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er ot me me ee a “Committee on Un-American Activities and fidéNt Aine ; repeal the Taft-Hartley Law, and withdraw the ecutive Loyalty order". Among the signers of the call to this conference was listed the name Doctor W.E.B. DU BOIS, negro scholar. It is to be noted that the Civil Rights Congress has been designated by the Attorney General as coming within the purview of Executive Order 9535. . The "Daily Worker" dated February 28, 1948, page 2, column 1, carried an article entitled "SISLER Indicted, Liberals Demand End of Persecution". The article satated that fifty prominent Americans on Februery 27, 1947 condemed "the shameful persecution of the German anti-Fascist refugee GERHART EISLER". A statement published by the Civil Rights Congress and signed by Doctor W.B.B. DU BOIS, among others, stated: "The hysterical atmosphere contrived around this case indicates that this incident, involving a German Communist kept here against hia will, is intended as the initial phase of a sweeping attack upon the entire labor and progressive movement in the United States". The "Worker", the Sunday edition of the "Daily Worker", dated August 29, 1948, carried an article entitled "The First Line of Defense" which featured a statement by several negro Americans, including W.E.B. DU BOIS of New York city. 444 a ol ar io. a : * - 3 -