ELIOT, POLAND SPEAK FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES

Thomas H. Eliot '28 and Orville S. Poland, chairman of the Civil Liberties Committee of Massachusetts, were the principal speakers last night at a meeting of the Massachusetts Citizens Union in Phillips Brooks House.

Eliot, who helped draft the Social Security Act and who is now New England director for the Wages and Hours Administration, stated that although the Law has been passed and is now being rigorously enforced, it still is not doing the good that it might because so many of the employers are fighting against it.

Investigators have found that employees, who in some extreme cases have been paid only two cents an hour, have been afraid to tell of their plight out of lean of losing their jobs. "For them free speech is just an ideal dream," said the young politician.

Orville Poland, speaking on the Dies Committee, said that if the American Student Union is investigated the inquiry will most certainly reach Harvard. "The Dies Committee's real business is to smear the Roosevelt administration, and is acting as the stooge of the National Manufacturers Association and the Chambers of Commerce," he continued.

"Why else would they have published mailing lists enumerating so many members of the administration? Theirs is the most obnoxious kind of endeavor to assassinate the reputation of those who come before it for scrutiny and investigation," Poland concluded