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Loy : ie, 4 Se ester ane WY 2190-25857 ®strutting down our avenues and bending befors confederate mations. We honor today the courageous twelve leaders of the American working class and the Negro people arse learning fast that their liberation is closely bound with the atrugzgles of» the working classes here and ali over the world. Today, ayerywhere, they march for pose @, and peace we must and shail win. Peace shall conquer wart* _ The “Daily Worker? tesus of May &, 1951, page &, column 2, reported that PAUL ROBESON attended the Fourth Biennial Convention of the Marine Cooks and Stewards Saion in Sen Franciaeeo, California, The article reflected that ROBESON was a speaker at the convention, and that he is (8180 an honorary _ member of the union, ~. ©. ~~~. > . In his speech ROBESON stated, “If fifteen million Negroes spoke out for peace, there will be peace. If fifteen milifon Negroes speak out againet anti-Semitiam, there will be no anti-Semitism. If fifteen million people apsak out against persecution of the Mexican people, that persecution will end." : On a. Confidential Informant ie of kmown reliabliity, advised that the Marins Cooks and Stewards Union is infiltrated and dominated by Communist Party members, Informant stated that {mn 1949 the CIO expelled thia union from thelr group because it was controlled by the Communist Party and followed the Communist Party line. The "Datly Worker™ faaue of May 15, 1951, ‘page Se column <2, reported that PAUL ROBESON spoke at meetings . in San b v Francisco and Oakland, California, “thia week-end sponsored by the young and thriving Negro Labor Council, In hie apesch, ; ROBESON told the sudience, “If fifteen milifeon Negroes had . \ spoken up, WILLIE McGEE would be alive today, possibly sitting | right here with you." - i: Confidentiat Informant jocvises . that the Negro Labor Council was a Communist Party front organization get up by the Comeunist Party in order te infiltrate unions and recruit new sWegre members into the Party. a.