The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-24
A "Socialist" Candidate on the
Equality of Negroes

teenth Amendments. Such southern politicians
do not say that Negroes have to be lynched.
They merely say that they are "helpless" to
do anything against lynching. If the people"
insist upon burning Negroes, what can these
poor governors, mayors, and other office
holders do about it? Surely, they are not
going to send the United States Marines
against the people!
Use Armed Force Only Against Workers
Here we have a clear case of socialist"
talking as one of the most bitter anti-Negro
politicians would talk Here we have a case
of socialist" spreading tolerance towards
the persecution of the Negro. And here we
have a case of a party, socialist" party,
that dared to nominate such man on its
ticket, in a city with population of several
hundred thousand Negroes!
Assuming for moment that Broun is right
in saying that most southerners are against
the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments
What of it? Let US suppose few thousand
unemployed workers come to Haywood Broun
and demand part of his enormous earnings.
Or let us suppose that some unemployed work
ers call upon the banks for some money to
buy bread and pay rent. Would any CAPT
talist governor hesitate to send out the militia
or the marines to drive away the workers
from the banks? Would any governor spare
bullets against any group of workers appear
Ing De1Ore bakeries or grocery stores IN Order
to secure food for themselves?
Lynching Is Class Issue.
Of course not! Because here they really
believe in the sanctty of private property and
are ready at any moment to defend private
property. If the southern governors really
believed in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth
Amendments, they would find means of sup
pressing mob violence against Negroes The
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southern states that believe in mob violence,
but that the politicians, governors, mayors
and other officials are the ones who believe
in that and are fostering all acts of persecu
ton against the Negroes.
1t is not true what Broun says that south
erners are against the Fourteenth and Fiji
teenth Amendments. Surely, the workers of
the South are not against the equality of the
Negroes. Surely, the oppressed textile work
ers of North Carolina, Tennessee and other
states are not against these amendments. 1t
is the ruling class of the South that does not
want the exploited Negro to enjoy at least
as much rights as the whites have on paper.
1t is the ruling class that needs and fosters
lynchings in order to keep the Negro in sub
mission, in order to have source for cheap
doce labor. in order to keep the workers di-
vided along race lines. Broun talks for the
ruling class!
No Lynchings Under Communism.
In old Russia, Gar Nicholas and his bench
men used exactly the same arguments as the
socialist" Broun is using with regards to
Negroes. The henchmen of the Gar used TO
pretend that it was the people" that could
not stand the Jews and that the pogroms
against Jews, we'll the pogroms against
Armenians in the Caucasus were expromptu
acts on the part of the Infatuated Russian or
other masses. Every person with political
understanding of the Czarist regime knew that
it was not so. 1t was an open secret that if
the authorities would not themselves desire
pogroms, such pogroms would not have taken
place. We see now, under the workers rule,
that all nationalities in the Soviet Union live
peacefully, and wherever there was race
hatred inherited from the Czarist regime, such
hatred is being eradicated by education, by the
solidarity of the working class, or by force,
If necessary.
Under the workers rule, this humbug Of the