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bers of the Party thus affected, but they
show in some cases grosser aspects.
In the issue of the Daily Worker of JAN
uary l appeared two workers correspond
ence" letters signed doc and LOU" The let
tiers came from Jacksonville, Florida, and they
dealt with the treatment of the Negro work
ers in the south. The writer's of these two
letters seem to have the idea that they are
Communists; and the worst of it is that they
seem to think that the Workers (Communist)
Party is-like the organizations of the labor
aristocracy-an organization of white work
ers. which graciously permits the humble
Negro to run along behind, hat in hand, to
support it as an inferior. For one of these
correspondents evidently not a worker, but
an employer of labor) writes as follows:
had the following conversation with a
Negro worker here:
Say, Mr. Lou, can't you give me Job!
''why, Jack thought you working
for Mr.. Higgins"
Il was, Mr.. Lou, out L only maue 9@'oo
last week."
"Of course he gives you your meals!
mo, sir, MIR. Lou, and that's why 1 came
to you. l haven't had work for two days,
and l hungry
The other letter is supposed to describe
the Communist" election activities of "Mr.
LOU the employer, who talks down to
IN 4o11 fo
"Well listen Moses, let tell you what
to do You vote for the Workers Party
ddate. The Workers Communist Party is
the only Party that's working for the interest
of the workers. regardless of their color There
is no discrimination against the Negro. Here,
take this card it has list of the names OF
our candidates. You put your cross in front
of their names your ballot and you'll make
mistake"
Three weeks later:
Hello, Moses" Hello, Mr.. Lou"
swell, did you vote like told you to on
election day."
"Say Mr. Lou, 1 most certainly did"
DOC LOU.
1t is clear that "Mr. Lou is not Com
munist, not a man who can be comrade
with those Negro workers who must be the
strong backbone of the Communist Party
and of its leadership in Florida. Our Party
is first of all the Party of the most exploited
workers. Not "Mr. LOU" but the strong black
workers whom he SO patronizingly writes
about at as "Mose" and Jack" and such
white workers as can be equal comrades with
IL Io IoI
to build up and lead the revolutionary Party
of the working class-against the employers
and their class.
The appearance of these letters in the
Daily Worker brought to us the following
letter from Comrade Cyril Briggs, editor OF
the Negro Champion organ of the American
Negro Labor Congress:
Editor Daily Worker:
want to enter an emphatic protest against
publication in the Daily Worker of articles
like the enclosed, which in decidedly bad
(Communst) TASTE to say nothing of being
exhibition of innate white chauvinism in
the mind of the writer Why in hell the "Mr.
Lou" for the white worker and the Jack for
the Negro wOrker7
Even if the thing is actually happening in
the South where the Negro workers have been
terrorized for decades, is this servile custom
one that should be given encouragement: this
attitude of master and slave, of superior and
inferior? Is it a custom that should be par
AIDED before the eyes of Negro workers in the
North and in the columns of Communist
paper?
have seen similar things in the capitalist
press, but thought / would live to
the day when such stuff would be published in
the columns of Communist paper Surely
this stuff must have got through without your
notice.
l suggest you advise your correspondent to
stick to the usual news form correspondence
in the presentation of his facts, cut the cheap
comedy, change his mental attitude towards
the Negro or get to hell out Of the Workers