The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-17
NEGROES TURN TO
WORKERsPARTY
Straw Vote Favors the
Communists
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were rather aloof at first, the Ne
gro comrades report. The attitude
was that the Workers (Communist)
Party was Gust another white peo-
pies organization" and the Negroes
ore rather skeptical of white people
and their organizations. They have
cause to be. But it was soon driven
home to them that the Workers
(Communist) Party was not white
peoples party, but party of all
the workers, black and white. Speak
ers of their own color told them the
truth about the Workers (Commu-
nist) Party, and told them how
twenty-four Negro workers had sat
in the National Nominating Conven-
ton of the Party, participating in
all important committees, acting as
chairman of some of these commit
tees, and helping to draft program
of action for the oppressed masses
of America, white and colored. And
they learned that many Negro work
ers have been nominated on the
Party ticket, and that Negro, Low
EFT Fort Whiteman, was nominated
for comptroller in New York state.
That Negro workers have been nom
mated by the Party even in the
southern states.
Platform Impresses Them.
In addition, they have been greatly
impressed by the Party platform
and its bold, vigorous denunciation
of lynching and other crimes against
Negroes. It's utter fearlessness in
voicing their demands for full equal
ity: economic, political, social; for
abolition of all Jim Crow distinc-
tions in the army, navy and civil
service; for equal opportunities for
employment; equal pay for equal
work, ETC., have convinced them that
the Workers (Communist) Party is
a genuine friend and fearless cham
pion.
Further informed that militant
fighters of their own race, like Rich
ard Moore. Lovett Fort Whiteman,
Edward Welsh, ETC., are high in the
councils of the Workers (Commu-
nist) Party, that the Negro has rep
resentation on the highest bodies of
the Party, they were made to re-
alize that the Workers (Communist)
Party was their Party, in genu-
inc sense, and in the same way that
it is the Party of all the oppressed
and exploited workers of America.
The result is that many of them not
only decided to vote for the Party
but became members as we'll. Hun
dreds of copies of the Party Plat
forms have been sold so far in Ne
gro Harlem, and it may be safely
predicted that the sale of the plat
form in this section will rur. into
the thousands before the campaign
is over.
Negro in Revolt.
In the meantime, the revolt of the
Negro workers against the treach-
erous republican machine threatens
to throw into panic the group of
petty bourgeois Negro leaders whose
power to maintain its luxurious
mode of living depends upon its
ability to lead the Negro masses in
to the political camps of their enc
mics. These masses are refusing to
follow the old leadership blindly as
in the past, but are beginning to
challenge their ability and disinter-
estedness.
In their desperate effort to stem
the revolt from the old parties of
the rank and file, the Negro bench
men of these bankrupt parties are
attempting to divert the Negro
masses from scrutiny of the record
Of these parties, with the false ar
guments that the campaign is based
upon the individual rather than on
the party. This in itself is a con-
fession that the records of these
parties do not warrant the Negro
workers voting for them. This in
itself is an additional and forceful
argument why the Negro workers
should vote for the Party of the
working class, the Workers (Com-
r1,Inisfl PARTY