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DECLASSIFICATION AUTHORITY DERIVED FRG eee ‘el SUTUMATIO URL ULASS CATION GULUE DAIE Ch SAC, Atlanta Us-l4@-2015 By a Director, FBI " Noyg mber 18, Tink. ; a oe “ah on ywi v SOUTHERN CONFERENCE FOR HUMAN WELFARE, SPEAKING. ENGAGEMENT Cir FORMER VICE-PRESIDENT HENRY As WALLACE, IN ATLANTA, GEORGIA INTERNAL SECURITY - C Cesoitied hy an (Bureau file TOU=ID3tS) Ceclassliy. says ae Remylet 10-31-47 concerning plans being made in Atlan for the Southern Conference for Human Welfare to sponsor a speak-~ ing engagement by former Vice-President HENRY A. WALLACE on. November 20 next. spo ; ; There..is-being-transmitted herewith the column of Mr.—.- .- - RALPH McGILL, editor of the Atlanta Constitution which appeared in that paper on the morning of November 15. It will be noted that Mr. McGILL mentioned the possibility of there being dis- order during the WALLACE meeting and that he also made rather Lightly veiled allegations that. the Southern Conference for Human Welfare is following the Communist Party line in the manner in which the WALLACE meeting has been arranged. : Through infornant{___] whose identity is known to the Bureau, it hase been learne a e McGILL colum created con- siderable consternation among the ranks of the Southern Confer- ence for Human Welfare. UA , [__Jesvises that on the afternoon of November 15, there was a meeting at the home of Reverend I. J. DOMAS who is co-chairman of the WALLACE meeting. CLARK FOREMAN, President of the Southern Conference for Human Welfare, EDKONIA: GRANT, an official cf the SCHW from New Orleans, and EUDICE TONTAK, acting secretary of the Atlanta chapter of the SCHW met with Pev- . erend DOMAS to discuss the action taken to combat the McGILL misled During the course of the meeting, CLARK FCREMAN talked tc DONALD L. WEST, a top functionary of the C.P. in the Atianta Div- ision, about the McGILL article. They both were very vehement in criticizing the article, agreeing that it was "“yallow journalism" of the lowest degree and "outright provocation" intended to sug- gest that the Ku Kiux Klan take action to break up the WALLACE meeting. According to the informant FOREMAN told DONALD L. “E _ that he had already talked to THCVAS W. JCHNGON, Attorney in. “Macon, . Georgia, abovt the possibility of entering a suit for criminal cg 45 TEE) A6| ae — 62-7 TI OY el md aay Begg DE a VAG bE b7C¢ b7D