The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-18
Revolt Against Capitalist Parties; New Bunk
From Old Traitors

party that had lost every vestige of
its early revolutionary character as
the party of the rising industrialists
against the slave power. The indus
trialists succeeded in making a uni
versal substitution of wage slavery
for chattel slavery and their revolu-
tionary role was over.
New Bunk From Old Traitors.
So general is the revolt and so
barren of arguments in the face of
the notorious facts of republican
treachery, are those who would still.
for self and position, lead the Negro
masses into the camp of their enemy:
that one of the most adroit of these
misleaders, Kelly Miller, dean at
Howard University, Washington, D..
c., could discover only one issue in
, the present campaign. Every other
issue was too hot for this ancient
procurer of the republican party.
Had he touched the lynching issue
he would have been answered with
the republican record of apathy and
even open treachery on this issue.
with republican opposition to the
Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill, with the
discreet silence of republican exc
cutives on the lynching evil. Had he
touched segregation, JIM or
any other of the many burning
questions upon the minds of the Ne
gro workers, he would have expert
enced the same result. He would
have had his hands burnt. The re-
publican record was there to refute
and confuse him. So while other
misleaders, less adroit than Miller.
talked nonsense about voting for the
individual instead of the party which
dominates and controls him, Kelly
Miller created "transcendent moral
issue" He discovered prohibition as
THE ONE BIG ISSUE in the cam
paign. And he has been inviting the
Negro masses to share in his grand
discovery through columns of bunk
in the Negro press.
ADMITS Revolt Justified.
Forced by the growing enlighten-
ment on political questions. of the
Negro workers, Miller admits that
the present revolt is justified. He
admits it ignores the Fourteenth
and Fifteenth Amendments, flirts
with the lilly white and crucifies
the Negro participants. He fur
Their admits that the republican party
is unwilling to treat the Negro just
ly, that it is unwilling to apply "the
one practical remedy for this rest
lessness and dissatisfaction" He
then discovers the big moral issue
of capitalist prohibition. Capitalist
prohibition which in order to speed
up production and decrease the needs
of the workers, thus preparing the
way for further onslaughts on their
wages, denies the workers their beer
at the same time it permits the rich
to stock up their cellars with every
brand of booze manufactured.
Revolt Grows and Grows.
But neither Kelly Miller's "trans-
cendent moral issue" of whether
booze should be continued to be sold
in speakeasies, as under prohibition,
or sold over the counter, nor the
puerile advice of the rest of the mis-
leaders to vote for men and not
for parties" is doing much to stem
the revolt of the Negro masses.
And further worrying the republican
chiefs is the fact that the Negro
workers in boiling the G. o. P. are
showing tendency to line up with
the Workers (Communist) Party on
it's platform of full race equality:
political, economic, social. 1t
wouldn't be so bad, think the re-