Ogden Daily Standard | 1920-01-25 | Page 1 | New Union to Fight for People's Rights

oo New Union to Fight for People's Rights NEW YORK, Jan. 26 The formation forma-tion of a new organization to be known as the American Civil Liberties Union "to chamvion in the highest courts the civi' libert rights of persons and organizations' or-ganizations' was announced here to-nignt to-nignt by Prof. Harry F. Ward of the Union Theological Seminary, who will head the union. Others who will serve on tho executive committee will be Helen Phelps Stokes, treasurer; Albert Al-bert de Silver and Roger N. Baldwin, Walter Nelles is to be chief counsel. The national committee of the new organization are: James H. Maurer, president of tho Pennsylvania state federation of labor; Helen Keller, "Morris "Mor-ris Hillquit, Jane Addams, John Sayre and others. The union, according lo Prof. Ward, "will fight in the courts all attempts to violate the right of free speech and free press." He added that it was proposed pro-posed to keep "industrial struggles in conformity with the constitution of the United Slates and of the several states of the union." oo