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ar | on ? NY 100-25857 According to the "Daily Worker" of October 11, 1948, PAUL ROBESON, on the previous Saturday, returned from a two-week Southwide Third Party campaign tour. On being interviewed, he stated that the Negro people, no matter what anyone might say, cannot move into the Democratic Party in the South because the Democratic Party there--as well as the Dixicrat-~is the white supremacy party." He stated that with the proper work by the Progressive Party, the Negro people should form the bulk of the Party's membership in the South.* The “Daily Worker" of October 20, 1948, reported that the wives of the "Hollywood 10 were sending an emissary to the Women Fight Back rally which was to be held at the Manhattan Center, New York City, on October 25, 1948. The rally was one of a dozen to be held throughout the country in large cities to protest the deportation of alien Commnists. PAUL ROBESON was scheduled to speak at the rally, The ¥lcllywood 10", referred to above, were the group who refused to answer the question concerning their alleged membership in the Communist Party before the House Committee on Un~American Activities, The “Daily Worker" of Novenber U, 1948, reported that PAUL ROBESON signed a "Rollcall For Peace" distributed throughout the nation by the National Council of American~Soviet Friendship. According to the paper, the document demanded that the United States stop the "cold war" and work for peace based upon United States and Russian cooperation, The "Daily Worker" issue of November 30, 1948, stated that ROBESON was scheduled as a speaker at a "Liberation Rally" to be held at the Brook- lyn Academy of Music, The purse of the rally, according to the paper, was to keep FRANCO Spain out of the United Nations and to press for application of economic and diplomatic sanctions against Spain. The Council on African Affairs, headed by PAUL ROBESON, according to the "Daily Worker® of December 27, 1948, in its monthly bulletin, opposed a@ proposed loan by the United States to the Union of South Africa and urged that the United States refuse to purchase South African gold until South Africa's vicious systea of state approved racial discrimination and oppression are abolished. | It was reported in the "Daily Worker" of December 28, 1948, that PAUL ROBESON was scheduled to appear at a "Freedom Rally" on January 12, 1949, at the Music Hall at Detroit, Michigan. Said rally, according to the paper, Was sponsored by the Civil Rights Congress of Michigan, LEC+HRZYCKI, President of the Al1-Slav Congress, and Dre W.E.3. DuBOLS, were also acheduled speakers at the raily,.