The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-10
Negroes! Do Not Be Political
Footballs! Defend Your
Race and Class!

A more open and brazen bid for the sup
port of the detestable ku klux khan in the
South than that made in the Elizabethtown
speech of Herbert Hoover would be difficult
to imagine In discussing federal civil ser
vice appointments the republican candidate
assured his audience that he believed ZAP
pointive offices should be filled by those who
deserve the confidence and respect OF the
communities they serve" Such language is
we'll understood in the South. 1t means the
exclusion of Negroes from appointive offices
on the ground that, because they are dis
eliminated against as race and exploited
as workers and poor farmers they do not de-
serve the respect and confidence OF the lilly
whites" It is equivalent to promise not to
appoint Negroes as postmasters and other
such jobs.
This republican campaign against Negroes
was supplemented by Senator Moses when he
addressed the women's national republican
club in New York on Monday. This New
Hampshire senator, one of the very front line
l politicians of the Melon-Coolidge-H Hoover
machine, spoke contemptuously of Negro
official debating to white stenographer of
the female SEX"
| Thus the republican party, the party that
Tor years has claimed the support of the
!. Negroes as a race because they were alleged
Iii to oppose the avowedly anti-Negro policies
c Of the democratic party in the South,
publicly avows its determination to dis
criminate against Negroes.
What difference is there between Herbert
Hoover, Senator George H. Moses and the
democratic governor, Byrd of Virginia, who
keeps white woman in jail as a measure of
protecting 'the purity of the white race" be-
cause she married Negro? What difference
is there between Hoover and Al Smith who
was nominated by the democratic convention
in Houston at the identical time a cowardly
mob was lynching Negro in the vicinity and
who never so much as mentioned the afro
CITY? Hoover would prevent Negroes being
appointed to federal office no matter how
competent they are just because they are
held by the southern bourbons to be inferior.
Smith was so anxious to appeal to southern
hatred of the Negro that his Tammany
machine prevented Negroes being sent to
Houston for fear it would endanger his
chances of nomination.
For every crime of the republicans against
the Negroes, there is a crime by the demo-
Gratis to match it. Both old parties are enc
mics of the Negro.
Negroes! Do not be fooled by either of
these parties
Do not support those parties who bid for
ku klux support and defame you as a race,
exploit you as class, belittle your ability,
and treat you as though you belonged to an
inferior people. To be consistent you cannot
support the parties that protect the lily
whites who burn alive and hang your sons,
rayage your daughters and treat you worse
than beasts of burdenl
Oppressed as race and class the Negro
masses should support the one and only Party
that demands full racial equality--economic,
social and political-the one party that
fights to scourge from the face of the earth
the dastardly crime of lynching.
Only the Workers Community Party
fights relentlessly against jim-crowism;
fights to wipe out laws prohibiting inter-
marriage; fights against every form of
segregation
The Negro who supports any party other
than the Workers (Communist) Party aids
the master class keep his race and his class
In monstrous thralldom.
Negroes Refuse to be political footballs
Defend your race and your class!
Vote Communistis