The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-24

HUUSING Evil I'm
CLARKE KILLING
Is Part Of
Landlords System
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AS the exposure of housing condi-
tons in Harlem by the Daily
Worker has revealed, the vicious ex-
ploitation of the Negro workers by
landlords and real estate men is
only possible as a result of race
prejudice fostered by them.
The resolution passed unani-
mously by those present said, in
part: "The capitalist system is re-
sponsible for the murder of Harry
Clarke. 1t is responsible for all
lynchings, jim Crowism, peonage
and other forms of discrimination,
which the Negro race and Negro
workers are subjected to. 1t is re-
sponsible for the segregation of Ne
groes into certain sections of the,
city, resulting in congestion, high
rents and the worst abuses Of land
lordism."
Call Clarke Martyr.
Harry Clarke, who was called
martyr by the speakers, was pre-
sented as another rallying point for
both Negro and white workers to
unite in common struggle against
the system of oppression.
Williana Burroughs, school teacher
representing the American Negro
Labor Congress, also stressed the
housing situation as result of the
same system of oppression which led
to the murder of the Negro school
boy.
The resolution adopted by the pro-
test meeting follows:
Resolution Unanimously Adopted.
Resolved, that this meeting to-
night, April %, 1929, held under
the joint auspices of the American
Negro Labor Congress, Young
Workers (Communist) League, Com
munist Party of U. S. A, Young
Pioneers, Harlem Inter-Racial Club,
and Labor Sports Union, protests
the killing of Harry Clarke, the
Negro schoolboy, by his white
schoolmate for winning a race in
an athletic meet after having been
warned not to win.
Lynchings.
"This act was the direct result
of the vicious system of race and
class oppression which rules in this
country, which resulted in the past
year in the beating of several Negro
workers in the subways of this city
by U. S. soldiers, in police brutality
against Negroes in Harlem and
elsewhere, as well as in many lynch
ings in various parts of the country.
1.-THE propaganda Of racial preju-
dice spread by the bosses has per-
meated the minds of the white work
ers of this country as well. A few
weeks ago 10 Negro painters in
Newark were refused admittance
into existing unions. But the class
conscious militant left wing work
ers are rallying to the struggle for
the liberation of the oppressed
Negro race.
To Divide Ranks.
"The bosses and their government
deliberately foster racial divisions
and racial prejudice among the
workers in order to divide their
ranks, enabling the bosses to play
one against the other. Their sys-
tenn of education and schools are
used to create artificial racial bar
riers between children of the work
ing class.
"The capitalist system is respon-
sible for the murder of Harry
Clarke. 1t is responsible for all
lynching, Jim Crowism, peonage,
and other forms of discrimination,
which the Negro race and Negro
workers are subjected to. 1t is re-
sponsible for the segregation of Me-
groes into certain sections of the
city, resulting in congestion, high
rents, and the worst abuses of
1t is responsible for
denying Negro workers equal OPP
portunity for work with equal pay.
Black and White Masses Unite.
"This meeting tonight calls upon
the workers, black and white, to
unite in protest against the murder
of the Negro schoolboy and to or
ganize for self-defense, for the pro-
lection of the whole working class
against capitalist terrorism; it calls
upon the black and white masses to
mobilize their power behind these
in their fight for full
economic, political and social equal
ity of the Negro workers, condemns
the capitalist society under which
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