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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-05
Other Negro Race Move
ments.

THE African Blood Brotherhood,
= with program of class strugg
combined with a militant champion-
ing of the special demands OF the
Negro workers against racial discrimi-
nation, is an organization which has
done a pioneer work of considerable
value, in organizing a militant adj
vance-guard of Negro workers. Other
wise its chief successes have been in
those cases when it has employed the
united front tactics for enlarging its
contact with and influence upon wider
circles. Our policy in relation to this
organization is to have the local or
CARNATIONS merge with the units OF
the American Negro Labor Congress.
In the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People. the
Negro electromagnetic, together with
middle class white reformists and un-
der the partial leadership of the big
bourgeoisie (such as represented by
Senator Burton, chairman Of the last
republican national ,convention) finds
the chief medium for its reformist
operations. Yet it is a singular para
dox, and reflection of the now pas
sing period Of the patronizing of the
Negroes cause by the capitalist class,
that this organization at its last CON
vention appeared in the role of cham
pioning, tho in a timid and respect
able" way, Negro workers right to
admittance in the trade unions. Even
in this organization, under present cir
cumstances, it is permissible and ne
cessary for selected Communist (not
the party membership as whole) to
enter its conventions and TO make
proposals calculated to enlighten the
Negro masses under its influence as
to the nature and necessity Of the
class struggle, the identity of their
exploiters, and their leaders in the
same persons and the treacherous
nature of the reformist measures pro-
posed. .s i.
HOWEVER it is only when the Com.
= = munist work is so broadened and
extended in the field of Negro move
ments as to make our party stand.
out as the only real champion of the
Negro against lynching. all discrimi-
mating and all oppression and exploit
alton that We can successfully combat
the influence of such bourgeois move
menfs.
The aim Of our party in our work
among, the Negro masses is to create
q powerful proletarian movement
which will fight and lead the struggle
OF the Negro race against exploitation
and oppression in every form and
which will be a militant part of the
revolutionary movement of the whole
American working class, to strengthen
the American revolutionary movement
by bringing into It the IL 500 900 Negro
workers and farmers in the United
States to broaden the struggles OF
the American Negro workers and
farmers, connect them with the strug.
giles OF the national minorities and
colonial peoples of all the world and
thereby further the cause OF the world
revolution and the dictatorship of the
proletariat.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-05
Social Demands" of the
Negroes.

A IL slogans of equality which are
4 current among the Negro masses,
or which can be awakened among
them, which express the aspirations
for equal rights and equal treatment
Of Negroes in political and economic
life and in public customs, are placed
among the demands Of the Workers
(Communist) party. Such are the de-
mand for political equality, the right
to vote, social equality, economic"
equality, abolition Oft jim-crow laws
and also jim-crow customs not writ
ten into law. the right to serve on
juries, the abolition OF segregation in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-05
American Negro Labor
Congress.

IOUR work among the Negroes CEN
~ ters now around the American
Negro Labor Congress announced for
Chicago, October %. Our party recog-
nizes and supports this congress as
a genuine expression of the Negro
workers and farmers of the United
States. 1t will be composed, according
to the official call, of the following:
Delegates from Negro and mixed
trade unions.
Delegates from Negro workers in
factories and industries where large
numbers Of them are employed.
A few Negro workers who are
known for their activity in behalf of
the race.
Delegates from Negro farmer or
CARNATIONS.
Representative of Negro semi-intel-
lectual and semi-bourgeois organiza-
tions who are sympathetic to the move
ment Of the workers and farmers.
The congress therefore will be basic
ally gathering of Negro workers.
The slogans of our party will be
incorporated in resolutions and placed
before the congress.
At the congress a permanent organ
ization should be formed Of groups
thruout the United States composed
predominantly of Negro workers be-
longing to unions where possible. In
cities. where this is not possible, the
control of the committees should
nevertheless be in the hands of &C
tual workers.
In the agricultural communities
similar committees composed of farm
ers and farm laborers should be
formed.
The main object of the permanent
organization should be to centralize
the protests of the Negro workers
and farmers, to stimulate the desire
for organization, to secure admission
to organizations of white workers and
farmers on an equal basis and to
establish organic connection between
the struggles of the Negro and white
masses.
The congress should connect the
struggles of the Negro workers and
farmers in the United States with the
struggles of the Negro colonials in
American possessions such as Haiti,
etc.
1t should connect the struggles OF
the American Negroes with those of
the African masses and finally with
those of all colonial and semi-colonial
peoples.
1t should address a manifesto to
the Negroes of the world calling upon
them to hold a world race congress.
The congress should strive to
develop a leadership for the Negro
movement of the world for which the
American Negroes, by their SUI
perior industrial and political train
ing are the best fitted
Our party fractions will work for
the above program.
In connection with the linking of
the struggle of the American Negroes
with those of their African comrades,
the congress should point out the err
ror of holding up Africa as a Negro
Mecca. 1t must be made clear that
the connection between the African
and American Negro liberation move
ment is in the common struggle
against world Imperialism and that
such schemes as migration, ETC., are
simply chimeras which serve only to
confuse and conceal the real issues.
The congress should stand with
Soviet Russia as the nation where a
workers and farmers government has
solved successfully all racial and ma.
tional problems.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-05
Negro Race Movements.

DARTLY as a result of the internal
4 transformation among the Negro
population in the United States and
the West Indies, and also partly as a
reaction to the war and the national
liberation movements thruout the
world ESPECIALLY the colonial ferment
in Africa, Asia, the Philippines, Haiti,
etc), Negro race movement center
ing in the United States has been
stimulated to large proportions. This
movement first crystallized into organ
national form among West Indian
working class Immigrants in New
York and other United States seaports
as well as the British West Indian pos
sessions, but spread rapidly among
the native American Negroes, mostly
of the working class. Under the name
of the Universal Negro Improvement
Association fluctuating membership,
at times approaching the half-million
mark, was organized. At first it show
ed distinctly anti-imperialist tend
encies, with specific working class de-
mands such as the demand for open
ing the trade unions to Negroes with
equality Of pay, ETC., as shown in the
1920 program Of the Universal Negro
improvement Association. At all times
these demands have been confusedly
mixed with Utopian conceptions. Ra-
pidly, however, under the leadership
of its principal founder, Marcus Gar
vey, the Utopian pacifist conception
that the oppression of the Negro in
America and the world could be re-
medied by the building of national
Negro state in Africa, and that hence
the struggle in this country is unne-
cessary, has become the dominant
note of the organization. The exploit
tation Of the Negro masses by dema-
gogic leaders of this organization, who
copy the arts of the Jewish Zionist
movement, soliciting funds from white
capitalists on the ground that they
will teach the Negro toilers to submit
to white supremacy" g. e. capitalist
supremacy, in this country, while Of
ficially denying but in fact cultivating
the dream of mass migration to Afri-
ca, is one of the cruellest aspects OF
betrayal to which, the black worker is
subjected. ,,~s.
An intense sympathy with the co.
lonial revolts of the Chinese, the Riff
fans, Sudanese, East Indian, West
Indian andsJavan peoples against inn
perialism, is, however, an almost uni
versal phenomenon among American
Negro workers. 1t exists in militant,
aggressiveInon-pacifist form, not only
among some of the rank and file of
the before mentioned organization, but
also widely beyond the limits of any
organized sform.,.This phenomenon is
found in its highest development
among Negro industrial workers who
completely repudiate the cult OF sub
mission in America and who conceive.
their fate to abeo bound up with the
American labor movement This ele-l
ment of Negro industrial workers is
exceptionally responsive to the Com
munist program in both its interna-
tional and its domestic significance.
Their interest in questions of colonial
Imperialism forced upon them by
their own persecution as an inferior"
srace), increases the value of the con-
tribution which this most exploited.
section of the proletariat Negro work
ers can make to the labor movement.
The guidance Of this current into the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-05

the Communists to take bhA initiative
in the formation of organizations of
Negro workers declaring in principle
against dual unionism and against
racial separation, and declaring as a
primary purpose the struggle for ad-
mission into the existing unions. but
functioning as full-fedged Negro
unions during the struggle.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-05

serve as a medium. thru which the
solidarity and cooperation of the
working class and all workers organ
izations can be obtained in times of
crisis such as strikes, race riots, at
tempted lynchings, etc, to prevent
conflicts between the workers of the
two races and to prevent lynchings.
Pocahontas star herald., 1925-04-02
BLODGETT

viii Russell and Ed Profit of May
nard came up here Sunday and return
ed home Monday. They came up after
some cotton seed.
Misses Edna and Tressie Moore spent
Sunday afternoon with Miss Leslie
Wagner.
Leslie Osborn and family were din
ner guests at John Cantwells Sun
day.
Luther Williams and family and
Mrs. Williams and son, Sanford, were
dinner guests at j. II. Galemore's Sun
day.
Boyce Paskell and Miss Oda Biggs
were married Sunday.
Tom Davis has gone to Thayer. Mo-,
on business.
Mrs. Lille Myers spent Friday with
Mrs TOla Myers.
Albert Marrs and son and Buck
Meyers are over in the storm stricken
district working at tie carntnter's
srade. They report that several dead
bodies have been found in the last few
-lays.
Pony Holt and family and Freeman
} Iolt and wife visited at Ben Wool
BRIDGES Sunday.
: WIN Lingle and family of near Six
,ston, were meeting old friends at this
place Sunday evening.
n COrbett Decker and wife attended
ur Sunday school Sunday.
Pocahontas star herald., 1925-04-02
CARTER

Miss Alma Spikes visited her sister
Mrs. Ezra Presley at Shannon Friday
night.
Mr.. and Mrs. Zigler of Lesterville
visited Henry Eaton Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs Lem Davis visited
Jerman Browns at Manson Sunday.
Wesley Barnett and family of In
gram visited T. J. Timer last week end.
Misses Elsie, Minnie Ann and Pearl
Poe and Julia. Snodgrass, Rob Jess
Timer and Elmer Poe visited Henry
Eaton's Sunday.
Curtis Rose visited Eugene Brown
Saturday night and Sunday.
Miss Clara Brown visited her sister,
Mrs. Ira Clarke, last week end.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lum Spikes visited
John Spikes at Skaggs Saturday night
and Sunday.
Charley Poe and wife visited Elmer
Fultner at Manson Sunday.
Miss Alma Spikes visited Miss Clara
Brown Sunday and Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ezra Presley and Alma
Spikes visited Mr.. and Mrs. Ira Clarke
Saturday night and Sunday.
Church at Carter Sunday was well
attended.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Snodgrass Of POca-
hontas attended church at Carter Sun
day night.
The singing at Y. J. Timers Satur-
day night was well attended. All re-
ported a good time.
Lilburn Lindsey Of Skaggs passed
through here Monday.
Several from here attended Sunday
school at Skaggs Sunday.
There will be church at the new
Baptist church at Skaggs Saturday
night, Sunday and Sunday night.
Everybody invited TO come.
Pocahontas star herald., 1925-04-02
OLD REYNo
(TOO late for last week.


Miss Myrtle Eddington of near Datto
is attending school here.
Jesse Hill took supper with Mae
johnson Sunday night.
A bunch of our folks attended the
play at Biggers Friday night.
Miss Elva Morrow took dinner with
Miss Ala Kirk Sunday.
Miss Ida Eddington spent Saturday
night and Sunday with Miss Mae Bar
cliff.
Mae Johnson took dinner with james
Kirby Sunday.
A large crowd attended the sing,ro
at Mrs. Hettie Johnson's saturdo1
night.
Miss Ethel Johnson took dinner Win,
Miss Villa Street Sunday.
Misses Ida Eddington and Mae p.-
cliff went to shaver's Eddy Sunday
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Eddineton sno,.
Saturday night and Sunday with NJ
and Mrs. David Eddington.
Pocahontas star herald., 1925-04-02
SHADY GROVE

The singing at E. w. Gates was well
attended Saturday night.
Bro. Patterson will preach at Peru
next Saturday night and Sunday at IL
o'clock.
There will be a working at Bro. ].
w. Stevens next Thursday and sing
ing at night. Everybody invitel to
come.
Mr. and Mrs. George IngIam went
to the hills to see her mother, who is
on the indisposed list this week. They
were accompanied by her brother 4.
II. Roberts.
There was singing at John Foster
Sunday evening.
Miss Lulu Burr, who was visiting her
sister, Mrs. Eva Goodman, last week,
returned home Sunday.
B. w. Gates and family visited their
son, Frank, Sunday.
please sign your namc.-Editor)
Pocahontas star herald., 1925-04-02
HIGH POINT

w. NJ. Johnson and family spent
Sunday at Almus Rapert's near Mid
dlebrOok.
Mrs. Marie Henderson, who has been
visiting her parents here for several
weeks, returned to her home at Corn.
ing Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gilbert ParGer and lit
tie son, Edmond, spent Saturday night
with j. II. Moore's.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Scheniman visit
ed Ernest Grissom's Sunday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Pickard and lit
tie son were the guests of John Har-
rison's Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ollie Odom and Alfred
Grissom and family spent Sunday with
Mr.. and Mrs. John Grissom.
Elbert Parker, John and Edgar Ha-
good and Ralph Swindlc were in this
vicinity sunday.
Pocahontas star herald., 1925-04-02
MANSON

Miss Elizabeth Thornton of Cape
Girardeau visited her mother at ibis
place Saturday night and Sunday.
Mrs. Viola Asher, who has been visit
ing at this place for the past tive
weeks, returned to her home at Myrtle,
Mo-, Sunday.
Misses Glenda and Coma Ryburn at
tended Sunday school at Lesterville
Sunday.
Miss Maude Stout of Pocahontas
visited Miss Tressella Brown Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs Ezra Massey visited at
the c. f. Rose home Sunday.
There was a large crowd attended
the play given by tie Consolidated
School No. / at this place Saturday
night.
Grandma Beaver and Miss Hazel
Lamb are on the sick list at this writ
ing
Mr.. Taylor has purchased a car since
our last report.
Tom Mays and daughter, Miss sn-
villa, of Holmes, were seen in our town
Saturday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Brown and babe
visited his parents near Water Wiley
Saturday.
Homer Breeding was a guest at the
home Of Earl Jackson Sunday after
noon.
Pocahontas star herald., 1925-04-02
BRAKEBIIL

II. L. Richardson and son, Ronald,
of Reyno passed through this vicinity
Tuesday. They had been in this neigh
borhood buying cattle for their big
Current river farm.
Uncle Tom Mock and wife IF near
Warm Springs visited at the home Of
their daughter, Mrs. H. r. Tucker, at
this place Sunday.
Aunt Rachael Dalton of near Burr
visited relatives at this place the past
week.
Quite a crowd attended the musical
at the home of Uncle John Wilson Sat
urday night. All report nice time.
Misses Beulah Baker and Lillian
Caldwell of Middlebrook spent Satur
day night with Miss eta Waldron
Gov. Austin Peay OF Tennessee and
the legislature of the same st,,te are
certainly to be praised for their work
in making it a law to prohibit the
teaching Of Darwin's Theory Of Evolu-
tion in the public schools OF their state.
The bill was made law last Monday.
The writer went over to Warm
Springs Saturday afternoon on busi
ness. While there we learned the par
ticulars of the big golden wedding an
niversary celebration which was held
there that day, marking the passing of
the fiftieth year since the marriage of
Uncle Pleas Carter and wife. They
stated that there was a large crowd
of old friends and neighbors present,
several from distance Uncle Dock
Holt gave several historical st ltements
of interest. He said he was present
at the wedding of Mrs. CaIter's moth
er, also at her wedding and now he at
tended their golden anniversary
Two men, whom we underst Iud were
U. S. postOffice inspectors, passed
through this vicinity Saturday after
noon. They had been to lakewood,
Mo-, investigating the scene of the rob
berry at that place one night recently.
The pOstOffice safe was blown 'ren
and about four hundred do,'ars taken.
No clue has been found yet.
Chas. Buhler and son, Ira, left for
POcahontas Saturday on business and
also to visit old friends and to fish
some while gone.
George Toy and Clarence Dalton
made a flying trip to POcehontus Sat
urday after load of building material
for the formers garage and Dan
Griggs' house. Unlike the trip George
made to Doniphan last Saturday even
ing that our good friend the Middle
brook writer told you about las: week.
George had company on this trip.
1t is certainly discouraging 20 the
citizens of our state, who have the in
terest of the public schools az heart,
to see bills intended for the upbuilling
of our school system, such as the Free
Text Book Bill by Mr.. Higginbotham,
so carelessly ignored by other legisla-
tors.
Dan Griggs and family ard Clar-
ence Dalton and Geo. Toy drove down
to near ReynO Sunday, where Dan
went to see his sister, Mrs Lewis Kir-
by, and children. Mrs. Kirby and fam
lily lived at MurphysborO, Ill, until the
recent tornado which wrecked and
burned their home and Mr. Kirby's
office They lost everything they had
except a typewriter and one or two lit
tie articles ont of his Office. lie is an
auto salesman. After seeing that
theirs was total loss they rushed out
of the devastated area TO the home of
her parents near Reyno in their car,
which was also saved.
Pocahontas star herald., 1925-04-02
Social and !
Surprise Mrs. Vester

Success, March 23.-Members Of the
local Oddfellow and Rebekah lodges
with number of visiting members
from Corning, gathered at the home of
]. II. Vester Sunday and gave Mrs,
Vester a surprise dinner, it being her
53rd birthday. About 40 guests we're
present.
Pocahontas star herald., 1925-04-02
Skaggs w. NJ. U.
present

Skaggs W. NJ. U. will meet ON Sun
day afternoon, April 3. Everyone is
asked to come and all who are pledg-
ing n block for the quilt are asked to
turn them in by that time with at
least 20 names on the block. But II
Won haven't that number, come to
church Saturday night and get some
Pocahontas star herald., 1925-04-02

Wanted-2 farm hands to work
through crop. Will furnish house,
land for garden also COW to milk. Ap-
ply to Il. Dalton at Pocahontas or Mack
Dalton at Dalton. 29-tf.
Pocahontas star herald., 1925-04-02
Sc

is a prescription for
Colds. LaGrippe, Innuenz.
Densue, BiIiousness, MaIar;.
1t is the most speedy remedy we Eno,.,
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-09-17
PASSING OF BARBER MUGS

BARRIERS seem to disagree on the
cause tor the gradual disappear
arce of private mugs and brushes
in their shops. Some say that it
was the talk OS the BARRIERS them
selves who convinced the owners
that the things were unsanitary,
Others say the automobile was the
one influence, inasmuch as it al
lowed access to other shops where
no private mugs were stored.
None of the BARRIERS lament the
loss of the private shaving equip
ment except Joel Buzzle of Horse
Corner.
when them fancy mugs leave
my shop" predicts Joel, then I'll
be dead and gone. Concord
Monitor.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-09-17
LAW AND LAWBREAKERS

Sunset magazine poses the cues
ton: "Are you a lawbreaker? OF
course you are. How could you
hope to obey all the laws passed
by your city, your state and your
national congress? If you should
employ the most able lawyer in the
land to guide You he could not
read fast enough to keep Informed
as to the new legislation and null
tiplicity of court decisions.
Since we can't even hope to
know what all the laws are it
follows that We must violate many
of them"
Charles Alexander, editor, poet,
novelist, critic, literary editor, says
the truth is quite as Sunset
has stated it; we have reached a
state of mind where we must, by
the terms of necessity, use our
own discretion and be our own
judges Of what is wrong. The fact
that a thing is law no longer i'm
presses us.
Z" 'Take the traffic law. If forty
miles an hour is 0eeded to make
the hill right ahead in high gear,
and the way is clear and safe, IS
per cent of drivers will speed forty
miles or more. 1T is a matter of
their own Judgment. A regard for
fundamentals is the greatest attri-
butte of any fundamentally free PEG
pie, the enforcement of detailed
regulations is a sign of the unfree
serf.
''The more laws that are passed
the less effective they will be-
come" Truth is the middle ground,
the no-man's- land where so few
men ever venture. Law is good.
Too little law is bad. Too much
low is bad. A sensible amount of
law is just right. In America we
have altogether too much law, and
illustrations cited are merely ex-
amples of what obtains in a dozen
other departments of daily endeav-
or,-Bloomington Qn.) Paragraph.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-09-17
CHANGES ADDRESS

In renewing his subscription to
the Weekly News, F. j. Stanley
writes:
"After Oct. first my address is
changed to % Elwood avenue, IT.
vington, N, j., inasmuch as my
wife and / are both former resi-
dents of Baraboo and are there
fore acquainted with the happen
ings in and around Baraboo, We
look forward with a great deal of
interest to the coming of each is.
sue of our home town paper.
'It might interest you to know
that we pass the paper on to e. A.
Prouty, formerly of Baraboo, who
enjoys reading it and seeing some
of the old names and landmarks
that he remembers as part of Bar.
aboo eighteen or twenty years ago.
F. J. STANLEY.
Newark, N. ].
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-09-17

New York City, for example,
spends $65,OOO,O0O every year in
charity, but for practical instruc-
ton in economics, which, if prop
erly applied, would largely do a
way with the necessity for charity,
it spends not one penny apiece.
This same condition prevails, in
proportionate degree, right here
at home. Our school children are
not taught how to manage their
personal affairs with prudence;
they are not taught the value and
use of money or the vasis of econ
omic living; they gather a smat-
tering of botany, a little geology,
possibly interspersed with modi
cum of plain sewing and kinder
garten chemical experiments, but
nothing at all of the science that
lies at the very root of personal
prosperity and national develop
ment. The teachers are not to
blame, but unless there be a
change the day Of reckoning will
be a very black Friday.-Flushing
(Ohio) News.