successively fought (1920 and 1923) deportation of alien. left wing anarchists belonging to the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). supported Sacco and Vanzetti (anarchists executed for a felony murder). and defended members of a religious sect who refused to salute the flag. Eight years later charges erupted before the Dies Committee that the ACLU was communistic. Dies assertedly found no "evidence" supporting the charges during the examination of the ACLUs Harry F. Ward. Ward. later bounced by the ACLU. was before the committee in behalf of the American League for Peace and Democracy. cited as subversive and Americas "largest Communist front." The following year. 1940. the ACLU adopted its purge resolution.
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