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Roy Wilkins — Part 4
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On 10-23-36 the New York Field Office sorwarded
a copy of the September 1936 issue of the "Crists," the official
publication of the NAACP, It was noted that Roy Wilkins was
editor of the magazine. It was also ivoted that the agent who
had obtained the magazine had contacted the Workers Book Shop,
official part of the CP, and was emphatically informed that
the publication was not handled at that book store, indicating
that it was not classed as a communtat publication.
NY letter, 10+23-36
Fe: Subversive Activities in
the Stgel Industry.
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This reference was a copy of a letter from the SAC
in New Orleans, dated 10-20-36, to the U.S. Attorney at
Heridian, Hiss., enclosing a copy of a letter fron Roy Wilkins,
Assistant Secretary of the NAACP, dated 10-6-36, The letter
fron Wilkins, which was addressed to Attorney General, Homer
S, Cumming, charged that G. W, Jackson, a colored man tn
Sunflower, Hiss., was being held in peonage by his employer,
a Mr. Enos of Jackson, Miss. Wilkins asked the Department of
Justice to make an inquiry through the nearest U.S. Attorney.
The SAC advised the U.S. Attorney that the matter would be
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