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NY 100-25776 In the Call to the Second United States Congress Against that LANGSTON HUGHES waS on the NATIONAL CO!FIITTEE CF THE AHERICAN LEAGUE *AGAINST HAR AND FASCISM. The February, l937 issue of the "Labor Defender" reflected that LANGSToN HUGhEs was a Contrinuting Editor of this magazine, ghich is. published by the IN'ERH.TION.L LBOR DEFEiISE, 8 East llth Street, New York City. In the Laily lorker, published liarch 29, l937, on page 4, of the Loyalist Government shows that thc Ncgroes are growing in international consciousness. This article also reflectcd that he is a member of the AMERicAN COLMITTE FOI TECHNICAL AID TO SPAIN. An artcle: in.thc Daily lorker, dated Ssptember 7, l937, reflected that LArgsron Huc:Es, "tac Negro poet", made a broadcast from Madrid, and that several wecks before hc had attended thc INTERN.TIONAL RITERS CONGRESs at Madrid, Spain. According to thne Dasly lorkcr of Jamary 22, l938, on pagc 2, the subject t:as interviewed on his return fron Spcin after spending six months there. It is reported that hugies told of the heroic work of the and that hc ras convinced of a Loyalist victory. An article in the Dsily orker, dated April 23, l938, re- flccted that LANgsTol' lughEs vas onc of 150 prominent American .artists, sriters, and composers, tho issued a statement in support of the verdicts of the recent Moscow Trials of the Trotskyite-Bukharinite Traitors. The/1938 International orkers Ordcr Convention proceedings rcflcct that EuANuet JevIn, National Education iork Dircctor, distributed ten thousand copics of~the collectcd poms of LANGSTON HUGIEs. In thu Daily lorker, dated August l4, l939, it was re- a manifesto denying thc fantastic faloehood that the U.s.S.R, and the Totalitari States are basically alike.