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a WE 100-18676- cohen: a “ eCLAUDIA ‘JONES is | a worthy “ganghter of ‘the ad litant ‘and - Bee ge enterprising Negro West Indian Citizen League of the countrys The attenpts of the subversive, poll tax TOM CLARK to deport this outstanding Negro °°” leader, one of the most beloved Communist figures in America, will be de- -.* feated and will backfire with the detonation of an atom bomb." He con. tinued by stating: "Comrades BITTELMAN and JONES were both framed in a technical immigration charge-® 2-200 0. oe oe ee ey uo: In the ly Worker", February 6, 1968, Page sh, Column i in the column by AR » entitled "Foster Recalls Past Frame-ups", it was mentioned that AMZ FOSTER, National Chairman of the Communist | Party had recently commented on the “amazing support that labor defense comiittees had given persecuted workers and political leaders in America® s On Jamary 20, 1948 Inspector. HAROLD W. RAMSEY, of the Immi- gration and Naturalization Service, advised that CLAUDIA JONES was released on that date with the posting of $1,000.00 bail at the Immigration Service. Office by Attorney IRA GOLLOBIN of the American Comittee for the Protece tion of the Foreign Borne ; “. " 3\. On January 22, 1 CLAUDIA JONES headed a "mass mobilised and defense rally for ALEXAND TTEIMAN, held at Webster Hall, New York - : City, under the sponsorship of the Morning Freiheit Association, Incorpor= ated ve hundred people attended this ral = ad a Special Agent - bl a “ad MED e220 reported | ‘that CLAUDIA JONES ed-- dressed soa group and related in = +: form the incidents of her arrest... She admitted that she was a member of the National Committee of the Com — munist Party. Other speakers at this rally were savEnreness, Executive -— Secretary of the American Committees for the Protection of the Foreign | Born, ELIZABETH GURLEY FLYNN, WILLIAM Z. FOSTER, BENJAMIN J. DAVIS, all eubers of the National Committee of the Communist Party, and JOSEPH tits NOGRADSKY, Assistant Manager of the Fur and leather Workers Vaiou,— © ee PAULZNOVICK, Editor and Chief of the "Moming Freiheit*, BER see es Head of the Harlem Section of Civil Rights Congress and : MAE eB _ Executive Secretary of the Jewish 3 People! a Fraternal Ordere : co On January 23, 1948/"Energency Conference" to protest. the” arrest of CLAUDIA JONES was held at the Trade and Commerce building, 2370 Seventh Avenue, Harlem, New York, sponsored by a group headed by DR. ~ CHARLES A,XPETIONI, Chairman of the West Indian Negro Congress and member oF thé American Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Bom, BENJAMIN JMOAVIS, ROSEAGAVLDEN, members of the National Committee of the Communist Party and AUDL RE, CYRLIAPHLLLIPS, meabers of the Harlem cnt of the Communist Partye ae fret