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NY 1000-16676 Letter to the Director advised that she joined the Communist Party about ten years ago and boasted of being elected to the National Committee of the Commnist Party. She ad- vised that her work as secretary of the National Women's Commaission of the Communist Party kept her extremely busy. She informed that she worked at Party Headquarters from approximately 10;00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M, six days a week, She admitted being active in preparing Party literature, writing articles for the Party under her own name and giving speeches to various Communist Party clube. She also admitted traveling for the Party, making speeches in various parta of the country. She would not elaborate on any of the above information. She advised that she was a firm believer in the principles of the Communist Party. The Daily Worker of January 20, 1948, carried a bulletin on page one announcing the srrest of CLAUDIA JONES, "a member of the National Committee of the Communist Party." In the Daily Worker of January 21, 1948, page 2, <olumns 1, 2 and 3 and page 16, column 3, there appeared a story by GERALH-ACOOK captioned "CP Board Hite arrest of Claudia Jones." This article sharply criticizes the Government and "Attorney General Tom Clark's political police" with “wiping out democracy." A charge was also made that all prow gressives are now being labeled as wanting to "overthrow the government." The following is- quoted from this article; -"The arrest of Claudia Jones, popular young negro woman Commmist leader, by night raiding agents of the FBI was assailed yesterday by the Communist Party's National Board, which warned that ‘The drive against progressives is going into high gear,'* . The article continued aa fo "The Communist Party ional Board in a statement signed by William Z-A\Foster, Chairman, Buge pnis, General Secretary and Henry Winston, Organizational Director, called for the removal of Attorney General Tom Clark... ‘We Gall on all Americans,' the statement said, 'who love peace _ and freedom to stop Tom Clark's arrogant police state blits to demand his removal from office and to demand dismissal of charges against Clandia Jones as well as against Alexander}8ittelman, ‘* The article concluded with a statement that the Communist leaders in New York City called for letters and telegrams to be sent to