The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1921-02-19
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The negro population of the United States about 3 millions
principally composed of unsed abore 1t is the most ex
plotted people in America In the southern states the former slave
owners descendants who have inherited all the hatred and con-
tempt OF their fathers for this helpless people, thessy exploit
them Negroes denied the formal protection of the law
accorded to their brothers, the white aborer Scarcely pctns
made OF even permitting them to vote They outlaw race
organized egal societies. secret OF ope formed by leading
cens 10 exercise over them frank mob rule They nched
shot, hanged and publicly burned the stake and their
are outraged with mpun They deliberately kept in state
OF lhteacy by and nso methods and those excepona
individuals who overcome these tremendous handcaps face the in
Superabe barrier OF prejudice After attaining skill at a.
profession they are compelled in many instances to labor at m
skilled cangs The leadership eactonary politicians of their
own race and the degrading influence their church organizations
only perpetuate their economic and social subiecton
Inc capitalist class order maintain power and reap its
poS oehoeateV encourages cuvate and nctes the white
wage save against the negro wage slave AS result he placed
between two fecey conendng of capital and white labor
Beaten and caoed IN turn by boh he used by the master class
as stikebreaker either in the uniform of he Jnited st
So OF IN oVeraS Under these conditions the negro is used in
such manner to obscure from his own eyes as we'll as the
MS white brother laboer the nature of the class struggle
Inc united Communist Party will actively support the negroes
tne desperate struggle against these hesh conditions It pont
to the only possible solution the negro problem name tb
aooon OF wage slavery through the overthrow of the capas
State and the erection of Communist society
Inc task OF the United Communist Party to break down the
o race prejudice that separates and keeps apart the white
ana te negro workers. and bind them into union of revoton
any forces for the overthrow of their common enemv
The United Communist Party must find the revolutionary and
potential revolutionary elements among the negroes and select
those most likely to develop into revolutionary These
a De trained for revolutionary work Negro Communists must
enter lodges unions clubs and churches (Which among
are not essentially eccesastc institutions but in effect ara
oS and forums etc. the reactonay leaders who for
e purpose OF beayng their race nfest these institutions Negro
must combat in these gathering places the IDEAS
paosm religion etc. which aid in the subection the negro
people, ' ' 'esio
Communists shall use the negro press as means Of
evouonay ideas Communists aid every movement that
tends toward the cultivation of the spirit of revolt AMONG t
negroes and especially must organize revolutionary
bodies OF negroes for resistance to nchng mob rule etc Great
ce exercised 70 avoid race wars and to cultivate the
spirit of sefpotecon and solidarity with the white wor m
the class war; "o'Ae's Ill
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