The daily worker., 1924-08-11
Negroes Told of EnsIaUement
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calling upon all the children to follow
him. Twenty-one Of the Negro boys
left the church.
The speaker declared that the day
was soon coming when 'the sixty-five
millions in England will find them
selves in desperate straits to keep
control upon the millions and millions
Of Negroes in their far-away colonies.
Knowing this, the English rulers are
trying to ease the task of control by
passing some Of it on to Negro agents.
They procure their Negro agents to
help them rule the Negroes-and
these black agents are worse than the
white man himself. Great Britain
uses the Negro to kill the Negro. She
corrupts her colored agents, puts them
in petty positions Of power. Then she
points to the laboring masses of Ne
groes, and she says, you watch those
fellows and make them work"
Even in the churches the black
preacher teaches the white doctrine
every time. Bachelor told of the Ne
gro minister who, watching for the
slightest sign of awakening respect
for their own race, picks out the Of
tenders and shrieks, "Oh, you Negroes
who are ungrateful to England"
Asks Curse on King.
He told Of eight thousand Jamaica
Negro laborers who were shipped to
Cuba to work. "They slaved for in
human hours by day, and then at
night they had no houses to live in,
but slept in miserable little ham
mockss strung up in the open with a
little scrap of roof over each ham,
mock. They worked themselves
beyond human indurance for one dol
lar per day, and still they were so
poisoned with slavish training that
they continued to sing God Save the
King But there was a little boy
born Of these jamaican parents on
Cuban soil, and he grew up old
enough to talk and to think little.
One day the child said: My father
and mother, they are British, and they
have to say, God Save the King but
l am Cuban, and can say, God
curse the Kingl'
an the British Negro colonies you
toll and you don't get enough to eat.
If they don't lynch you, anyway they
starve you until you die"
Mr.. Bachelor expressed the belief
that the British government cannot
succeed in holding the hundreds of
millions now under it's oppression in
India. He declared he had made a
solemn oath on the principle which
Nelson had sworn to uphold the Brit
ish Empire, Nepoleon to uphold
France and Washington to uphold
America, that he would support the
supremacy of Black Africa" He
carried the big audience into the
widest burst of enthusiasm yet reach
| ed at the convention.
S. B. Grant, a delegate from Ber-
muda, told of a visit he had made to
Birmingham and his encounter there
with white supremacy" On the
streets of Birmingham, he said, he
was kicked by a white man and told
to "get out of this town." On another
occasion, he said, he was surprised to-
have a white man walk up to him on
the street and say, II am going to
lynch you tonight"
British Work the Children.
Mr.. Grant declared that Negroes
were toiling in British colonies for
twenty-four cents day, with their
children working for six cents day,
and expressed the opinion that Mr..
Garvey "has turned the British gov
ernment into trouble"
A speaker from Africa declared that
the method used by France for sub
| jugating the Negroes is to divide
them with religion. In one place the
French will cultivate Mohammedanism
in another Christianity, and encourage
each group of Negroes to hate the
other, so as to keep them from unit
ing in a common cause against their
opprossor.
"In Somaliland," said this speaker,
"they have confiscated every inch of
fertile soil. Our people have been re-
duced to starvation. "Even in Abys-
sinia," he continued, "the foreign ag-
gressors are gradually taking every
thing away from the, Negro govern
ment. The Abyssinians have lost
their last seaport" He said that
"Abyssinia is a great government, but
as it is she is now hemmed in."
Mcclure Hits the Churches.
Bishop George Alexander MCGUIRE
treated the subject Of Imperialism on
the basis of religion.
w. A. Wallace of Chicago said he
believed that the preachers and the
heads Of the churches have had their
chance to do something for the Ne