HLU Helps Form Civil Rights Body

The Liberal Union joined with more than 20 other groups to form a new body to coordinate all action on Civil Liberties in the Greater Boston area, Joseph Chira '49, HLU representative, announced last night.

The new committee will be called the Inter-Group Council on Civil Rights.

The organization, Chira emphasized, will not take specific actions but will merely "work as a clearing house for civil liberties problems and will bring them to the attention of all groups."

Americans for Democratic Action, the Anti-Defamation League, the American Veterans Committee, the Boston Labor Committee of the Massachusetts A. F. of L. and C.I.C., the Frances Sweeney Committee, and the Urban League will all work in the new organization.

Legislation

Yesterday the council also voted to formulate its activities which would be: (1) gathering information on pertinent legislation before the General Court; (2) sponsoring research projects on civil liberties; (3) arranging forums and debates on civil liberties.

Chira said that the HLU's relation to the new body will not be official until Liberal Union members have ratified the move at their next membership meeting.