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Claudia Jones — Part 1
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ee . . The March 3, 1952, issue of. the "Datiy Worker". ca eri
: on page he column 1, contained a letter to the "Daily Workere ss
_ from the “Rank and File Union Committee for the Defense of re,
CLAUDIA JONES", The article stated that on February 15th © -.0.0 0".
CLAUDIA JONES delivered a speech to the Committee givingithem .. oe
a graphic picture of how the Smith Act effects the workera, eo of
The letter asked that more volunteers join the Committee to le
broaden it into the National Committee for the Defense of L.
CLAUDIA JONES with at least 1,000 members’. ae
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CLAUDIA JONES authored an article in the "USA
in Words and Pictures", a periodical published in Germany... - .
In the 1952 No, 16 issue on page 48, an article by the subject” Oy
captioned "The Warnongers Fear the American Women" concerned ., Le
the Federal Bureau of Investigation and its apprehension of ©" °°:
Smith Act subjects on the West Coast. In her article the
subject states, "The attacks of the American gestapo against «
the women, who valiently fight for peace and social progress,
are increasing in a terrifying manner." Later in the article
she states, "The American women resolutely fight against these
reactionary conspirators for they have recognized that the unity.
and the struggle for peace is the sole security for a permanent
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The February, 1952, issue of "Political Affairs", Bo
the theoretical and political magazine of the Communist Party ,- aM
USA, contained an article by the subject captioned, "The Struggle ~~
for Peace in the United States". The article states that
President TRUMAN in his recent State of the Union message to _ -
Congress glorified Wall Street's expansion, urged the need for -
more arms and proposed additional taxes; however, according to
the informant, he failed to mention the repression of civil ©
rights, the persecution of Communists and the repeal of the Taft-
Hartley Law. The subject writes, "TRUMAN'S message confirmed
out Party's fear that the war danger is heightened," The subject.
writes that "lasting peace can be had by co-existence of the U.S.A.
and the U.5.5.R., on the basia of peaceful competition, honoring |
of commitments, negotiations of all outstanding differences, and -.
recognition of the basic democratic right of all peoples to choose
their own form of government, It is this deeper ideological mean-.~
ing, underlying the real concern of certain top monopolists with >
the ‘reckless pace' with which the bi-partisan camp moves to the
twin disaster of war and depression, that a people's peace
movement must grasp hold of, in order to curd the warmongers,”
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