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WY 200025857 oo ie, ri wember of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade and stated when given the pin ef seaberahip "It is the proudest monant, of my life and I'll sbnys wear the. j On Jaruary 9, 193, Confidential Informant whose reliati lity is ir?) not questioned, advised Ahat VICTOR: WEINGARTEN of the onal Maritime << Union, requested MORRIS of the’Daily Worker, to run a story conosrning the Captain HUGH MULZAC dinner being sponsored by the EMU and at which PAUL ROBESON, ZEROADSTEL, a canic, and Hre. ANNA ROSENBERG, of the War Man- power Commission, would speake It ie noted that in the January 12, 1%3 iesue of the Daily Worker,*on page 3, column 4, there is reported a story to the effect that subject at a dinner given at the Hotel Comnodore, New York City, for Captain HUGH C, negro skipper of the SS Booker (T. Washingtone This dinnsr took place on Jamary 12, 1943. a On January 19, 1%3, Confidential sntorant MT whose reliability b7 L is not questioned, advised that AIC ROTHBART of of the CPA Waterfront Section of Kew York City, conferred with BENJAMIN Js“DAVIS, dre of the Harlem Section of the CPA, and ROTHBART told DAVIS that he, ROTHBART, had talked with JOGH (JOSHUA* LAURENCE) who thinks that PAUL ROBESON should be invited to a meet— ing on Janudry 30, 1943. ROTHBART informed DAVIS that PAUL ROBESON was a menber of the nu, not of the Communist Party, and JAMON-DAVIS pointed out that PAUL ROBESON was interested in seamen regardless of any politics. Consequently, DAVIS said he would invite ROBESON 6n the same day. Then Informant reported that AL ROTHBART told ARTHUR SHIGIDS of the Daily Worker not to use PAUL ROBESON! s nawe in the story about the Materfront Section | Bangust becatiss it was not to be an open mecting and “not the thing to dots In the issue of the-PZOPIZS VOICE, Rarlen newspapers for January 23, 1943, there is an advertisement to free Professor MORRIS U,*SCHAPPES, an alleged Corszmnist of City College, New York City, who was imprisoned for perjury by the State of Hew Yorke The subject is quoted as saying "I want to be identified in every way with this movementecescto free MORRIS/SCHAPPES eessThis responsibility is the first charge upon a1) of us to fight Fascisa for froedoressea¥e . - Confidential satoraantl whose identity is known to the puresn, ob L advised that the April 6, 1943 pamphlet of the National Council of/Anmerican and Soviet Friendship, Ince, Listed PAUL ROBESON as a sponsor. In'this commidcation it ie noted that on Novamber &, 1943, the subject appeared on & program of the second American Soviet Friendship Congress at Madison Square Garden, New York Citye =2<e ag