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individuals have been identified are thoee applied to them by the Attorney General of the United Stacea, the House Un-American Activities Com- mittee or the Special House Un-American Activi- tes Committee. ) President Spingarn was a participant in the Conference on Africa held April 14, 1944, in New York City by the “subversive and Communist” Council on African Affairs. In 1945 and 1946 he signed statement favoring the granting of Anny commissions to Communists and opposing the use pf injunctions in labor disputes sponsored by the “viciously subversive” National Federation of Con- stitutiona! Liberties. He is listed as a sponsor of the “Communist front” Public Use of Arts Com- mittee. Board Chairman Channing H. Tobias was a member ef the Executive Board and Co-Chairman wll hee Dees Vanek Meenisee af she Yee nine ae Re LS UR EE WU LE ee lnrtitttende ener front” Southern Conference for Human Welfare which was charged in 1947 with “serving the Soviet Union and its subservient Communist Party in the United States.” He belonged, prior to 1949, to the “subversive and Communist” Council on African Affairs and was a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the “Protestant i magazine which “has faithfully propagated the Communist Party line.” He smoneored the “sub- versive and Communist” Peopie’s Institute of Ap- plied Religion and the American Committee for Yugoslav Relief and was a member of the Execu- tive Board of the American League for Peace and Democracy, “the largest of the Communist-front movernents in the United States." He has spon- sored conferences and activities of the “viciously subversive” National Federation for Constitutional Liberties, the “Communist front” New York State Conference on National Unity and the “subver- dive and Communist” American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born and the National! Com- mittee to Win the Peace. Roy Wilkins—succenor w the iate Walter White as NAACP Executive Secretary—-was quoted on June 17, 1936, by the New York Daily Worker, the official publication of the Communist Party in this country, as attaching “greatest significance” to the 1936 National Communist Party Conven- tion and stating that the Communist Party's racial (4) eet + the United States. He was further quoted by the Daily Worker on July 15, 1949, as boasting that he had voted in New York City elections that year for since-convicted Negro Communist Benjamin J. Davis. He is listed as a member of the National Committee of the “Communist front" Interna- tional Juridical Association which has “actively defended Communists and consistently followed the Communist Party line.” Hie was a sponsor of the “subversive and Communist" Conference on Pan American Democracy, and of a joint meeting in 1937 of the “subversive and Cornmunist” Amer- ican League Against War and Fascism and the “Communist front” American Friends of the Chinese People. He has spoken for the “subver- sive and Communist” Internationa] Labor Defense and the Workers’ Alliance, the former of which is epee edel ae ohn Pgaeule a5 uit CL) ee ee ee, ee Pe rer pe ei te Le Communist Party” in this country. Special Counsel Thurgood Marshall—the negro lawyer responsible for the NAACP"s court attacks upon segregation in the public schoois—as late as 1950 was a member of the Executive Board of the “Communist front” National Lawyers Guild which has been described as “the foremost legal bulwark of the Communist Party, its front organizations and controlled unions" Since ics inception, the Giuld “has never failed to rally to the legal de! defense of the Communist Party and individual members thereof, including known espionage agents.” And, as a member and policy-making officia] of this Communist Front, Marshall has served as Amo- ciate Editor of the “Lawyers Guild Review” and has criticized this nation's loyalty program. He slo is listed as a member of the National Commirtee of the “Communist front’ International Juridical Association which has “actively defended Com- munists and consistently followed the Communist Party line.” And he was among a group of attor- neys who, in 1947, protested the issuance of con- recat citadons against pro~Communist se Fae) writers who refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee. The director of the NAACP's Washington =) reau, Clarence M. Mitchell, protested against be- ing asked whether he was or ever had been a mem- | | | | ) 4 ~ ~, ba pla np pa nr ant BEt ber of the Communist “oo oat ce coanamhaaaiameliial i