The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-02
Workers Led by Commu.
mist Party Will Smash Class
and Race Slavery 50 South
and North!


Sh ought to stir the of Negro and white workers the
mte into action working appear prisoners
Negro and white Virginia holding
meeting which Negroes associate with white
punished by five to Imprisonment The
e worker of causing the assembling of $50 Negro workers
hadon white workers together in Norfolk meeting hall This
snd the law charges conspiracy
e colored population to nsurrecOn against the white population
Stephen Graham the worker who called the meeting pur
pose launching organization Union Unity
League performing elementary duty his class the labor
movement and the Communist Party of the United States of which
he member His activities have been toward the organization of
The workers. black and white powerful class conscious industrial
inions. this hardly Virginia
will sentence the worker to from five
senitentiary.
In his first trial which resulted in hung jury Graham asserted
he position of the Communist unqualified racial poll
dca and social equality of Negroes with whites and of all
ruling certainly ruling not
ogve interference with the presenday institution slavery
that is wagesvery of all workers and special category doub
saved Negro workers even more bruay exploited than the white
sageaves We this fundamental fact
ooded murders openly committed by the authorities together with
The private agents of the textile mills added systematic armed
by fascist bands receiving the full sanction the which
have supported the muderer and have
terms in prison those workers who resisted the crimes.
knowing capitalist by experience only it as
foregone conclusion that the young worker who dared attempt to
prison for number of unless the working class heard from
outside of the The greedy ruling class that
everhy active trying pile riches exactly the basis
cheap labor bamy climate and transportation Negro workers
being exploited at level of far below that the white
workers. who living at the starvation point To organza
ton these workers the most rigid application of the laws
inherited from the time of chatt slavery appeduch
which prohibits meeting of the two together which called
this conspiracy to nce the coored population nsur
great significance working
struggle
opening in the South in which the challenging of the anNego
laws the first If the Negro and white
nit to and allow the enforcement of such laws they surrender the
whole struggle for emancipation
southern capitalists very They know that the
preservation the division of the working black
and white by the arbarc laws inherited from
re days would the of and starva
on standards and living conditions and the parag of the
movement for organizing their workers for struggle against these
capitalists.
they young Communist
Graham, The will ordered by the
capitalists course they North Carolina
For the the large employers the Virginia tide
section calling ubserven Negro preachers
talk the Negro workers organization and against the
Communists who the only insiga of organization the only de-
equality Also
employers flirting with professional stkereake of the Amer
Federation OF Labor When sknnt scab bosses call the
A. F. of L. to help them keep down and
organization of and at the time throw the organizers of
revolutionary of the
munist Party into prone of the South have
celent opportunity to do some thinking
Communist Party will consider the vicious railroad
prison going edoubed
and organize the South Prison will not keep Com
munists Norfolk Va than the bullets of the
kept Communists out of North Carolina.
Immediately every energy
organizing
exactly such places these where the ruling class hits the workers
right to organize
We the challenge We hold to the contempt of the
working Glass; Negro white Virginia prohibiting
Negroes hall with white workers We call the
workers. and Negro workers first of ALL to to the support of the
Communist Party
Smash the of
Organize Negro together
uonary unions, and in the Communist Party!
the miserable save-drivers the South all they WILL
history the time will when Virginia
United States will be ruled by the working class through
Negro white build
.Coo;,I;s+s, Tb.rL much armed support of
thar inrara Stalle tho 1op