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NI 100-18676 *on ths forces' Fesponsible for the national oppression of the Negro tho capitalist class itself ry:: : In the =Daily Workor" of August 2,, l949, page 7.colu n 3, .th Second article.in a' series of three appeared on Un-Ameriaan Coamittee and:i? "Commmnism and the Negro' the Negro reformist leaders--such as LEsran)GrAngeR, ChaRies sYoohnsan (to say nothing of the miserable stooipigeons such aa... NANNIa JoHNson) xere not powerful enough or convincing enough ia their view on this subject. This, despite ths American bonrgeoisie's all out eiforts to control the Negro press through ads, or to meagerly give crumbs fron its profit-leden tables for the support of such institutions as the reformist. may lead." She stated *The ever-present' virus of 'white eupremacy, intensified national oppression, and the sgcond class citizenship, plus intellectual +eiepeet snoggger orgey Bugpeet ey? Jo ano 'Aey ypueg *aey peggednos Aggaeaot the chairman of the Social Service Commission of the National Baptist. Convantion,: to boldly declare, without apology, of the Jimcrow lynch system in the United States: 'We do, however, seek to overthrow an intangible empire which exists within our government and many of our institutions throughout ths land. It. is that empire which shelters injustice, oppressions, exploitation, ssgregation, discrimination, illwill and all of the inconsistencies which make for separation, tension and strife.. It is against that empire that we wage onr war:.It is . that empire that must be subdned if we are to have domestic peace and give. effective leadership in world chaos.' .: In the #Daily Worker* of August 7, l949 there appeared the third . of the series of articles by ClauDlA JONEs. In this article the subject stated that the Un-American Activities Committee hearings were unsuccessful and boomsr- anged. She said, *They boomeranged, first, because the Negro question is itself 1the Achilles hsel of American imperialism' in the words of the national chairman of the Communist Party, William Z. Foster. . And because, the more they touch it, the more the imperialists are exposed for what they are: the and violence against the Negro people, the financiers of exploitation of six million Negroes and four million whites in the South, from which exploitation. they wring the profits to stuff their coffers for the financing of an imperialist atomic war and domestic fascismI.. :: *The hearings boomeranged, for a second reason.' And that is because