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Claudia Jones — Part 8
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"hunger budget. The Negro population are delivered not
only as cannon fodder, but the acute brunt of the war
crisis 1s first felt by them. The falsificgtion of actual
fact as shown here id for one main purpose: to weaken the
domestic front of Negro and white unity, to lull the Negro
population azainst fighting the imperialist war, and to
Blander the white working population who want and nave no
part in this war. The theory must be fount against, for
it is both anti-Negro and anti-workinz class."
The author states that fresicent FRANKLIN
ROOSEVELT and the Acministration offer neither peace or
security to the people of America and-érmament protlem
Snould not be substituted for the security of the WPA,
NYA, PWA for the people,
The author states the United States desires
to enter the war and that 1t calls "peace lovers, and
fighters for democracy-='fifth columnists.'" In this
rezard the autnor writes as follows:
"But Negrees cannot agree to such a prozram,
for the Negro people want peace, want to keep America out
of war. The Negro people want jobs, economic security,
civil liberties, passage of social lecislation, such as
the Anti-Lynching Bill.
"No, the answer ls not in a return to support
of either of these parties. The answer lies in independent
political action of the people in 1940, aligned with labor,
as expressed recently by Earl Browder, when he called for
a People's Platform for Jobs, Peace, Civil Liberties.
"Such independent action will make the
people's answer clear asalnst the war and hunger dsudget
of the Roosevelt Acministratlon, against the policies of the
Republicans who in effect give support to his policies."
In connection with the war setveen Finland
anc Russia, the author states as follows;
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