The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-29
SIX POWERS WATCHING NEGROES

ment to surrender its claim Since the
world war and the subsequent wave Of
unrest in Africa, these Powers have
taken every possible step to keep the
independent" Negro state of Liberia
Gas we'll as that of Abyssinia on the
other side of the continent) as weak
as possible, as an example to all Afri-
can native peoples of the inherent
disability" of Africans to govern them
selves, and therefore the necessity to
depend on the colonial control of Eu
ropean governments.
In 1928 the Universal Negro I'm
provement Association, with head
quarters in New York, was frowned
upon by the Great Powers as an or.
ganization spreading in the West In
dies, South America, Liberia and the
United States sort of "pan-African
nationalism" which it was feared
might adversely affect" their colonial
rule over the black peoples. The
United States government in 1898 sup.
pressed the convention OF the U. N.
I. A. by arresting the president of the
organization and keeping him in Jail
until the intended period Of the con-
vention had passed. / don't know
whether Marcus Garvey was or was
not culpable, but ] will not take the
word of the United States government
for it. Many Negro leaders whose sin.
certify cannot be questioned, in addi-
ton to nearly all of the white liberal
intellectuals who take an interest in
the Negro movement, as we'll as the
most reactionary political circles, de-
clare that Marcus Garvey, president
general of the organization, was justly
convicted of misuse of the mails in his
methods of collecting money.
But glance at the record shows
that any man guilty of getting lot of
money by dishonest means-be it by
bootlegging or by bribing the mem
bers of the presidents chabinet-does
not get convicted as long as he has
any of that money. To put it mildly,
the writer has never seen any evil
dence that the federal authorities
prosecute anybody for swindling.
Carney crIneing.
However. casting aside all the
charges of the dicks" there are far
worse charges which the dicks"
would only smile upon. The efforts OF
the Negro leader to keep out Of
trouble" by catering to the most re-
dictionary elements of the white CAPT.
talist class present a record so dam.
aging to Garvey as to overshadow all
Of the specious charges of the federal
dicks" l have in my possession
letter purporting to be signed by Gar.
vey, addressed to reactionary white
capitalist in subservienS tone, sugges.
lively referring to the friction" that
is caused by the Negroes attempts to
gain political rights and social equal
ity" in the United States, and broadly
limiting at the desirability of white
millionaires giving financial assist
ance to movement that will turn the
Negroes attention to Africa and
away from such ambitions in America
q win treat this more fully in later
article.) Even worse, and more con-
cretely dangerous to the Negro, is the
circumstantial evidence to show that
Garvey has extended exactly the same
sort of plea toward the Khan terror or
ganization-tha is, that If this Negro
burning organization will tolerate Gar
vey's operations in the United States,
Garvey will relieve the Khan of the
hated black mans striving for liberty
in America by turning the Negroes at
tention back to Africa"
OF course the idea that the twelve
million Negro people in the United
States (who are as much American"
as anybody here) could be bodily
transplanted into Africa, is an idiotic
phantasy. None but the most foolish
take it literally in this way, and Gar.
vey himself does not exactly claim to
do that; his pleas to, the white mil.
lionaires are rather put on the basis
that he will take the Negroes hope OF
freedom away from America, than
that he will take the Negro population
away in toto.
This convention is coming TO close
with Marcus Garvey appearing more
distinctly each hour in the dastardly
role of the one Negro leader (outside
of a few Negro professional and busi.