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I do not know of any interest which the Army would have in Robeson as his activities appear to be within the investigative
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made inquiries at Rutgers Universi y egarding Robeson s standing while he attended that college. Reference memorandum recommended that the Liaison Section ascertain the reasons why this inquiry was made by the Arnsr.
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Granger pointed out prominen ratings on college campuses. ' egroes who had obtained high scholastic _
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92.Cannery Workers~,_ identified as a member of the Communist Party;BENJAMIN
I ngahore d: Allied Workers, identifiedae member of the Communist Party
QA, ILIU stevedore identified and Party member; Conmmist EMST , Presiiient Local of 150, ILIIU Warehouse, Ianu acturing & Allied Iorkers and ' _ A
identified Communist Party member; ROBERT, I. ._, cELRA'1'H, International Representative of the ILIFU in Hawaii, and an identified nembe of the Executive Committee of the Communist Party in Hawaii in 1947; Ilrs. DSHIIO .. g ,__C0mm.mist Pa ty member
Go ist Party member and wife of ILIIU attorney .' SIHONDS. .
and wife of Regional Director the of ILIIU, JACK I g ilirs. IIYER Q,-g ~w
I3@A_ _3, Departmental Commander of the American Legion in Hawaii, charged that
RESOH and his associate EARL ROBINSON had been described as Communist
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press controversy
denied by JACK
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the evening of larch 10, 1946. This affair, which was 150 persons, included ILIU leaders and prominent local
affair lasted
over three hours during the course of which BDBESOH sang various songs emphasisin labor solidarity but neither ROBEBOB norBROWN spoke at the gathering.
The first of ROBESOH's local concerts was held on Hsroh ll, 1943, before
a sellout audience at Roosevelt High School. Honolulu. Theeehconcerts had previously been reported by ROBERT I. llcELPATH in the Ila:-chi, 1948, edition of the
HAWAII STAR" as being arranged under ILIU sponsorship and that ROB ON would sing
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without charge for the union and that the proceeds from the several concerts would be used for that they considered to be "worthy causes. ' ' ROBESOH, while in aeaii, Visited the islands of Kauai, iiclokai, Lanai, llaui, and Hawaii and had a total of 15 public concerts at these places. ROBERT II. IMELRATH, Territorial ILIU Representative, and an identi ed Communist Party member,as indicated previously in this communication, had charge of the ROBESON tour and supervised all arrangementsas to hotel accomodations and the eecuring of space for the concerts while this group was visiting the islands other than Oahu. . A
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Uomittee by zuc p sun, an identified Communist, and vrncxmwnon Chair men of th "Educa the of that organisation. t is to e n ed that the _ ' 1 Hawaii vil Liberties mnitteehas beendescribed by-92 onidentiaJ._Infornant1
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V ROBESON's last concert in Hawaii was held on the afternoon of llaroh ' 21, 1943, at iiciinley High School at which time HE RGBIHSOF and
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ROBESON tour had netted the ILHU approximately .00. ILWU officials were
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that "as far as I know the Communist Party is a legal party. You might as Iell
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GE's thinking on "Progresive Capitalism." Hesiden-ther indicated that if there ' in-a _"i'trike or shooting, he would be on the union's
Reference is also mde to Les Lngeles radiogren to Honolulu dated '11, starch 1948, wherein it was stated that RGBESG was it -that tine" in Honolulu for unknown reasons, but "believed confidential assignment." This is to advise
that no information has been developed during the period ofhis stay tint would indicate that ROBESON was in Hawaii on a special assignment on behalf of the COnsm1n1 st Party, HUG. _ _
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positive action to protect civil rights insteadof persecuting political minoriis to defend the right of political andotherminorities, P0016-UJ the N957-'9
society whichthey considernecessargy to give
American democracy. of Henry A. Wallace:
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of Communist is the first line in the a democratic people. The history of step in en assault
Germany,Italy,
on the democratic
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Here, clearly,
reaction It
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charge them with any attempt to use "force and violence", for political or any other purpose. Indeed, the asserted basis of their indictment has already been
overruled by the Supreme Court of the
in the recent "Communist round-up --one a veteran, the Rational Administrative Secretary of the Communist Party; the other a lawyer, whom some 60,000 citizens
he understood by the Negro people. its fascist-like
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the protection
1-Iscall upon the Attorney General to use the of his office lives and liberties of the Negro people in the South.
acting to destroy them! -- to use his executive authority
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We invite you to Join us in sponsoring the enclosed "Statement
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Please indicate your endorsement of the "Ste.temnt" by signing end returning the enclosed postal reply card at once, Try to get it to us within two or three days. i i It is clear that we Negro Americans will lose even our right to fight for our rights unless an aroused American people puts e. halt to the government's hysteria- breeding atteoles upon the Communists. The recent ~ . -
"round-up" of
national
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The text oi the enclosed Sta.te:sant rakes explicit the fact tint we raise here no defense of the principles of the Communist Party"; that our concern
is to Protect the right of ell minorities full to fight for the kind of America
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over the country, and today they will be pinned to the Board of Tribute which has just been erected in -the
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I pledge myself to win onenewreader of theDaily Labour 22,652, Cons. llflill -, Worker as ii tribute to the memory of William Rust. BASIC RIGHTS _ Lib. 5.256. Lab. majority 11.512 i .e trial of we eleven leader: 0 Name of the American CorrirnunistParty. .3-Mr. Robeson said this: " Once those I menwere pilloried. then anybody Addrea . . .. whohad any kind oi opinion these Wall Street fellows didn't like " ssssss -aneolaaellaolsnunonaallol 92pnnuIonovIO1lllll wouldalso be unsafe. _ It is indeed a basic issue of Send to Daily Worker, 7-5 Farringdon Road, E.C.1. H American civil rights. I think they have done a magni cent job in I I their struggles for the Negro I..;gq|ouaalaaaannanaoaoallaaoaoaanuannaaaaaaaluauaannunnlaaanunnanaaononao .0 1 0 _neonle." IE Robesorfsi toiir, the bookings 00 for whichhave been, I understand. r. "sensational." will last until the Lighting-up ll.l'llE7Z75.5U p.m. middleof April. Among the cities he la visitin"
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Cardiff,Glasgow.and Liverpool. I shall ling." he said, "classlcal longs,then folk songs, I shall arouo of songs oi t IHDVEBIBDIS. Mr. Robeson added
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LEPLUL RSBESOH was one ofthe sponsors and a member of e ecutive Comm
of the AmericanCrusadeto End Lynchingwhich had set up headquarters at 23 Ilest 26th Street, RBI York City. According to the informant, the said Committeeplanned to hold a "marchon Washingtonon Monday,September23,
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1946, delegates from all over the country to he participants therein." In New York City, the Negro Congress planned to send representatives and the
Independent Citizens Committee of the Arts, Sciences and Professions and the National Citizens Committee-?AC held in Madison Square Garden, PAUL
ROBFSONstated that no government as done so much for its people
people
and freedom."
New York Gigi. addresses irere made by BEN DAVIS, Communist Party Counc
September21 and 22, 1946, at the Fraternal Club House, 110 Iest 48th Street, sentatives of the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, Poland and Czechoslovakiawere present. In the course of the speechlads by the subject, he stated "It
saying we are Communists." ,CONNELI-I, CommunistParty Councilman; and the subject. Reprenan; EUGEN
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Communists. A nember of the Russian delegation to the rally, dressed in a
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In the "Nee York Times" issue of October B, 1946, it is reported that PAUL REBESCN testified at a hearing oi the TIJNNEY Joint Legislative
He was
as a surprise witness at a series of hearings the Kn nu: Klan and left Iing activities in Holly-
other pro-Communis activities. During the hearing he stated that the "best comtry in cue sale today" to test the principles of =ight - AR.- il he America"; that he .-had chosen Russia as the place for the early education of his eon; and that many Negro Americans would prefer the equality achieved in Russia to the Ishadosy freedom they have in the South.
RCBESON had endorsed the candidacy of CHARLES __COLLINS for the New York
State Senate for the 21st Senatorial District Conmurd.st, being a member of the New York Sgate I- art-ya _
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In the January 27, 1947, issue of the "Nee York Times" PAULROBESOH was quoted as saying that he intended to abandon the theatre and concert stage to "tour up and down the nation against race hatred and prejudice. Also, according to the said issue of the "Times", ROBESOR had marched on the previous day at the head of a picket line, which about thirty numbers of the
Civil Rights Congress or St. Louis had formed Theatre to protest its alleged racial-segregation in front of the American practices. '
A' _92_7 The "Nee York Times" issue ot April 26, 1947, reported that MBES
spoke on April 25, 1947, at the l0th Annual Rally of the Councilon African
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Iork City
or which
he is
Chairman. He
he was barred from singing because or his pro-Communist an example of Fascism at work in the Ihited States and it
"Communist bogey had been used to
in the United States."
Worker" issue
of April
IS,
called upon
ate deci-
Fascist-like proposal
had given a concert in Panama City on Hay 2'7, 1947, and that in a press conference after the concert he refused to say whether or not he was a lumber of the Communist Party. He said he was "anti-Fascist" and remarked that he intended to devote the next two years to active participation in a movement to improve the lot of the Negroes. He also stated the hysteria Iwas the
eause of tear of Soviet Russia.
Q Confidential
R BESON attended
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Madison Square Garden, New York City, and that after singing several songs, including a Sow-iet melody, he delivered a epeeeh in eh-ioh he stated that
the people of the world are looking upon the Soviet
and real friend." Communi -. -- --The aforementioned - up -.=. - = -, =.- co
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stated that at a ._ i
Janeiro,
s. RCBESON and
stated that
Brazil to
in the Uni
study the
situation
and to
to counterbalance
in the
United States
politi-
that L1
drive and $15,000 to free Spain. Enclosed in the torn letter was a reply envelope addressed to the Veterans of the ABRAHAM LINCOLN BRIGADE with the subject's name appearing in the lower left corner, '
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Affairs, protested to FRANCIS B. SAIRE, United States representative to the United Nations Trusteeship Committee, the vote "or the United States
against India's resolution on the Trusteeship Comittee Ias give its old league of ctions Nations Conmittee by the next on pa the Southwest Africa question. The vote in on Indiais notion requiring South Africa to mandate over Southvest ifrica to the Tnited General assembly.
gsti ion demanding the end tothe House Un American Activities Committee. ARKS is describe as star of the oti n icture "The Jolson Story".
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New Iork Office vith a list of the Directors and Dirisctore-at-.T..srge of the ' not defunct GI-IBGEWASHINGIYJN CARVER SCEOOL which had been a Conmuniet Party
controlled and dominated institute. The name o'PA,UL ROBESON appears on
The "Daily Worker" issue of November 4, 1947, contains a picture . l6 or ROBESON and LARRYPARKS,the acconmanyingnews item reporting that obtained the signature oi PAULROBESON on Civil Rights Congress
Coniidential IMormmti e
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nsntioned agents heard RCBESON sing several songs, one oi vhich he dedicated to GERHART EISLER, and make a general attack in a speechon the HouseCommittee for its alleged violation or people's ri hts.
campaign against
the ABRAHAM LINCOLN BRIGADE and Comits Coordinador pro The principal
RepublicsEspanola,Communist Party front organisation. RIBESOH, according to the in.t'oz-mant, spokeagainst racial discrimination and announced that he
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stating that it needed morehelp so that in the near future all Lnericans, 1
of friendship toward the Russian
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meetingon December 19, 1947, at the Ste NicholasArena, at whichthe main "
speakers would be CongressmanVITO MARCANEONIO. _
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state
The former NewYork newspaper IRE" in its January 15," 1948, issue
reported that HBESON would sing at a benefit to be held at Manhattan Center
New York,
of America--C10.
on January 19, 1948, under the auspices of the Lhited Public Workers
2nd Annual Convention of the Progressive Citizens of America, held at Chicago on the previous date, authorised the PCA National Board and State Chapters
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On January 29, 1948, the "New York Herald Tribune! reported that PAULBCBESON had been one of the principal speakers at a rally of the 1International Ladies Garment Workers Union held at the Yugoslav American Hume,
405 lest 41st Street, NewYork City, on the samedate. The rally vas sponsored by the Civil Rights Congres of NewYork. RCBESOH, who spoke at the rally, discussed "ThoughtControl or Freedom." The subject, according to the "Daily Worker" issue of February 6, 1946, was one of the three speakers scheduledto appear at the 4th Anniversary Dinner of the JERFERSOH SC-FOOL 01' SOCIAL SCIENCE, Commnist Party front group,
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dinner to
be held
at the
Hotel Pennsylvania
rally was
on February
held st
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that
the
state che-.irher.ehip
or the
he offered
According to
the February
19, 1948,
issue of
the "Morning
Freiheidt"
Iriendship between
meeting
the thited
speaker st
the aforesaid
of prominent
on the
local Communists.
a press
While in
Hawaii, he
to his
visited the
departure for
islands of
Isui, giving
concerts
the United
wnference prior
States on
larch 2].,
1948, RCBESONdeclined to
he was
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He also indicated
Ion the union : side."
that if
there were
s strike
or e shooting,
he would be
1.
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"New York
Herald Tribune"
issue of
April 13,
1948, reported
that sh orgen_iseticn.e__1 eeeting oi the Hes Iork Stste 'l!ALLACE for President
Committee would was scheduled be held on to speak that date st the st the lsnhatten Center, New York City,
ve hundred representatives from Hes York City and up-state being expected to attend. PAUL HCBESOH, es Go-Chairmen of the National ITALLAGE Committee,
said meeting-
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ROEESON, Chai:>4f es ssid theorganisation, Iith part of "e Comunist plot" to sedseI_.:, t/ Oouncil African on Affairs prestige policy. and IEIEAH
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He had been attacked by the RCBESOR faction baitor, the paper reported.
as such.
Red
According to the "Herald Tribune" oi April '7, 1948, ROBESON replying to the charges of Ila! IERGAN mentionedabove stating "You can't fight the struggles of Africa by being non-partisan or being a Red baitor--Someone
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has to point out that things are not beautiful here in America, in atrica and other parts of the world. If that lakes ma a Communist, then I'm proud
to be one.
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eon campaigning for %%}-11' %',,".L ACEin Columbus,Ohio, see asked by GEORGF LAWRENCE, Managing Editor of the Ohio State lIeIa", the Negro weekly, whet or not he was a Comsunist, to whichROBESON replied It is
none of your damn business."
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would be a Negro and a representative oi the Negro press. This is no longer a matter of Communism. It's a matter or civil rights," ROBE-SON accused "big money men" of "Fascist activities" and asked "who could blame a Negro for being a Communistor mything?" ____-d_/ . A
Confidential Infornantgreported that he observed PAUL noesso b L mmbers of the Hay Day Committeehe stated in a press
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in
'.l'he New York Sun" on llsy 29, 19b6, reported that as the subject on the aforesaid date for Washington to testify before the Senate Judiciary "decide on the issue" before choosing sides
the United States and Russia. the event of a war between
Testifying before the above mentionedcomittee on lay 31, 1948, RCBESON, according to the New Iork newspaper "Hi", after telling the committee he thought aembersof the Communist Party had done a magnificent job in America,
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asked, whether or not he was a Communist. He said he would go to jail before he would say whether he was a Oomunista He also declined to tell the committee
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The vnany Worker" issue of June 3, 1948, reported that five thousand people picketing the White House on the same date in protest against
inaction on civil rights legislation, were led by PAUL ROBESOH andBENJAHIEII J. DAVIS, NewYork City Communist Councilman. The pickets were a part of a '
delegation of seven thousand from nineteen states organized by the Nonpartisan Delegation in Iashington for Civil Rights legislation and the Committee for Democratic Rights. This group - opposed the llI.NDT-NIXONBill and pressed for passage of anti-lynching, anti-poll tax and fair employment practices legislation. When questioned by a reporter concerning his being s memberof the Commmist Party, ROBESON replied, "That question has become the basis oi the fight for civil liberties, and until that ght is won, I refuse to answer ite That is the only reason I have for not answering. The Wes York uni of June 1,, 1943, reported that during a hear-
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Confidential Informantponreported that, accor I Affairs, mm, somber of the hecutive Committee of theT?Q
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with her stated "Hy money, shoes, clothes- every-thing--belongs to the Conam willing As reported by the "Lmsterdan News", New York Negro newspsp er, on June 5, 191,8, PAULROBESON appeared before the Senate Judiciary Comittee
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rally of
NewYork City, on June 24, 1948, sang several songs and then delivered aspeech about "The Fight JOSEPH STAROBIN,"Daily Iorkerl
imediate liberation oi C-EP.HART FISL-...E=1@ PALTL REE-SO!~!, according to STARCBIH, attended the World Congress of Culture and was invited to become a member of the permanent committee of the said organization.
The "Daily Worker" issue of September23, 1948, reported that RCBESON, as Co-Chairman of the Progressive Party, would conduct a series of
street
Party
According to the Daily Worker" issue of September 29, 1948, the "battle" between the COM and its ex-Director, Dr. I151 YERGAN,ended the day before when IERGANresigned as an officer and member of the Council. The settlement was made before Supreme Court Judge HENRI CLAYCEREENBERM
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on the previous Saturday, returned from a two-week Southnide Third Party campaign tour. On being interviewed, he stated that the Negro people, no matter that anyone might say, cannot more into the Democratic Party in the g South because the Democratic Party there--as well as the Di.t1crat--~is the white supremacy party." He stated that with the proper work by the Progressive Party, the Negro people should fora the bulk of the Party's membership in
t|hB South.
According to the
1948, PAULROBESON,
The "Daily
Iorker"
that
the wives
.-2
of the "I-Iollyeood 10" Iere sending an emissary to the Women Fight Back rally which was to be held at the llanhsttan Center, NewYork City, on October 25, 1948. The rally was one of a dozen to be held throughout the country in large cities to protest the deportation of alien Commmists. PAULRGBESON was scheduled to speak at the rallly. The !-Iollywood10", referred to above,
were the group who refused to answer the question concerning their alleged membership in the Communist Party before the House Committee on Un--American
Activities. . -
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of Novemberll,
throughout
Council of American-92'5oviet Friendship. According to the paper, the document demanded that the United States stop the "cold war" and work for peace based
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The "Daily Worker" issue of November 30, 191.8, stated that RCBESON was scheduled as a speaker at a "liberation Rally" to be held at the Brook-
The Council on African affairs, headed by PAULRCBESON, according to the "Daily Worker" of December27, 1948, in its monthly bulletin, opposed
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a proposed loan by the United States to the Union of South Africa and urged that the United States refuse to purchase South African gold until South Africa : vicious syeten of state approved racial discrimination and oppression
are abolished. . a
It Ias reported in the "Daily Iorker" of December 28, 1948, that PAUL ROBESON was scheduled to appear at a "Freedom Rally" on January 12,
l9A9, at the llusic Hell at Detroit, llichigan. Said rally, according to the paper, was sponsored by the Civil Rights Congress of Michigan. I-E19-EERZICKI, President of the All-Slaw Congress, and Dr. 1.51.3. DIIBOIS,Vere I-160
schedulod speakers at the rally.
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writtenby JOSEIQ; RT!-I, R BES attended JN thetrial of the twelve Conmmist '
Party leaders on Jhnuery 23, 1949, shakinghandswith each of them. He "
reportedly stated to NORTH, "1' cemehere becauseI , too, an on trial." RCBESON also stated to NORTH that he attended not only as a private citizen but as Co-Chairmanof the Progressive Party, as a leader of the Civil Rights
Congress and as Chainmn system and that he or the COM. He stated that it. Communists in the
Scottsboro case risked their lives to enter the South to challenge the jury
respected the Communists tor
of February 3, 1949,
reported
Workers Order parading near City Hell in protest of the Board of Education's ' ban against after-hour classes conducted by Communistfraternal groups in
lieu York City school buildings. -
Con dential
of the Intemation Brigade in-ii iould go liter to informant, ROBESON planned to return to the United period at the end of larch to testify at the trial in New York City. He would than return to Europe,
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According to "Nee York Times" issue ot larch 10, 1949, PAUL ROBESOR, speech at Glasgow, Scotland on llarch 9, 1949, said WMARIISH is on trial,
as U Q1 I929292-l1n-ne92 leu_I rIlLl92IiI92|IlIlq."
The trial of the Communistleaders in en going to take the view that IIARXISII
the elimination of the system of "hand picked juries" in the Southern District
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of NewIork. The conference was scheduledto he held at the Hotel Diplomat, 108 Iest 43rd Street, NewIork City, on the following llonday evening. RCB%t' and GCLB urged "the widest participation in this conference ty
every trade union and community organisation interested in the defense of
our democratic rights. The shocking discrimination revealed by the defense lawyers in open court, meansthat no trade union or minority racial, religious or political group can hope for a trial by peers a right which is granted to everybodyin the Bill of Rights of the Constitution, that PAUL RDBESON, in an
1949, it was reported Europe on that date, stated eoncervaiug the Cardinal Hmdseenty case '1 not there, hat evidently Cardinal IEINDSZENTY did commit overt acts against the state. What happens In the "NewIork Sun" issue of February 12,
for
attention.
Alabama
is
the business in Europe. I an an anti-Fascist." the Communistleaders in New Iork, ROBESON said
trial
the
to compare that
be used to
with
that of
the Cardinal.
those who are
He stated
not demo-
serve
interests of
cratic.
1...:
The trial of
the Communistleaders is a
on the people.
llarch 10,
interviewed at Glasgow, Scotland, said that following the trial of the ConIunist leaders in New York at which he intended to testify as a defense witness, he would tour Eastern Europe and Russia and would complete his
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for "Peace
article
h.i.1.rerpool= According to 1!'.ElS192l.e1'E, RCl.5_E-3fJLI scold discuss Negro prchlgs with Prise llirdster A'!'tLEE and Colonial Secretary CREECH JONES.
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The "World Telegram" issue of April 20, 1949, reported that at the Communist sponsored Iorld Peace Conference in Paris PAUL ROBESON declared that the focal point of world Fascism is the United States and that 1- resident 'I?.'iiAi7'3 program for African development meant =he'i e1a'v-ery-=-' for millions oi Negroes. ROBESON reportedly In-ought the eighteen hundred dele' gates to the conference to their feet with a call for "a ght for friendship with Russia." He then stated that American Negroes never would go to
war tor the United States against Russia.
The "Post
1949, reported
cert given by PAULROBESON in Stockholm, Sweden, on April 21 turned into a political row. The trouble, according to the said paper, started when
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RCFESOH sanga Rusian anthem. The rst verse, sung in R-ueeian, was greeted quietly; however, when he sang the second verse in English, which most of the audience understood, a demonstration started, which for a time drowned out the singer. Anti-Communists whistled loudly and many left the hell in
protest. H"e-Connunists_ answered with aloud cheers and frantic. applause.
Following the
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audience
he could no longer dral the line between his art and his political convictions. He said he wanted universal peace, but above all peace with the Soviet Union.
ge;s._ an-._JIl_ ine "uaJ..|.y i1'__.|_-_.av :____-_.I ll'_.. GE 'In.|n Iwrncer" issue or may 19, 4.71.7, -._.....:..L-A _... -1-: 92l'PI'.I.llbU w.ru.u:.l.e an
British "Daily
Work on
April 18,
1949, concerning
writer, of
his realisation that other Negroes not are so fortunate as he, stated that
he had visited the until the Soviet Union where he first year. In "felt the hall dignity
with PMIL
"Daily Iorker"
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There is attached an item which appeared in the Polish Press for June 2, 191,99 tt PAUL HJBESON and Whl h was
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written tor
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I come to you as a representative oi progressive America. The America oi Henry allace and twelve valiant Con-ununiet leaders, who are being prosecuted today for their affiliation with the
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obtain some money to continue DU education in a world full oi a slave, and my cousins and their children
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the progressive
during the
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the USSR and national docratic countries and a type of peaceful eco-
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nomy which would not be a threat to the world. A military policy and the liarshall Plan weigh heavily upon the shoulders or the American
labor world. While the American trusts earn thousands of millions on
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so called "American aid" ---its costs are paid - - on a par with European nations ---- by the American taxpayer by the poorly dressed American. That is why the strength oi the camp for peace and
progress is increasing daily in the United States. Despite the policy of reactionary leaders of the A.F.L. and C10, steadily increasing
mmhers oi workers and entire labor unions are voicing their disapproval
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Today we are waging a difficult States. But our entire history consists in defense of our democratic tradition. Roosevelt - --they all fought against
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fight in the United of long battles, waged Jefferson, Lincoln, reactionary forces in our
country. This
just as is the it is
doing for
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the Negroes
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the Negro countries are
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in America
labor pmblas
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laborers.
The emancipation tight of the Negroes is closely connected with the ght oi the labor class, because discrimination against Negroes is a desire to insure cheap labor. That is wlw the majority of the Negroes ----except those few who are in the service of the imperialists and are enacting in Negro society the same role that the
rightist union leaders are enacting in is in the camp for peace and progress. the entire labor movement --
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Ask the Negro workers from the cotton plantations in Alabama, the sugar cane plantations in Louisiana, the tobacco districts of the South, the banana plantations of the West Indies, the Lfrican peasants who have been deprived of land in -South Africa, and ask all the Negro inhabitants of the African continent if they
want to fight
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national democratic
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in the 3oviet structure were able during one generation to rise to an incredible level of cultural and economic development. Ask the Negroes whether they want to join these forces of peace, or if they will allow themselves to be hurled into the abyss of a new war in
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our canmon fight. -
But I am convinced that the reign of capitalism and imperialism will end, Just as it ended in Soviet Russia and in national democratic countries and as it is presently ending in
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songs end madea etrong speech against the United Statee, England and the United Nations for their undemocratichandling or the colonial people end the ninority groupce Infermnt advised that ROBESOR strongly praised the Soviet Government for freeing the colonial people end solving the question or national ninoritye
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p-ertieipinte thereiie
at 23lest zen; Street, New Iork Citye According to this Informan the
of the American Crusade To End Lynching, which bed eet up headquarter:
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eratic Far Eastern Policy! combined in en action to erouee the people in the United States to force the Government to Iithdrev the United
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slated to
Communist
Independent Citizens
Citizens
in
as Russia has."
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ROBESON attended a "Rally To Ila The
a co-Chairman e1 the National
he auspices oi!
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America to
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T7 EIIGE1l1?fClINOLLI, Party Councilman Communist snd PAUL RCBESGI. Info stat hat representatives of the Soviet Union, Iugoslavia, Poland and
Czechoslovakia were present at the oonventiom Informant also stated that PAUL ROBESQ!! 2 the eeeree ei me epeeoh eeid; "It is iepert-ent
of saying we are Communists. We cannot live in the then and we Inst stop worrying about them. _ Ie have always
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peoil. Agent Federal Bureau
have a Golnuniet in
the City
Council today -
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PAUL ROBESOH arching in
section oi the lay
of Investigation
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This Special
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Agent can testify that he observed
the International
Indies Garaent
Iorkere Union
Day Parade
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ROBESON attended a mes
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people or the world are looking upon the Soviet Union ea their end real friend. _
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House Co-nittee
Bureau or Investigation
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of people le right!
U1 November 3, 1947 the above Lgente attended I. Civil Rights Gongreeerally at the St. Nichole: Lrena, 69 Feet 66th Street,
New Iork City. Ihe purpose or this rally was to open on i.n.ter.aive oupeign egeinet the House Committee Ch Un-.l.ner:lcen Activities. The afore-
mentioned Lgents REE geerd sing -50H several eonge, one of which he dediISLE, end mde e general etteel: in hie speech on the
Ior ite alleged violation
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George Washington
Gervecr School which had been e CommunistParty controlled and doll. -nlted institute. The name PAULIRBESONappeared on the lilt ee e Director -
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drive and stated that fifteen thousand dollars no needed to free Spline Informant stated that enclosed with the for: letter no a reply envel-
ope addressed $0 the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade with the
subject- s name appearing in the loser left corner,
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principal address at the any was made by mm mmmxuagzan _2..,~=*% Qenilidentigl Infvrnenfg ]_
that he planned to mks e tour of Puerto Rico in the neer of the Columnist Forty in Cubes ture. The
York City, sponsoredby the Lb:-aha: Lincoln Brigade and Colrlte Coordinador Pro Republics Espanols, Communist front organisitione ROBE-SCN, eocerd-ing to the Informant, spoke against racial disorininstion and announced Vice President of the CubanSenate and Head of Partido S 41, ialtets Popular,
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meeting of the comittee of Women of the National Council For American Soviet Friendship at the Hotel Astor, Her Iork City. Informant reported that the subject gave s short speech concerning the work of the National Council For AmericanSoviet Friendship, stating it neededmore help so that in the near future all Lmerioene, as well ls he, night feel e Inn: glow of friendship towards the Russian peoplee Informant stated that
after his speech subject sang several Russian songs.
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activities concerning t e Fre om C iode of the Civil Rights Congress which no held in Washington,D, C. on January 1.6, 1949. Informnt advised that PAULROBESOH in his speech before the delegates to the Civil
Rights Congresssaid that he us fighting with everylshitg he Ind for the Negro struggle and that China and Russia won't R Red baite:L"
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Science on Febrmry
formant reported that ROBESON said, "Ho school in existence could offer
the courses or initructiona
Lccording to the Informant, ROBESCN stated that his son no gradunting from college here in the United States and was also receiving a diplonn
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The following evidence is being incorporated in this report vith s vies to its possible admissibility in en extra-Judicial proceeding or in cross-examination in e Judicial proceeding:
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with PAUL ROBESON In this erti cl's 'Tt0B!$Cli is reported by DAVISto have said, The Soviet Union is the only country I've ever been in where
I've felt completely st eases I've lived in England and America. end I almost circled the globe - but for qyseili , rife and son the Soviet Union
is our tutm-e home.
For awhile, however, I wouldn't feel right going there to live. By singing its praises wherever I ge, I _think I can be ct the most value to its Itis too easy to go to the Soviet Union, breathe
free air end live happily ever afterwards. RXBESON further
I'n e. mbsr of the Friends
stated in
the interview,
Union in London.
I01 course
But I ! not
oi the Soviet
very active
either
singing or acting-
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GOODE ROBESCB, has two brothers living in lloscos and that lb.-soGOODS,
mzmenses ?
ROBESEINS lofher-in-law,
in this article
secure most of his
A
is also residing in lloscon It was also noted
Jr age nine, would
in the Soviet Union-
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tour
in England
also reported
to haw
stated
that
Ihile
to have saidum-.
England and that
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appeared en advertisement tofree Professor IIRRIS Us gl-ILPPB, an alleged Gomunist of City College, NewYork fiity, rho Ins imprisoned for perjury by the State or NewIork. In this issue oi the "Peoples Voice the subject is quoted as saying, I want to be identified in every my with this movement I - e . -to tree IERRIS SGHLPPES - e a e The responsibility is the first charge upon all or us to fight Feseisa
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lhrch 12, 1944,at the Metropolitan Opera Hall in NewYork City. In this speech the subject is reported to have said, The picture of Chinese internal oonfliot is the Keunintang versus the Chinese Communists is
as false as ihrtin Dies picture of his Oosmittee defending Congress and
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of individuals
Committee or the
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as officers
Labor Derense.
was listed
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"Daily Iorker" 1'9 1' ? .1 ?>1'=l.1.'.! 13; 1945 In this issue there appears an article under dateline concerning a meeting of the Joint intl- -Fascis.t Refugee
reflects that PAUL RCBESCRaas a guest lpeaker
Committeewhich no held at the Ambassador Hotel in Les Lngeles, Calif0l'Di8e This article
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article to the effect that the Council On Mrioan Affairs, headedby PAUL RQBESON, had submitted a memorandum to the delegates of the United
Nations Conference in San Francisco, California calling for the establishment oi an International Colonial Commissionin the proposed World Organisation. _
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stated
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In this issue it is reported that PAUL ROBESOHtesof the Penney Joint Legislative Committee on Un-
Anerican Activities in Los ingeles, California. RIBESONwas described in the article as e surprise witness at a series or hearings nominally
concerned with the Eu Klm: nan and Left Wing activities in Hollywood
ship with General EVANS GARLSCN, ct the National Committee To Win The
Peace and 6th e?"i5r?cmmunist ectivitiose During the hearing ROBEGI is reported to have stated, "The best country in the world today to test
the principles Americans would of lhrxisn prefer night be Lnericag" achieved that he had chosen Russil
as the place for the early education ct his son and that mny Negro
the equality in Russia to the "shadowy"
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is deeend or the House on Us-American Activities
of the Progressive Citizens o - America meeting which was held ps towards affiliation
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at Uhicage
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It is reported in this issue that PAUL ROBE. -SON was one of the three speakers scheduled to appear at the Fourth lnniversary
Dinner of the Jefferson School of Social Science. The dinner was to be
in
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Vice Consul
New Iork
Post Home
News
Issue of ._l__i,
as Chairman of said
seise the
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reported in
the above
paper that
part of
ILLIPIILRGAN,
Council on
a Communist
paper, said
had been
Council
the
was not
Council for
being a
Red bait-ere
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It is reflected in this issue of the "Herald Tribune
that PAUL ROBESON, in replying to the charges of MAI IERGAN,referred to above, stated, "You can't fight the struggles of Africa by being nonPartiaan or being a
If that
Red baiter
a .e
out that
things are
the worlds
not beeutifui
here in
other parts
one.
of
makes ae
a Communist
with Communists
long apposed
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before the $enate Judiciary Coumittee against the llundt-Nixon Antiberore choosing sides in the event or a
and Runninbetween the United States
"Ne1r York
Ieeue of
Tiles"
June
1. 1948
It
is
reported
in
the
above
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of
the
"New Iork
Times" that ROBESON, while testifying before the above--mentioned Committee, had after telling the Committee that he thought membersof the Oonnunilt
Party had done a lnguifioent Job in lmeriea, had declined to etete in answer to a question Senator HOMER FERGTBON l ohigan! asked, whether
or not he was a Comuniete
of a war with Rueeiu
before he
eould ea: ehether or not he res e Cw..~=-uzieta He else declined to tell the Gomittee whether he would fight for the United Stetee in the event
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nuniet Party ROBESOH replied, "lhct question has become the basin of the
tight
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for civil
liberties
and until
ttat fight
is Ion I
refuse to answer
lliew
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