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CONFRRENTIAL advised that auntne May, wee0 the Netionen Favor Conferencee for Peace, of which the New York Labor Conference for Peace is @ part, was organized under the guidance of the Commmist Party, USA. Cc The "Daily Worker" for August 25, 1950, page 2, column 1, carried an article entitled "DU BOIS Blasts Move By Justice Department Against Peace Group”. This article stated that Doctor W.E.B. DU BOIS, Chairman of the Peace Information Center, branded as a "fantas- tic absurdity", the Justice Department's demand this week that the peace group register under the Foreign Agents Act. Doctor DU BOIS, who was at that time travelling abroad, made the statement when his office reached him via trans-Atlantic phone in Paris to inform him of the Justice Department's action. Doctor DU BOIS stated that "the Department of Justice action will not erase the two million signatures already secured for the World Peace Appeal”. He continued by stating that these two million signers and countless millions of Americans who hate war will defend the right to speak and work for peace. the C pccording (i aa Peace Information Center was established in May, 1950 for the purpose cf disseminating petitions on the Stockholm Appeal and other peace propaganda material. It is also to be noted that the Peace Information Center was indicted on February 9, 1951 by a Federal Grand Jury in Washington, D.C. on a charge of failing to register as a foreign agent. — Cc SD 2301203 that the Communist Party and numerous Communist Tront organizations had been extensively engaged in obtaining signatures based on this World Peace Appeal. CONFINENTIAL /*