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Claudia Jones — Part 4

67 pages · May 09, 2026 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Claudia Jones · 66 pages OCR'd
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- Migs JONES2 | Judge GUNTHER: Mr, ALBERT: Judge GUNTHER? Moderator 2 Mr, ALBERT: Judge GUNTHER: Mr. ALBERTs Miss JONES: te een ae NY 100-1867 a we don't have to live under those conditions... _ r . . —— a 4 "I would say to the Judge that to make such an assumption as te =. adait that our educational institotions have failed in their reanponsibilitwe «@. Pesponsisiinyy =: “iere’ 5 ‘what the cro has to aay about ‘ite, “We feel that peace~ time militarization of the United States would destroy the sccial . values that have made this nation since its birth a beacon for humanity. Above all, we feel it is the wrong road. In relation _to education, I want to sey this. We spend 14% of our budget . on education: Great Britain spends 34, or twice as much on edua cation; and Russia, which you criticise so moch, spends 7% for = . education, Now the commission on universal military training says that it wuld cost about 1 3/; billion dollars to carry this out. This figure, if it were used to build the youth of America up, with more schools, with the ability of their families to buy more food, to put on public projects that would help them to grow and mature and understand and love Treedom and donocreey, that would be the best guarantee. a aa rare “usy 1 prove ‘to you ‘that. we have ‘ten tines more ‘juvenile delinquenc ‘here than in any other country where wey have mend taining? t. that's your answer to that? en - be (unintelligible - everyone talking at once) "We have delinquency now because we don't. take a program te " eliminate the slums and build good housing, We don't have a ~~” program to give decent wages to&ll peoples in all parts of our country so they can raise their children on decent levels, We have slums right here in Pittsburgh. If we really want to tackle the problem of eliminating juvenile delinquency, it will take some money to see to it that we eliminate the slums, that we build more schools, that we carry on social programs for children 80 that "I'm asking you. You were “talking about the slums of Pistebargh Have you ever been outeaide cf tha United States? ct vw = uvteice ci ws ee ee "We are interested in the United States - - in elininating those things here, My colleague served in the South roa forty-four combat missions COMA Tee on ME ee —",- or I NE Tk
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