The daily worker., 1924-08-15
RACE PROBLEM
ANSWER CAN'T
SATISFY ALL
Negro ConcIaUe Hears
Communist Delegate
BY ROBERT MINOR.

lHuSSLiOU VI H0 AUluSLTn6nL OF
the Race Problems of the
Southern States to the Satisfac-
tion of All Concerned" has
aroused keen interest and lively
debate at the fourth annual in
ternationaI convention Of the
Universal Negro Improvement
Association, now in session
here.
Mrs. Olivia Whitemen, a dele
gate Of the Workers Party to
this international Race CON
gress, addressed the conven-
ton asking whether anyone
seriously believed that the race
problems Of the Southern states
would ever be solved ''to the
satisfaction of all concerned"
Can't Satisfy All.
Answering her own question, the
Communist woman delegate assured
the gathering that the race question in
the South will be solved all right,
"but the solution will not be to the
satisfaction of all concerned" She
undertook to show that there is no
chance in the world that the self
respecting Negroes would ever accept
any adjustment of the race problem
that would be satisfactory to the white
ruling class.
Mrs. Whiteman insisted that the
Negroes in America must stand firm
for the redemption Of Africa from the
imperialists who are expressing it, but
that in doing so they must not let
themselves become weak and sub
missive people here in this country.
She continued:
"Need Backbone in Fight"
Il cannot see how men, millions
strong, who will permit their rights
to be deprived them and their initia-
tive crushed, will ever survive long
enough to protect the great wealth of
Africa, whose wealth any country will
put up a strong battle to hold Don't
ever think that Negro liberty can be
lreedemed by submissive spirit. 1t
is going to take men with experience
and training in courage and backbone
to claim their own"
Men who do not stand up for their
rights here, she said, when they start
off for Africa will find it "a little late
for training" She continued, I'm or
der to have an army of men worth
while, it is necessary to have a first
class training camp. Train them
here" she demanded, "in contending
for their rights here. When such men
go to Africa" she said, they will be
able to stand their own whatever the
storm may be-"
Referring to a tendency of some of
the delegates to address their appeals
to preachers instead of to the masses
of Negro people, Mrs. Whiteman said
Slams Preachers.
"The preachers are a group of per-
sons who have always known the op-
pressed condition of the Negro, and
to my mind they have always given
their official blessing to slavery and
have always supported the govern
ment which oppresses my people"
In regard to the deplorable condi-
tion Of mistreatment which colored
women are compelled to suffer, Mrs.
Whiteman exclaimed, Whether we be
in Alabama, Mississippi, Illinois or
New York, we must take a definite
and Independent stand against per-
mitting Negro women to be deprived
of their rights and proper respect"
Because Of the threatened impris-
onment of Marcus Garvey, which is in
terpreted as an effort of the federal
government to deprive the Negro
movement Of an able leader, many
speechs are devoted to the matter of
his leadership.
5. s. Wheat, Chicago officer of the
organization, described the hopeless
condition the American Negroes found
themselves in just after the end OF the
world war, period in which they
were unorganized ana helpless while
tneir rights were more and more dis
appearing.
"And at last" he said, "out OF the is
lands Of the sea we heard the cry of
Marcus Garvey. Hopes were gone,
hopes were lost, when this giant came
on the scene"
Charges jealousy.
Claiming that Negro leaders who
have themselves been unable to or
ganize the Negro masses were Jealous
of the new leader, Mr.. Wheat said,
But the old reactionary Negro, that
old Uncle Tom Negro, is a back num-
Der now" The jealousy of such men,
he said, has caused them to encour.
age the federal officials to frame up
indictments against Garvey. But we
have got TO make enemies on the day
that we step into this organization" /"
said the speaker.
Mrs Ada Hogues OF Chicago told OF
the manner In which she had been
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