The daily worker., 1930-05-23
CLASS WAR IN THE SOUTH

II and , and to p. m. the time when the
$4,000 Reynolds Tobacco slaves leave work.
Most of these workers work for five to eight
dollars q week. Then followed more than 25
arrests with Al months sentences on the chain
gang for ten of our organizers. Several raids
on the Party and the union hall in North and
South Carolina, in Georgia and Virginia, the
dynamiting of one Of our comrades home in
Birmingham Ala, and the many other minor
Incidents
To all this must be added the numerous
lynchings Of Negro workers which is now TAX
ing place all over the South, part of the
campaign to divide the workers so they can be
Gcfeated easily.
The real significant thing is the fact that
The capitalist class and their government has
not been able to mobilize any group of work
crs for mob action against US. In all cases
they had to resort to paid gangs of boss men
and hired professional thugs. 1t proves that
the Southern working class will not fight on
the side of the mill owners. The Southern
workers arc following the lead Of the revolu
tonary Party of the working class, the Com
munist Party and the revolutionary trade
unions.
Role of the A. F. of L. and Mustetes.
The only loyal ally that the capitalist class
has in its struggle against the workers are the
fascist A. +. OF l.. ana Jne NuSJelLeS. Nnlle
our Party and the revolutionary Trade Unions
are facing vicious terrorism, the leaders of
the American Federation> of Labor and the
1Tusteites are being welcomed by the mill own
ers, chambers of commerce and the capitalist
press. They are given free use of Chamber
of Commerce buildings, City Halls, etc. The
bosses are fully convinced of the value of these
fascsts in the struggle against the workers
Everywhere in Georgia, North and South Care
lima, Tennessee, Alabama and Virginia the A.
F. of L. has been the intiator and leader of
this campaign of terror. In Charlotte, S. c..
a state official of the A. F. of L. has claimed
the credit for the raid on the Marine Workers
League and LID. headquarters. These fas-
cists must be exposed and fought before the
entire working class.
Taking the Offensive.
What is our immediate task in the South?
We must take the offensive. The present con-
ditions of the workers, the attempt to drive
our Party underground and the attempt to
send two Communist organizers to the electric
chair brings the struggle of the Southern work
ers to a head. Not only the Southern work
ers but also the workers of the North must
be mobilized to answer the challenge of boss
terrorism and capitalist class justice. This re-
quires 100 per cent mobilization of our Party
first.
In the South aside from the increased ac-
tvity to organize the workers into the revol'-
tonary unions and actually prepare them for
mass struggles in the near future
Our Party must take advantage of the com
ing National and State Election campaigns
which will take place in every state in the
South. Negro and white workers will be NOM
mated for State and National offices. Tens
of thousands of workers will be modified
around the slogans of our Party to fight for
socialiinsurance, relief for the unemployed, for
the 7-hour day. for the right to organize and
the right of workers to defend themselves
against lynch law and all other forms of CAPT
talist class terrorism. For the unity of the
Negro and white workers in a common struggle
against boss rule, on the basis of full social,
political and economic equality and the right of
eelf-determinaton for the Negro masses, for
The abolition of taxes on the tenant farmers
against the poll tax which disfranchses the
great majority of the working population
for the abolition of the chain gang and the
conditional freedom for all class war prisoners
These demands linked up with the bigger
political demands of our Party will prepare
the Southern workers for greater class strug-
giles and for the final struggle for the over
throw of the bloody rule of capitalism and the
establishment of a revolutionary Workers and
Poor Farmers Government.