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Paul Robeson Sr — Part 15

78 pages · May 11, 2026 · Document date: Sep 18, 1913 · Broad topic: Public Figures · Topic: Paul Robeson Sr · 78 pages OCR'd
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B: | and he was just tellin me hor, you know, he didnt¢ think | ' guch about our past policies, as he said he never dreanod | i that we went go far, you see? He figured that at sax later time it will be necessary for us to rerroup ourselves in the ; old party, and that this whole business was the change fron CP to CPA. He firured thic was purcly something tactical you pee, and he accepted it as such and didn't think much more about it, so he's read DUCLOS' article and while we were tocether this afternoon we went over paris of it and its really amazing, he says that its obvious that we went too far, that's the way i he sees it, and he was just rivinc me some of his experiences you @eezon the Coast he met with gome cf the Chambers of Commerce - / gat there in Portland and in San Franoisco, and he was just \ gseciny that well by Georpe its clear thet these puys are already cot ae = 4 petting wery different orlentation, and he was talkinre about BARAT.” \He says that well he hinscif, he and HARTY had some slicht - disecreerent because HART! was busy telling his hav these rays were OK you see, and he was tallcing to then | about the necro question, especially about the problem of about 10,000 hegroes out there who are coin: to be lnid off anc we don't have anywhere to live, won't have anr jobs in this whole period betwoen now and reconversion, and ho save these puys are prepared to do nothine, these Chanber of Commerce usa, end he wontioned that this is, that thess people @re more definitcl; allied in their views with ERIC JONNSTON who is considered procressive than they arc with amybody elsc, and he says he put the question to hin very fri, "Kell now what are you poing to do with these £0,000 nezroes?" He says, "You om't lect them - atearve, vou got te ceive then some place to live", and #0 forth Severe GS YY and soen. He save oh well they ficure that oh wall they'll get alon-, something will happen. So he made some proposal to than about it, well he says just nothing against nothing. So he was tclking to HATE about it end HARTY said that, "Tela P poctiy rou know I think rou underestinate these people and I tell you think their heart's inthe right place", and so forth ewe #0 OM, ‘out he himself had no proposal about the same thinc, and that he gseomd to place a lot more confidences in thom than PAUL'S excerience with them showed them to descrve. Well he cited 2 eviple of othcr instances and of course the main thin’ ho had to gay, Well its very obvious that whatever you say of our position . in the past, its very otvious now that this perspective is Just — [site a insofar as he scea it in his personal experience, on Ta ee ne : a d : * " . : t ove : ee ora ate ed 7 ' 1 un : mt vada, : i MP, al RBS alia gh . . 4 . cee © Seren a es ee) | ee ae rs Aa ye. ve if but he had nover thoursht that the policies that we Lad were suck as to preclude our foresecing this, Then we went over this ne . wor poe
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