The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-18

SOmeLnlng. MOI SOmetnlnB LuhL came
to existence just because somebody
decided that they wanted to put them
selves forward and agrandize them
selves, but an organization that was
born out of the suffering and the
travail and the mediation of a great
people that is held in bondage"
Organized to Better Race.
Claiming that the U. N. I. A. "has a
program that takes into consideration
every obstacle, every river that we
may be called on to cross" Mr.. Sher-
rill said it is not group that wants
one thing today and another thing to-
morrow. He maintained this organi-
cation was the one which has been
able to sense the deep underlying as
pirations of the Negro Race and to
voice them 1t was formed, not for
the purpose of fighting the National
Association for the Advancement Of
Colored People, not for the purpose
of fighting other leaders than their
own, nor for fighting Negro churches
or preachers, but for the purpose of
lettering the condition of the Race
and to give it ga chance to express its
race ideals, and to solve the damnable
racial problem in the West Indies and
in America and the world and an op-
portunity to clear up the confusion
and to stand on firm rock"
1.-THE founders of this movement"
said Mr.. Sheriff., were those who had
studied the problem of the Negro not
only in America, but also in the West
Indies and in Africa and Europe. And
in studying this problem we have
found out one fundamental fact-that
the Negro suffers under oppression.
He suffers not only in America, but
wherever he has, been domiciled.
Wherever he has been in contact with
anybody, he has suffered in that con-
tact"
Negro Race Still Weak.
The speaker expressed the view that
we are living in material age, and
that in the midst of this materialistic
society we find the Negro weak and
unorganized.
1.-THE majority group" he said,
wherever the Negro lives, is deter
mined that the Negro shall not be-
come a part of that majority group"
AS long as this continues, he be-
lieves, just so long will the Negro
find himself in oppression. He sees
no solution except to give the Negro
an opportunity to build for himself.
He believes in putting forward such
propaganda as that of the U. N. /. A.
land working toward the point of
establishing an autonomy Of your
own" The establishing of an indie
pendent Negro government over AT
RIGA is conceived to be the realization
of such autonomy.
Negro Zionism?
A reporter for Hebrew Zionist
newspaper at this point whispered
across the press table: This is Ne
gro Zionism."
Is this NEGRO Zionism"? If it is,
then that is a very important discov-
cry. To him who takes his analogies
in words, the analogy SENS to be per-
feet. But l say that anybody who
losses off that near-beer comparison
and then tries to build any historic
conclusion on it, will go wildly astray.
Let me explain why any attempt
to classify the two movements to-
gether, becomes, despite all the super
fetal resemblance, the widest folly:
The Difference.
1. The Great Powers and the League
of Nations can cheerfully give a few
thousand Jews chance to settle in
Palestine.
2. The great imperialist govern
ments of the world can smile happily
over Jewish nationalist propaganda
which takes Jewish workers minds
away from proletarian revolution.
But:
1. The Great Powers, Britain,
France, Belgium-and now the United
States-cannot smile over any sugges-
ton of surrendering Rhodesia and
the Rand, the Kamerun, the Congo
and the Nile and Morocco and Tunis
and Algeria-to any movement for in.
dependent Negro nationalism, no mat
ter how fantastic Garvey's red and
green robes may be. nor how unsea-
worthy his ships.
2. The Great Powers cannot toler-
ate for one instant the propaganda
for Negro independent nationalism in
any quarter of Africa,-not even in
the Negro states of Abyssinia and
Liberia, especially not In the "fanati.
cali form in which alone this move
ment is found.
8. No, the Negro nationalist move