The Daily Red Flag

A nineteen-year-old woman supervised a children's summer camp run by a communist youth group. Each morning she led the children in raising a red flag and reciting a pledge to it. A state law made it a crime to display a red flag as a sign of opposition to organised government, as an invitation to anarchist action, or as an aid to seditious propaganda. A jury convicted her. She says the law punishes a symbol, not any act or plan of violence.