New York, Sept. 25. -(AP)- The American Civil Liberties union Saturday urged "fairer treatment for conscientious objectors" in a plea to Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, head of selective service, and Attorney General Biddle, signed by 19 Americans "none of whom are pacifists."

Embodied in a 50-page pamphlet "Conscience and the War," the plea proposed:

A more liberal basis for recognizing conscience; the establishment of a uniform national policy in the appeals system; removal of military officers from civilian functions of handling presidential appeals, paroles and the direction of work campus; individual assignments to civilian jobs instead of work camps; provision for pay equal to a soldiers; and parole to useful occupations of a large part of the 1,500 "genuine objectors in prison" convicted for "technical offenses."

The pamphlet added that during the first World war two of the proposed reforms were in effect: Assignment to civilian jobs and pay equal to that of a soldier.

Signers were listed as including Dr. Frederick May Eliot, president of the Unitarian association, Boston; Dean Christian Gauss of Princeton university; Dr, Felix Morley, president of Haverford college; Dr. Mary E. Woolley, former president of Mt. Holyoke college, and Dr. William Allan Neilson, former president of Smith college.

The report stated that about 10,000 men are registered as conscientious objectors. An estimated 6,000 more are rendering non-combatant service in medical units of the army, the pamphlet said. - Daily Oklahoman.