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NY 100-18676 eA “The attention and agreement of the entire Party organization must be won to the solution of, and collective application to these problems, Overcoming of these weaknesses will rolease the collective talents of our wonderful women comrades towrk, write, sing and fight for woments liberation; and they will want to do it not as second-class citizens but as contribu- tors to Party policy and mass work in our clubs and groups. "It is time our Party recognize the precious capital it has in its women cadres, Important indications of an improved attitude in the Party toward the promotion of women in leadership are scen in mmy parts of the country, We have the advancement te the State Committee at the recent New York Party Convention of such comrades as Lil Gates, Johnnie Lumpkin and Mercedes Arroya; the splendid leadership of such women comrades as Vickie Lawrence and Anne Garfield in work among women in New York and New England; the recent elevation of Comrade Mollte Lieber West to the post of ,-2linois organizational secretarys of Gracg@Tillman to a similar position in Indiana and of ade Vi to a leading post in a Southern Party district. We have comrades like Rose Gaulden in the leadership in Philadelphta'ts lth Ward, of Dorothy Healy and Bernadette Doyle in key positions in California, of Betty Gannett as our National Education Director, of wmen Communist veterans like Dora Lipshitz and Rose Baron, and that of Martha Stone as District Organizer of New Jersey, We also have emerging Negro women lcaders like Mary Adams, the splendid ae Deeete sree =~ 1 = young Party women cadre Like Jemie Griffith and Judy; - 7h = rTtsl