Paul Robeson Sr — Part 25

104 pages · May 11, 2026 · Document date: Jun 23, 1950 · Broad topic: Public Figures · Topic: Paul Robeson Sr · 104 pages OCR'd

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- Gounedie Se OS, rm &. NY 100-25857 Unity for Peace end Jobs." This pamphiet contained the text .....- of the speech made by ROBESON at the National Labor Conference . for Negro Rights and was published by the Harien t Trade Union - _ cs TT confidential qnformant i “ i of known reliability, advised that the Harlem Trade Union Council is a Communist Party front organization and was organizes at the | Sizect orders of the Communist ‘Party, U.5ehe . The following are excerpts from the speech made. by ROBESON at the meeting of the National Labor Conference for Negro Rights held in Chicago: | - “And 80, even today, as this National Labor Conference for Negro Rights charts the course ahead for the --ghole Negro people and their sincere allies, it sounds a warning to American bigotry and reaction. For if fifteen million Negroes, led by their staunchest sons and daughters of labor, and joined by the white working elass, say that there shall be no more Jim Crow in America, then there shall be no more Jim Crow! "Tf fifteen million Negroes say, and mean it no more anti-Semitism, then there shall be no more anti-Semitism! "Tf fifteen million Negroes, inspired by their true leaders in the labor movement, demand an end to the perse= ution of the foreign-born, then the persecution of the foreign- born will endi «.. es _ “If fifteen million Negroes in one voice ‘demand an end to the jailing of the leaders of American progressive thought and culture and the leaders of the American working class, then their voice will be strong enough to empty the > BRisons of the victims of America's cold war, "Ir fifteen million Negroes are for + peace, then. - there will be peace! | oO 2 \ oo ¥ rd . > Mana behind these fifteen million are 180 ‘mLYLi of our African brothers and sisters 60 million of our kindred . the West Indies and Latin America--for whom, as for us, war and ‘the Point Four program would mean a new imperialist slavery. "In every subject land, in every dependent area, the hundreds of millions who strive. freedom have set their eyes

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- Gounedie Se OS,

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NY 100-25857

Unity for Peace end Jobs." This pamphiet contained the text .....-
of the speech made by ROBESON at the National Labor Conference .
for Negro Rights and was published by the Harien t Trade Union -

_ cs TT confidential qnformant i “
i of known reliability, advised that the Harlem Trade Union

Council is a Communist Party front organization and was organizes
at the | Sizect orders of the Communist ‘Party, U.5ehe

. The following are excerpts from the speech made.
by ROBESON at the meeting of the National Labor Conference for
Negro Rights held in Chicago: |

- “And 80, even today, as this National Labor
Conference for Negro Rights charts the course ahead for the

--ghole Negro people and their sincere allies, it sounds a warning

to American bigotry and reaction. For if fifteen million Negroes,
led by their staunchest sons and daughters of labor, and joined
by the white working elass, say that there shall be no more Jim
Crow in America, then there shall be no more Jim Crow!

"Tf fifteen million Negroes say, and mean it
no more anti-Semitism, then there shall be no more anti-Semitism!

"Tf fifteen million Negroes, inspired by their
true leaders in the labor movement, demand an end to the perse=
ution of the foreign-born, then the persecution of the foreign-
born will endi «.. es _

“If fifteen million Negroes in one voice ‘demand
an end to the jailing of the leaders of American progressive
thought and culture and the leaders of the American working class,
then their voice will be strong enough to empty the > BRisons of
the victims of America's cold war,

"Ir fifteen million Negroes are for + peace, then.
- there will be peace! | oO 2 \ oo ¥

rd . > Mana behind these fifteen million are 180 ‘mLYLi
of our African brothers and sisters 60 million of our kindred .
the West Indies and Latin America--for whom, as for us, war and
‘the Point Four program would mean a new imperialist slavery.

"In every subject land, in every dependent area,
the hundreds of millions who strive. freedom have set their eyes