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NY 100-18676 CLAUDIA JONES was the author of an article entitled "International Women's Day and the Struggle for Peace" which appeared in the March, 1950 issue of "Political Affairs", The following is quoted from this article: "On International Women's Day this year, millions of women in the world-wide camp of peace headed by the mighty land of Soctalism will muster their united forces to make March 8, 1950, a day of demonstrative struggle for peace, freedom and woments rights, "In our own land, there will be over Fifty cselehratiana ftTNX New Yorkts Tawer Boat fans aawt YY te a i ee ol ee a er es ae eo ded bd Gk et oe J original site of this historic American-born day of struggle for equal rights for women, and in major industrial states, such as Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, California, Massachusetts, and Connecticut, broad united-front meetings of women for peace will be held, 'Save the Peace]! 'Halt Production of the A-Bomb}! "Negotiate with the Soviet Union to Outlaw Atomic Weapons]! -- these are the slogans of women in the U.S.A. on International Woments Day. "The Struggle For Peace "The special significance of this holiday this year, its particular meaning for labor, progessives, and Communists, and for American working women generally, is to be found in the widesnroad eondemnation amone rmmerona MR a Ne pe eg Aaa Ne dee SM Lat sections of the American people, of Trumants cold-blooded order to produce the hydrogen bomb and to inaugurate a suicidal atomic and hydrogen weapon race. "Not to the liking of the imperialist ideologists of the ‘American Century! is the growing indication by millions of American women of their opposition to war, their ardent destre for peace, their rejection of the Truman-bipartisan war policy. = 62 =