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eee connD TAL The “Daily Worker" of February i6, 1951, page 4, column 3, carried an article which stated that two Bronx American Labor Party Peace Rallies will heer Doctor W.E.B. . DU BOIS speak on peace. . The American Labor Party has been cited by the California Committee on Un-American Activities, Report of 1946, pages O and 41, es among “organizations that are victims of Communist domination". The "Worker" for February 18, 1951, page 8, column 1, carried an advertisement which states that “Harlem Protests the Indictment of the Great American Negro DR. W.E.B. DU BOIS". This protest, in the form of a rally, was to take place at the Golden Gate Ballroom, lk2nd Street and Lenox Avenue, New York City, on February 21, 1951 at 8:00 pom Doctor DU BOIS was to be one of the speakers. Mhoa ano rtia & WS 4 ant Labor Party was sponsoring this relly. omen eatan at hk aiy St ake os The "Daily Worker" dated February 26, 1951, page 3, column 1, carried an article entitled “Peace Is Theme at Tribute to Dr. DU BOIS®. This article states that more than 650 persons crammed every available seating and standing space on two floors at Smallts Paradise in Harlem Friday night to greet Doctor W.E.B. DU BOIS on his 83rd birthday. The article states that additional hundreds had sought reservations to the dinner, but could not be accommodated. Doctor DU BOIS, in a brief speech, stated as follows: "Thus I stand tonight facing the possibility of celebrating my future birthdays in prison, and thus relieving all 'Houses of Essex! from embarrassment. The prospect is not pleasant. Yet I continue to maintain that advocacy of peace is not treason; that I am the agent of no foreign principle and never have been; that I am the champion of no idee alien to this nation; and that I have the right within the future as in the past to fight for peace." CONT ANTIAL "AN