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a soy ton : fo - . C3 4 oS NY 100-25857 | i ) ete a CD t VAL ce ncn Lode tee: ? ‘organization. OS = - Cog cet, Pa ERSTE {Congressional Committee on Un-Amcrican Activitios, - House Roport No. 378, on tho Communist 'pencet > ree Orfunsivo, April 25, 1951, original dete, April 1, — 7 The "Daily worker", dssuo of July 3, 1949, Section |. . 2, page 6, column 1, contained an article entitled, "t'm / Looking For Full Frocdom", which, according to the article, was the abridged text of an address by the subject to a Welcome Home Rally, held in New York City, Juno 19, 2949, . undur the auspices of the CAA. The article, in part, quoted —~.- - ROBESON as follows; "Tnis explains my faclings toward tho ..... - Sovict Union, whers in 1944, I for tho first time walked the earth in completu human dignity....-Now those poople of the Soviet Union...werco in grent part Communists. They were the first to die for our freedom, and for the freedom of all man- kind. So, Itm not afraid of Conmunists; no; far from thats: oo IT will defend thom os they defended us, the Negro people. énd I stand firm and immovable by th. side of that great - leader who has given his whole life to the struggle of the American working class = BILG FOSTTR...." — Tho “paily Worker", issue of June 19, 1953, page 2, column 1, in an article entitled, "*7OSTFPR Wires Clemency Plea to TISTNHOWER", WILLI4SM Z. FOSTER is described as National Chairman of the Communist Party. _ { Tho "Nw York Post nud Homo Nows" newspaper, issue ‘of July 18, 1949, contained an -rticlo entitled, "Slip of =... the Tongue Hints ROBESONts e Red", wis article atated in. --.- part, "Speaking youterday at the closing session of a Bill of Rights Conforence at the Honry Hudson Hotel, tho singer --~--- --- said, *Wo Negro, we progressives, wo Communists, we little OO Pcopleseseet" Tha article continucd, "The words twa Com-- — —--~ munists' wero apparently e slip of the tongue, for ROBESON later folt it necessary to issuc a statomsnt explaining that 2 | | hovmerecly moant ¢211 of us ara being duniod our civil rights, ~ 9 ~ and our unity behind the Bill of Rights wes what our groat conforence was about, and what my remarks were about. t" fe ] who hag furnished roliable information in b [P the past, advised in Tuly, 1949, thrt © Bill of Rights Con- ference was held at the denry Hudson Hotuvl, New York City, mee re