The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-21
The Murder of Negro Workers


One of the most cod-booded acts of white rulngcass
r;sr AGAINST the Negro workers perperated lew
DAYS ago at Marion Arkansas reported IN the Dav
er of Tuesday
Two Negro farm workers, William James and T. B.
Robertson protesting against the partcuary pruta anu
intensive exploitation to which Negro farm workers ana @
ont farmers are subjected in the South, and demanding OF
white plantation that he live up to his promises ana
nav the wages due them, were framed up by te laWe
law which operates against Negro workers III e 0ou' even
&c II onerates against the workers of the North only more
onenlv and cynicay For other reason IMAM that he
wife of the white plantation projected herset INTO e
argument over the unpaid of these slaves James ana
Robertson were arrested charge of attacking Wte
woman the charge carrying the nsnuation OF intention Oh
rape. III IL. ..ou
would oct heavy a sentences in spite of the factor rather
because of the fact that their oense simply and solely
demand to be paid their The White planters knew
that their would to that That what their courts
are for But the prospect of stiff jail sentences Tor TWO
innocent men failed to satisfy the white planters lhey
desired graphic means OF demonstrating tner
power terrifying and brutal way OF illuminating
the Negro farm workers Any display OF manhood any ap
pearance of spirit of revolt among their Negro vctms
must be ruhlessy crushed So they took away the two
Negro workers the officers of the law who as always
were most obigng and proceeded to have typical South
ern rungass holiday forcing their victims to run the
gauntlet of revolver and shotgun fire. the while they regis
tered their ensh gee with cheers and shouts of laughter
1t always that the class basis of white terrorism
against the workers clearly brought out as In this
instance That is always there, however is certain The
Negro made the object of discrimination and race
hatred and the victim of organized mob attacks because the
capitalist class finds profitable to maintain the caste sys
tenn which dpves entire of even the fake rights
with which the white workers are deluded
Keeping the Negro as slave class at the bottom of
capitalist society not only enables the capitalist class to coin
super profits out of the blood and suffering Negro workers.
but because caste SYSTEM with its base of hatred and
prejudice initiates against the essential unity of the work
ing Glass; the subugaton of the Negro workers helps the
expoters to ste serious movement of workers The
scabs against white workers strike for better conditions
it also makes possible the of white workers scabs
against Negroes strike against ntoerabe conditions
The to these tactics of the capitalist class is
working oldarity-he unity of all workers. black and
white, against the class oppressor The answer to
white ruling class terrorism against the Negro workers is
the organization of nterraca defense bodies which, sup
porting the Negro his right to sefdefense will greet with
in hand the attacks his life and Only by
meeting force with force the murder of Negro workers
be stopped Only by fighting side by side with the Negro
worker against the onaughts of the white ruling class
the white worker protect himself against the terror
which, directed today against the Negro worker will be d
rected against the white worker tomorrow unless the white
worker joins hands with the Negro worker to crush this
terror We not among those socaed friends of the
Negro who argue that the for the organization of
the Negroes is ito keep them from scabbng against the
white workers. We do not propose to organize the Negro
merely for the benefit of the white worker That sort of
diluted white chauvinsm be left to the socialist party
and the socaed progressive apoogsts for the A.
F. of L. bureaucrats We propose to organize the Negro
masses for the strengthening the working
whole and the emancipation of the Negro them
selves in the first place. For the Communist Party stands
the unity of the working class but everywhere and always
for the exploited section of the proearat first of ALL
The most dangerous poison to be found in the working class
the theology of the labor arstocracy which wishes to
keep the relatively favored few of skilled workers separated
and doya to the great of the working class and
especially separated from the Negro workers.
White workers and Negro workers alike have enemy.
That enemy the capitalist class The class which exploits
them and Expresses them that the few live in otous
luxury the expense of the many Against that enemy
must all unite Against that enemy the united workers of
all lands black white brown and yellow must wage
less relentless strugge-for the overthrow of capitalism
for the establishment of workers and peasants governments
J. B. ASKEW
the death of Akew which took place recently the revou
y move an old champion.