The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-18
Our Readers Views
Help Negro Workers Organize.


To the Editor of The DAILY
WORKER: Every class conscious
worker is enthusiastic from the sue
cess Of the Workers (Communist)
Party in gaining sympathy of the
toiling masses. The capitalists live in
constant fear that their days are
counted. Millions Of workers, who be-
lieved childishly the false promises
during the last war, are angry at the
master class and their labor mislead-
ers that instead Of enjoying the prom
ised freedom they suffer from greater
exploitation than ever before.
The Negro workers must work in
order to make living, they must take
care Of their families, just as their
white brothers. The prostitute CAPT
talist press spreads hatred among the
white workers against the Negroes
coming from the southern states, that
they are responsible for cuts in wages,
higher cost Of living, and worse work
ing conditions. This is a hundred
fold lie.
The Negro workers are brot over
here by the same capitalists who
throw mud at them. They receive the
same wages as the white workers do,
and the workers get their wage cuts
because they. are unorganized, which
would happen also if the Negoes
were not here.
The racial hate is brot into the
hearts of both races from their early
childhood.
The history teaches us that the most
hated, most prosecuted and exploited
slaves are the first ones to rise. No
wonder that the Negoes are awaking.
The ku klux khan is also different to-
day than it was during and after the
Civil War. At that time those barbar-
ians lynched only Negoes and those
white workers who sympathized with
them. Today to their lynching pro-
gam are added the foreign-born, cath
olics, Jews and organized workers.
They try to destroy the labor move
ment.
Many foreigners were organized
already in Europe. The hate Of the
American-born against them strength
ened their revolutionary spirit. The
Negroes were held in ignorance, they
had no school, couldn't read and write,
they were taught that the white
race is the supreme one, that it must
keep the Negroes down.
No matter how the slaves were
made to believe that slavery is given
to them by god, they always rose
when their oppressors raved the most.
During the war all colored colonials
and slaves were needed to beat the
Germans.
Their tyrants became their friends,
they were even promised that after
the war is over and the Germans de-
feated that Africa will be turned back
to the black race. Also in the United
States the hate against the for
eigners and Negroes disappeared.
Here also were the Negroes promised
that Africa will belong TO them after
the war is over. They were bitterly
disappointed. The big powers not
only kept the African colonies but
England grabbed all the German colo
MES, and the exploitation and tortur-
ing of the colonial slaves was started
anew and worse than before the war.
All colonial slaves rise. China says:
China to the Chinesei The Kuomin-
tang party is organized and has its
official organ even in this country.
China refuses to remain colony of
foreign capital Morocco, Syria, Tri-
poll, Egypt, India, are rising against
their British, French, Spanish and
Italian oppressors.
This all has great influence upon
American Negroes. We are enthusi-
astic that those most hated and per-
secuted slaves come along to fight
side by side with the white workers
against the common enemy capitalism.
Without the 100000 Negroes there
will be no victory for labor.
The first Negro Labor Congress will
meet Oct. %, 1925, in Chicago, Ill.
Said congress has its official organ,
The Negro Champion. Every Com
munist who is working with Negro
workers must do his duty and help
them to organize. Their refeat is our
defeat, their victory is our victory,
their freedom our freedom.
Rise you slaves, you have nothing to
lose but your chains and world to
gain.-Anthony HaIamek, Cleveland.
Ohio.