The first move was made by the Region 9 New Jersey CAP Council Women’s Committee, which set up an ERA subcommittee to educate the union’s 35,000 members and organize buses for the January 13 march.

Hundreds of LERN pamphlets called Labor’s Stake in the ERA have already been distributed in auto assembly and parts plants in New Jersey. One thousand more are on order.

A UAW brochure on the ERA—put out by the International—is also being distributed in large quantities.

The women’s committee is also putting out a green-and-white UAW ERA button and T-shirts with the UAW symbol advertising the Richmond march. These will certainly start a lot of discussions on the assembly lines.

To coincide with the LERN week of local activities December 2-9, the UAW will host an educational meeting December 3 on why working people need the ERA. The Coalition of Labor Union Women, and the Women’s Affirmative Action Committee at the UAW Regional office in Cranford are also participating. Gloria Johnson, national treasurer of CLUW, will be the keynote speaker.  
 
November 8, 1954
The Department of Justice has been staging a series of arrests of Puerto Rican Nationalists and at the same time members of the Puerto Rican Communist Party.

Following the conviction for “seditious conspiracy” of 13 Nationalists, who received maximum sentences, the FBI arrested 11 alleged leaders of the Puerto Rican C.P. Nine were arrested in Puerto Rico, one in New York, and one entered the U.S. from Mexico to face trial. All were charged with violating the thought-control Smith Act.

These arrests were followed on Oct. 30 by the roundup of nine Puerto Rican Nationalists in Chicago and two in Puerto Rico.

The timing of these arrests, the “dramatic” early dawn invasion of homes, the careful alternation between arrests of Nationalist and arrests of Stalinists, the wide circle of arrested, all indicates that the FBI is engaged in an elaborate multiple frame-up.  
 
 
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