The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-08
The Negro, the Army and the Navy.

Representative Oscar de Priest Negro member of Con-
gress from the First Illinois District has nominated two
Negro candidates for admission mdshpmen to the Anna
polls Naval Academy and cadet to the West Point
Military Academy 1t is taken for granted that they will be
admitted Great interest however is attached to the
that these Negro youths will make of the knowledge they
ceve these educational of Wall Street mtarism
and navaism
Every Negro youth should know how to fight whether
in the army navy But he should also know for whom
fight.
The Negro Masses in industry and along the country
SIDE constitute the most oppressed section of the American
population Life bitter the foregnbor in the great
of STEEL coal and OIL The degradation suffered by
the white workers in the Southern textile mills has been
veaed the strike sweeping through the Caronas and
Tennessee But the ruling class presses heavy heel
harder upon the neck of Negro labor President Hoover
throws full weight of the republican reaction against the
Negro through the reorganization of his party the main OBJ
ject being the elimination of the Negro in the South
should be nconceivabe that Negro youths should enter
the and military academies at Annapolis and West Point
the knowledge there gained for the further oppression
of their for the further subugaton of other in
colonial and seicoona countries in the grip of Yankee
imperialism That would be the most vicious treason to
and GLASS; least of these candidates spring from
working class parents.
Representative de Priest, Chicago lawyer republican in
politics. loyal to the party of Hoover and finance capital has
repeatedly arrayed himself against the class interests of both
Negro and white working He is leader among the
Negro ybougeoe that allies itself with the white bour
geose against the aspirations of the workers. white and
black He doubt expects his candidates for Annapolis and
West Point to be loyal to his capitalist ideals But there is
the hope that these Negro youths will be loyal instead to their
and class interests and these interests clash headon
with those of the expoter of the workers and farmers in the
United States They must unite with the oppressed peoples
against whom Wall Street sends its armies and bateshps
especially the Fipnos and the Chinese the Orient They
must stand with the exploited Negroes oppressed by Fire
stones millions invested in Liberia rubber
This is the Tenth Anniversary of the heroic revolt
led by Andre Marty in the Black Sea Fleet of French i'm
peras during the attack the Soviet Union in 1919 That
revolt raised its challenge under the red banner of the work
revolution Negro mdshpmen and cadets in the army
and navy of American Imperialism should have greater
for rebellion Wall Street turns its guns with those
of other mperiaist powers against the Negro in
Africa; against peoples of other ASIA against the
aspirations of the of Mexico Central and South
America. The upward struggle of labor calls for Negro
well white rebelous spirits the Dollars army and navy
rebels in the mold of Marty loyal to and class
against the oppressors of mankind.