The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-13

AS WE SEE 1T

THE New York Times finds solace in
4 the "jeering comments" on the
class struggle written in the Milwau-
kee Leader by Oscar Ameringer, the
leading clown Of the socialist party;
Oscar, who is on many payrolls, was
in the comedy game before Will Rog-
sers, but he has not succeeded in estab-
fishing a style. He apes Rogers un-
successfully, which means that he sue
ceeds in being a bigger ape than
Will. Rogers started out well, but he
suffered a relapse when he started to
boost the stocks of Pershing, Coolidge,
Ford, William jennings Bryan and 9TH
ers, for the same reasons, no doubt
that Ameringer sings the praises Of
Frank Harrington.
A MERINGER confuses the class
"A struggle exemplified in the per-
petual war between the miners and
the mine owners, with the farce that
is being staged in Atlantic City,
where labor leaders and operators are
having good time viewing the bath
ing beauties and other natural seen
cry. The Times says THE Milwau-
kee Leader INDUCES in some jeering
comments that, coming from social
list organ, may or may not have a
strange sound, according to the point
of view. Anyhow it is amusing"
IVES, it is amusing for the New York
l. Times and the unprincipled jes-
ter who is guilty of making the trials
and tribulations of the poor miners
the butt of a buffoon's joke, but it
does not sound SO funny to the ears Of
the poor miners who go down into
the bowls of the earth daily at the risk
of their lives. The Times may think
such sentiments strange in the Mil
waukee Leader. They are not. The
socialists have long ago bid farewell
TO the class struggle and all that it
implies. Their only struggle is now
to live down the bad reputation that
socialism, in the days of its virility,
had earned for itself
THE yellow labor faker, Green,
4 warns the black workers of the
United States to beware of the red
menace" He charges the reds with
propagating race hatred. This comes
with poor grace from the president Of
an organization, which allows some of
its affiliated bodies to breed race hat
red by refusing admission to black
workers. And even many organiza-
lions that don't discriminate formally,
do it practically on the job. The Com
munists are not trying to incite the
Negroes to hate the white workers.
They are teaching them that their
enemies are the capitalists, black and
white and the labor takers of one
color: which is yellow, in a political
sense.
ONLY last week Negro was taken
~ out of the hands of the sheriff in
a town in Missouri, carried by how'll
ing mob to a tree and strung up. He
was charged with attacking a white
girl There is no more proof that the
lynched Negro attacked that girl, than
there is that she was assaulted by
the imperial wizard of the k. k. k.
Scores of times Negroes have been
murdered for similar crime. only to
49, - ofto.u,ordc ,,rOvad that oo,,,a
body else was guilty or that the indig-
nant lady was protesting too much
and without any reason except worse
than neglect.
TNHE lynching of Negroes in the
United States is a national scan
.dal This violence is committed by
,cowadly mobs who would not dare in
dulge in their avatistic tendencies but
for the unorganized- state of the col
ored people. Green has nothing to
say about the lynching of Negroes 1t
would not be surprising if he secretly
favored it, That sanctimonius church
deacon type to which Green belongs is
capable of any atrocity. We venture
TO predict that Green will have as
much trouble weaving the Negroes
away from the Communists as he has
in driving the Communists out of the
unions.
THE Negroes are learning one les
4 son and learning 1t fast 1t is this:
No subject people or subject class