The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-11

Thus the Negro toilers can not free themselves
by fleeing to the North The heritage of the
plantations still clngs to them in the industrial
centers The chains of the convict laborer in
the South extend to the cities and enshackle
the Negro industrial worker The Negro worker
in the North can not free himself as long as
his brother remains slave in the South.
In order to obtain the moral support of the
masses of the white population in the brutal OPP
preston of the Negroes the white ruling classes
and their hrelngs utilize the difference in color
between the Negroes and white and create false
race theories" purporting to prove" the ma
tural inferority of the Negro peoples. Thus black
skin is made to symbolic moral and cultural
backwardnesS, while white skin is made to rep
resent the highest moral and cultural develop
ment. In this manner the Negroes color be-
comes badge by which he is singled out as an
object of Scorn and hatred. By brbing a Sec
ton of white skilled workers with higher wages
out of the huge profits Ca large share of which
comes from the special exploitation of the Ne
gro workers)-the capitalists succeed for time
in interesting this section in the support of
hundred percent white Amercanism This group
under the leadership of the A. F. of L. bureau
Gratis, socialist party, Musteites. etc, betraying
themselves with the ruling classes not only
against the Negro workers alone but also against
the great masses of unskilled, foreign-born and
native white workers. The bosses with the con-
nivance of the labor takers strive to keep these
latter unorganized. So their lot is little better
than that of the Negroes.
The interest of the great masses of white
workers are dramatically opposed to any special
oppression of any section of the working class.
The existence of a section of workers specially
exploited and oppressed is a constant threat to
the living standards of the working class as
whole. The presence of cheap labor is weapon
with which the bosses are able to nullify all the
economic gains of the workers. The poisonous
venom of race hatred injected into the ranks of
the white workers becomes instrument for the
destruction of working class solidarity, the only
guarantee for successful struggles.
Thus the slave conditions of the Negro share
cropper on the land, the cultural backwardness
of the Negro workers, becomes a drag on the
working class as whole. Every act of violence,
lynching, etc, every persecution of a Negro
worker, in short all acts calculated to perpetuate
the position of Negro workers as objects of spe-
cial oppression, are so many blows against the
working class a whole. The shackles of the
Negroes are at the same time the shackles of
the whole working class. This convention de-
clares that the white worker who does not mill
family support and go to the forefront in the
struggle against all oppression of the Negroes is
allowing himself to be used as tool of the
bosses and betrayer of his own class
Labor in white skin can not be free while
labor in the black skin is branded"
VI
On the other hand the Negro workers can not
liberate themselves except through the closest
alliance with the militant white workers. Bitter
experience has proven beyond doubt the utter
bankruptcy of the self styled race" leaders (the
Duboise, Kelley Miller Motion, Depriest Garvey)
and the absolute fallacies contained in their
doctrines under the cover of slogans of race
loyalty" race cooperation" etc.. they attempt
to deceive the masses into support of their own
selfish class interests as landlords, insurance
brokers, bankers, etc. Their race loyalty" is
loyalty to their own class interests as against
the interests of the masses of Negro toilers. 1t
is clear that the Negro politicians, business men,
professional and real estate men, preachers, etc..
who have been thrown up to prominence and
wealth on the basis of the segregation and dis
elimination OF Negro masses, many of whom
directly interested in perpetuating segregation
are incapable of carrying out consistent strilg-
gle against oppression and for the equality of
the Negroes. While giving lip-service to the
struggle for equality they are constantly conclud-
Ing reactlOnaIy agreements With the bosses be-
hind the backs of the Negro toilers activities
of the National Urban League, Chicago race
riots etc.. The struggle for the rights of the
Negroes is utilized by them either as a lever to
raise themselves to prominence or to strengthen
their ability for maneuvering and bartering with
the white ruling class on behalf of their own
class. They never question the dominance of
the white rulers but merely want larger share
in the profits that come from the exploitation
of the Negro toilers. In actuality, they concur
in the segregation policy of the white masters
by striving to keep the masses of Negro workers
under their own leadership and isolated from
the militant white workers. This is glaringly
revealed by the representatives of this group in
the Negro workers organizations (the activities
of Phillip Randolph in the Pullman Porters
Union, the socialist Crosswaite, etc..
However, Garveyism is the most subtle and
therefore the most dangerous form of treachery,
to the Negro masses. This doctrine has played
great role in hampering the development of
real struggle for the liberation of Negroes The
program of back to Africa" in actuallity means
the deSertion of the struggle for equal rights of
the Negroes in the countries where they live
BY directing the hatred and distrlst of Negro
workers not against the white ruling classes,
their real enemies, but against the revolutionary
labor movement, Garveyism actually accepts the
segregation policies of American imperialism
The very logic of this program led to an align
meht between the Carney leadership and the
most violent enemies of the Negro toilers Gar
veys reactionary bargainings with the XII Klux
Khan and the southern SENATOR'S