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MY 100-25776 It was further stated that this affair was produced by the Literature Chapter The April 12, l94s issue of the *Post' and "Home. News" carried an article entitled "Rescind Invitation to Hegro Poet." .Under this caption, it wss stated that a scneduled appearance of the subject at Vallejo, California on April l3, l948, had been cancelled by the Vallejo Council for Civic Unity on the grounds of "anpleasant notoriety connected with the rumor 1. ) thet On December 3, l948, Confidential Informant. advised that he recalled that in 1936 and again in l938 LAnGstOn HjeES was suggested. as a candidate on the Party Election ticket. Tne same informant said that on both occasions the National Committee of the Communist Party discussed the suggestions of the State Committee and both times vetoed the idea, as a writer and lecturer. The informant added thet he had no doubt as to. the subject's membership in the Communist Party. (4) The September 13, l947, issue of the *pittsburgh Courier* carried an article entitled *Prominent Sames on House List." The article stated that the House Committee on Un-American Activities had released a list of promineat negro leaders saying that they were *Communists" or *Comuunist syapathisers" as sponeors of the Civil Rights Congress.. The list included. the name of the subject.(U) Confidential Informant T-l advised that at the 4th Session of the National Committee plenum of the Communist Party. United States of America, attended by seventy Communist Party officials from all over the United States and held at New Iork City Tebruary 4, l948, WILLIAM L/PATTERSON of Illinois, in urging the Party not to abandon the negro press, ststed that columnists such as LAnGston nugaEs, who advocate and advance the 3rd party, were available. A nemo dated June 7. l947, concerning Communist Party activities in the New Iork area which was furnished by an nnkmown outside source, advised that the subject/was one of a "fewwll-known, highbrow intellectual Reds who Confidential Informant T-2 furnished a booklet entitled *rlla Reeve Blosr - 85th Anniversary* which was distributed June 20, l947. at a 27