The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-04
By GEORGE PADMORE.

The conflict Gaonia simply
another phase of the the American battle front
of world capitalism but also ymbozes reaching sign
cant making for the millions of oppressed
and brutaly prosecuted Negroes in the South.
Gastona merely the beginning of of class battles which
destined take place throughout the newly nustrzed South
We have already the workers in action New 0rans Eliza
behton Tennessee; Marion North Carolina; the mining
sections of West Virginia Sharper and bitterly fought
giles VIII occur as the class the black and white work
of Dixie become aroused by the of the intensive
horrible standard of living The condition of these southern workers
represent the lowest the American working class The
primitive life both
only with that of the colonial tos
in China, India, Africa the West Indies and Latin America
conflicts which will sweep South
with rapdy than anticipate
white workers will come to realize their class relations in the present
social order In proportion they that despite their racial
differences they both members of the proetarit win they be able
to fight effectively the of the working class
against the capitalist ovod This unity of will be the
most powerful force breaking through the long preudces be-
tween the workers of both Herein lies the greatest hopes of
the Negro in their struggles for edmnaon Let
deceive ourselves that the eradication of prejudice will take place
over night but on the other hand must come about as result OF
the social forces proeng both the direction and
the capitalist of the South have used the
position Like the capitalist Russia the white
ruling class of Dixie have been able until nfame the
days. the
Russian workers and peasants always made to believe that the
Jewish the for their and this led
to out bloody against helpless minority Similarly
Clans editors and teachhav taught the white workers that their
poverty caused by the Negroes With this belief incucad in the
workers therefore nc them into lynch
ing mobs.
GastOnia will by
fighting spirit of the
forefront burning
Chief among these dramaized the bod aspect
the vcousne of the ruling class and the role the capitalist
during strikes Thousands of these southern workers who
terday suffered from the illusion that the their po
% today able to for themselves that the police the state
militia, and other defenders of claw and order the chief
of the bosses and mill
the National Textile Workers Union, left wing
organization which the bayals the United Textile
Workers Union affiliated with the A. F. of L. and controlled by
invaded the South under the leadership of Fred B sawart trade
Communist After months of preliminary work
betraya the A. F. of
goaded system
hardly adults SIS children per
strike No had the workers left the mills and
organized their picket lines they confronted with the state militia
called break the strike by Governor Max Gardner mill
and of the richest in the state
AngSaxon workers. who generations have taught
by the ruling class to consider the militia special force to keep
the nggers their place. for the first time realized that whenever
they dared demand better conditions that they would be shot
down like dogs alongside of the black workers
During the of the strike it became the union
organize workers employed the mills
their full
political equality Negroes organizers
problem the Souhthe organization of Negro and white
the union The A. of L. has attempted
this Rather they have always the line of
leaving the black workers unoganize and the
they did organize them they them
locals These militant trade unonts despite their know
the slave traditions of the South and fully of the fact
lackeys would
behalf of the Negroes nevertheless refused surrender their posi-
Their the OF the ynchng
will the American Their
surpassed that the aboonsts Theirs mission
only Negroes but white workers well the fe
of wage slavery.
The Gastona Gazette" by BOSSES issued appeal
appeal lynch organizers paper
its best play prejudice these who
openly champoned the rights of Negroes North Carolina
In keeping with its policy the Gazette" carried that the
"nggers."