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This BSsue of the "Daily Worker® carried an article written by : CLAUDIA JONES, entitled "Negro People Are Joining The Party That Leads "1" Struggle For Equality". In this article, JONES wrote that "Fifteen years: ago, a small anguished Negro woman rushed out on the streets of Chattanooga, Tennessee asking everyone she met: ‘Where is the Communist Party?!" JONES stated that this woman found the Commmist Party and it acted, She stated that this woman was Mrs. ADA WRIGHT, mother of the two "framed" Scottsboro boys. JONES went on to say her question Was answered in a "historic struggle by the Communist Party which made the Scottsboro case a world-wide cause, eeeeTne Communist Party fought for the lives of those nine boys and won.... | The Communists were the first to recognise that this case involved more than the persecution of nine twen-age boys, because this is the Party that carries forward the democratic heritage of the Abolitionists, against present-day semi-slave conditions of the Negro people. Then as today, the Communists _led in the uncompromising demand for full punishment of the lynchers, because its principals inspire it to fight for the rights of all oppressed peoples. This is so because the Communist Party is the party not only of the Negro people, but of all the oppressed,.....The Commnist Party fights for the -. - strengthened unity and alliance of Negro and white because it realizes that only thus can the common enemies of both be defeated. Its principles are ti based on the great truth enunciated by Karl Marz - “Labor in a white skin. cannot be free while labor in the black is branded", These are basic motir 22 2 ——— a Le SS ee O42 See ee - which have found the Communists in the forefront of the fight for full a 1 te ry em enengerrnens = me Se ne is