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elt th ade atc nll a =. WY 100-18676 significant highlight in tho testimony of BENJAMIN J. DAVIS, Communist lcadcr and Councilman from the city of New York, CLAUDIA JONES said that DAVIS utilized the “weapon of Marxism-Loninism to throw light on tho forces responsible for the national oppression of tho Negro peoplo--the capitalist class itsolfr." In the Daily Worker of August 2, 1949, the second article in a serics of three appeared on "Un- American Committec and the Negro Peoplc." In this articlco the subject stated that, "It is more than a passing coincidence that at the Un-American Committec loyalty hearings on 'Comminism and the PeRANGH the Ne, reformist leadcrs--such as LES RANGER, G S .ATOHNSON (ta nothing of the misorable stoolpigeons as MINNINGWMOHISON) were not poworful cnough or convincing cno in thoir vicws on this subject. This, despite tho Amorican bourgcoisic's all-out efforts to control the Negro pross through ads, or to mcagcriy give crumbs from its profite-laden tables for the support of such institutions as the rcformists may lead." She statcd, "The ever-present virus of twhite supremacy,' intensified national oppression, and the second-class citizenship, plus intellectual integrity compellod Rev. SANDRA, ono of the leading Negro religious leadors, e chairman of the Social Service Commission of the National Baptist Convention, to boldly declare, without apology, of the Jimcrow lynch system in the United States: tWe do, however, scek to overthrow an intangible cmpire which cxists within our Government and many of our institutions throughout the land. It is that empire which shcltors injustice, oppressions, cx- ploitation, sogregation, discrimination, illwill, and all of the inconsistencics which make for separation, tension and strife. It is against that cmpire' that we wage our war. It is that empire that must be subdued if we aro to have domestic peace and give offective loadership in world chaos,'" ee 60