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NY 10025857, | ™, pon & new star that rises n the DMte-they t have chosen ag the model for their conduct the brave people and stalwart leaders of the new People's Republic of Chine. And they say to our atom- toting politicians, "Send your guns and tanks and planes to our oppressors, if you will! We will take them away from them and put them to our own usel We will be free in apite of you, if not with you helpit" — "Your tasks, then, are clear. The Negro trade unionists must increasingly exert their influence in. every aspect of the life of the Negro community. No church, no fraternal, eivie or social organization in our communities must be permitted to continue without the benefit of the kmowledge and expertence . which you have gained through four struggles in the great American iabor movement, You are called upon to provide the spirit, the de- termination, the organizational skill, the firm steel of nnyielding and freed to the age-old strivings of the Negro people for equality a reedom. "On the shoulders of the Negro trade anionists there is the tremendous responsibility to rally the power of the whole - trade-union movement, white and black, to the battie for the liberation of our people, the future of our women and children. Anyone who fails in this does the Negro people & great disservice. Nand to the white trade unionists present 4 spectal challenge. You must fight in the ranks of labor for the full equality of your Negro brothers; for their right to work et any job; to receive aqual pay for equal work; for an end to Jim Crow unions; for real fair employment practices within the unions as well as in all other phases of the national life; for the elimination of the rot of white supremacy notions which tne employers use to poison the minds of the white workers in order to pit them against their staunchest allies, the Negro people-= in short, for the unbreakable unity of the working people, black and white, without which there can be no free trade unions, no. real prosperity no constitutional rights, no peace for anybody, whatever the color of bis skin. To accept Negro leadership .. - of men and women and youth; to accept the fact that the Negro workers have become a part of the vanguard of the whole American working class, To fail the Negro people is to fail the whole American people.* The "Worker", Harlem edition, issue of dune 18, «/ 1950, section 1, page i, column 3s contained a photograph of 4 ir PAUL ROBESON signing a peace petition in Philadelphia. The ph caption underneath the picture reported that his signing took em