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i cecil (S UNCLASSIFIED CATE 12-15-23 BYspsart op a - Al ALL INFO, /\ If Claudia Jones were not a courageous Negro woh EXcEpr 5 SSIFIEp ; a Communist leader, and if her crime were same- |! OTERWT sp Oh thing other than thinking, she would almost automatically be released when she becomes eligible next Wednesday for parole. It is a shocking state of affairs not only that Claudia Jones is behind bars but that her friends and well-wishers Gnd it necessary to campaign for her release. This ie a clipping from In the case of Claudia Jones, who is loved and ad- page sof the mired by so many thousands, her release is not only a “matter of simple justice, but of life itself. The condition . (+ Daily Worker of her health is exceedingly grave—a condition further ag- The Worker vated by discriminatory restrictions during visits by New Leader Fer family at the penitentiary, and by the fact that she is MAY 4 1955 not allowed to correspond with personal life-long friends.- Date The committee for the National Committee to Defend pped at the Seat of 4 Negro Leadership has been given an appointment for next oe sated the Seat y Tuesday with the parole board, to argue for parole, The ee delagation which the committee is planning for that date F shoi\ld get the widest support. ee Vr th bove all, we urge a big and immediate response : le _the dommittee’s a for letters urgi 2 to -the 1 ' Federal Parole Board, 101 Indiana Aves Washington, D. C. ENCLOSURE en ee