The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-11
e JOIN PARTY
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] 0PEN-AIR MEET
Realize That Workers
Party Is for Them

1ndC negro WORKERS are Jnorougn-
ly disillusioned with the republican
party, oft-professed "friend of the
Negroes and realize the racial
prejudice of the democrats, who
pose as the friends of the laboring
man, is evident by the enthusiasm
shown by Negro workers at Work
eds (Communist) Party open air
meetings and when approached for
their signatures to put the Work
ers Party candidates on the ballot.
Negroes Resent Discrimination.
Negro workers have reacted
quickly to the action of the demo-
CRATES in debarring Negroes from
the Texas primaries. The frank
statement of Senator Glass of Vir-
ginia that white supremacy is too
precious a thing to permit Negroes
to vote, and the BUSTING of the
Negro delegate, Mrs. Booze, from
meeting of the republican women
at the convention held at Kansas,
as we'll as the segregation of
Negroes at that convention have all
contributed to bringing home to
Negro workers that the capitalist
parties of the white master class
have nothing in common with Negro
workers, and that the Workers
(Gommunist) Party is the only one
which fights for all workers, white
and colored alike.
II Negroes Join Party.
Since the opening of the Work
ers Party election campaign, many
Negroe workers have made applica-
ton to join the party. Especially
has the corner of Myrtle and Prince
Streets, in Williamsburg, been pro-
ductive of results. At the four
last meetings held at the corner,
% Negro workers, after listening to
the speakers an the platform of the
Workers Party, made application
for membership. In the Negro sec
ton of Harlem, where many open
air meetings have been held under
the auspices of Negro comrades, IL
Negro workers applied for mem
bership in the party. In Browns
vile, where of late many Negro
workers have made their home, a
good many Negro workers frequent
ly visit the Workers Party head
quarters at 1874 Watkins Street.
Support Workers Party.
The work of Harold Williams in
gathering signatures in the Negro
section of Harlem has revealed the
extent to which the Workers Com
munist) Party is known and sup
ported by masses of Negro workers.
Communist literature on the cleo
ton campaign, including copies of
the Daily Worker, are eagerly re-
ceived by Negro workers, who ask
questions regarding the platform of
the Communist Party, its attitude
on lynching and race equality. One
Negro worker, thinking Williams
had come representing one of the
capitalist parties, was about to slam
the door in his face, but when he
was told it was for the Workers
(Communist) Party, he signed
eagerly, and asked for a member
ship application card.
Williams, who already has over
100 signatures to his credit, conf
IDENTIFY expects to pass the two
hundred mark by the end of next
week.
At an open air meeting held at
MYRTLE Ave. and Prince Street, in
Brownsville, the speaker, was heck
led for attacking the republican
party on its stand against Negro
workers. Wright, answering the OBJ
iections of the heckler, exposed the
Emancipation Proclamation, showed
that the Negro worker is as much
slave now as before Lincoln's
edict, and mentioned the Houston
lvnching and the segregation OF
Negroes at Kansas City. The man
who had interrupted, white work
f. er. apologized, and at the end of the
meeting asked for membership APP