December 6, 1967

US Sup Ct upholds unions right to set up group legal services to provide members free or low-cost legal aid; reverses Ill Sup Ct decision that a UMW local had engaged in unauthorized practice of law by providing free service; Amer Bar Assn official predicts ruling will spur creation of group legal services by variety of orgns; Ill Bar Assn brought suit, charging UMW system violated Amer Bar Assn's Canon 35

Council of Jewish Orgns in Civil Service to plant grove of trees in memory of Cardinal Spellman

The police arrested 264 persons, including Dr. Benjamin Spock and the poet Allen Ginsberg, during a demonstration yesterday between 5 A.M. and 6 A.M. by more than 2,500 antidraft, antiwar protesters at the armed forces induction center at 39 Whitehall Street.

US officials acknowledge that member of UN Secretariat told US delegation in Oct that NLF expressed desire to send reprs to UN; say Vietcong intended to use such visit to lobby for its cause in Assembly; Adm sought to block move by raising prospect of inv to Vietcong to Security Council debate; Goldberg actions and Thant right to invite Vietcong to UN noted; US obliged to issue necessary visas; US officials doubt Vietcong would drop earlier objections to UN involvement; S Vietnam opposes Vietcong role in UN talks; Min Trans Van Do comments; wkly rept privately drafted and distributed within US mission in S Vietnam portrays US officials in provs as gloomy about war and mood of S Vietnamese people; says there has been increased tempo in Vietcong terrorism and propaganda; says many Vietnamese feel US is deliberately prolonging war and that Amer dominance has become so great as to threaten sovereignty of Vietnam; indicates US officials are meeting problems; notes other complaints of Vietnamese

Bronx Sup Ct to suspend all civil trials for at least 1 mo, Jan, to cut backlog of criminal cases; backlog attributed to shortage of judges, increased indictments and pretrial and posttrial hearings resulting from recent US Sup Ct decisions concerning defendants rights; Presiding Justice Botein discusses situation; asks more new judgeships; 2,914 indictments returned in Bronx, Jan-Oct; Asst Dist Atty Roberts cites rising crime rate in Bronx but legal experts link increased indictments to more effective prosecution effort by Dist Atty's office, cite decline in Manhattan indictments in same period