The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-04

gether in one big body is nothing but
dirty and reactionary lie unless it includes an
active struggle for the equal rights of the
Negro workers with the white workers and
to get all workers organized together abso-
lutely regardless of race or color. The Daily
Worker and the Workers (Communist) Party
for which it speaks are fighting and will con-
tinue to fight without compromise for the
full economic, political and social equality of
the Negro workers with the white workers
as an inseparable part of the struggle of the
working class for freedom When we fight
for the dictatorship of the working class in
the form of the Soviet Republic, we mean
precisely what we say-that the working
Glass; Negro and white workers alike and
equally, must make themselves the ruling
class for the suppression of the capitalist
class and the capitalist system and for the
specialization of industry and finally the es-
Enlistment of the Communist society. This
involves the complete and ruthless sweeping
away of all privileged positions and class dis
tinctions in the whole of society; and first of
all it involves merciless eradication of all
racial and other division between sections of
the working class. That is one thing that is
meant by trying to get the workers to-
gether."
Mr. ks idea is particularly dangerous be-
cause he wants to solve his problem by COM
polling the Negro masses to reform them
selves to the twisted Jim Grow ideals which
he seems to entertain in his own head. We
say flatly that the trouble is not with the
Negroes, but with the whites. About the
Negro masses we say only that they give in
too much to the Jim Grow treatment that a
white capitalist system imposes upon them,
often through such little tools as Mr.. K.
What we should do is not to preach at the
Negroes to "act a little human but to con-
duct a crusade among the white workers to
eradicate the race hatred that divides the
working class and thus makes it weak before
its real enemy, the capitalist class. Further
more the Communist movement, the working
class movement, is an international move
ment and to think Of it otherwise would be
nothing but farce. Mr.. ks idea, carried
out logically, would have to include hatred of
the Chinese workers and peasants and con-
sequently a treacherous, counter-revolu-
tionary attitude toward the great Chinese
revolution. 1t would have to include hatred
on an international scale against the hun
dreds of millions of our oppressed brothers
of dark skin in Africa, Indonesia India, etc.
in fact the major portion of the human
race which is of non-white color. In short
it is the theology of imperialism, the theology
of reaction and capitalist domination.
The Communist Party always and every
where takes sides first of all with the most
exploited sections of the working class. In
United States among other countries this
means first of all the Negro workers, the
most exploited of all. We want all of our
class regardless of race to stand shoulder to
shoulder for our common cause; but let us
tell Mr.. K frankly that if it comes to strug-
gle between the Negro workers and white
workers holding such views as Mr. K, we
shall fight to the last ditch for the Negroes
And so, Mr.. K, we would like for you to
change your ideas, but as long as you think
as you do we are glad we give you pain"