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NY 100~25857 ‘It was further reported in the above article that the Civil .— Righte Congress “lambasted Governor DEWEY for the disorders." The Civil Rights Congress has charged that Governor DEWEY “has made Jim Crow and ~ anti-Negro violence a policy of the Government of the State of New York." On ‘Confidential Informant iPaavised that the onmunist Party had made plans for _ arty members and Communist Party sympathizers to act as guards at the ROBESON concert to be held on September 4 at Peekskill, New York. The — informant stated that rds ha lected the Comsuntst Part The informant stated he had earne Ai - that women had carried weapons for same o e a mén Who had been afraid to use them when they saw police guards in such | large numbers at the concert. a . WEB advises that he had learned from some of the Communist Party b Vv eabers that ROBESON'S participation in the recent Peekskill concerts had | been partly for the purpose of getting favorable publicity for ROBESON in the event he would be called as a witness in the trial of the Communist leaders, The informant also advised that it had been the intended purpose to utilize the Peekskill incidents so as to etress the acts of police — brutality and acts of discrimination against Negroes and other minority ~ | eroups in the Canmunist trial and for the re-election campaign of Councll-. man BENJAMIN J. DAVIS. Sr - ae . ! On eermeerer imal Confidential Informant QP or know re- | Mability, advised that PAUL ROBESON, as a member of the National Non- Partisan Comittee to Defend the Rights of the Twelve Communist Party. Leaders had sent to various individuals the following telegram: "Yester— day's New York daily "Compass*® exposed open prejudice of one of the jurors, Mr. JANNEY,in the trial of twelve Communists. Defense motion to declare” - nistrial under consideration. Urgent we get wires to Judge MEDINA, Foley — Square, New York, immediately asking that defense motion be granted.* «...