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Communist Party U.S.A, more active every day in Angela Davis, Soledad Brothers, Justice for Attica Prisoners etc. campaigns. Angela Davis’ sister Mrs. Fania Jordan has been touring Western and Eastern Europe in well publicized campaign to gather support, funds for Davis defense. Mrs. Jordan told Rome news conference that she had recently joined the CPUSA and that the Party and the Black Panthers work together “in such things as rallies.” Mrs. Jordan’s trip behind the Curtain under sponsorship of World Federation of Democratic Youth (headquarters: Budapest); she was accompanied by Felicia Ann Coward, of the Young Workers Liberation League, which is newest and most active CP Youth front. . . . On West Coast, People’s World (the CP news-weekly in California) has trotted out paroled atom spy Morton Sobell (an accomplice of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg) to speak out against prison conditions. On one platform in San Francisco’s Glide Memorial Church, Sobell was accompanied by Inez Williams, mother of Soledad Brother Fleeta Drumgo and (if you can believe it) Warren K. Billings, “framed with Tom Mooney for a bombing in 1916.” . . . Also much in demand on California platforms these days, Daniel Ellsberg. Ellsberg is scheduled to host big “Set the Date” mass meeting at the Sports Arena in Los Angeles on Nov. 12 (daytime, he’s in court)…. Human Events reports that former Sen. Charles Goodell has signed on as special counsel for Ellsberg; is busy raising money for his defense. . . . Two Women Strike for Peacers, just back from Hanoi, report U.S. POWs there have been issued paperback editions of the Pentagon Papers to while away the hours. They had not been allowed to see any POWs.

Chambers, Halifax Herald

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Communist Party U.S.A, more active every day in Angela Davis, Soledad Brothers, Justice for Attica Prisoners etc. campaigns. Angela Davis’ sister Mrs. Fania Jordan has been touring Western and Eastern Europe in well publicized campaign to gather support, funds for Davis defense. Mrs. Jordan told Rome news conference that she had recently joined the CPUSA and that the Party and the Black Panthers work together “in such things as rallies.” Mrs. Jordan’s trip behind the Curtain under sponsorship of World Federation of Democratic Youth (headquarters: Budapest); she was accompanied by Felicia Ann Coward, of the Young Workers Liberation League, which is newest and most active CP Youth front. . . . On West Coast, People’s World (the CP news-weekly in California) has trotted out paroled atom spy Morton Sobell (an accomplice of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg) to speak out against prison conditions. On one platform in San Francisco’s Glide Memorial Church, Sobell was accompanied by Inez Williams, mother of Soledad Brother Fleeta Drumgo and (if you can believe it) Warren K. Billings, “framed with Tom Mooney for a bombing in 1916.” . . . Also much in demand on California platforms these days, Daniel Ellsberg. Ellsberg is scheduled to host big “Set the Date” mass meeting at the Sports Arena in Los Angeles on Nov. 12 (daytime, he’s in court)…. Human Events reports that former Sen. Charles Goodell has signed on as special counsel for Ellsberg; is busy raising money for his defense. . . . Two Women Strike for Peacers, just back from Hanoi, report U.S. POWs there have been issued paperback editions of the Pentagon Papers to while away the hours. They had not been allowed to see any POWs.

Chambers, Halifax Herald