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CONEIDENTIAL NY 100-18676 Shs admitted attendance'at New York University night school.. for approximately two years..- She said that the depression and the uneven distribution of wealth in this country had caused her to search for an os. cape from the existing struggle that she was going through. She admitted. that it was at this time that she at firet became interested in Commnism.. : The following is a' review of'the 'statements made by various':? the Editorial Staff of the "Daily Worker* concerning the arrest of CLAuDIA JONES. the. following statement was made: sThe Commnist Party National/loard in a signed statement ' by WILLIAM ZsFOSTER, Chairman, EUGENEADENNIS, Genera1 Secretary and HENRY WInston, Orgahizational Director, calfed for the removal. of Attorney. Gen-- part of a drive by the Government against all progressives in the United States. The article continued by quoting Councilman BENJAnIN DAVIS, as Other statements were made by RObent(rHoMPsON,-$tate Chair-. Director, New York County Comminist Perty...*?.. In an article in the -Daijy Worker*, January 23, 1948, of the Comtmunist Party, stated, *Justice Department hits all time. low on the attack on CLAUDIA JONES*. In reviewing the work of CLAUDIA JOnes, Wiss Flynn stated the following: -Beautiful, eloquent as a speaker, she was twenty, and its Educational Director in l940. She wrote under the pen name of CLAubla JONes in the *Daily Worker" and other. publications. She ably aided -Spotlight',: an excellent AYD magazine.. In the worker", January 25, 1948, Section.1,.Page 9, Column l, City Councilman BEnJamIn nAvIs in coamenting on the am. deportation: of CLAUDIa JONEs,.stated the following!..