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-2- The Daily Worker of February 16, 19458 (page 16), reported that sama “eighty leading New York civic leaders, trade unionists and professionals yasterday joined Dr. William Jay Schieffelin, prgsident emeritus of the Citizens Union, to demand the prompt seating of Simon W. Gerson to the City Council seat made vacant by the death of Councilman Peter V. Catchione, Brooklyn Communist. .. The civic leaders' statement is directed to Mayor O'Dwyer and City Council majority leader Joseph I. Sharkey. It is a reprint of a letter to the New York Times by Dr. Schieffeiin in which he charges that the real reason for the refusal to seat German (sic. Gerson) is ‘the current anti-Commnist hysteria.'., . ." Br. DuBoia was named as having signed the statement. (See also advertisement in New York Times of February 19, 1948, paga 13.) Dr. Dusois was a member of a committee formed to protest the arrest of Pablo Neruda, Comimuisit Caorlean Senator and world famous poet; he ‘signed a state- ment of the organization in support of Neruda. (Daily Worker of April 7, 1948, p. 13, and April 10, 1950, p. 2, respectively.) He was sponsor of a reception and testimonial for Harry Sacher, defense attorney for the Communist leaders (Daily 1 Worker of December 5, 1919, pe 2). When Earl Browder (then general secretary, Communist Party} was in Atlanta Penitentiary serving a sentence involving his fraudulent passports, tha Communist Party's front which agitated for his release was known as the Citizens! Committee to Free Earl Browder (Special Committee . . . in Report 1311 of March 29, 1944); the Attorney General of the United States had cited the Citizens' Commit- tee as Communist (Congressional Record, September 2), 1942, page 7687, and press release of April 27, 1949}. Or. DuBois was a member of the Citizens! Committee. . . in 1942, as shown on their letterhead dated February 11, 192; he sponsored a dinner of the group, according to the Daily Worker of February 5, 1942, and signed the call to the National Free Browder Congress, as shown in the Daily Worker of February 25, 1542, pages 1 and hk. A 1950 Icttoziead of the Ansrican Committee for Protection of Forsign Born carries the name of Dr. We E. B. DuBois in a list of sponsors of that organi-~ zation; the same information appears on an undated letterhead of the group, distri- buting a speech of Abner Grean at the conference of December 2~3, 1950; a letter- head of the Midwest Committee for Protection of Foreign Born dated April 30, 1951, names him as a Natiencal Sxconsor of the organization. He signed the group's state- ment opposing the Hobbs Bill (Daily Worker, July 25, 1950, page 4}; he signed their statement opposing denaturslicetion (Daily Worker of August 10, 1950, p. 5); and . + : : ; signed a telegram prepared and dispatched by the organization to the Attorney General of the United States, protesting holding nine non-citizens without bail under the McCarran Act (Daily Worker of November 2h, 1952, page 3). The Special Comaittee cited the American Committee for Protaction of Foreign Born as “one of the oldest auxiliaries of the Communist Party in the United States" (report of March 29, 194l:; also cited in report of June 25, 1942); the Attorney General cited the organization as subversive and Communist (press releases of June 1 and September 21, 1948). "For years, the Communists have put forth the greatest effurta tu capture the entire American Labor Party throughout New York State. They succeeded in capturing the Manhattan and Brooklyn sections of the American Labor Party but