The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-04
A White Worker Who Hates
Negroes
To the Editor of the Daily Worker:

To the Editor of the Daily Worker:
Your paper is wonderful always helping
strikers and trying to get the workers to
gether in one big body. l read your paper
every evening enjoy it very much. But one
thing your paper gives a pain. That is
about the poor negroes l wish you would ride
on Lenox car line to LAG St and Lenox ave and
see for yourself how the blacks behave. They
have never got the fare ready, always looking
for trouble. The n York railroad Co. hires
hundreds of all year and every one off
them goes away with different i-dear in re-
CARDS to colored people l have been through
few strikes and free speech fights out in
the western country In other words have been
through hell But still l say get the white people
together The colored people will be the last
in the world to wake up. The colored people
think to much of there color. And they don't
know what there rights are. hope you rebels
won't throw this letter in the waste basket, And
here's hoping that some colored people read
| this letter in your paper, And act little
! human.
Yours for big Change in america
The writer of the above letter appears to
be a member of one of the most exploited sec
tons of the working class. Undoubtedly he
thinks himself quite a radical person, per-
haps a revolutionist, and certainly he con-
siders himself loyal fighter for the work
ing class.
But we are of a different opinion. His let
ter convinces us that Mr.. X represents one
of the most pitiful examples of that type in
the working class that has been completely
saturated with the views which his masters
want him to hold in order to keep him and
his kind in slavery and in condition to be
used as a tool against his own and our class.
His experiences in strikes and free speech
fights does not deter us from saying that if
he continues to hold contemptuous view of
those members of our class whose skins are
darker in color than his own, he will finish
up as a strikebreaker and perhaps as hired
gunman against the working class when a
decisive struggle is on. For Mr.. X is al
ready a complete mental slave of his boss.
For him it is enough to make him hate his
brother worker of the Negro race when a
Negro passenger on streetcar is not quick
enough in complying with the insolent de-
mands of the big corporation that the pas
sengers "step lively move up front, therep
and "have the fare ready" and generally act
as well-trained human sardines in packing
themselves together for the greater profit of
the traction millionaires. It does not occur
to him to insist that the wealthy labor
exploiting corporation should be made to
supply betteraccommodation and hire bigger
crews. If X had any real rebel working
class spirit in him, he would rejoice when
Negro workers show themselves self-respect-
ing enough not to jump to the commands of
the traction corporation. But he seems in
stead to be reacting automatically as a
trained flunkey of his boss And he tries to
justify himself by hating a section of his
brother workers for being Negroes.
And in hatred toward those brother
workers who are Negroes, he again shows
himself merely petty intellectual slave of
the ruling class. All talk about helping
strikers and trying to get the workers to-