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8 see Oe Mog eet na a eM ee eeraete Sd ee oasis: wath es ! mw M FH 1000-10595 annoyance to M.DELIN BLITZSTEIN and to the CP functionaries bueausa of the faet that RAYND P.CE .,LEX..NDER, a prominent ncgro and Communist sympathizer, had been designated as a speaker at the ROOSEVELT dinner, representing the negro people. They stated that .LEX.NDER had been anti-Roosevelt during the past ¢lcetion and *4 was thoir desire that Magistrate JOSEPH RB. INEY, also a Communist sympathizer, CeCe WEST WA OW ag eee We Cee et re be substituted for ALEXANDER, This, however, was “not done. Tho programfor the dinner reveals thst the speakers included:- JOHN FREDERICK LEVIS, JR. RuYHOND P..CE ..EX..NDER FRANK .KINGDON , H..RRY BLOCK, and Mre, FR NKLIN DEL,.NO ROOSEVELT, pT ee ee ee Various articles in the Philadclphia press indicate that RUYMOND P.CE LEX..NDER demanded that the i.merican governmont proteet its 9,000,000 negro workers and its 1,000,000 returning negro servicemen by enacting into law, a permanent FEPC program. Ser on ow The remarks of 211 of the speakors, according to the press, were limited elmost exclusively to political matters, .dditional speakers were listad in the press whe were not in the progran, inc luding JES J. DOUGHERTY, Exeeutiv~ Director of the CIO Political Education Committec in Philadul phia, and GEORGE CRIG, CIO Regional Director. among the sponsors wore the following persons, who were known to be menbers of the Communist Party or Communist Party sympathizers:- CORNELL, .NDERSON re TT SUS..N B. .NTHONY, IT LL.DELIN BLITZSTEIN we D, C.ES.R FLORENWE CHILDS Dr. BARROWS DUNH Mf MORRIS J. ESCOLL.- Dr. .iLLDRED F..IRCKILD JRTHUR HUFF Fy SET ELIZ.\BETH P.4FR..ZIER Dr. and Hrs. HERIL.N GOLD iNNG aie HANTS ‘ APTI wee VW . oT ne 4 wy : ‘ Ss Pele 7 4 _ e 2 ra Se . ~ a rr tl fi - we aS ep ne . Sac Ng ge en te a es sw * _— % fs Pa . - : - so 7 ee ae a ope, opis ieee pace tee U A S et . caren . . . ot ra yoo vo. aa ro. . = * . .