The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-14
fContinued from page y

ties alleged to be perpetrated upon
the members Of the Negro Race by
the Ku K1ux Khan or by any other
organization"
Before passing the foregoing reso-
lutions, you defeated a substitute pro-
posed by Mr.. Wallace, which provided
that the brutalities and atrocities
perpetrated upon the members of the
Negro Race by the Khan be con-
demned" The debate indicated that
this substitute was defeated partly
because it stated plainly that brutal
ties and atrocities are perpetrated by
the Khan, while the second resolution
passed speaks only of such brutalities
and atrocities "aIeged to be perpe-
trated" by the Khan.
From the foregoing facts it is evil
dent:
First-That the Universal Negro
Improvement Association offers the
Negro people no program for meeting
the atrocities of the Khan in the Unit
ed States, except the plan for secur-
ing a government in Africa.
Second-That the Universal Negro
Improvement Association refuses to
say that the Ku Klux Khan is guilty Of
crimes against Negroes.
The Workers Party Of America,
composed of Negro and white workers
alike, fraternally requests you to re-
consider the above action. We be-
lieve that if this convention fails to
make an outright attack upon the
Khan, boldly accusing it of it's crimes
against the Negro people and laying
down concrete plan for combating
it, that such failure will work untold
injury to the Negro people and to the
working class generally. We believe,
furthermore, that your failure official
ly to declare your enmity to and your
determination to fight against that
organization will result in weakening
the struggle of the colored peoples
thruout the world against their OPP
pressors.
The Redemption of Africa.
We, the Workers Party of America,
stand for the right Of self-determina-
ton of the peoples of Africa. We
stand for driving all Of the European
imperialists out of Africa, forever
breaking their colonial rule, and for
the right of the peoples of Africa to
build whatever nation they may
choose to establish of their own free
will.
We stand also for the right of the
Negro people of America and of all
other countries to come and go where
they please and to migrate to Africa
or to any other country they may
choose, in free world of complete
equality of all races.
We, the Workers Party of America,
as the American section of the Com
munist International, with branches in
all countries of the world, including
Africa and the countries of the dark
er races of Asia, are engaged no less
than you in the struggle against the
imperialism which is enslaving Africa.
Our Position.
At our Fourth International Con-
gress. held in the city of Moscow,
Russia, in 1922, we declared in part:
1T is with intense pride that the
Communist International sees the
exploited Negro workers resist the
attacks of the exploiter, for the
enemy of his Race and the enemy
of the white workers is one and the
same-capitalism and imperialism.
The international struggle of the
Negro Race is a struggle against
capitalism and imperialism. It is
on the basis of this struggle that
the world Negro movement must be
organized. In America, the center
Of Negro culture and the crystalliza-
ton Of Negro protest; in Africa,
the reservoir of human labor for
further Development of capitalism;
in Central America COSTA RIGA,
Guatemala, Colombia and Nicaragua
and other independent republics),
where American Imperialism domi-
mates; in Porto Rico, Haiti, Santo
Domingo and other islands washed
by the waters of the Caribbean,
where the brutal treatment Of our
black fellow-men by the American
occupation has aroused the protest
of the conscious Negro and the rev.
dictionary white workers every
where; in South Africa and the Con-
go, where the growing industrializa-
tion of the Negro population has re-
suited in various forms of upris-
ings; in East Africa, where the re-
cent penetration Of world capital is
stirring the native populations into
an active opposition to capitalism,
in all these centers the Negro move
ment must be organized.
ut is the task Of the Communist
International to point out to the