The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-15

llS support TO DeVef. many prom
inent republicans switched their sup
port to Dever. Among them is in
Guided julius Rosenwald, the sup
posed friend and benefactor of the
race, a member of the National AS
ISOLATION for the Advancement of the
Colored People. (Will the N. A. A.
C. P. still tolerate him in its ranks p
Deep Industrial Changes.
INDEED the Negro vote was a
decisive influence in the recent
elections. Indeed the very bitterness
Of the attack launched against the
colored citizens of our city proves
the arrival of new powerful factor
into the political life of the country.
The mayoralty campaign in Chicago
reflects the deep going changes pro-
duced by the world war. Hundreds
of thousands of Negroes came into
the great industrial centers of the
north. Now thousands more are
coming and they are here to stay.
The significance of this fact is tre-
mendous.
1t means as much for the move
ment for the liberation Of the race
as the birth of the working class Of
China meant for the nationalist
movement there. The Negro pro-
letariat is born. The former farmers
and farm hands of the south are
drawn into the huge factories, mills
and mines. They are being welded
together by the conscience of their
common interest and by the feeling
of power of their concentrated great
numbers. They are being permeated
with a rebellious spirit of discomfort
at the humiliation, inequality, perse-
cution and exploitation which they
suffer as race.
PrOletariat Will Lead.
THIS process is not being confined
to the north alone. 1t embraces
the south as well. The south is be-
coming industrialized. The Negro
proletariat is being born in the south.
1t was the new born working class
of China that furnished the backbone,
the indominitable spirit, the driving
power, the unconquerable strength,
the real leadership to the nationalist
movement of China.
1t is the working class, that will
play a similar historic role in the
Lucrative movement of this oppressed
race in our country.
Capitalism Makes Concessions.
THE white ruling class already
L scented the advance of this force.
The recent decisions of the supreme
court of the United States declaring
unconstitutional the disfranchisement
of the Negro in the state of Texas,
declaring unconstitutional the segre-
cation in the schools of Louisiana,
are indications that American cap
italism fears the awakening Negro
and is willing to make concessions
in order to avoid rebellion on the
part of the oppressed black citizens
in the south.
The Chicago mayoralty elections
reflect the inevitable trend of events.
It is true that in the present elections
the splendid rebellious spirit of the
Negro masses found its expression
in the support of Thompson who is
not deserving of it. There was no
other spokesman of the interests of
the colored citizens so they flocked
to the standard of "Big Bill" who to-
morrow in all probability win betray
them.
viii Find Own Champions.
AS the racial movement will grow
"A and mature it will find its own
spokesman, men and women of vision,
power, and determination, by the side
of whom "Big Bill" will cut a small
and pitiful figure.
To help crystalline such leader
ship is the duty and the pressing pro-
blem of the Workers (Communist)
Party Of America. The Communist
movement alone will be capable of ac-
comphshing this task as it is accom-
plishing it in China.
Such is our view upon the elections
in Chicago. To interpret them merely
as a contest between the republicans
and democratic parties, as merely a
fight of rival groups of capitalist in
terests, to overlook the Importance of
the part played by the racial element,
is in our opinion, to be blind to a
development that is destined TO play
a decisive role in the great struggle
for freedom of the working classes
Of America.