The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-25
Thicker Than Blood

In the realm of political and industrial relations
class interests are thicker than blood In the last
instance the interests of the employers as class,
exploiting the working men rise above the arti-
fetal and social differences of color race or creed
Just now our welkept Chicago press is going
out of its way to boost conference of Negro bust
ness men representing an insignificant minority
of the ten million Negroes sweating blood and
profits for the American capitalists. This handful
of menals, seeking to ape the customs and man
ners, seeking to swallow in whole the philosophy
and arrogance of the white business men, is being
deified as the one group that will and can bring
salvation to the very much oppressed Negro people
| in the United States.
| Compare this rousing welcome accorded few
Negro bosses, petty business men, and aspiring
exploiters, the National Negro Business League,
with the cold reception that greeted the convention
of even the Sanhedrn, held a few months ago in
Chicago. Why the enthusiastic applause for the
one and the cold shoulder to the other? Both are
Negro organizations. Wherein is the difference?
Merely to ask these questions is to answer them.
In the gathering of the Sanhedrin there were work
ing class elements In the confab of the Business
League there are no such flies in the capitalist
amber. In the conference of the Sanhedrin an at
tempt was made to discuss the liberation of the
Negro masses from all forms of exploitation, by
black as well as by white bosses. In the sessions
of the Business League convention only ways and
means to enhance the profits of exploiters are dis
cussed.
And while this unrepresentative gathering of
Negroes is in session and being given the widest
and most favorable publicity far more represent
alive Negro gathering is at work in New York, the
Universal Negro Improvement Association, and is
being almost ignored and at best malgned by the
same wellkept press the country over. The same
reason for the difference in treatment prevails here
In the sessions of the Universal Negro Improve
ment Association there are even more working
class elements represented than there in the
Sanhedrin and stronger attempt was made
by the Communists to unity the struggles of the
exploited workers regardless of their color
The Negro Business League is an adjunct and
an auxiliary to the powerful white capitalist
clique It's purpose is to advance few Negro ex-
poiters at the expense of the millions of poor Ne
gro working men and women. This organization is
held up as a model because its activities tend to
strengthen the capitalist system as a whole and
make for the enhancement of all employing class
interests
Indeed class interests are thicker than blood
and in the last instance, in political and economic
struggles, rise far and above all other interests
'Hell an Maria" Dawes denounces socialists
for their designs on the capitalist system Nobody
knows better than Dawes that the capitalist system
is perfectly safe from the socialists. The best
friends his "expert report had in Europe were
the socialist presidents and premiers
The only revolutionary ticket in the field this
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