The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-12
RICH NEGROES LIKE RICH WHITES

lating property find their accumula-
tons appropriated by white business
men. One delegate who has lived all
his life in the South told of having
thot he could have career as a bust
ness man; but after accommodating
$4,000 worth of property everything
he had was brazenly taken away from
him by white business men on the
fimsiest form of swindle. He rushed
to the law for protection, but was
coolly told that the courts couldn't
do anything for him.
The Reverend Barber of Abyssinia
advocated the Negroes remaining in
the South for while, "instead of
coming North where the real estate
sharks are waiting for YOU" and in
vesting their savings in Mr.. Garvey's
plan for steamship line, until they
could go to Africa. africa is the
greatest cotton-growing country in the
world" said DIR. Barber, who advo-
Gated the establishment there Of "a
black United States, or a black king.
dom of Africa" He was sure that
the black and the white races could
not realize their hopes in the same
country, because two king bees don't
belong in the same hive; and two
kings cannot sit on the same throne"
He said, "since we cannot get what we
want in America, let us go to Africa"
He expected to raise cotton in Africa,
which he thot could soon find a mar
ket in America, because "the boil
weevil, the same thing that killed old
Pharaoh's crops" and the army-worm,
are in his opinion going to ruin the
South as cotton-growing country.
Two speakers attempted to dispar-
age the property-less Negro who feels
indisposed to take the employment Of
fered him and thereby arouses the an
tagonism of the white community.
This aroused an angry protest from
the large assembly.
Immediately there followed Mr..
Garvey's attack upon capitalism and
Inc CdplldllSLlC NEGRO.
Delegate Johnston Of Indianapolis
followed Garvey's speech by declaring
rather mildly that he thot the matter
Tof adjusting the radical differences in
the South ito the satisfaction of all
concerned" should be handled "diplo-
matically and strategically, in the
same careful way as the Ku Klux Khan
matter was handled" Johnston asked,
Does the white man of the South
prosecute the Negro who has pro-
duced something? No, the Negro is
prosecuted to the extent that he is a
non-producer."
Il believe" continued the speaker,
that the southern white man is not
hard to handle. l believe that in as
much as he has blessed the Negro by
compelling Negroes to get together,
that is in segregating them, that he
will do something more for the Negro
now. l think it will be possible to ap-
peal to him and to get assistance from
him to get out of this country and get
a country of our own.
1--WE can say to him, The Negro has
served you long. He has nursed your
children. He has made him what
they are. The Negro has been will
ing servant to you. Has not the time
come when you will help him? VIII
yon not let him go now, and lend him
assistance to get a country of his
OWN"
The latter remarks were coldly re-
ceived by the audience, and were fol-
lowed by Garvey's reaffirming his
caustic remarks as earlier reported.
Another speaker pointed out the
impossibility Of settling the race prob.
lem ito the satisfaction of all con-
cerned" when both the Negro and the
southern white exploiter were among
those concerned. GAS long as the Ne
gro has heart, as long as he has
feeling, as long as he is a man." said
this delegate, "he will not be satisfied
with the solution which will satisfy
the white exploiter. AS long as the
Negro is the tool of the white man,
he is going to feel the oppression of
the white man." He continued:
"And IL you take all Of the Negro
workers out of the United States the
white man is not going to be satisfied.
You need not believe that manual La
Dor is going to be displaced by machin-
cry. Machines cannot do all the cot
ton picking and the work OF the men,
bers Of our race in the fields"
The speaker was of the opinion that
much work would have to be done Sc.
cretly in the South, because OF the Cd.
pressive conditions.
Gard In that Quhoerfn&fo. -.