Civil Rights Defense Committee
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Free the 18, 1944-06
"Free the 18 leaders of Minneapolis Truckdrivers Local 544-CIO and the Socialist Workers Party now behind prison bars, sentenced under the anti-labor Smith 'gag' Act." Announcement flyer for a radio address, "Free Speech and Labor's Rights" presented by James T. Farrell on WEVD-Radio.
Justice Denied, 1944-01-15
"We suppose this is a hopeless suggestion. But we wish that Congress by legislation or the Supreme Court by voluntary action would provide for publication of the votes taken in chambers on applications for certiorari...We hold no brief for the Trotskyites and have differed deeply with them on most concrete issues. But we think them unjustly and unfairly condemned, the victims of a cheap bit of labor politics...."
Letter from James T. Farrell (Chairman) to Friends, 1944
"Dear Friend: When the 18 Minneapolis union and socialist leaders were placed behind prison bars on Decembver 31st, Roger Baldwin, Director of the American Civil Liberties Union declared: This imprisonment nevewr should have taken place...."
Pamphlet, 1944
Single page of a pamphlet which lists National Committee members, list of unions supporting the Minneapolic Case, and what YOU can do to help free the "18".
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- Truck drivers -- Labor unions -- Minnesota -- History -- 20th century. 3
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- Labor unions -- United States. 2
- Political prisoners -- United States -- History. 2
- Blacklisting, Labor -- United States -- History -- 20th century. 1
- Garment workers -- United States -- History. 1
- Radicalism -- United States. -- History. 1
- Railroads -- Employees -- Labor unions -- United States -- History -- 20th century. 1
- Sedition. 1
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