In a speech before the Harvard Liberal Union in the Lowell Junior Common Room Saturday, Oscar Schoenfeld, one of the labor leaders convicted in the Minneapolis sedition trials, urged the release of his colleagues and the abolition of the Smith Sedition Act under which they were convicted.
Schoenfeld, who was introduced by Albert Sprague Coolidge, President of the Massachusetts Civil Liberties Union, claimed that all those who support the cause of civil liberties should fight for the pardon of the remaining labor leaders in order to make it impossible for future "frumps" to prevent militant trade unionists from expressing their opinions.
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