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Cross and Poinsett Counties, and made inflamatory speeches denouncing the landowners, the federal government and the administration of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration. In this connection, one “Lay ans wrote Koch a letter while the latter was in the Tyrohza jail, wherein he talked of the To "united front" that had been promulgated by the Communist and — Socialist Parties. Claude Williams at that time was actively engaged in the organization of the Workingmen's Union of the World at Paris, Arkansas. The representatives of Commonwealth College who went into East Arkansas promised prospective members of the East Arkansas Sharecroppers Union 40 acres, a mule and a plow, and advanced a plan similar to the agrarian reform plan of China which has resulted in the death of over 20 million Chinese during the past two decades, Thus we find a subversive organization operated in Arkansas, creating racial unrest, from at least 1925 through 1941, when Commonwealth was closed as the result of a State r, ~ er ae ae at oe court order. Cpe re : 2. COMMUNISTS AND THEIR ASSOCIATES IN ARKANSAS Cd ge bet ACTIVELY SUPPORTED THE PROGRESSIVE PARTY IN 1948, a eee eee Ti. LifsP " ¢ Hon, C, G, "Crip"sfall qe, ‘Secretary “of State, State of Fae Cexte, vA Arkansas, testified that the presidential nominee of the Crk X eo Progressive Party, Henry Wallace, applied to him to have his name placed on the ballot of the November General Election. Mr. Hall asked Wallace to comply with Act 33, Ark. Acts of 1935, as amended by Act 293, Ark. Acts of 1941, which provides that a candidate must sign an affidavit that his party "is not direct- ly or indirectly affiliated by any means whatsoever with the Communist Party of the United States, the Third Communist International, or any other foreign agency, political party, organization or government." Wallace refused to comply with the act. Mr. Hall further testified that pictures made in his