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Letter from Emspak re: bail arrangements for W.S. (October 17); Letter from Sydney Berger re: Smith Act decision in CT case and copy of brief filed in W.S.'s behalf (Sept. 21); Letter from Self-Defense

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Includes news clippings; section from CIO News February 8, 1943; correspondence; letter to W.S. from Congressman John B. Sullivan (March 9, 1942); Memo from W.S. to all District 8 locals re: efforts to disband the Dies Committee (March 3, 1942); Letter from National Federation for Constitutional Liberties advocating discontinuation of Dies Committee (Feb. 5, 1943); HUAC Report: Investigation of Un-American Propaganda Activities in the United States (in envelope) (March 29, 1944)

Description Includes news clippings; Report on Dies Investigation Committee in St. Louis; Letter to W.S. re: recent activities of George Apel, from RBL (January 4, 1940); Handwritten notes re: (Orville?) Huskey and Dies Committee, n.d., 2 pp.; Story from St. Louis Post Dispatch "Dies Hunt for Un-Americanism: A Circus with a Purpose" (Oct. 29, 1939); Report on Dies Committee's red-baiting tactics (n.d.); Letter to all CIO locals from Delmond Garst, President, Missouri State Industrial Union Council re:...

Description Includes: Handbill, "FBI Joins Eagle Signal Corp. in Wage-Cut, Speed Up Plot!" (Sept. 17, 1952); Letters of support from UE Local 903, Ft. Wayne (October); Printed letter to members of UE Local 813 Evansville in defense of W.S. (October); Evansville UE Newsletter (October) 2 copies; Letters to various union representatives requesting support for the Sentner Defense Fund from Don W. Harris, President (Dec. 22, 1953); Letter to editor of St. Louis Post Dispatch from Jennie Clark, Sister of...

Description Includes: affidavit sworn by W.S. re: his delivery of bail funds for Alphonse Murphy, May 25, 1956; St. Louis Emergency Defense Committee envelope marked "Bail Bond Receipts" containing letters and list of names, n.d.; Letters to W.S. and Robert Logsdon re: the latter's possession of receipt for W.S. bail money (Feb-Apr 1956); Letter to George Harris from W.S. re: U.S. and Canadian relations and IUE-CIO, plus request for funds for his appeal (Oct. 2, 1954); Reply from George Harris,...

Description Includes: Sworn testimony of advance knowledge of W.S. arrest by the FBI (Feb. 14, 1953). James Forest's opening statement, 18 pp. (Feb. 1, 1954); Information on jury composition and selection; court order reducing W.S's bail (Sept. 24, 1952); Memo re: efforts of Smith Act Defendants to Secure Attorneys (Nov. 28, 1952); Brief on behalf os W.S. in the U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit; Affidavit in Support of Motion of W.S. re: Motions to Dismiss the Indictment (March 19, 1953); Outline...

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Includes: List of documents used as evidence in Forest et.al. case; List of "Overt Acts" in Forest et.al. case; Motion of Murphy of Dismiss Indictment; Oral Argument of Dorothy Forest in support of Motion to Dismiss the Indictment Against Smith Act Defendants (April 17, 1953); Testimony of Mrs. Hanners, February 11, 1954; Examination and Cross-Examination of Rev. Obadiah Jones; Note pad used by W.S. at trial (?)

Description Includes: Exhibits used in trial (1954); W.S. address to Soviet-American Friendship Meeting of Communist Party, St. Louis, MO (Nov. 7, 1945); "Memo on Employment and Other Conditions in the Electric Manufacturing Industry in Evansville IN and St. Louis MO Areas", n.d.; Speech delivered to American-Soviet Friendship Meeting by W.S., January 28, 1945); Opening remarks State Conference Communist Political Association (May 6, 1945); Report on W.S. outlining his political activities and making...

Description Includes: Fact Sheet No. 1 on House Un-American Activities Committee; Statement of UE District 9 "Stand Up, Speak Out, and Fight Back" re: McCarthyism; "Investigation of Communist Activities in the Chicago Area"; "Investigation of Communist Influence in the Field of Publications"; Testimony of Dr. Edward U. Condon, all from Hearings Before the Committee on Un-American Activities (1952-1954); HUAC Report on the CIO Political Action Committee (March 29, 1944); Pamphlet on HUAC Hearings in...

Description Includes: Partial report on Congressmen Clyde Doyle, Morgan M. Moulder, and Donald L. Jackson, including their voting records, etc. (pages missing); Memorandum of Law re: request by HUAC for issuance of contempt citations; Resume of Appearance of David Scribner Before Senator Butler at Pittsburgh, November 10, 1953 (2 pp); Voting records of Sen. Herman Welker;, Rep. Morgan Moulder; "Self-Incrimination by Witnesses Before Congressional Committees"; "Congressional Investigations"; "Sacher...