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DEC LASSI FICATION AUTHORITY DERIVED FROU- AT BUUORATIC DECLASSTFICATION coTce : . \ CATE G8-14-2016 ay: . b6 b7C Ned RPPROPRIATE ACEECTEY 7 October 9, 1947 pare Gd SAC, Hew Haven __/ PROGRESSIVE CITIZENS OF AMFRICA BR NO SFIED BYERS LSS es SECURITY MATTER @ C0 titi(‘i ee Ee 0h Se RE: HENRYGWALLACE SPEECH - NEW HAVEN ARENA STORER 8 Special Agents JAMES 7. HAVERTY and ARTHUR R. WAKE attended a rally in the New Haven Arena on Wednesday, October 8, 1947, at 8130 P.M., sponsored by the PCA \ Connecticut Chapter. Thevattendance mas nearly fifty five hundred persons, who paid . from sixty five cents to two dollars and fifty cents admission. The purpose of the =. —-rally, -according-to-Dx.gRANK KINQDON,.co-Chairman of the National PCA, was_to..recom=..- mend WALLACE for President on a Democratic.or Third Party Ticket, depending on how -. events developed in 1948. oe The program of events was opened by the singing of the National Anthem and then the lights in the Arena were turned out and a voice on the public address ays- tem introduced each speaker in the darkened auditorium. 4s the speakers mounted the platform, spotlights were trained on them. The unidentified voice claimed he was the voice of the PCA. The speakers were - Professor THOMAS EMERSON, professor of Law at Yale University, who stated the political aims of the PGA, including the repeal of the TAFT-HARTIZEY bill and any other legislation unfavorable to the Labor Unions. ; Dr. ALLAN HICKERSON, head of New Haven State Teachers College, who described oriefly the history of the PCA in Connecticut, concluding that it was the only pro- gressive political party in the country at the present tins. PAUL ROBESON, well known Regro singer eang four songs including "Ol' Man (|. River" and "Joe Hill", These were eritical of the present social distinctions a made in this country between the colored race and the white. ROBESON concluded his appearance by a recitation of the poem called “Freedom Train", which also derided the racial distinctions drawn between the colored and white persons traveling on trains in the South. . > Dr. PRANK KINGDON, co-Chairman of the National PCA, gave a vigorous talk lasting thirty minutes to introduce HENRY 4. WALLACE, former Vice President, ‘who was the principal speaker. KEINODGH criticized the present high price levels, the condition of the National Building Program, the condition of the Jewish question, particulerly with. regard to Palestine and the establishment of aid for Greece and Turkey, punotuating each section of his remarks. by the slogan that it was time for the people to do something about it and to "cams out fighting". KINGDGH stated that he was against universal military training in the United States ani then made a f ORICINAL FILED rw v-* ABW: FOM RECORDED | HH, 100~22086 _— em bar U1S9 S _ ; rN oe pe 8 ae ne ©) S. Ar i} 2 0 ' 4, *} act Ba be