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ot~ To trade unionists we call attention that Paul Robeson has always supportod organized labore But those who fought his appear- ance in Peoria are the same people who - fascist-liko « would dos- troy labor's right to free organization and free collective bargain- ings To rastore the fair name of our city, we mst do everything in our power to securo the return of Poul Robeson to Peoria for a pube lic appearance at tho earliest possible dato. This mst bs done to convince the world that Pooria is atill part of a democratic Amer- icade eH HE HHO HH HE It is too bad that we have to go outside of our city for o pro=- gressive and rational oditorial concerning the Adeson casos But that boing the oase, we hearwith reprint parts of aon editorial from the Chicago Sun of Sunday, April 2O0the EFFECTS OF THE WITCH HUNT It was bound to happen, If rcoul Robeson had not been prevente ed from singing in Peoria, ho probsatly would have boon dDanned goma place olso. Pooria in proseribing = concert bacause of tho zingor's political vicws, was only roflccting the hystcria of the hysteria of the witch hunt that is sweoping the natione Aftor all, thoro is not toc great a distanee botween "stopping Communism" by arming right-wing governments cll wer tho world, and"stopping Communism" by silencing a great singer. Cnee you sub-= ject govornment employees to ths kind of "loyalty" test which casts suspicion on ovory person who ever herbdored a progressive thought, it is ecsy to domand that artists prescnt a certificate of intcli# ectual decontamination, something like the Aryanizaticn iiconse Hitler usod to require, befora being allowed to performs Whon dissont is regarded cs disloyalty, whon the non-conferme ist throught is considecrod a subvorsive thought, then it follows that troogson will bo suspected in 2 singer's voico, and Sotrayal in an artistic pcorformancos Rete ERE FH We think it is timo for tho pooplo of Poorlia and tho psople of Amorice to come to their senses. The universal red hunt is o vicious thing not becouse of what it may do to the hunted, but beccuse of what it doos to the huntorse, ust as Hitisrism degraded the German People, so this mad preoccupation with a Red "menace" can only impoir the “merican poople's solf-respoect, tholr intell~ ectual integrity, their confidences in the truly boundloss atrangth of democracy, their dignity os frcoomon, What kind of ecitizonship is it that judges every man's actions by secret speoulation on his place in the politioal spectrume What kind of Americanism is it that weighs mon not by thoir worth but by thoir political convictions? whet kind of democracy is it that