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Claudia Jones — Part 8

115 pages · May 09, 2026 · Document date: Sep 12, 1951 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Claudia Jones · 112 pages OCR'd
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NY 1600-18676 Guin j v0 td fom "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; - 20 -
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