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Claudia Jones — Part 2
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. political, economic, and social equality for the ‘Negro: people. ‘Tt ist no « 7 ee
oe humanitarian or paternalistic approach which ‘governs its agtse. : ee :
nit was this Warxist-Leninist principle that the Communi ate brought
to the labor movement, more than 25 years ag0.e.+e+--1t were the Communists
who inspired this fight which led to organising negro and white share .._—.
aman asm tw US nat aed ppl, flanw rel mn and AT akhama Tree anueht tinalagsale +a :
integrate the Negro worker in the dabor movenent,*
She went on to say that ‘ate today the unprecedented unity of a
negro and white exists in the wage struggles of dabor,. it is largely because ~
the Communists pioneered and zealously supported the nation-wide agitation _
to organize the workers of basic industries into industrial unions,* _ ae
The subject further wrote in this article, vie today, negro workers
in packing, steel and other strike struggles are referred to as solid ~
champions of labor's cause, not a small “part of the answer is the pioneer—
ing woric of the Communiistse
"Nothing has 80 contri buted to ‘the political ‘Gevélopment of the.
then the were of the Commnigte within the labor movement to
pie than Wic WOlR OF WS VORRTWIAS we ——= ene | .
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secure for him a place of equal opportuni ty#. : ;
JONES went on to state that the "Negro no longer need, indeed he
cannot now fight alone" but that he is part of an inseparable alliance of
organized labor "and its Communist vanguard", She went on to state that
that is why the "best sons and dughters of the Negro people have found their
way into the Comunist Party. They recognize that the Communist Farty fights
not only in the tradition of Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman and
Sojourner Truth, but that the Commnist Party is a Party of a new type —
a Party of the working class — a Party that is building the future of man-
a kind - Socialism,...The Communist Party is the conscious force that shows the
a negro and white workers that you camot compromise with the Jim Crow system.
but must fight without quarter to destroy it.
; "It is no wonder that the enemies of the Communist party have charged
moe in the past that it is the Party of the negro, We Communists say that the
charge is true*, She went on to state that the Communist Party is the one >
Party that is proud of being the party of the REETOe
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~ "Daily Worker", May 35, 1946
CLAUDIA JONES is credited in this. iasue of the "Daily Worker" with
rine LE py
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