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Show FREE PRESS IN DANGER, CLAIM Publishers Think Liberty Is Threatened By .Law-l .Law-l making Bodies j NEW YORK. April 28. Members of the American Newspaper Publish re' 'association in their annual convention here Thursday adopted a resolution ex-pr ex-pr easing 'determination to resist all interference with tho rights of Its j members and of the press to free expression ex-pression under the constitutional guar-a guar-a ntee." In Instructing the comniittti on Bd-leral Bd-leral laws to exhaust its resources Ui maintaining liberty of the press, th resolution declared that it appear. I "as an aftermath of the extraordinary executive and judicial powers exercised during the greal war. the llbi rty of the press has been Kcrlously threatened during the past year in efforts to pas restrictive legislation In congress and In slat.- legislatures, and in efforts to throttle criticism by unprecedented leval ami judicial proceedings." Before listenlnK 'o addresses by Senator Sen-ator Gilbert M. Hitchcock, of Nebnu ka, und Seymour Cromwell, presldetit of the New York stock exchange, the convention adopted two sets of resolutions reso-lutions relating to trade agreemi nl lth the several printing trades. One Instructed the board of directors to es-1 tiMlsii an open shop division of the N. P. A, and the other expressed In "unequivocal terma its determlngilpn tn resist all interference yviih tn-rights tn-rights of lis members and of the pr. to free expression under tho constitutional constitu-tional guaruntees." n n |