The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-12

Dldck men ana women WHO, also accounted
citizens, owing allegiance to the stars and
stripes, yet are buffeted and hamstrung
by an unsympathetic majority of their fell
low citizens against all law and justice?
These, we submit, should not be as salts
fled with either choice as the rest of the
citizenry.'
! The NEGRO World" states quite correctly
! that the United States will be as safe with
Smith as with Hoover. This means that both
men are equelly willing to serve the capitalist
! system.
What the Negro World" ignores completely
is the relation of the Negro as worker as well
as a member of an oppressed race to the cap
italist system which is represented by both the
democratic and republican parties.
The republican party which in the interests
of the then revolutionary capitalism conducted
a war against chattel slavery is today working
in the interests of the new counter-revolution-
airy capitalism for the perpetuation of wage
slavery. The republican party of today is
nothing but a party of trusts, of finance capital
of the biggest business interests of the country.
The democratic party was in the early stages
of its history the party of slavery, against
Northern capitalism and in the interests of the
! Southern plantation owners. Today though
1 SOIIlSClIHeS HldSheu WIFI phrases Oh
it stands for the perpetuation of the peonage of
Negroes in the South and for the maintenance
of wage slavery throughout the country.
The election platform of the Workers Com
munist) Party of America states:
''There are no real political differences
between the two big political parties Both
are parties of capitalism; both are enc
mics of the working class. The very ex-
istence of the two-party system is the
most reactionary factor in American pol
itics is one of the factors which are re-
sponsible for the lack Of an independent
mass political party of the working
class. There are no political issues
between these two parties. On the ques-
ton of tariff, prohibition, taxation, i'm
perialist war, farm relief, League of Ma
tiOns and all other discussed political
issues there is much more division within
each party than between the two parties
The Negro World" is misleading the op-
pressed millions of Negro workers when it
holds out hope to them that Smith and Hoo
yer or whoever Of the two is elected, can do
much for the harrassed Negro.
There is no record of Hoover ever having
opened his mouth in protest against the lynch
ing of Negroes and against the thousands of
groes in the south and also in the north.
A Negro was lynched at the gates of Hous-
ton on the eve of the democratic convention
and Al Smith did not protest.
The only solution for the many evils that
confront the Negro working class population
is unity with the white exploited worker in a
struggle against capitalism. Negroe leaders
who urge the colored masses to isolate them
selves from their white brothers and sisters
are paying the game of the master class.
They must fight for political and social
equality for the Negro race.
They must fight for the abolition of all jim
Grow distinctions They must fight for fed
eral law against lynching and the protection
of the Negro masses in their right of self
defense.
They must fight for the abolition of the con-
Wet lease system and of the chain gang and
for equal pay for equal work for Negro and
white workers.
The Negroes must wage this struggle in
conjunction with their exploited comrades re-
CARELESS Of color. The parties of AL Smith and
Herbert Hoover may be willing to confer fa-
vors on renegade Negro leaders who are ready
to sell out their people for mess of pottage
But those parties have nothing for the Negro
masses but chains.
Inc workers (CommunlSt) rarity is the only
party that has a program which calls for the
abolition of the capitalist system, program
that will free black and white alike and which
calls for the building of new society where
the prejudices and hatreds fostered by the ex-
plotting classes for centuries will be swept
away and where all will be truly equal under
a social order where the rendering of service
and not the acquisition of wealth will be the
badge of honor.
Negro Workers.!
Vote Communist!
Join the Workers (Communist) Party!