The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-21
Il Negro Hangs at the Door of
the Democratic Convention

hanging of Robert Powell within eight miles OF the ooor
of the convention hall appropriate premn
airy to the opening of the democratic national convention
The little business men of the convention city in which the
stawart democrat Al Smith, will receive the nomination for
the presidency the of capitalist newspaper cor
respondent proud and excited and they don't want any
thing to go wrong. Probably nothing will go wrong.
In the of the is printed an account
of the abduction wounded Negro boy and his murder by
hanging eight miles of the Sam Houston Hall where the
democracy will assemble being committed by eight muir
dere who did not take the mask their faces they
their victim through the streets of Houston with rope
around his neck.
Indeed nothing went wrong
The young man. accused of keeping up his side of gun
fight with detective both being wounded taken
from the Negro ward of the Jefferson Davis hospital and
hanged from bridge.
The petty capitalists who the leading stratum of the
democratic party in the Southern states will approve fully OF the
decoration coming convention The body OF murdered
with face that is black swinging in the breezes within
pleasant afternoon automobile ride of the convention hall Will
delight the earlya1riving delegates might do
much to unity the conventon-the Ku Klux Kan the
hand Tammany Hall the other Behind the superficial
phenomena kansm and Tammany of are the real
elements that must bring about the unity OF the con-
the OF Wall Street on
the hand and the vast herd OF petty business ne
South The democratic party Of the South in its composition
the majority of the small business elements
It controlled at the top and manipulated as machine by the
Wall Street who made Al Smith OF New York
The practically certain nomination of Smith is the expression
Of this the party by the highest of Wall Street
Why body the young Negro hang at the door
of
South served by keeping the working class and
the working farmer sharply divided into divisions
Segregation Northumberland exclusion from trade UNIONS
social nequatyand ynching OF Negroes are business nee
esy small business class which makes up the democracy
of the South.
The republican convention did have Negro hanging by
its it only needed far to keep the
Negro delegates segregated
The position of the two big parties capitalism is the
Negro question If the republican convention hall was
decorated with Negroes dead body is partly because
the convention held further north where outward snow OF
fashion not extreme and because convenient occasion did
not Offer
The republican party which, the South, used to be mis-
called the Negroes party is through with the Negro
This is because the of capitalism whole coin
eide with the special suppression of the Negro workers and
the suppression and OF the
Negro small business class
1t is interesting actions of the socaed socialist
pary in this connection That party also supporting capitalism
the South because take in the nggrs the whites
won't join This its practice, though its preense I'm the
North otherwise We recall the sturdy defense of the Ku
Kux made in the socialist party convention four
years ago. well the weaze words with which that party
evades the Negro question.
Take it from any angle, political party defend the
Negro the United States unless that party
the revolutionary connoations of such Only
party represents the interests of the most suppressed and
exploited sections of the working class and farmers can speak
unquaedy the Negro against all discrimination
social political and all other forms OF equality Any party
that does this will be cassd the niger party by the petty
capitalist and the section of labor arstocacy which fol-
lows the of capitalism No party could for instance cham
on the dictatorship of the proetara without facing the
anty of rule by councils composed of Negro workers
as we'll as white workers.
The only party that champions the Negro to the full limit
in actions and program accepting gladly all that is involved
thereby necessarily the revolutionary party of the working
class-the Workers (Communist) Party
The only party that did not have at least guravey the
body ynched Negro hanging at the door of its national
vention the Workers (Communist) Party.
White workers and Negro workers. Vote Communist!
Workers of unite! You have nothing to lose but
your chains-and your ropes!