The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-13
.FLAY TERRORISM
OF The NEGROES
BY THE POLICE
Call for Mass Protest
at Harlem Red Nights

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struggle against capitalist exploita-
ton.
In recent months we have seen a
systematic policy Of terror being
waged against Negro workers in
various sections of the city. The
police, following the dictates of their
capitalist masters, upon the slightest
pretext are giving to the Negro
workers a full doze of white chau-
vinism, as shown by the outrageous
murder of a Negro taXicab driver,
the manhandling of Negro woman
who dared to take seat on the
boardwalk in Coney Island, the
shooting of Negro in Brooklyn be-
cause he asserted his right to a
seat on an elevated train, the un-
warranted systematic raids on
Negro homes in Harlem which have
become established police practice
in recent weeks.
The responsibility for the inter
ference with the election mass
meetings in Negro Harlem, the
terrorism, segregation, high rents,
must be laid at the door of the
democratic and republican parties
and their socialist henchmen, who
treat the Negroes as outlaws who
are to be violently mishandled on
every occasion when the Negro
masses assert their right to be
treated as human beings.
The violence in Harlem, the fear
expressed by the capitalist parties
that control the police department,
is due to the growing discomfort
among the Negro masses with the
oppressive conditions under which
they live. The discomfort springs
from the fact that Negro Harlem
with its 100000 population is one of
the worst slun centres in the entire
country, The Negro workers are
compelled to live in vile tenements
at rents that cut deeply into their
meagre wages. The death rate in
Negro Harlem is 65 per cent higher
than in any other section of the
city. Poorly paid, denied oppor-
tunities to secure proper employ
nient at living wage, the last to
&c hired and the first to be fired,
these Negro workers are in addi-
ton subjected to jim Crowism and
to all gross and petty tyrannies of
the enslaving capitalist system.
The Negro masses of Harlem are
growing conscious to the fact that
this situation is due to the capital
ist system and to the political par
ties, democrat, republican and So
cialist, which are supporters of the
present system. By means of vio-
lence, by breaking up meetings, by
arrests, by terrorism, the capitalists
hope to intimidate the Negro work
crs into silence. In this the CAPT.
talist parties will not be successful.
The Communist Party in the
present election addresses itself to
the Negro masses and declares that
now more than ever before must
they organize themselves under the
banner of the Communist Party to
fight for full economic, political
and social equality. The Communist
Party calls upon Negro and white
workers for a united struggle
against race discrimination and for
the overthrow of the capitalist sys-
TEN.
We call upon the Negro and white
workers not to yield one single inch
in maintaining their rights Of free
dom of speech, assemblage and or
ganization for the defense of their
interests. We call upon them to
come in masses to the Communist
rallies tonight in Harlem to protest
against the police brutality and
Terrorism, to assert their right to
the use of the streets for public
meetings, and to declare their sup
port of the Communist Party.
The Communist Party will I'M
flinchingly conduct a struggle for
the rights of the Negro masses as
it fights for the rights of all OPP
pressed against the Walkers and
LaGuardias of he parties of big
business, oppressors of the Negro
masses, against the Thomases, the
socialist traitors, that have fore
saken the struggle for the Negro
masses and that are tools of the
imperialists to deceive the Negro