House Un-American Activities

WASHINGTON (AP) — The tiwar protes'tors who produced dents for Democratic Society, curity precautions in hopes of House Committee on Un-/Inert- some of the committee's most which has campaigned for aboli- heading off disturbances. can Activities probe into the dis- raucous hours two years ago. tion of 1IUR C, burned their com- Space in the hearing room is turbances during the Democrat- mittee subpoenas on the Univer- limited to 25 newsmen and only ic National Convention in Chica- Jerry Rubin, now a leader of sity of California's Berkeley 75 spectators. The news people go could result in some wild ses- the Youth International Party, campus. will need special passes to leave or Yippies, appeared at the 1966 sions if the panel's controversy- Both, however, have said they and re-enter the room, and marked history is an indication. hearings into antiwar protests would appear and there have there have been reports that the in a rented Revolutionary War' been several reports that groups other onlookers will need spe- uniform and was thrown out, of demonstrators might try to cial credentials to get in. Called to appear before a spe- along with 50 other persons. cial panel of the committee, disrupt the hearings. Also scheduled to appear are which opened a week's worth of Last week Rubin and Thomas In light of the reports end be- David Dellinger, Rennie Davis hearings today, are several an- cause of the past incidents, the and Robert Greenbelt of the Na- E. Hayden, founder of the Stu- committee has taken special se- tional Mobilization Committee

Committee Probes Chicago

to End the War in Vietnam, and In the 30 years since the com- organizations as the Ku Klux was not a Communist. Abbie Hoffman of the Yippies. mittee was set up, it has been Klan. Americans for Democratic Chicago Mayor Richard J. involved in constant, vitriolic In its history, the committee Action, as well as SDS, have Daley has also been asked to disagreements over its tactics, has never had a proposed 1Pw urged abolition of the commit- testify. goals and even its right to exist. approved by Congress. tee. The American Civil Liber- The hearings were called aft- Richard M. Nixon, then a rep- ties Union has criticized the er police and antiwar demon- Most of the controversy, par- resentative from California, committee's procedures. strators battled in Chicago's ticularly since World War II, gained national prominence as a Several people have tried un- streets. t he f emOristrators has involved communism and committee member during the successfully to have the com- charged the police with brutali- internal security, although in its 1948 "Pumpkin Paper" hearings mittee declared unconstitu- ty, while Daley said the protes- early days the committee which led to the perjury convic- tional. Some congressmen try tors were led by elements devot- looked into alleged Nazi influ- tion of Alger Hiss, a high State every year to withhold money ed to the violent disruption of ence in the country. More re- Department official charged from the committee. The at- the convention. cently it has investigated such with lying when he testified he tempt failed 343 to 44 this year