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100-1867 CONF N11A She said she was born in Trinidad, British West Indies, February 25, l9l6. She caae to this oountry in l924 with her aunt and three sisters. Shs admitted that she took preliminary steps to become She advised that she was still an alien. She adaitted that abe joined the Comnunist Party approximately ten years ago. She was first active work in th. Party, was elected to the National Committee of tha Commn 1st Partye She said that the elections to tbs National Cowmittee wer. aade at & meeting attended by delegates representing tb. Party fron all parts of the United States.'.She attributed her eloction to the fact that. she worked diligently for the Party, writing numerous articles under her Own nano and by preparing Communist Party literature, distributed in the name of the Party. She informed that sbe has been on several speaking : tours for the Party. She did not elaborate on any of the above inforaa tion, but stated that the nyBl knaw of all of her actirities and that everything sho had revealed was already known to this Burean'. She mentioned that she was the Secretary of the Nationsl Womens Commission of the Conmunist Party and as such was active in the womsns work in the Party and on aeveral occasions CLauniA JOnes reierred to the Party with pride and stated that she whol heartedly believed in. the principles and doctrines of the Comnunist Party. She charged that being arrested because she was a Coamunist was preposterous because the. Comuunist Party was a legally constituted Party in the United States. During the course of the conversation CLAuDIa JONEs on several occasions acknowledged that she wss activs in the Communist Party and expressed her complete confidence in the Communist Party. She stated that if the leaders in this country would only listen to the wisdom. pae ogggnage ssggn eqg o? puo uu oq penom eaena faand oun Aq gno aaag? discriminatioa praeticed in this country." In referring to her edusation, CLauDla JOneS ravealed one. Of the reasous why she became a Communist. Shs stated that she was grad- uated froa high school in Nsw Iork aod st first had anbitions to becoms:t.. a doctor and then a social worker. She changed her aind about this, how Wer, when she was confrontad with the fact that "certain quotas were aet. proression and social field". CONFAENTIAL