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CONNDENTIAL NY 100-18676 nCLAUDIA jONEs is a worthy danghter of the militant and enterprising Negro West Indian Citizen League of the country. The attenpts. of the subversive, poll tax TOu CLARk to deport 'this outstanding Negro leader, one of the most beloved Cowunist figares in Anerica, will b. de- feated and will backfire with the detonation of an atom bomb. Hs con. tinued by stating: *Comrades RITTEIuAN and JONns were both framed in a technical immigration charge.! In the yDaily Worker", February 6, l948, Page 4, Column 1, was mentioned that WiLLIan Z. FosTeR, National Chairman of the Communist Party had recently cormented on the -a.azing support that labor defense On January 20, l948 Inspector HAROLD W. RAvSY, of the Immi- gration and Naturalization Service, advised that CLAunla JOnes was released on t hat date with the posting of $l,ooo.oo bail at the I.aigration Servic. Office by Attorney IRa GoLiobln of the American Committee for the Proteo- tion of the Foreign Born. On January 22, l948 CLAUDIA JONEs headed a *mass mobilised and defense rally for ALexANDER@ITTeIMAn, held at Webster Hall, New York City, under the sponsorship of'the Morning Freiheit Assocdation, Incorpor ated. Apnaodmatelz t.nlve hundred people.attended this rally. and Special Agent and Ar eI n popue4ye bl b7d and agents reported that CLaunIA JOnEs ad- dressed the group and related'in story fors the incidents of her arrest. She admitted that she was a member of the National Comnittee of the Com. munist Party. Other speakers at this rally were ABNER,GREEN, Erecutive. Secretary of the American Coumittee for the Protectioh'of the Foreign Born, ELIZABETH GURLEY FLYNN, WILLIAM Z. FOSTER, BENJAIIN J. DAVIS, all members of the National Coanittee of the Communist Party, and JOsEPH XwInOGRADSKy, Assistant Manager of the Fur and Leather Workers,Jnion, PAul/Novlck, Editor and Chief of the *Moning Freiheit*, BERratyss, Head'of the Harlem Section of Civil Rights Congress and GEDALIh SANDLER, Executive Secretary of the Jewish People'a Fraternal Order. an On Jammary 23, 194s/"Emergency Conference" to protest the arrest of CLauota JOnes was held at the Trade and Commerce building, 2370 *yT Aq pepeey dnar8 e Aq perosuods 'yaog meN "magaey 'onaely qaueaeg CHARLes AXPerIONI, Chairmap of th. West Indian Negro Congress and member OI the American Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born, BENJAMIN J.DAVIs, Rose>eayLDEN, mombers of the National Committee of the Conmunist PaYty and AUDLEy#OORE, CYRIH(PHILLIPS, eeabers of the Harlon Section of the Communist Party. CONSIDENTIAL