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* - i - . Council; he was elected vice-Chairman of the group in 1950 (Daily Worker, May 1, 1950, page 12); a letterhead of the group dated July 23, 1950 names him as a wice-Chairman of the group; he endorsed a conference on equal rights for Negross in the arts, sciences and professions, sponsored by the New York Council of the arts, . . . (Daily Worker, November 9, 1551, page 7); the call to the conference contained the same information. A letterhead of the National Council, dated December 7, 1952, named him as Vice-Chairman. The call to a Scientific and Cultural Conference for World Peace, issued by the National Council of the Arts, Sciences and Professions for New York City, March 25~27, 1949, as well as the conference program (page 12), and the Daily Worker of February 21, 1949 (page 9}, named Dr. DuBois as one of the sponsors of that conference; he was a mamber of the Program Committee of the Conference, Honorary Chairman of the panel at Cultural and Scientific Conference (program, page 7), and spoke on "The Nature of Intellectual Freedan'" at that conference (page 78 of the edited report of the conference entitled "Speaking for Peace"). The National Council of the arts, . . . was cited as a Comunist-front organization by the Committee on Un-American Activities in its Review of the Scientific and Cultural Conference for World Peace, released April 13, 1549; in tne same review, the Scientific and Cultural Gonference was cited as a Camunist front which ‘was actually a supermobilization of the inveterate wheelhorses and supporters of the Communist Party and its auxiliary organizations." The Daily People's World of Cctober 28, 1917 (page bh), named Dr. DuBois as one of the sponsors of a National Conference of the Civil Rights Congress in Chicago, November 21-23, 197; he sponsored their Freedom Crusade (Daily Worker, December 15, 1948, page 2); the Call to a Bill of Rights Conference, called by the Civil Rights Congress for July 16-17, 1949 in New York City, named him as one of the Sponsors of that conference; the program of the National Civil Rights Legislative Conference, January 15-19, 1919, called by the Civil Rights Congress, lists him as one of the conference sponsors; he was chairman of a conference of the Congress, as reported in The Worker of January 2, 1949 (page 5}; Dr. DuBois was defended by the Civil Rights Congress (Daily Worker, February 13, 1951, page 3); he signed the organization's Open Letter to J. Howard McGrath, U. S. Attorney General, on behalf of the four jailed trustees of the Bail Fund of the Civil Rights Congress of New York (advertisement "paid for by contributions of signers" which appeared in the Evening Star on Octcher 3°, 1951, page A-7); he participated in the organization's sixth Anniversary Dinner in New York City, March 26, 1952 (Daily Worker, March 28, The Civil Rights Congress was formed in 1946 as a merger of two other Conmunist-front organizations, the International Labor Defense and the National Federation for Constitutional Liberties; it is "dedicated not to the broader issues of civil liberties, but specifically to the defense of individual Communists and the Communist Party" and "controlled by individuals who are either members of the Camu- nist Party or openly loyal to it" (Report 1115 of the Committee on Un-American Acti-~ vities dated September 2, 194.7); the Attorney General cited the Congress as subver- sive and Communist (press reieases of December 4, 1947 and September 21, 1948).