The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-12

against Cne common enemy, against
the master class. The Negro race
must understand that capitalism
means racial oppression and Commun-
ism means racial, social, and polit-
ical equality for all workers. The
employing class deliberately arouses
the racial prejudice and hatred of the
white workers against the Negro
workers with the sinister aim to split
End divide the ranks of the working
class, thereby maintaining the oppres-
sion and exploitation of white and
Negro workers alike. The white
workers must realize that '1abor in
white skin cannot emancipate itself
as long as labor in a dark skin is
branded" (Marx.)
The Communist Party-the Champion
of the Negro Race.
The democratic party is the tradi-
tional party of Negro slavery. The
republican party boasts that it lib
Ierated the Negro from chattel slav-
cry, but reality shows that the re-
publican party rerpetuates the peon-
age and contract labor of the Negro
| tenant farmer and share cropper in
the South and the, wage slavery OF
the Negro industrial worker in the
North. The republican party, the
party of Lincoln, has sunk So low that
it has provided for measures to segre-
gate the Negro delegates in its 1923
Kansas City nominating convention.
There is the most dishonest and dis
graceful "gentleman's agreement" be-
tween the two capitalist parties
against the political rights of the
Negroes. The Negroes are disfran-
chised. Lynch law is the law over the
Negroes. The terror of the Ku Klux
klan is the constitution for the Neg
roes. The white masters try to re-
duce the Negroes to illiteracy. The
socialist party accepts, without any
serious resistance or struggle, the OPP
preston of the Negro race. The bu-
reaucracy Of the A F. Of L. refuses
tc organize the Negroes into trade
unions. The narrow white labor aris-
tocracy refuses t. recognize the
Negro worker as it's equal. The Com
munist Party is the sole party which
fights for the liberation of the Negro
race from racial oppression and for
the emancipation of the Negro and
white workers from capitalist ex-
ploitatior and oppression.
The National Nominating Conven-
ton of the Communist Party, held on
May 25-27 was the only political con-
vention in which the Negro workers
participated on a basis Of complete
political and racial equality. The
southern states, as we'll as the work.
ing class Negro population of the
north, Were represented by numerous
delegates. The platform adopted by
the national convention is not only
platform Of the working class gen
orally, hut it is also the platform of
the Negro race The Communist Party
will carry its election campaign to all
the states of the south, will present
It's complete program of emancipation
of the Negro race, will challenge the
rule of lynch law, the terror of the
Ku Klux Khan, and the despicable die
tatorship of the big southern land
owners ana capitalists.
The Communist Party calls upon
the Negro workers to organize trade
unions. 1t calls upon the white work
ers to help their Negro brothers in
their struggle.
The Communist Party calls upon
the Pullman porters to prepare for a
big organizational drive, to carry out
serious preparations for future
strike, to combat their present lead
ership, and to fight for rank-and- file
control i'll the Pullman brotherhood or
ganization.
Long live the common struggle of
the Negro and white workers against
their common enemy--capitalism!
Central Executive Committee of the
Workers (CommunisD Party.