State Bar Head Seeks To Dissolve Lawyers Guild as Local 'Front'

The president of the Massachusetts Bar Association yesterday asked the University to stop "playing host to the Communist Party." He urged the Law School to "take action now to disband" the local chapter of the Lawyers Guild and to bar any activities of the Guild "on the school premises."

Declaring he wrote as an individual, Samuel P. Sears '17 protested in a letter to Dean Griswold the scheduling at the University of a talk by Osmond K. Fraenkel '08, vice-president of the National Lawyers Guild.

Sears, a Law School graduate, quoted a report of the House Un-American Activities Committee which called the National Guild "the foremost bulwark of the Communist Party, its front organizations, and controlled unions." He said that he would present the situation to the members of the State Bar Association at their next meeting "for such action as they may care to take."

Last night Griswold had no comment to make on the letter.