The trial of ten students on the anti-war strike committee on the charge of organizing and holding a meeting unauthorized by the regulations of City College, was resumed behind closed doors at the college yesterday by the Joint Student-Faculty Committee. Outside the doors of the faculty room students demanded an open hearing.
The attorneys for the ten students, A. L. Wirin, of the American Civil Liberties Union, Edward Kuntz, Sr., of the International Defense, father of one of the students, and Kenneth Meiklejohn, vice-chairman of the national executive committee of the student section of the League for Industrial Democracy, who is representing Max Delson of the Socialist Lawyers’ Association, previously pleaded for an open hearing but the plea was rejected by the Joint Student-Faculty Committee.
A brief, setting forth arguments for an open hearing, was submitted yesterday by Wirin. Meanwhile the National Student League circulated a leaflet urging the students to demand an open hearing.
The accused students are Morris Milgram, Charles Goodwin, Emanuel Donow, Arnold Gisnet, Gilbert Cutler, Edward Kuntz, Jr., Arnold ## Norman Rafsky, Leo Rubinstein and Edwin Alexander, The last student named was recently dropped from the rolls of the college.
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