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NY 100-56680 | National Committee to Defend Negro Leadership (NCDNT,) On December 31, 1952,T-13 advised the NCDNL had been formed to stop attacks against the Negro people, ; n & printed leaflet furnished ») (ay Howard University, Washington, D.U., on October, ees bbe NCDNL atated that ite aims included amnesty for HENRY WINSTON and Associates;stopping prosecution for political teach~ ings and advocacy under the Smith Act; repealing also other ra- . wd preasive legislative acts, especially the severe restrictions . se of immigration from the Weat Indies in the McCarran-Walter Act; nae ; the anti~labor Taft-Hartley Act,and the “thought sontrel" and at "eoncentration samp" MeCarran act, HENRY WINSTON was National Organizational secretary, CF USA, since July, 1946, according to his own statement made in the United States District Court, Southern Diatrict of New York, September 20, 23, 1949, _ WINSTON waa convicted October 14,1949, for violation of t Smith Act of 1940 and sentenced Octobér 21,1949 to five years ant fined $10,000, He became a fugitive upon isauance of a bench war: United States District Court,Southern District of New York, WINS surrendered himself to custody of the United States Marshal, New 3} City, on Maroh 5, 1956, On March 26, 1956, WINSTON was sentenced a three years for contempt of court to be served subsequent to the : y, sentence Imposed for Snaith Act convictions, on ocmagrererrers advised that the NCDNL is highly infiltrated tne CP and has expanded 4ts energies in behalf of . Negroes indicted under the Smith Act, ; | A pretext telephone call was made on April 12, 1956, by & Spectal Agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to the head- : : quarters of the NCDNL and it was ascertained that the Committee on - continues to exist and ia located at 1660 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, Ne ») % The November 10, 1954 isaue of the "Daily Worker", page jv + three, solumn one-five, contained an article entitled "Rally Support Patterson, Bunton." this article Stated that on November 8, 1954, e 1D »