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as United Cafeteria Workers, Washington, D.C., local./| ~ : x Rae eel ara et a a ee rete BO a ee ee AE Oy el te Office Mere dum - UNITcw o1a.ES GOVERNMENT To : DIPECTOR, FBI DATE: October 14, io ; rrom Yhf, SAC OUY HOTTEL, KASHINOTON FIELD SUBJECT: pat’ hoseson INTERNAL SECURITY - ¢ The rally for PAUL ROBESON, scheduled at 8:30 P.M. at Turner's Arena, 14th and W Streets, N.¥., Washington, D.eC., October 13, 1949, was held as ; acheduled. ‘The rally was a very orderly affair and no incidents of rowdiness occurred. The arena was completely filled and the estimates of the attendance were between two thousand and twenty-five hundred persons, of which approximately seventy-five percent were colored. The rally was opened by WINSTO!} i » & member of the Civil Rights Congress, announcing the singing of the Star Spangled Banner, Follewing the singing of the National Anthem, EDWARDS made a short greeting to the audience and than introduced as Master of Ceremonies, EDWARD FISHER, President of the FISHER stated that the rally was being held in protest of the Govern— ment's Jim Crow and segregation policy, He stated that the Government was the biggest employer in the District of Columbia and should be expected to set the pattern for other employers but that the Governmental pattern is a Jim Crow pattern and in pointing out this fact, he stressed the recent incidents at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, on 14th Street, where the buildings have . segregated locker rooms, la joan etc. FISHER 1 Fyfe. from the platform PY FIL GG 4 t ; 2, CLIVER TYPPALMER, MARTANNE JCHRZYK, Rev, L. Py7COLLINS, HENR THOMAS, GERTRUDE EVANS, Executive ; cre f the Progressive arty, THOMAS SHARDSON, ANE. eDONAID, and GECQRGEMURPHY, of United Negro end Allied Veterans of Amerida, These persons were just introduced from the platform and did not speak FISHER then introduced Dr. AXPER (ph), of Baltimore, FinecorDeD ¢ JOO-6F CAMPER made the stateront, “I served in the First World War, my —" served in the Second, and I will not have my grandson serve in a Third, ~—=— one nation, no one group has all the brains. —— Since the Soviet Unicon itom Bomb, there is no other way than the way to peace,” CAMPER also ma derogatory remarks concerning the Blst Congress, and indicated that it was Sous rotten, corrupt, bi-partisan Congress, which had failed to pass a single measure against segregation, Y The next speaker introduced was EULALIA/BOWIE, who was introduw ed as We the Secretary of House Workers, Inc. Miss BOWE jeated that she represented - the House Workers in Washington, D.C., and that they stood behind PAUL ROBESON, She said that her group was about eight hundred strong and "We back any program that PAUL ROBESON may put up," GOB ed RECORDED - 124 } /e0.~/2 ashy (‘19 1000-19021 ES ses New York = INDEXED - 124 gost i 2 : MAT oN CONTAINED 4, inl HEREIN ERED TS. i au LTSIFIED abel 4 i843 BeeNIRI CO” py Sho Robie So npees