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NY 77-26395 APPENDIX NATIONAL COMMITTEE TO DEFEND NEGRO LEADERSHIP (NCDNL) })> a J D ae QUEEN 2<vi2¢< n> that the NCDN as been formed to stop the attacks against the whole Negro people. na printed leaflet furnished b in October, 1952, the NCDNL stated that its aims included pressing for amnesty for HENRY WINSTON and associates; stopping prosecution for political teachings and advocacy under the Smith Act; repealing also other repressive legislative acts, especially the .@evere restrictions of immigration from the West Indies in the Mc Carran-Walter Act; the anti-labor Taft-Hartley Act, and the "thought control" and "concentration camp” Mc Carran Act. The informant advised on July 17, 1953, that the NCDNL-is highly infiltrated by the Communist Party and has expanded its energies in behalf of Negroes indicted under the Smith Act. The Communist Party, United States of America has been designated by the Attorney General of the United States pursuant to Executive Order 10450. It 4s noted that HENRY WINSTON was indicted on July 20, 1948, in the United States District Court, Southern District of New York under the Smith Act of 1940, and convicted on October 14, 1949. On October 21, 1949, he was sentenced for a period of five years and fined $10,000.00. On July 2, 1951, WINSTON became a fugitive upon the issuance of a bench warrant by the United States District Court, Southern District ok.