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Eleanor Roosevelt — Part 12
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"henember, 'r. President, the Southern Conference for Human
Welfare is one of the prime movers, one of tne prize agitators, behind the
enactment of the pending bill. I want to show Senators what company they
are in.
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"Under the picture 1 find this: H4P5rn
“At least one Daily Worker, American mouthpiece of Comaunism -
is delivered daily in Nashville. Its destination is a suite of offices
in the staid Old Presbyterian Building, 150-52 Fourth Avenue, horth, where
it comes to the hands of the couple who have given “Nashville the honor
of being headquarters for the Southern Conference for [uuan ‘delfare.
‘Vhis article is about the two people who are tne brains of
the avove organization wita the four-inch, nigh-sounding title of
benevolence. Big nauwes like those of i'rs.e Eleanor Roosevelt or Justice
Hugo Black are uscd for a front on occasion,
“ tix. Prezident, I take issue with tne statement tnat "rs.
oosevelt and HugotBliack are fronts for Comrunist-front orpanivations. I
_.'--+—do Tot velieve a word of it. But let me proceed:
"But the people who do the work and receive the Daily worker are
Margarct Gelders¥frantz and one James Dombrowski. rs. Frantz is wo
sometimes as wargaret Gelders or agaiiu perhaps as just plain Margie elders.
tand therein lies the ratner interesting story of a girl with a
message whose trail or line, as you choose, runs tnrourh Fadcliff, several Daily
Worker stories, various CIO soaphox activities, the Soviet Purchasing
Commission = -
“Think of tuat, 3%. President, she had been a member of the Soviet
Purchasing Commission and came down to speak for the peonle of the South. I
understand tiis organization and this Dombrowski and this Communist Gelders
are heading the movement to defeat the senior Senator from Tennessee ()r.
Mexellar) this year. But let me go furtuers:
"= the Birmingham jail, and finally to the Soutiern Conference for
Hunan yeltare.
"Just a dailbird, just an ordinary criminal, a Co.munist, and ons
of the moving spirits behind a bill wiiich could get enourh votes in the
Senate of the United States to be considcred, as this bill did today.
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