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oO © 2: ~~" NY2 PAGE 2 OF THE CHICAGO BREAK WITK THE COMMUNISTS BECAUSE THESE WILL BE COVERED IN THE SECOND MAGAZINE ARTICLE. WRIGHT FURTHER ADVISED THE TRIBUNE THAT HIS CP MEMBERSHIP COVERED THE PERIOD, ROUGHLY, FROM THE LATTER PART OF NINETEEN THIRTYTWO TO NINETEEN “yoRTY AND THAT HIS EARLY ASSO- CIATION WITH THE COMMUNISTS IN CHICAGO HAS BEEN BROKEN IN NINETEEN THIRTYSEVEN WHEN HE WAS EJECTED FROM THE SAME. WRIGHT FURTHER ADVISED THAT KE WAS ON THE OUTS WITH THE PARTY FROM MAY UNTIL AUGUST THIRTY SEVEN AND THAT HE WAS REINSTATED IN NY IN SUCH YEAR AND °MAINTAINED A RELATIONSHIP® WITH THE PARTY UNTIL FORTY WHEN HE SAID HE LEFT THE w >» w Qo c -! SAME. THE TRIBUNE ARTICLE DISCUSSING WRIGHTS COMMENT TABLE REGRESSION OF THE CP POSITION ON THE AMERICAN NEGRO CREDITED MR. WRIGHT WITH STATING "PUBLICLY COMMUNISTS WILL DENY THAT THERE IS ANY SUBSTANTIAL CHANGE IN THEIR M{LITANCY, BUT PRIVATELY THEY OFFER ANY =— HANDY EXCUSE. THE MILITANCY OF THE NEGRO QUESTION HAS PASSED INTO THE — HANDS OF RIGHT WING NEGROES. THAT WAS NOT TRUE EIGHT YEARS AGO. MOST ie OF THE BATTLES THEN WERE LED BY COMMUNISTS.® THE ARTICLE FURTHER STA- TED THAT IN ANSWER TO THE QUESTION AS TO WHAT CAUSED THE CHICAGO RIFT ae BETWEEN HIM AND THE COMMUNISTS WRIGHT HAD STATED °IT WAS AN ACCUMULATIC = OF MANY THINGS - ROT SO MUCH A LEAVING AS AN EJECTION NO OF“OPINION. I HAD MY WAY OF EXPRESSING MY CONCEPTION OF NEGRO EXPER- ieee. PF .7, A DIFFERENCE ~~ END PAGE Two