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ALL INFORMATION ~CONTAINED HEREIN iS Uncis% SIFI LYSF- RECORDED — lay 3, 2 wl 00 -/a.504 ~ . — War Department Ceneral Stare oe “APPROPRIATE AGETC Bema Orme eee mye aie, Washington 25, 0.6. - ae VADVISSy Bape My FE: Attention: Colonel L. R. Forney | "* SETP(S) OF Chief, Security Group | DATR__. John Edgar Hoover, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation RACIAL UNREST CREATED BY PAUL ROBES ONS SCHEDCLED APPEARANCE AT PEORIA, ILLINOIS - 19 -_—_- thm Tt is believed tnat you Win be interested ip the following information. eo aes the Daily Yorker of April 29, 1947, reflects that a concert scheduled by hoe Paul Robeson at Peoria, Illinois, was called off by the City Council. Paul Robeson, —-— * according to the article, ina telephone statement to the Council on African Affairs, New York City, assailed the Peorle City Council which had unanimously adopted a resolution condemming an appearance there of "any speaker or artist who is an avowed or active propagandist for un-Aperican ideology." <Aocording te the article, Mayor _+ Carl 0. Triebel had reversed an earlier approval for the use of the City Hall which | ‘- we ta he usad for the reception of Paul Robeson by a citisents annittea. The t< , « Mayor's reversal, according te the article, was based on his fear of "riots or dis- . turbances." In a statement the Mayor had inferred that "Robeson is coming here for . @ fight" because the singer had told the press of threats he had received. Accord- * 4ng to this article Paul Robeson made the statement that he did "not intend to be © bullied” and expressed copriction that "Peoria citisens, feeling as Y do, will ; demonstrate their om feelings against the un-tnerican assault in their own way." ne emma 8 Pee Bs mea ye bi fo special conference was held at the Communist Party Headquarters“ /f - ch was participated in by lesding Commmists of the Chicago area, i+ including *aibert Green, Chairman of District No. 8 of the Commmist Party, and William L. Patterson, negro, Second Vice Chairman ef District Wo..8. - According to a\.«° ” this informant, William L. Patterson, who, it is known, visited Fuorla, Dlincis, advised the other Communist officials present that he saw more guns down there A Zamong our people* than he ever had before and that they expected violence, Alfred «, Wagenknecht, Feet ence eae eee ee a een eniertan SF eome of the ry een Cet tong nn Te ME re Poe t]Kk aA l 1g “yy o se ee oe Cher words Wamong Somer or whether he referred to negroes org, / = ————e + ie. pee ER we} ee sao 7STyakr0 eS aT 241087 a