The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-18
The Negro and Soviet Russia

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us of the cultured elite, equality and
deliver unto us our masses and we
will placato them" Verify, for a
mess of pottage the house slaves
would act guard over the field hands.
If the younger members Of Negro
literati are content with this type of
leadership we despair of their future
and if the millions OF Negro peasants
and workers in the South can read
their salvation between the lines of
the argument presented by Mr.. Locke
in his attempt to maintain the af-
firmative of the issue then as a clair
voyantic performance their reading is
unsurpassed. Gary, Indiana, is but
cumulative evidence of the existence
Of shoals ahead.
The Position Of the Negro.
Beyond shadow of doubt the posi-
ton Of the Negro in America de-
mands scientific and painstaking
analysis. In whatever direction one
may turn it is to discover a struggle
destructive of social stability waste
full and demorahzing in its nature,
raging between whites and blacks
Those least observant appreciate
its existence only when it bursts
forth in the blind fury of an East
st. Louis, Washington or a Chicago
riot. In the South, the Negro exists,
so-calIed citizen Of states which
persistently refuse to afford him
protection Of life, to grant him lib
erty, other than of limited degree,
or to permit his pursuit Of happiness
save in highly circumscribed man.
ner and along lines approved by the
proponents of biracialism (all white
Southerners are such save at night.
In the national capital, we find jim
crowism rampant in most of the de-
partmental offices; and Dyer-Anti-
lynching bill is blocked in the senate.
In the north we now find republicans
as well as democrats allied with the
khan. Is it not amazing that the
Negro is beginning to think. The
operation of obiectibe forces makes
thought vital necessity of an
avenue of escape is to be discovered.
Lyrchings Advertised.
The southern oligarchy continues
its night-riding I.ynchings now find
advertising space in the press and the
scions Of the best families now open
ly assume the leadership Of mobs;
throughout the length and breadth
Of the south there is no court of law
which will consistently convict for of
lenses committed against Negroes.
The duly elected functionaries of the
people show in Enthusiastically manner
their hostility toward blacks.
Does Not Stand Alone.
Negro labor is sharp, there is little
unionization and between blacks and
whites no worlting-class solidarity.
And the south does not stand alone.
Many and devious are the ways by
which the northern white assures the
Negro that only when the cry is
war for Democracy" is he a fall
Pledged citizen.
Those who decry what they describe
as radical tendencies among Negroes
fail to appreciate that he 800 can
read of political philosophy which
when put '1to practice bring forth
the seven hour day, unemployment
insurance. old age pensions. social
order where the women are relieved
from their employment two months
before Childbirth, remaining away I'M
I'll two months, after, and are paid
IN full during this period. Many utEcr
advantages under this new regime
might be recited and the Negro is
taking heed of it all. A new social
order here is imminent. The Negro
needs no special inducement to be cal
led to the ranks.