John Reed Group Hears Davis Flail Truman, Thomas

Three Cambridge cops were assigned to keep a careful eye on Emerson D yesterday evening, but a crowd of 100 heard Benjamin Davis, New York's Negro Communist councilman without heckling or disturbance of any kind. The meeting was sponsored by the John Reed Society.

Davis, also President of the Daily Worker, devoted most of his speech to a discussion of a bill recently introduced by the Thomas Un-American Committee into Congress. This measure would require members of Communist "front" and political organizations to swear their allegiance to this nation, or else suffer heavy fines and imprisonment.

Protesting that this bill made a mockery of American "democracy," Davis offered to match his record against that of any of the authors of the measure.