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a= 2 = At a banquet held on Saturday, April 10th, at the Sheraton Hotel, the delegates to the National Wallace Committee contributed $11,900. He eee ee _ The second movement in behalf of the Wallace-for—President candidacy was held at the Savoy ballroom, 1733 South Parkway, in the center of the Chicago Negro district. This meeting was called by the Progressive Party of Illinois, which will be the Illinois branch of the third political party. This group. is controlled by the leaders of Commmnist District No. 8 (Illinois- Indiena-Kentucky), and the mesting was callad to organise on a Tilinois state-wide basis in support of Wallace's presidential campaign. It is estimated that between 2,000 and 2,500 delegates, representing ell sections of Illinois, were present, a large proportion of them being Negroes. The Illinois group adopted resolutions: similar to those adopted by the National Wallace~for~President Comittee and, in addition, nominated candidates for Governor and Lieutenant Governor of Illinois and United States Senater. The following were nominated: FOR GOVERNOR: Grant Oakes, of Chicago, International President o the Farm Equipmen rkers Union, CIOs ; FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR Le Diehl, of Gibson City, Tllinois, who gives his a ee eatteh as TarmercLawyers . FOR U. S. SENATOR: Professor Curtis D, MacDougall, of Evanston, Illinois, Professor of Journalism at Northwestern University. In addition to the foregoing candidates, the Progressive Party of ‘Lovett,of the University of Chicago, Illinois named Professor Robert Morss as Honorary Chairman of the Party, and William H. Miller, of Chicago, a8 State Organization Director of the Party. for the ILlinois Progressive Party, a brief resume of the activities of each is given below: GRANT OAKES, Progressive Party candidate for Governor, was bern ipril 8, 1505, 4n Westfield, N. Y.3 is married, and has three children. He at one time was dn the national CIO headquarters in Washington. His organizational activities began in 1936, when he and Robert Travis, another Communist, led the campaign for the CIO to organize the employes of the International Harvester Company. Oakes is now International President of the Farm Equipment Workers Union, with head- quarters in Chicage and, 4n addition, is a very active member - of the Executive Board of thé Coimbiniet Party for the Tllinois district. The policies of his tnion’are established by the To give an idea of the character of the candidates and officials named