Open forum, vol. 30, no. 2 (February, 1953)

"It must not be supposed that it is easy to be free...' OsmMonp K. FRAENKEL

The OPEN FORUM

Published by THE AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION, Southern California Branch

Vol. XXX

Los Angeles, California, February, 1953

No. 2

Plans for a determined effort to win the

passage of a state fair employment prac-

tices act in California were announced

this month by the National Association

for the Advancement of Colored People.

Representatives of church, labor, civic,

and fraternal organizations met in San

Francisco early in February to join in the

NAACP campaign. At this meeting, a co-

ordinating committee was elected to di-

rect the state-wide effort.

The campaign goal is to win passage of

Assembly Bill 900, introduced in the 1953

' California Legislature by Assemblymen

Augustus Hawkins of Los Angeles and

George Collins, Jr., of San Francisco.

State Mobilization

A state-wide mobilization of all organi-

zations working for the passage of A.B.

goo will be held in Sacramento on March

22 and 23, under NAACP auspices.

C. L. Dellums, chairman of the regional

advisory committee of NAACP in the

West Coast area, has announced that the

committee has completely rejected pro-

_ posals for enactment of voluntary or pure-

ly educational state FEPC legislation.

This advisory committee has called up-

on all NAACP branches to campaign only

for an FEPC law "containing specific

provisions for the enforcement of its

principles?'

NAACP branches have been urged to

oppose the passage of any FEPC which

does not contain specific provisions for

enforcement.

200 NEW LOCAL MEMBERS

As a result of the combined operation of

the ACLU national and local offices, ap-

proximately 200 new members were en-

rolled in southern California during the

months of December and January.

Total national membership of ACLU is

now over 21,000. Membership of the local

branch is nearly 3000.

Plans are now being developed locally

for a systematic membership drive during

April to add 1500 new members to the roll

of the southern California branch.

HOUSING OATH TESTED

FEB. 19 MEETING CANCELED

The public meeting, planned by the

Committee on Legislation for Feb-

ruary 19, was canceled, when it be-

came certain that local legislators

would be unable to participate.

This meeting had been conceived

as an opportunity for ACLU mem-

bers to hear arguments for and

against several bills affecting civil

liberties, which have been intro-

duced in the 1953 session of the state

legislature.

The plan for the meeting required

the participation of several local

legislators. Since most of these law-

makers found it necessary to return

to Sacramento early to prepare for

the re-opening of the session on Feb-

ruary 24, Committee Chairman

J. B. Tietz canceled the proposed

meeting.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN:

"A government had better go to the

very extreme of toleration than do

aught that could be construed into

an interference with the common

rights of the citizen?

LEGISLATION COMMITTEE

PLANS REPORT ON BILLS

Spurred by the immediacy of its task, the

newly formed Committee on Legislation

has begun in vigorous fashion to sift the

mass of bills already introduced in the

1953 session of the California legislature

for measures which affect civil liberties.

Since more than 5400 bills have been

dumped into the hopper by state law-

makers, the committee's task is by no

means easily dispatched.

The committee has met on four occa-

sions and plans a fifth meeting for the

evening of February 25, the day after the

legislature reconvenes in Sacramento.

Prepare Roster of Bills

The current committee effort is being

directed toward the preparation of a ros--

ter of all bills which affect either favora-

bly or unfavorably the civil liberties of

Californians. This roster will be prepared

for distribution to branch members.

Open Forum, through the next four

months, will include information on bills

of special interest to ACLU members.

J. B. Tietz, chairman of the Committee

on Legislation, has announced the need of

more members for this committee.

"We can put several more interested

people to work analyzing the bills which

relate to civil liberties and preparing our

report to the membership,' declared Tietz.

"Any ACLU member who wants to help

in this project should write or call me, at

the ACLU office-soon!"'

ACLU FILES COMPLAINT

FOR 36 LOCAL TENANTS

To test the constitutionality of the Gwinn

amendment and to halt the eviction of

local public housing tenants who refuse to

sign the oath it requires, counsel for the

Southern California Branch filed on Feb-

ruary 13 in the Los Angeles Superior

Court a complaint for injunction and

declaratory relief.

The Gwinn amendment, passed by the

82nd Congress, requires that every tenant

of a public housing unit swear that he is

not a member of any of the more than 200

organizations listed by the U. S. Attorney

General.

Plaintiffs in this suit are thirty-six ten-

"ants of public housing units in the City of

Los Angeles. These tenants represent vir-

tually every one of the several housing

projects in the city. Defendants are the of-

ficers of the City Housing Authority.

Judge Frank G. Swain, in whose court

the complaint was filed, did not grant an

immediate injunction, but set an early

date for hearings, February 27.

Five Cases in Court

Attorneys for the plaintiffs, represent-

ing ACLU, are A. L. Wirin, Fred Okrand,

Loren Miller, and Edward C. Maddox.

This legal action against the Gwinn

oath, undertaken by the local branch of

ACLU, is the fifth case to be entered in

the courts on this question.

Another ACLU test case has been un-

dertaken by the national office in New

Jersey. There a complaint similar to the

one filed here has been entered in the

state court on behalf of Harry Lawrence

and Hyman and James Kutcher.

Two cases have been filed in New York,

one in the federal courts on behalf of

IWO, and one in the state courts on behalf

of public housing tenants there. Another

case has been entered in Chicago. ACLU

is not involved in any of these three cases,

although our counsel will watch their

development with interest.

In addition to the specific tests of the

Gwinn statute which these cases afford,

the several suits begun provide broad op-

Cont'd page 2, col. 3

GEORGE WASHINGTON:

"The preservation of the sacred fire

of liberty and the destiny of the re-

publican model of government are

. staked on the experiment en-

trusted to the hands of the Ameri-

can people?

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| Of Counsel . . . Fred Okrand

Eprror's Nore: In each issue of Open

Forum, ACLU Counsel reviews current

legal cases of interest to members. This

month he deals chiefly with the legal at-

tack upon the housing oath.

Housing Oath Case

To the Independent Offices Appropriation

Bill of 1953, the 82nd Congress attached a

rider known as the Gwinn Amendment.

This amendment provided that no person

could occupy housing constructed under

the United States Housing Act of 1937, as

amended, commonly known as low cost

public housing, if he were a member of

any organization designated as subver-

sive by the Attorney General. The amend-

ment provided that the local housing

authorities were to administer the

prohibition.

The Los Angeles City Housing Author-

ity has commenced to administer the pro-

vision by requiring all families to execute

a certificate to the effect that none of their

members is a member of any of the or-

ganizations on the consolidated list of or-

ganizations designated by the Attorney

General as being within presidential Ex-

ecutive Order 9835.

On Friday, February 13, 1953, suit was

filed on behalf of tenants who seek to test

the constitutionality of this procedure. In

their suit the tenants claim that the re-

quirement is invalid for a number of rea-

sons including: that the ist and 14th

Amendments to the United States Consti-

tution are violated because freedom of

speech, assembly and association are in-

hibited without there being a clear and

present danger therefor; that the 5th and

14th Amendments are violated because

the Gwinn Amendment and the procedure

thereunder lay down an arbitrary rule of

guilt by association; that in requiring

nonmembership in all the organizations

on the Attorney General's list, as distin-

guished from only those designated as

subversive by him, the local authority is

going beyond that required or permitted

by the Gwinn Amendment itself.

The tenants also claim that the proce-

dure used by the Housing Authority fails

to follow the rule laid down by the

Supreme Court in invalidating an Okla-

homa employment oath requirement. In

that case the Supreme Court said that an

oath requirement which did not allow for

the intent and knowledge of the person-

namely, knowledge that the organization

is in fact subversive-violated due process

of law.

The validity of the Attorney General's

list is also attacked on the ground that it

is an arbitrary listing, violative of due

process, because no hearing or notice was

given to the organizations prior to their

listing.

Hearing on an application for a pre-

liminary injunction to restrain eviction

for failure to sign the certificate has been

set in the Los Angeles Superior Court be-

fore the Honorable Frank G. Swain for

February 27, 1953.

As of this writing at least five suits test-

ing the Gwinn oath are pending through-

out the country-two in New York City,

one in Newark, New Jersey, one in Chi-

cago, and the one in Los Angeles.

County Oath Cases

The California Supreme Court has not

yet acted on petitions to reconsider its de-

cisions upholding the California Levering

Act and Los Angeles County oath require-

ments in the light of the United States

Supreme Court's decision in the Wieman

case, setting aside an Oklahoma oath re-

quirement because no provision was made

therein for knowledge and intent on the

part of the oath takers.

In the meantime Justice Clark of the

United States Supreme Court has ex-

tended the time for filing petitions to re-

view the three California holdings until

April 13, 1953.

N.Y. Bar : "Representation of Unpopular Causes"

The Bar Association of the City of New

York, on January 20, unanimously adopt-

ed a report on "representation of unpopu-

lar causes.'

The following excerpts are commended

to members of the Bar in southern Cali-

fornia, who may believe that it is time for

similar action by local associations:

"A principal duty of the bar is to see

that no accused lacks counsel because his

person is infamous or his cause detested.

When a member of the bar defends a cli-

ent who is publicly abhorred, the bar ex-

pects that representation nonetheless to

be vigorous, competent and responsible in

every way....

"Detestation of a client is in recent

times all too frequently visited also upon

his counsel by those who do not know the

nature of this duty and the exacting

standards of its performance.

"Such public misapprehension of the

duty threatens its performance. The prev-

alence of error, too often reflected in our

local press, which confuses professional

obligation with personal belief will deter

lawyers from representing unpopular

clients.

"The organized bar should act to dispel

such misunderstanding and should sup-

port against criticism arising from it those

lawyers who, guided by the profession's

standards, follow its most honored tradi-

tion and help discharge its most essential

responsibility. ..2"

The Association then adopted these

resolutions:

"". That the Association of the Bar of

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ACLU DEFENDS FIVE

BRUTALITY VICTIMS

Police brutality, false arrest, and possible

miscarriage of justice have brought ACLU

to the legal defense of five local Mexican-

Americans, four of whom have _ been

charged with misdemeanors, one with

felony.

Picked up and brutally beaten by mem-

bers of the county sheriff's force last New

Year's Eve, two of the defendants are

women. They are now charged with dis-

turbing the peace.

Also charged are two men who at-

tempted to prevent the sheriff's men from

beating the women, while they were

hand-cuffed to the patrol wagon.

The fifth defendant, the husband of one

of the women, was picked up eight days

after the release of the other four and

charged with assault, as the one who

wielded a bottle in a tavern battle.

All defendants assert their innocence

and there appears to be clear evidence to

support their claim.

Attorneys Stuart Walzer and Harold

Ackerman have volunteered their legal

services to ACLU for the defense of the

five.

ADMIT BY TICKET ONLY

Having announced intention to resume

hearings in Los Angeles on March 23, the

House Un-American Activities Commit-

tee has taken steps to bar the public from

witnessing these proceedings.

Admission to the hearings, the commit-

tee has announced, will be by special tick-

ets only. Application for these tickets

must be made to the committee members.

Rep. Donald Jackson is expected to

chair the committee here.

In addition to lawyers, motion picture

personalities, and doctors, it is reported,

the committee intends to call several Los

Angeles educational leaders.

Housing Oath

Cont'd from page 1, col. 3

portunity to test many other questions

including the validity of the Attorney

General's listing of organizations. (See

Counsel Okrand's discussion on page 2 of

the several points advanced in the case

filed here.)

the City of New York recognizes that the

right to counsel requires public accept-

ance of the correlative right of a lawyer to

represent and defend, in accordance with

the standards of the bar, any client with-

out having imputed to him his client's

reputation, views or character.

"2. That this Association will support

any lawyer against criticism or attack

in connection with such representation,

when, in its judgment, he has acted in

accordance with the standards of the bar.

2. That this Association will strive to

educate the profession and the public on

the rights and duties of a lawyer in repre-

senting any client, regardless of the un-

popularity of either the client or his

cause?'

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Southern California Branch

EASON MONROE, Editor

A. L. WIRIN, Counsel

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

J. W. MacNarr

Pau. Jacoss

President

KATHERINE KILBOURNE

CHARLES MACKINTOSH

Loren MILLER

RoBerT Morris

FrED OKRAND

Vice-President

Je DB. PIETZ

"The People... Do Enact as Follows:' --?

Each of the more than 5400 bills recently

introduced in the 1953 California Legis-

lature begins "The people of the State of

California do enact as follows:-? And,

until the close of the current session,

which reconvenes February 24 and closes

in mid-June, the people of California must

remain alert to be sure that the laws en-

acted by our representatives actually con-

form to the wishes of the people.

Although there has not yet been suffi-

cient opportunity to examine all the bills

before the legislature, it is already clear

that several of them affect civil liberties

mony, has been issued is the victim of ac-

cusation, and resultant job loss, permitted

a "hearing" before the commission `to

present such evidence as he may desire, to

refute the charges.'

Only if a majority of the commission

still think him guilty is the accused per-

mitted recourse to the courts, and then,

under the handicap of declared guilt

rather than assumed innocence.

Assembly Bill 682 (Morris, Levering, et al)

This bill provides that `tas an aid to

moral instruction in the public schools of

California it shall be the policy of the

Education Department to permit the read-

ing of selected portions of the Bible?'

Supervision of such Bible reading `is

left to local school boards, as is the exemp-

tion of pupils from such readings.

Secretary-Treasurer

Hvucu H. ANDERSON

BisHop JAmzEs C. BAKER

Mrs. JoHN BEARDSLEY

Harry BRAVERMAN

RoBERT CLARK

Lex B. Cox

Joun C. Packarp

GIFFORD PHILLIPS

Ricuarp RicHarps

Mrs. RaLeH SMITH

Rosert S. VoGEL

Puitre Wain

CrorE WARNE

Pror. Grorce M. Day Pror. EpGar WARREN

Rev. ALLAN HuNTER EvizasetH A. Woop

in important ways.

The March issue of Open Forum will

carry a more complete roster of measures

of concern to the ACLU-now in prepara-

tion by the Committee on Legislation. By

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Stand By... for Freedom!

The old adage `"`an ounce of prevention is

worth a pound of cure" will serve us well

during the next three and a half months,

as we follow the course of the 1953 legis-

lative session.

Indeed, it is much cheaper in every re-

spect to defeat bills which violate our

civil liberties than to attempt their invali-

dation in the courts after they have been

enacted into law.

This year ACLU members must be es-

pecially alert. The composition of the

present legislature gives us little assur-

ance that civil liberties principles will be

respected by the majority of legislators, if

even understood.

Two common attitudes toward the leg-

islative process work against our best in-

terests. Some of us have learned a disdain

for "politics, considering it unworthy of

our serious attention. Others hold the view

that nothing can be done to effect the pas-

sage or defeat of specific measures, hence

feel that no effort is worth making.

But, these attitudes are dangerous in-

deed. The first makes us easy victims of

those legislators who are determined and

thus enabled to subvert our freedoms.

The second belief is unwarranted, as any-

one who has observed closely in previous

sessions the actual effect of public pres-

sure, effectively mobilized.

So, stand by for our call to write-wire

-phone your assemblyman. And, when

we call, write, wire, or phone.

way of a preliminary sampling, we call

to your attention the following:

Assembly Bill 26 (Shaw)

This bill would set up an Anti-Subver-

sive Commission in California, composed

of twelve full-time members, each of

whom would receive an annual salary of

$7500. In addition, the commission would

be empowered to engage as large a staff as

it might deem necessary.

The preamble of the bill sets forth

"findings" virtually identical to those

contained in the federal McCarran Act.

(It seems pertinent to inquire when and

how the legislature obtained these find-

ings. )

The major purpose of the bill is to en-

force the registration of individuals and

organizations declared "`subversive" by

the commission.

The rather elaborate provisions of the

bill give a pretense of `""due process?' But,

in fact, not until the order to register,

based upon "snooper and snitcher"' testi-

Although the bill provides that the

reading be done "without sectarian ap-

plication; civil libertarians will immedi-

ately recognize in this bill an invasion of

the "freedom of religion" and "separation

of church and state" principles.

The permissive aspects of the bill do not

remove its offending youngsters of vari-

ous religious sects which do not recognize

the Bible. Pupils who might wish to be

exempt from the readings, or whose par-

ents might object, would be set apart from

other pupils.

Assembly Bill 923 (Backstrand, Levering)

This bill is one of perhaps many which

will be introduced to implement the

"mandate" of Proposition 5, passed by the

voters last November. It specifically de-

nies exemption from state, county, or city

taxes to any person or organization which

cannot or will not furnish an oath of non-

advocacy of overthrow of the government

or of support of a foreign government

against the U.S. in the event of hostilities.

N.Y. TIMES HITS LEGION

Concerning the continuing Los Angeles

blackout of "Limelight;' the New York

Times recently editorialized:

"Under threat of picketing by the

American Legion, some West Coast thea-

ters have canceled scheduled showings

of Charles Chaplin's latest picture, `Lime-

light? The ostensible reason for Legion

pressure is that doubts have been raised

as to whether Mr. Chaplin, a well-known

Britisher who has lived here some forty

years, is eligible for readmission to this

country under the immigration laws. The

procedure followed by Attorney General

McGranery in publicizing these doubts

immediately after Mr. Chaplin's depar-

ture from the United States last fall was

extraordinary enough. It is even more

extraordinary for private citizens to un-

dertake punishment of Mr. Chaplin via

picketing and the boycott before his case

has even been heard. If this whole busi-

ness of prejudgment, pressures and, what

is worse, knuckling under to these pres-

sures doesn't smack of un-Americanism,

we would like to know what does?'

NEW COMMITTEES PROCEED

Besides the Committee on Legislation,

three other newly authorized committees

of the branch have begun the develop-

ment of their programs.

The Committee on Academic Freedom

(chairman, Dr. George Day) held its first

meeting since the holidays on February

12. Another meeting of this committee is

scheduled for the evening of February 26,

`The Committee on Labor and Civil Lib-

erties (chairman, Dr. Edgar Warren) held

a first meeting in late January. Prepara-

tion of a statement of the committee's

policy and program is now in process.

The Committee on Community Rela-

tions (chairman, Miss Elizabeth Wood)

met on February 12 to begin its work.

ACLU ON THE AIR

KFWB (980)

Every Sunday, 6:30-6:45 p.m.

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AAUW STATEMENT POSES

PROBLEM OF LIBERALS

The American Association of University

Women, through a statement published

by its board of directors, has brought to

light the dilemma which many liberals

have found most perplexing in this period

of history.

`For the most part we and like-minded

groups have been put on the defensive. If

we attacked communism and the Commu-

nists, we found ourselves in the camp with

self-seeking and fascist-minded individu-

als who by their methods of attack were

undermining the freedom and democracy

they professed to defend.

"Tf we defended our liberties as a free

people, we ran the risk of being called

Communist sympathizers, fellow-travel-

ers and even Communists. ...

"The problem we face is not simple, but

the basic issue is clear. If we are to hold

fast to our most cherished values as a free

people, we must preserve both freedom

and national security..."

Among the other points stressed in the

AAUW statement is that this country is

not called upon ``to choose between Com-

munist infiltration and methods of witch-

hunting, character assassination and

demagoguery."

The University Women are concerned

to create positive and constructive pro-

grams to ensure the survival of free

institutions.

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Metklejohn:

Speaking in New York recently, Dr. Alex-

ander Meiklejohn, former president of

Amherst College and member of ACLU

National Committee, had these straight-

forward words for legislative committees

and our Supreme Court:

"Our legislature has no authority to ex-

ercise control over our political freedom.

The intent of the Constitution is that, po-

litically, we shall be governed by no one

but ourselves.

"A legislative committee which asks

the question, `Are you a Republican?' or

`Are you a Communist?' accompanying

the question with the threat of harm or

disrepute if the answer is this rather than

that, stands in contempt of the sovereign

people to whom it owes submission.

"In the field of political opinion or ex-

pression or affiliation, we cannot commit

a punishable crime for the reason that, in

that field, the lawmakers have no author-

ity to legislate a crime into existence.

"T know that the law today is what to-

day the Supreme Court says it is. But I am

hoping that tomorrow the members of the

court will read again from Madison and

Hamilton and Harlan. Perhaps tomorrow

they will change their minds.

"But today the Supreme Court, more

than any other agency or person in our

society, must be held responsible for the

destruction of those Constitutional prin-

ciples which that court is commissioned

to interpret and to defend"'

Gay:

Regarding the "congressional campus

capers" now under direction of Messrs.

McCarthy, Jenner, and Velde, Professor

Peter Gay of Columbia University writes:

"It would ... be unsound public policy

to investigate `subversion' in our colleges.

No matter what its constitutional status

or ostensible purpose, the proposed inves-

tigation can have no moral justification

whatever.

"Let us not deceive ourselves ... such

men are not hunting Communists. They

are hunting ideas-all ideas. Their suc-

cess, either through legislation, or, more

subtly, through intimidation, would itself

be subversive. If the autonomous aca-

demic community should welcome the

proposed investigation, it would show a

regrettable lack of what Arthur Hays

Sulzberger has aptly called `plain, old-

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fashioned guts:

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Open Forum Bros

(R) The first major clash over the Pechan

Act, Pennsylvania's loyalty test law for

state employees, has resulted in the rehir-

ing of the man who was the storm center

of the clash and in the proposed revision

of the procedures for certifying the ab-

sence of subversives at Pennsylvania State

College.

The man is Wendell Scott McRae, pub-

lications production manager in the col-

lege's Office of Public Information. Mc-

Rae was dropped from his job last August

when he failed to be certified by the Loy-

alty Review Board. The reason for the

action was McRae's refusal to answer the

questionnaire placed before all persons

who have not either received security

clearance from the federal government or

taken a state or federal loyalty oath.

Subsequently, after an investigation of

the case, McRae has been given a clean

bill of health as to his loyalty and re-

stored to his job. The college, headed by

Dr. Milton S. Eisenhower, brother of the

President, is now studying changes in its

procedures for discovering subversion.

cent The ACLU has filed a "friend of the

court" brief with the United States Su-

preme Court, asserting that a Michigan

law requiring the public registration of

Communists is "so indefinite, broad, and

general" that it violates the free speech

and association guarantees of the First

and Fourteenth Amendments.

(R) A fund of $200,000, double the amount

allowed last year, was approved by the

Senate recently to finance the operations

of the Senate Investigations subcommit-

tee now headed by Senator Joseph R. Mc-

Carthy. Senator McCarthy has said that

he will double his investigative staff.

On the House of Representatives side,

the Committee on Un-American Activi-

ties, now headed by Representative Har-

old H. Velde, has indicated that its call for

funds for this year will exceed the amount

of last year's expenditures-$285,000.

(R)* An American Catholic priest has as-

serted, that disillusionment with the new

United States immigration laws may

drive many Italians into Communist

ranks,

Msgr. John O'Grady of Washington,

D.C., according to AP reports, has said:

"There is a great danger lest many Ital-

ians, on the basis of complete disillusion-

ment in regard to our immigration legis-

lation, may vote for the Communists in

the next election. ... It is conceivable that

by reason of our immigration legislation,

Italy could go over to the Communists

during the next few months?'

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