singer and banjo virtuoso, and just received by Sydney's Western Suburbs branch of the Eureka Youth League.
Pete Seeger, for years denied a passport by the United States Government, was recently sentenced to one
year in gaol for his refusal to answer witch-hunting questions before a government committee. At present he
is on 20,000 dollars bail.
The EYL branch wrote at the time to advise Pete seeger it was organising a special function in support of the
movement of protest against this repression.
Last Saturday night, at the function in Balmain, about 50 young people heard tapes of Seeger's songs and an
outline of his outstanding work for the cause of peace and the working class of the USA.
Signatures were collected to a letter of protest to the US President and to a letter to Pete Seeger.
Notes
From the NSW Newspaper The Tribune 28 Jun 1961 p. 1.
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