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coe Ree fae : \ EP 8E 100-1820 cor - present at ROBESON's concert, The majority of the people present { were Canadians, <—\ _ The following article appeared in the August 21, 1953 edition of the "Daily People's World", Northwest Editions "25,000 Flock to Peace Arch for Repeat Robeson Triumph. { "Peace Arch Park, U.S., Aug. 20 - PAUL ROBESON sang. | songs of peace and freedom to an international audience of 7 at least 25,000 at his second annual cutdoor concert here 8 4 e* ® ® @ & "among those greeting and embracing Robeson were Harvey Murphy, regional director, and Ken Smith, president of the British Columbia District, Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers Union. Sponaora for the second consecutive year of the international] day of song and brotherhood, « « « « "While he emphasized he had not changed--'I remain the _ game Paul you know!--yet, he said, !Time has made it so : everyone must fight harder for the freedom we love. If it were not Bo, I would be with you in Vancouver today, and traveling all over the Canada I cherish so deepiy.' oF es ei a > a vr. eee = "Yast yearts border concert was arranged after U.S. 2 Immigration authorities denied Robeson a passport to sing and ge speak before the Mine-Mil] convention in Vancouver, Estimate: 8 of the large Canadian crowd that flooded into this park last a year in protest against the denial and to hear Robeson ranged as wp to 40,000, This year, despite a tight commercial press ae censorship, the tremendous turnout was repeateds « «» « Y & "He (Robeson) lashed out at political persecutiona in his native land and said: ‘Today in America we fight, as this truce ig concluded, for amnesty of those leaders who have beer imprisoned, so that they may come back and lead the people ae bin at 4 fn the struggle for peace. ™ « « »