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- + + UPPROPRIATE ARERSTES . , ‘ AND Fen} OFFICES , Director, FBI mr ens er CA unm Ostober 9, 1947. 7? DATE , 7. SAC, Now Haven - 5 - ppe DECLASSIFIED BYPDLAS LAC “ pf, YROORESSIVE CITIZENS OF AFRICA gy BYPRAEL TS? 7 SECURITY MATIFR=C ON eee ees + Aa PR | AR 2AT 363 mee «Bs HENRY WALLACE SPEECH = MEW HAVN ARENA \ ag Sm STORER 8 _ a . Special Agents JAMES 7, HAVERTY and ARTHUR R. WAHE attended a rally in the Hew Haven Arena on Wednesday, Cotober &, 1947, at &:30 P.M., sponsored by the PCA Connecticut Chapter. ‘The attendance was nearly fifty five hundred persons, who paid from sixty five cents to two dollars ani fifty cents admission, The purpose of the - rally, according to Dr. FRANK KINGDON, co-Chairman of the National PCA, was to recom. mend WALLACE for President on a Democratic or Third Party Ticket, depending on how -. The program of events was opened by the singing of the National Anthem and . then the lights in the Arena were turned out and @ voice on the public address sys~ tem introduced each speaker in the darkened auditorium. 4s the speakers mounted the platform, spotlights were trained on thez. The unidentified voice claimed be was the voice of the PCA. The speakers wre - : . | Professor THOMAS EAFRSON, professor of Law at Yale University, who stated the political ains of the PCA, including the repeal of the TAFT-HARTLEY bill and Dp, ALLAN HICKERSOM, head of New Haven State Teachers College, who described briefly the history of the PCA in Connecticul, eoncluding that it wee the only pro- gressive political party in the country at the present time. - So ' PAUL ROBESON, well know Negro singer sang four songs including "01° Man q: River" and "Joe Hill", © These were critical of the present social distinctions _gade in this country between the colored race and the white. ROBESON concluded his appearance by a recitation of the poem ealled "Freedom Train*, which also derided the racial distinctions dram between the colored ani white persons traveling on trains in the Southn —— ee) Dr. PRANK KINGDON, co-Chairman of the National PCA, gave a vigorous cl lasting thirty minutes to introduce HENRY A. WALLACE, former Vice President, }hp | was the principal speaker. KIND eriticized the present high price levels, the | eondition of the National Building Program, the condition of the Jexish question, — particularly with regard to Palestine and the establishwent of ald for Greece and — i? Turkey, ting each section of his remarks by the slogan that 4% was tine for i *. the neoole to do something about it and to “oome out fighting®. KINGDOM stated — that he was against universal azilitary training in the United States ani then made AW: POM REQORDEY ' N.E. 100-11038 | Gad 7 La- LI Lb BAM oS A LA « BAPTATUIAT WTTWN Pir < e TAa Dao, ws re ~~ wae - . . PES APTA DEAE ES PUTAS UTE PEPE STi LI LSE AAD EY ha Eas as ee. nites a. “ o we Se : .