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cn. | ro te toh o/h a i sr ey FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION omits! uo HIS CASS 1: GINATEDAT JACKSON, MISSTSSTPPT FLENS. =10=) 355 EP MAUL AT CATE WHEN MADE Wreion mace REPORT MADE BY JACKSON, MISSISSIPPE | 3/5/43 1/8/43 , TITLE ELEANOR CLUB WEBSTER COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI INTERNAL SECURITY = M ee. S3e, t+ Eleanor Club | | had just been organized there, and that about two-thirds of the cooks in that vicinity belonged, It was stated that | thé members were not to report for work before 8 AM, were to enter by the front door, and were to receive an increase in pay, Names of | | . SYNOPSIS OF FACTS: organizers and mexbers wnimowm, A mass meet— ing was called by city authorities and negroes were ordered to straighten this matter out. Since that time no indication of any club activities and authorities feel certain organization not in existence, ~C = ETALLS This investigation is predicated upon the receipt of Club having been formed in Webster County, Mississippi, Coord Cee that two or three mnths ego there was such a rumor stence is County and that it had been broughtabout by a statement made to the City Marshal at Eupora, Mississippi, by a selectee who had been arrested by the Marshal dence to the Clerk of the Draft Board, According to the understanding of sai this negro had told the Marshal about an organization of negro s for the purpose of better hours and better pay. This negro was later carried over to the Delta and has not been in this vicinity since, The sheriff stated that he himself had no definite information concerning this incident, and that since that time things had been very quiet among the negro : WARDED a, ore hinpld wr HESE SPACES FORWARDED: ”, - et’, DO NOT WRITE JN THESE ! : : P | ~ er b al THIS awro iT - Th _ 5— Bureau 2- Jackson