INDIANA YOUNG SOCIALISTS FACE FURTHER PERSECUTION from Sylvia Riley
On May, 1963, Ralph Levitt, James Bingham and Tom Morgan - officers of the Young Socialist Alliance at Indiana University were charged under a McCarthy-era state sedition law, with having assembled for the purpose of advocating the violent overthrow of both the federal and Indiana state governments. One of the main charges was that they had sponsored a campus meeting at which a young Negro socialist spoke on civil rights. Thanks to a nation-wide defence - the Committee to Aid the Bloomington Students = and the support of the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee, whose chief counsel, Leonard Boudin, drew up the constitutional defence brief, the prosecution was defeated. The local judge threw out the indictments on March 20 on the grounds that the thought-control law was unconstitutional, Similar laws have been ruled unconstitutional in other states,
Now Prosecutor Thomas A, Hoadky has filed his appeal brief,within the time set by law, to be carried to the Indiana supreme court. The Indiana press reports that Hoadley will petition for an early hearing this Autum. Enquiries should be sent to CABS, P.O. Box 213, Cooper Station, New York, N.Y., 10003 for further information,