The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-04
Gastonia It's Significance to Negro Labor
By Fred Ellis

The business and the class that always be
fact that they and their families being gunner
of the mill and to unite with the respectable citizens rid
the dirty foreigners" Realizing appeals
in va that the workers refused be ampedd into nchg
the eactonay organized battalion
themselves.
During headquarters by the Committee of
one hundred headed by the police significant thing happened
which itself shows the tremendous spirit class solidarity
into being This attitude of class alliance also reflected the
speeches made by the southern delegates of the TUU
venton in Cleveland
organizer union, was on hss
H WAY from Bssemer City to Gana the night of the raid in qpe
he happened get into Gastona that night formed
They Hall two miles of
Charlotte where they collected enough themselves
train mob broke into the house where hid departure
1t only the timely and action of these white workers
saved the life of their Negro comrade.
One easily imagine why these get
hold of Hail. As Negro would have been him
Of alleged thereby uy" their lynchng
him. After that the class nature of the Gasona struggle would have
been diverted into of racial leading to the wholesale lynch
blacks champions, equality '0f 'De
must this challenge of the capitalist by protest
ton until the revolutionary fighters trial Charlotte
from the clutches of the mill barons.
We already deduct
working general and the Negro in particular
(D The struggle Immediately brings the day
the right of the workers to defend themselves This
trail issue for indicated the workers will
such class battles the future during which
mens such the committee of hundred would be modified
otherwise will be Simply inviting wholesale of the work
class.
(2) Race prejudice is geographical
capitalist society everywhere although bitterly
the South because its semfeuda
nduazatn proceeds and the Negroes whites
from the rural communities into the industrial ceners they will be
forced to discard the theology of the and themselves
their This
together and out of these contacts they will learn recognize that
both the slaves of the bosses They will further learn
through their everyday that the employers
prejudice order to keep them and thereby exploit
easily.
(8) The increasingly out will
necsae the application methods
already realized that the Anticipated Jim craft
by the A. of L. be displaced by industrial
the militant leadership of the Communists and the left wing FUEL
Every battle will with
recognize our weak and strong points Rigid cricsm must be
INDUCED in in order to Immediately
fighting all
will be consolidated
must be carried
ranks There still tremendous underestmaton Negro
of comrades Up till little
has been to this phase of activities The TUU
ton marks effort which, however, merely
winning the black workers banner ourselves
systematic work them These Negro workers. pointed
taies which will be criminal for for the social
luton We therefore intensity
them the unions but the ranks of the Party
(5) We popuarize slogans social POLITICAL
The effective this
the Negro Champion which should be developed organ
of the Negro In districts where
Negroes employed especially the ner the basic industries
leaflets bulletins dealing
utilized greater
comrades In order to do this the Crusader News Service
should be subsidized.
the peculiar position of bougeoise
nteecua they compelled support equality
the their
Experience has taught that these equality
middle class because they already enjoy certain privileged