of-

fice to investigate further the

dismissal of Phyllis H, a San

. Francisco State College Teach-

er, to ascertain if a civil liber-

ties issue is present. Miss H

was suspended from her job on

the basis of information gath-

ered by private detectives.

... granted authority to inter-

vene in the case of W. C. C.

who was refused a renewal of

his ham radio operator's licen-

_ se by FCC, when he refused to

- complete a questionnaire as to

his associations. Civil liberties

issue: freedom of speech and

association in withholding fed-

eral license on basis of alleged

associations.

.. voted to form a new com-

mittee to consider to what ex-

tent the general membership

shall have a voice in the nomi-

nation and election of Board

members. Heretofore, an oral

vote has been taken at each an-

nual meeting in October, which

was considered by the Board

to be only a formality, and in-

"effective as a genuine expres-

sion of opinion.

. voted $500 toward the ex-

pense of a testimonial dinner

honoring Bishop Parsons, who

is retiring October 19.

... noted the tabling of their

letter to the National ACLU

`which had requested reestab-

lishment of a committee for

revision of the ACLU consti-

tution.

. . . asked the director to ascer-

tain the position of the Na-

tional office in the Sobell case.

ACLU NEWS

September, 1956

Page 2

Gwinn Rider

PuBLic

THE RECEDING SHADOW OW EVERY DOOR

(Ed's note: Cartoon drawn by Bob Bastian, San Francisco

CHRONICLE cartoonist, for the ACLU NEWS.)

ACLU:

News Notes Across The Nation

GREENSBORO, N. C. - The

woman's college of the Univer-

sity of North Carolina announc-

ed Aug. 13, that two Negro wo-

men will enter the freshman

class as resident students for

the fall term. The two will be the

first Negroes in the history of

the university to enroll as stu-

dents.

WEST VIRGINIA: The West

Virginia Textbook Advisory Com-

mittee caused a stir of protest

recently, when it asked the

American Legion to study social

science texts to be used in the

state's elementary schools. Com-

mented the Textbook committee

chairman: "The American Legion

Committee has the reputation for

doing a `scholarly job.' When a

national organization makes a

specialty of examining such

books, perhaps they know more

about it than we do."

CHICAGO: Federal District

Court Judge Joseph Sam Perry

ruled that the city police have

authority to issue movie permits.

He upheld the censorship board's

efforts to ban the French film,

"The Game of Love" as obsene.

DALLAS: Art triumphed in its

right to express itself freely, in

a Dallas City Council decision,

knocking out a loyalty. oath re-

quirement of all exhibiting art-

its. The Dallas Art Association,

had sparked a row over a recent

exhibit in the Museum of Fine

Arts, entitled "Sports in Art."

The exhibit was said to have in-

cluded work by persons who are

communists, or members:-of com-

munist-front organizations. The

City Council refused the request

of the Art Association to include

AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES

UNION-NEWS..

EDITOR IN CHIEF IN ABSENTIA:

Ernest Besig.

GUEST CONTRIBUTORS:

NEWS: Helen Kerr, Sausalito NEWS;

Norman Tipton, Fairchild

Publications; Max Barbour,

The Progressive; Phyllis Seid-

kin, San Francisco EXAM-

INER; Gordon Kull, free-

lance.

BOOK REVIEW: Jack Howard, San

Francisco CHRONICLE.

CARTOON: Bob Bastian, San Fran-

cisco CHONICLE.

COMMENTARY: San Francisco At-

torney William Coblentz.

STAFF EDITORS: Lawrence Speiser,

Priscilla Ginsberg.

After three infamous years,

the Gwinn Rider requiring a

loyalty oath from tenants of pub-

lic housing, has been officially

dropped by officials of public

housing in Washington, D. C., it

was announced August 3rd. The

basis for this decision was the

fact that the measure had been

attached as a rider to yearly ap-

propriation bills, all of which

had now expired. !

MOLLIE THORNER

Local housing authorities said

they assume they will shortly re-

ceive instructions from Washing-

ton to concede defeat in the local

ACLU case of Mollie Thorner

against whom they had filed evic-

tion proceedings. The housing

authority won in the lower court

before Judge C. Harold Caulfield,

and the case is now on appeal to

the Appellate Department of the

San Francisco Superior Court.

That court will probably hold up

making its decision in light of

the Washington announcement,

according to Franklyn Brann, co-

counsel with ACLU Staff Coun-

sel Lawrence Speiser, attorneys

for Mrs. Thorner. :

The Thorner case is one of the

few adverse decisions still pend-

ing in the courts. The Gwinn

Rider has been declared invalid

by the Supreme Courts of Wis-

consin, Illinois and New Jersey

in addition to four high courts in

other jurisdictions.

by Gordon Kull

a clause in the contract between

the city and the association,

which would prohibit the exhi-

bition of works by artists who

belong to organizations whose

names appear on the attorney

general's list.

WASHINGTON, D. C.-A new

policy, reinstating the citizenship

of Nisei,

their citizenship during their in-

ternment at Lake Tulare during

World War II, was announced

August 13 by Attorney General

Brownell.

The new ruling will restore

citizenship to roughly 1,000 per-

sons of Japanese ancestory liv-

ing on the West Coast (or one-

half the cases pending). An ap-

plicant can be reinstated by

qualifying on one or more of

the following counts: 1) Signing

a loyalty oath to the United

States; 2) Offering to serve in

the armed services of the United

States; 3) By proving that he re-

nounced citizenship under duress

of fear; 4) By proving that, un-

der coercion, he acted in unison

with his spouse.

WASHINGTON, D. C.: As a re-

sult of recommendations of a

committee' of scientists, loyalty

restrictions may be relaxed for

scientists working on Federal-aid

projects of non-secret nature, it

was announced August 14. Chief

aid to the President, Sherman

who had renounced -

Adams, in giving the White

House endorsement of the recom-

mendations of the committee re-

port, agreed that Federal aid

should not be withheld because

-of an aliegation of disloyalty in-

volving a scientist. The Commit-

. tee was headed by Dr. J. A. Strat-

ton of MIT, and reported to

Adams in April.

WASHINGTON, D. C.: Despite

a recent Supreme Court decision

stating that the federal employee

security program applies only to

non-sensitive jobs, the Defense

Department, in its Industrial Se-

curity Manual for safeguarding

information, indicates that any

employer under contract to the

Defense Department, may be re-

quired at any time, to "submit

information about any of his em-

ployees working in any of his

plants, factories, sites at which

work for a military department

is being performed." The ACLU

has asked the Defense Depart-

ment to bring the manual into

accord with the court decision.

DUBLIN, GA.: A Dublin, Ga.

ordinance requires an organizer,

prior to licensing, to swear that

his union would not spend money

to violate or encourage violation

of segregation laws or engage in

Communist activities. He must

have lived in Dublin five years,

"and must pay a $2,500 license

fee.

ACLU OPPOSES

NEW YORK: The National

ACLU, along with the American

Friends. Service Committee, the

American Library Association,

and Verner Clapp, assistant li-

brarian of Congress, appeared be-

fore the House Judiciary Com-

mittee meeting, considering the

proposal that senders of political

propaganda who reside outside

the United States register as for-

eign agents.

At the present time, the post

office and customs bureau have

been operating under a 1940

opiinon of. Attorney General

Jackson, which indicated that

foreign propaganda should be

denied entry unless the sender

or receiver was registered as a

foreign agent. The Congressional

proposal would give legaletival

approval to this procedure.

The case of San Francisco

POSTAL EDICT

book dealer Russky Kustar,

which is being handled by ACLU

of northern California, also falls

under this ruling. Entire ship-

ments of books sent to Mr. Kus-

tar from book publishers in

China, Japan, Russia, etc., have

been confiscated by the postal -

department on the basis that the

senders have failed to register as

foreign agents.

Irving Ferman, Washington

representative of ACLU, claimed

that the 1940 opinion fails to

recognize that registration of for-

eigners in the United States is

necessary to apprise the reci-

pient abroad that materials he is

receiving from the foreigners in

the U. S., is foreign propaganda,

but that the need is non-existent

for INCOMING mail, since the

recipient is appraised. of its

source by the wrapping and

postage.

Cogley Report Describes

Aftermath of Accusation

by Jack Howard

Hardly had John Cogley got his twin reports on black-

listing off the press than the House Committee on Un-Amer-

ican Activities subpoened him to come justify his study.

The results of that inquiry have been well publicized, as

well as the content of his two volumes (Report on Black-

listing, Fund for the Republic. $1.25 each). Yet only through

a reading of the study is the full import of his findings

brought home.

It is easy to say that "clear-

-ances" are necessary for radio

and television personalities who

wish to earn a living, in spite of

faceless accusers. We all "know"

. this to be the state of affairs

these days. -

But Cogley nails down the gen-

eral impression with testimony

and facts that make the obvious

even more apparent, and of

course, more abhorrent. Part of

this effect comes from interviews.

with various performers in which

they outline the steps they had

to take to resume their liveli-

hoods after the accusers had

been at work.

The industry in which black-

listing has been most effective is

radio and television, the subject

of one separate volume. Movies

_are examined in the other vol-

ume, and here the story is no

less disturbing.

An easy organizing factor for

the study of movies is the case

of the Hollywood 10-directors

and writers who were subpoened

and who declined to testify

against themselves.

Quite the most interesting part

of the study on movies is the

content analysis of films made

by these writers and directors,

and the finding that in not a

one of them was Communist pro-

paganda evident.

A further study of all films

made since blacklisting became

the mode in Hollywood produces

proof that for the most part

. movie makers shifted from ideas

to entertainment, shied away

from controversy and chose fluff

instead. .

Happily, this trend has recent-

ly slowed down, and even shows

The theme of the 12th an-

nual conference of THE MEN-

TAL HEALTH ASSOCIA-

TION OF NORTHERN CALI-

FORNIA, to be held at Asilo-

mar, September 1 through 3,

will be "We, the People...

Democracy and Power." To

investigate the manifestations

of attitudes which threaten to

disrupt the fabric of our De-

mocracy, to consider politics

of today, as it will influence

life in the future, is the aim

of the conference. ACLU

Board member Dr. Laurence

Sears of Mills College will ad-

dress Saturday morning's

meeting on "Liberalism, Con-

servatism and Power." Regis-

trations are still being ac-

cepted at 990 Eddy Street,

S. F. 9.

by William Coblentz

When it comes to the platform

of the two parties, the middle of

the road seems a bit crowded.

`Certainly Roy Wilkins, Executive

Director of the NAACP would

concur in this when he stated

the Republican plank was only

"a thin sheet stronger than the

Democratic platform."

Yet the sage NEW YORK

TIMES has called the Republi-

can platform on civil liberties

"markedly superior" to the Dem-

ocrats.

Both parties wish (as do all

other sensible people), to avoid

the use of "force" in implement-

ing the Supreme Court decision

in the school integration cases.

But here we then come to se-

mantics. The Republican plat-

form "accepts" the historic de-

cision and "concurs" in the

court's finding that the decision

be put into effect with `all de-

liberate speed." For those who

wonder why these words were

used it should be noted that the |

4

Author Cogley

-Photo Courtesy S. F. Chronicle

signs of reversal. But in the

meantime the stature of Holly-

wood films has diminished in di-

rect proportion that they have

been dealing with "safe" enter-

tainment and using "cleared"

actors and actresses.

Zechariah Chafee, Jr.

Zechariah Chafee, Jr., whose

writings and mind have ever

been an important part of this

nation's fight for civil liberties,

has collected a number of his

speeches and articles written

over the past 12 years in book

form (The Blessings of Liberty,

Lippincott, $5.)

It is helpful, if not reassuring,

to have available his clear anal-

ysis and report on the deterio-

ration of our Bill of Rights, and

his suggestions about what can

be done to put an end to the

erosion.

(Ed' Note: Mr. Howard is a

staff reporter for the San

Francisco CHRONICLE, where

he specializes in labor and

Fund For Republic Spends

5: Millions

by Phyllis Seidkin

The Fund for the Repub-

lic, praised and condemned

in its brief three and a half

year career, has probed the

health of the nation's civil

liberties in five wide areas

of concern and picked up

bills totaling $5,414,201 for

its examinations.

In a handsome 88-page report

of the Fund's activities, just pub-

lished, its directors point to suc-

cess in a large number of the

projects it has sponsored and

with equal candor to the failure

thus far of others.

Abundant with figures and

concise summaries of these proj-

ects, the report discloses that:

1-The Fund's largest single

appropriation has been made for

the study of Communism in the

United States.

2-The largest cumulative ex-

penditure has been in race rela-

tions.

3-The Southern Regional

Council has been granted the

largest sum of money that has

gone to any single beneficiary.

SURVEY OF COMMUNISM .

The study of Communism is

one of five main categories of

Fund work and into it has gone

a total of $427,315. In some in-

stances already dealt with in ma-

gazine and newspaper articles,

as well as in published books,

this study included surveys of

attitudes toward Communism and

civil liberties (grants of $164,865,

resulting in the so-called Stouf-

fer report), and analyses of the

Communist record and of Com-

munist influences in major seg-

ments of society in this country.

The latter project, headed by

Prof. Clinton Rossiter of Cor-

nell, involves preparation of a

series of books, the first volume

of which is expected to be pub-

lished early next year.

EQUAL RIGHTS

(R)

In its second major field-

equality before the: law and

Security Discharge Continued from Page 1-

Two months after the hearing,

on July 22, 1955, he received an

Undesirable Discharge.

Under-Secretary of the Army

Wilbur M. Brucker, in response

to criticisms of the Army Mili-

tary Personnel Security Program

had subsequently written to Sen-

ator Thomas C. Hennings, Jr., of

the Senate Constitutional Rights

Sub-Committee that he was set-

ting up a board to automatically

` review all army security dis-

charges. In addition, last Jan-.

uary, new army regulations were

announced stating that inductees

Republican platform committee

was asked to "endorse" the de-

cision. But this word was strick-

en from an early draft at south-

ern insistence.

IGNORES SUPREME COURT

EDICT.

The Democratic platform

makes no such committment. In

fact it makes no mention of im-

plementing the Supreme Court

edict. The Minority Report on

the civil rights plank introduced

by the liberal block at the con-

vention sought to insert the

-words "we pledge to carry out

these decisions." Yet they were

defeated as a majority or at least

Sam Rayburn's gavel felt that the

Supreme Court being the law of

the land was sufficient and noth-

ing further need be said.

In both planks you have

words chosen with great care -

Republicans use such words as

"enforce," "implementation" and

"unequivocal" - the Democrats

"reaffirm" and "recognize"'-all

design to make the language

who refused to sign the loyalty

oath forms are not automatically

to be given a less-than-honorable-

rischarge upon completion of

military service.

On July 12, 1956, this young

dischargee was informed that

after review, he was being given

an Honorable Discharge in place

of the Undesirable Discharge.

This case is notable in that, the

security discharge reviews have

`generally resulted in the award

of the less desirable General Dis-

charge rather than the Honor-

able Discharge.

10-GOP ROAD JAN

MR. WILLIAM COBLENTZ,

San Francisco attorney, is a

`member of the Board of

ACLU of Northern Califor-

nia, and a former Deputy At-

torney General of California.

Mr. Coblentz was associated

with the Fund for the Repub-

lic in its beginning years, and

has served as director of the

American Committee on

United Europe.

forthright enough for northern-

ers and yet placate the southern-

ers.

Elsewhere in civil liberties the

Republicans pledge themselves

specifically to work for the en-

actment of the President's six-

point civil rights program. This

program, which passed the Sen-

ate last year but was hung up

in the House, calls for, among

other things the appointment of

an Assistant Attorney - General

for civil rights as well as giving

Fund Director Robert Hutchins

-Photo Courtesy S. F. Chronicle

equality of opportunity - the

Fund has granted $445,000 to the

Southern Regional Council, main-

ly for support of educational

programs in race _ relations

throughout the South. The Coun-

cil also is conducting a nine-

month program of analysis of de-

velopments in southern race re-

lations.

Other organizations which

have received Fund grants in

this same field-for surveys, de-

velopment of educational pro-

grams, distribution of various re-

ports, ete-include the Commu-

nity Relations Program of the

American Friends Service Com-

`DREISER CT A TS Ie TTR AN eR ME ET

(Ed's note: Miss Seidkin is a

member of the staff of the

Book Department, San Fran-

cisco EXAMINER.) :

(ER a 0 ce rene car a RDC ier reer Tae aI

mittee ($176,500), Vanderbilt

University ($100,000), National

Urban League ($50,000), and the

department of racial and cultural

relations of the National Coun-

cil of the Churches of Christ in

the United States of America

($40,750). .

OTHER RECIPIENTS

"To make the Bill of Rights a

living document" is the third

aim of the Fund and for its reali-

zation a total of $161,610 has

been granted to the Carrie Chap-

man Catt Memorial Fund. The

money has been used for "Free-

dom Agenda," a national discus-

sion program on the basic rights

of Americans in which more

than 600 communities have taken

part under the sponsorship of

the League of Women Voters.

General work in television and

radio accounted for $195,221 of.

the Fund's grants, in this field,

mainly used to explore the poten-

tialities of commercial television

e

the Justice Department power to

_seek injunctions, barring viola-

tions of the voting and educa-

tional rights of Negroes. The

Democrats, on the other hand,

were content to set some general

objectives in this field without

specifying how they were to be

achieved. The liberal block tried

to change this by using the

words of the 1952 platform which

were certainly forthright and

ape but they were unsuccess-

ul.

The Democrats view with

alarm-Republicans contemplate

with satisfaction. And yet in civil

liberties the Democrats have

"condemned" without a word of

response in the `Republican

plank. This is when they speak

of the "violations of the rights

of government employees by

heartless and unjustified confu-

sion of `security' and `loyalty'

for the sole purpose of political

gain and regardless of conse-

quences to individual victims and

of the good name of the United

in 33 Years

as a medium for matters of in-

terest to the Fund. This included

commissioning of "treatments,"

pilot films, ete., with a view to

eventual production on commer-

cial television.

FAILURE, IN SOME CASES

In some of these efforts, fail-

ure was reported, for example

in the attempt to find sponsors

for the Worthington Miner net-

work series, "Challenge."

Under this same general head-

ing of operations, the Fund

granted $20,000 to the Council

for Civil Unity of San Francisco,

for the television show, "Bar-

rier", $5,000 to Stiles Hall, the.

Berkeley branch of the YMCA,

"in recognition of its service to

the principle of equal opportu-

nity for persons of all races and

religions, and its open platform

policy;" and $36,000 to the Uni-

versity of California School of

Librarianship for a forthcoming

investigation of the pressures af-

fecting the selection and reten-

tion of books in libraries.

A total of $204,546 was appro-

priated for a fellowship and

grant-in-aid program, for special

studies by individuals in areas of

the Fund's interest; and $113,554

was used for distribution of var-

ious reports, books, articles and

pamphlets on civil liberties.

In the area of maintaining

"due process and the principles

that underlie it," the Fund's

largest grant has been for studies

of loyalty-security projects -

$192,710-which have resulted in

the much discussed report of

Washington attorney Adam Yar-

molinsky on the federal loyalty-

security program, and a similar

study by a special committee of

the Bar Association of the City

of New York.

BLACKLIST REPORT

A report also has been con-

cluded recently on blacklisting

_In private industry, for which

$127,482 was spent.

In its fifth and last major area

of endeavor, "to maintain free-

dom of speech and belief," the

Fund's major grant was to the

American Friends Service Com-

mittee's Rights of Conscience

Program, for the purpose of

"fair trial and adequate counsel"

($150,000). The Rights of Con-

science Committee has consider-

ed some 60 applications for as-

sistance and provides assistance

in more than 20 cases.

A "study of fear in education"

is being conducted with the aid

of $149,134 in appropriations. Di-

rected by Prof. Paul F. Lazar-

sfeld, Bureau. of Applied Social

Research, Columbia University,

the study is based on interviews

with 2,500 members of social

science faculties in 165 accredit-

ed colleges. Information gather-

ed is now undergoing special

study. aS

States."

Now it is perhaps going a lit-

far to say "for the sole purpose

of _ political gain" but politics

aside for the moment, it is note-

worthy that at least this confu-

sion of terminology is recognized.

Maybe the condemnation will

take itself into the field of posi-

tive action if the Democrats takes

over the reins of government or

perhaps this is merely wishful

thinking.

Both platforms make more

promises, some mutually contra-

dictory than there is any reason

to believe they can possibly car-

ry out. Yet I am certain the

American public when looking

at both civil rights planks won't

be hoodwinked. They may even

remember the song that Louis

Armstrong popularized, "It Ain't

What You Do, It's The Way

That You Do It."

ACLU NEWS

September, 1956

: Page 3

The ACLU of Northern Cali-

fornia is presently handling the

following legal court cases in-

volving civil liberties issues,

through its Staff Counsel Law-

rence Speiser with the associate

volunteer ACLU atterneys indi-

cated. Not listed are all of the

administrative cases involving

security firings, discharges, and

immigration and naturalization

matters which are handled by

both ACLU Executive Director,

Ernest Besig, and Mr. Speiser.

TAX EXEMPTION

LOYALTY OATH-

CHURCHES

FIRST METHODIST CHURCH

OF SAN LEANDRO vs. HORST-

MANN, Co-Counsel, William T.

Belcher of Oakland.

FIRST UNITARIAN CHURCH

OF. BERKELEY vs. HORST-

MANN, Co-Counsel, J. Richard

Johnston of Oakland.

TAX EXEMPTION

LOYALTY OATH-

VETERANS

SPEISER vs. RANDALL, Co-

Counsel Joseph Landisman, of

Richmond.

PRINCE vs. CITY and COUNTY

OF SAN FRANCISCO, Co-Coun-

sel, Ralph Wertheimer of San

Francisco.

All of the above cases were

orally argued before the State

Supreme Court in Los Angeles

on June 13th and are presently

under submission. All cases but

the Prince case were won in the

Superior Court with the loyalty

oath as a condition for tax ex-

emption declared unconstitu-

tional as violating free speech.

LEHRER vs. HALL, veteran

oath tax exemption case pending

in Marin County Superior Court

awaiting State Supreme Court

decision in above cases.

SAN FRANCISCO HOUSING

AUTHORITY vs. THORNER. A

test of Gwinn Amendment re-

quiring an oath of non-member-

ship in attorney general's organ-

izations on pain of eviction. Un-

der submission to Appellate De-

partment of San Francisco Super-

ior Court after Municipal Court

Judge C. Harold Caulfield ruled

for housing authority. Illinois,

Wisconsin and New Jersey Sup-

reme Courts, Washington, D. C.

Court of Appeal, New York In-

termediate Appellate Court and

Los Angeles Appellate Depart-

ment have all held that`require-

ment invalid. Public housing au-

thorities in Washington, D. C.

have announced withdrawal of

oath requirement but no move

made as yet to dismiss proceed-

ings in court. Co-Counsel-

Franklyn Brann, San Francisco.

TEACHER DISMISSALS

SAN FRANCISCO BOARD OF

EDUCATION vs. MASS, Dil-

worth Act dismissal case of John

Mass, former San Francisco City

College English instructor under

submission to the State Supreme

CLU Court Docket

Court since March. Major ques-

tion whether United States Sup-

reme Court decision in similar

Slochower case applies.

CONTRA COSTA BOARD OF

EDUCATION vs. JOHN and

INEZ SCHUYTEN. Appeal be-

ing prepared to First District

Court of Appeal on dismissal of

John and Inez Schuyten on re-

fusal to answer questions of

Burns Committee under terms of

Dilworth Act. Briefs to be sub-

mitted. Co-Counsel, Joseph Gen-

ser of Richmond.

ILLEGAL INVESTIGATIVE

COMMITTEE PRACTICES

HANCOCK vs. BURNS. Dam-

age suit filed in San Francisco

Superior Court by four PG E

employees against members of

State Un-American Activities

Committee for causing their dis-

missals. Awaiting Attorney Gen-

eral's brief for many months. Co-

Counsel Rubin Tepper, San

Francisco, and Edward F. New-

man, Hayward.

DUE PROCESS

PEOPLE vs. AYKENS and

WALLACE. Test on unconstitu-

tionality of vagrancy law. Defen-

dants arrested in police raid and

convicted in South San Francisco

Municipal Court. Appeal being

prepared to Appellate Depart-

`ment of San Mateo Superior

Court with record not yet set-

tled by Municipal Judge T. F.

Bocci.

ENNIS

Continued from Page 1-

the Administration against the

War Department's mass evacua-

tion of persons of Japanese an-

cestry during the war, he was

among those responsible for the

humanitarian and "liberal" pol-

icies of the War Relocation, Au-

thority.

After he left Government serv-

ice, following the end of hostil-

`ities, he entered private practice

and was retained as general

counsel for the Japanese Ameri-

can Citizens League, under whose

auspices he makes his present

San Francisco visit. This year he

was appointed as general coun-

sel of the ACLU, succeeding

(with two other members of the

general counsel staff), Arthur

Garfield Hays. :

Particularly significant is his

visit, which coincides with the

~ recent Department of Justice de-

cision, relaxing the criteria (see

ACLU NEWS NOTES ACROSS

THE NATION, page 2) for res-

toration of citizenship to Nisei,

which will affect some 1000 Jap-

anese whose citizenship has been

in no man's land since the war.

During World War II, it was

the ACLU who raised a solitary

voice, decrying the internment of

the West Coast Japanese. In

challenging the now - historic

cases of evacuation and detention

of loyal Americans of Japanese

ancestry, the alien land law, the

denial of fishing licenses to

aliens of Japanese ancestry, the

racial restrictive covenants and

racial segregation in public

schools and places of segregation,

the ACLU challenged the consti-

tutionality of these restrictions

in the courts, during and follow-

ing World War II.

The Marin County Branch ex-

tends an invitation to all ACLU

members and friends, to attend

the Sunday reception for Mr.

Ennis.

The first right of a citizen

Is the right

To be responsible.

AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION

OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA

Patron Membership ...........0... De $100

Sustaining Membersnip......0.....,..-5:....... 20 .

Business and Professional Membership ..............- 25

Family; Membership-... 2.0.22... 3-5 2 10

Annual Membership ...-.5.....2......5.. See) 5

Junior Membership (under 21). ......... =... 2

AGLU News Subscription ........2 . 2... 43... .. 2

Trivia and Otherwise ...

THANK YOU,

THANK YOU...

Northern California |

members of ACLU have

responded to the Special

Funds appeal mailed in

June, with a total of $2,-

213.20. The major portion

of contributions were ear-

marked for the General

Legal Defense Fund, with

the Wallace-Aykens Case

(Sharp Park dragnet) and

the dismissal of teachers

refusing to answer ques-

tions of the Burns and

Velde Committees running

second and third.

A FACELIFTING

The reorganized format of

the ACLU NEWS is here for

a trial six months. ACLU

Member Irving Perlman has

offered to underwrite the fi-

nancial differential between a

5-column and a 3-column issue

for six months. As-a result of

last September's experimental

issue, Member Perlman wrote:

"yen will personally guarantee

you the ... additional cost for

a period of 6 months' time if

you would change the presen-

tation of your paper to the

`new look' as you published

last year [September]." Here

it is, and our thanks to Mr.

Perlman!

THE LIBERTY BALL has

been postponed until next

year, because of the activity

of Marin ACLU members in

the November election, the

Marin County Board has an-

nounced. Since one of the

most pleasant features of the

event was the out-dor festivi-

ties, any date past November

would be impractical weather-

wise.

ACLU Member George

Chandlee, with the assistance

of the Friends Committee on

Legislation, has prepared a

CANDIDATES' CIVIL LIB-

ERTY SCORESHEERT, for the

October issue of the ACLU

NEWS. The score sheet will

include the voting records on

significant civil liberties legis-

lation, of all northern Cali-

fornian candidates, who are

up for reelection. Both state

and national candidates are

included.

THE MARIN COUNTY

CHAPTER reports that the

Marin-ACLU was contacted by

Novato and Marin County citi-

zens, for assistance on behalf

of Jack G. Venton, a plaster-

ing contractor, who was re-

lieved of his job with the John

Novak Home Building Asso-

ciation after he admitted that

`he would not salute the flag

on principle, as a Jehovah's

Witness. Mr. Milen Dempster,

Chairman of Marin County

ACLU, and Mr. Alan Swaba-

cher, . Novato member of

ACLU, have interceded and

reported the situation is mov-

ing toward satisfactory solu-

tion.

503 Market Street

San Francisco, 5

| cis Theatre in early Septem-

STORM CENTER

A motion picture play writ-

ten by Daniel Taradash (cf

"Picnic" and "From: Here To

Eternity"), and soon to be re-

leased by Columbia Pictures,

blisters an age-old problem-_

the right to read. Storm Cen-

ter, opening at the St. Fran-

ber, attempts to defend the

inter-related.. guarantees... of

Article I of the American

Constitution - freedom of

speech and press.

The issues of thought con-

trol, libraries and children as

they relate to a saner under-

standing of the world around

us are raised throughout the

movie. The American Library

Association says of the film:

"It carries, with great convic-

tion, an important message for

every American." Co-starred

with Miss Davis is Paul Kelly.

By L. Fortier.

BOOKS BRIEFLY NOTED...

RIGHT TO KNOW, K. Cooper;

330 p. $4. Farrar, Strauss. Form-

er head of the Associated Press

exposes the evils of news sup-

pression and propaganda.

"Considering his indignation, .

Mr. Cooper has written a re-

markably restrained book; the

old AP habit of giving the devil

his due has kept him from writ-

ing the kind of polemic to stir

a wider audience .. . most news-

papermen will share Cooper's

bitterness toward government

propaganda, political censorship

and all forms of news suppres-

sion. They may regret, however,

that he did not devote more time

to the propaganda and news sup-

pressive efforts of selfish minor-

ity groups in this country."

-Carl Weigman, Chicago

TRIBUNE, April 22, 1956

"A disturbing book. It raises

questions of government policy

that will concern all thoughtful

readers; of news ethics that will

haunt the consciences of respon-

sible newspaper men."

-F.S. Adams, New York

TIMES, April 22, 1956

TESTAMENT OF A LIBER.-

AL, Guerard, A. L. 222 p. $4.50.

Harvard University Press.

"Author of many books, pro-

fessor in American University

forty years before his retirement:

from Stanford in 1946, Guerard

reaffirms his oft-stated liberal

beliefs. His position is unequiv-

ocable as it is unassailable and

will give no comfort to the ad-

herents of McCarthy, Pegler, Col.

McCormick and Co."

-LIBRARY JOURNAL,

March 15, 1956

A BIRTH OF THE BILL OF

RIGHTS, 1776-1791: Ruthland, R.

A. 243 p. $5. University of North

Carolina Press.

"A study of how Americans

came to rely on legal guarantees

for their personal freedoms, the

book gives the historical and

political background to these ten ~

amendments."

-READERS INDEX (c)

"Sound and clearly-written

' work of history."

-Dumas Malone, New York

TIMES, January 1, 1956

tions of Mr. and Mrs.

GUARANTEED FOR LIFE:

YOUR RIGHTS UNDER THE

U. S. CONSTITUTION; 137 p.

$2.50. Prentice-Hall.

"What distinguishes this book

from a number of other similar

efforts is its emphasis on a vis-

ual approach . Hence the

study should be useful in intro-

ducing younger readers to the

essential facts about the Consti-

tution."

FEARS MEN LIVE BY; Hirsh,

Selma G., forward by Harry A.

Overstreet. 164 p. $2.75. Harper.

"A popular summary of what

social scientists think they have

learned about prejudice, espe-

cially as manifested in the au-

thoritarian personality."

Bocklers Win |

U.S. Citizenship

Only two months after the

United States Naturalization

Service had vigorously opposed

an ACLU motion to set hearing

dates for the naturalization peti-

Ernest

Bockler, they were sworn in as

United States citizens.

FIVE-YEAR LIMBO

Last May, ACLU Staff Coun-

sel Lawrence Speiser had filed

the motion on the grounds that

the naturalization service's re-

fusal to bring the Bockler peti-

tions into court for five years

was arbitrary. At the hearing, ~

naturalization service represen-

tative Daniel Lyons contended

more time was needed for inves-

tigation. On that basis the motion

was denied. Two months later,

however, Mr. Lyons made a rec-

ommendation that their petitions

' be granted and on August 21st'

they obtained their citizenship.

SOLICITING AGAIN?

Comments on the format

change in'the ACLU

NEWS are solicited. Ad-

dress remarks to Priscilla

Ginsberg, ACLU head-

quarters. .

Volunteer Projects Slated

On ACLU Autumn Calendar

A program of volunteer projects are on the autumn

calendar of the educational and public relations department

of northern California headquarters. Volunteers are invited

to participate in the following projects, which will be set up

according to manpower and response of members in parti-

cipating. Contact Priscilla Ginsberg at ACLU headquarters:

ANNUAL MEETING AND TES-

TIMONIAL DINNER

RESPONSIBILITIES: Assist

with reservations in office, pub-

licity, invitations, banquet arran-

. gements.

TIME INVOLVED: Reserva-

tions chairman would probably

spend two hours each morning

`in ACLU office, two weeks prior

to banquet, October 19. Other

areas - publicity, invitations,

banquet arrangements would

vary as to the-time each volun-

teer is able to give.

CENTRAL VOLUNTEER BU-

REAU IN SAN FRANCISCO

OFFICE

RESPONSIBILITIES: Organ-

izing and setting up a file for

volunteer services; serving as

liason between volunteer com-

mittee chairmen in Peninsula,

Marin County, East Bay and San

Francisco, routing volunteers in-

to office work or special projects.

TIME INVOLVED: Would in-

volve considerable work over 4

months period initially, at the

ACLU office, THEN time on

year-round continuity. basis of

one day a month.

SPEAKERS' BUREAU

RESPONSIBILITIES: Develop

list of organizations that would

be interested in having an ACLU

speaker; might mean personal

visits; lining up speakers to

speak at ACLU meetings-

; chapter, luncheon meetings of

Lawyers' group, from Stanford,

University of California, Center

for the Advanced Study in the

Behavioral Sciences, ete.

TIME INVOLVED: Two weeks

intensive organization of mater-

ial; occasional sessions of keep-

(c) ing material up-to-date.

FUND RAISING, MEMBERSHIP

SURVEY

RESPONSIBILITIES: Research

of small, non-profit organizations

and how they raise funds, en-

courage membership. Compile

results, make recommendations

of methods that might be applic-

able to ACLU.

TIME INVOLVED: A month

of intensive work, half-days.

ACLU NEWS CONTRIBUTORS

AND EDITORS

RESPONSIBILITIES: Writing,

editing, make-up and research

of stories for ACLU NEWS.

TIME INVOLVED: On con-

tributing, or year-round basis.

One day a month.

PROGRAM AND FILES

RESPONSIBILITIES: Organ-

ize program-aid files for mem-

bership groups within northern

California ACLU. Research for

list of movies, speakers, writing

other ACLU chapters for ideas.

TIME INVOLVED: Two or

three mornings a week for three

weeks.

OFFICE WORK

RESPONSIBILITIES: Typing,

filing, stuffing of envelopes, and

general office work.

TIME INVOLVED: Eternity.

ACLU NEWS

September, 1956

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