I. H __-- ,f| J ... 1 - __ _.¢ E92' _ .-1 : 0 ,. u. | . ~ I :13 - -» II. -. ..-A_: . Ir.E; 'r -. .- v-9 Intolerance in America by launching the poster "amerita- A Ration of One People from Many Countries," by arrang- Q ing the Law '92 for ll a publicity photo of Hrs. F. D. Roosevelt presenting r * :.' original poster fo Dean William F;fClarke, of_pePaul F ingSchool, at our Civic Opera House meeting. 6! Anards meritorious service on behalf of civil liberties dur- forl939 were awarded to.the Chicago TIHES and accepted lard the L. King,publisher bycha.irman"'of"th'e civil Editor Richard{Finnegan, fights o92?mraittee and to Wilqiof the Chicago Bar Lssn., and accepted by Adlai Stevenson, first chairman of that committee. Phillipfhain made a ' n- special audit of the Mrs. Roosevelt lecture-benefit. APRIL - ' - F " 7! Cooperated with National Emergency Conference xi//I "~.92 for Democratic Rights Franz/Boasand Alfred :;!Stern, '4- chairmen! in taking a "Poll of Popular Sentim t" on the .o?'I I 4 Geyer anti-roll tax bill among 200 organizations-with replies representing a million voters for the bill. 8! In cooperation with the ACLU, National Emergency Confer- M.- . .- ence, American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born and -1 the Foreign Language Information Service the Committee . §_92,..'j 1*; purchased and distributed over 5,000 pamphlets on anti- alien and anti-civil rights bills in Congress. The Conn mittee printed 5,000 of its own prospectus. The Committee at printed and distributed 3,000 copies of the address on "Civil Liberties-The Individual and the Community" by 9 Hrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. 9! Complaint of Communist Club of U. of C.gthat Earl Broader had been ruled off the campus while under sentence was investigated and the dean , . of students held that Bnnwder or anyone might speak to student groups in their closed meetings but that those meetings which were to be advertised and open to campus and off-campus! audiences would have to be approved. President Hutchins had held that Browder could speak, pior 2]., to his conviction, in spite of considerable criticism. 0! The committee supported the ACLU demand on President _ ___ _@- . .> n ~ - -*g-- iv; "31. 3.--1.;-.. . .3-._'-=1' ' _..-»_.-.- .- . . - 4 1.. 47$ -. I --' _. - .' r -'- - ~ _ f '4"' _ 2-..-"-_r ~ -'.-1'-:1 »r'q.92':-""!""ri""""".gf:"'£ '*"'-'.. .¢------U--1-;_ ___-". " """ """"""""'
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