Speech #860003903

Political Affairs. calls for the repeal of all antisubversion laws and the abolition tf the House UnAmerican Activities Committee and the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee. As an illustration of the partys mounting influence. consider the platform of the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee (ECLC): "The House UnAmerican Activities Committee has denounced the ECLC for our avowed campaign to efnd it. * * * They are correct. The purpose of ECLC in 1959 is to work unceasingly for its abolition. "We will work for congressional investigation of the FBIs unlawful and unconstitutional conduct. and we will support individuals who resist such conduct. "We will seek the introduction and passage by Congress of bills to repeal- the Smith Act. the Internal Security Act. the Communist Control Act. the McCarranWalter Immigration Act. and various industrial screening provisions." Recognizing the chief source of their blessings. the ECLA adds: "We will oppose * * * legislation undermining the Supreme Court decisions on civil liberties and civil rights." On December 15. at the Hotel New Yorker. the ECLC raised $33.000 within a half an hour to accomplish its goals for 1959. Pledges rained down from such notorious fellow travelers as Corliss Lamont and from such eager liberals as Judge Hubert T. Delany.