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it RETEST eT in 1954, that at a top- — evel CP meeting he in Chicago, Illinois, on Februery 20, 1954, the Midwest Negro Commission of the CP was established with stretegy, to increase Negro votirg strenght with an emphasis to be placed on growth of Negro organizations. According to WRIGHT, members of the Hidwest Negro Commission ware instructed to make more use of such prominent Negroes as W. «=. B. DUBOIS to accomplish this program. advised on January , 1955, that at a meting of the CP,Eastern Pennsylvania District Negro Commission, held on January 9, 1955, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, it was mentioned that the Negro press recertly publicized an African and Asian Peace Conference to take Place in e foreign country in April 1955 and that the CP wanted to endeavor to infiltrate that conference with a wel) =) vot delegate such as W, +. Be. DUBOIS. According +o ll his matter was to be presented to the CP National Negro Commission for approval, The Worker," issue of May 8, 1955, page 5, een column 1, sets forth an article concerning a 29 pation =: Asian-African conference held in Bandung, Indonesia, 5 steting that most of the major Negro papers sent a representatives to the peace conference, which was ; described as a “mass demonstration of the faith that the A. sast has in freedom and independance." Dr, W. &. B. S DUBOIS was mentioned as having sent a greeting to the sod conference which included a proposed declaration of wid independance for the peoples of Africa, quoting DUBOIS a “Wie hereby warn the world that no longer can Africa be -4 regarded as pawn, slave or property for the duropeans, i Americans, or any other people. Africa is for the AfricanSesesesthe White Bigots! of Africa are solamnly t ae | tamearn thet thar aawnrinat tin theaten Anam ta eaeanlad Wa ot Wl 4m VllIG vile J ee ee oe wile 1 hed ed wl a ihe ww will be free," od K ss -