The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-25
Garvey Defends Imperialism

MARCUS CARNEY has heralded himself far
IVA and wide as the Moses who is to deliver
the Negro peoples from oppression, the liber-
ator who is to free Africa and other Negro
lands.
The calibre of this "Eberator" is wildly ex-
posed in an article in "The Blackman,' Gar
veys Jamaica paper, of June %, in which
Carney gives to the frightfully oppressed Ne
gro masses of Jamaica the treacherous and
slavish advice that, in their struggle against
OPPRESSION they must do nothing that would
offend their oppressOrs.
Native Bourgeoise in Fear.
At this moment the spectre of Communism
is haunting the white and native bourgeoisie
of Jamaica, the principal slave pen of British
imperialism in the West Indies. The bourgeois
press of that British colony has made the fear
some discovery that the island has been Wis
tied by Communist.
Scareheads, triple column front page art-
cles and arduous editorials are used to whip
the population to frenzy of red hysteria
Communism is blatantly denounced. The bit
terly exploited laboring masses of the island,
who are forced to exist on the verge of starva-
ton, under semi-feudal conditions of expoita-
ton. are painted as a care-free, happy and
cOntented lot, who, with the coming of Com
munist influences, must be guarded against
the realization that IL and IA hours a day
shaving in the broling tropic sun at stevedor-
ing the banana and cane plantations,
isn't just paradise, and that rs cents a day
wages for such labor amt just grand and
magnificent.
And particularly exasperating to the JAM
aica bosses is the success realized by Com
rade Huiswood in organizing several unions
in the island with membership credited by
the hourpeOisie at SiY hundred
Bosses Call on Garvey
In their predcament the bosses call upon
Marcus Garvey. Perfervid orator, spectacular
clown and peddler of illusions that he is, the
bosses of Jamaica have already learned that
Carney can be trusted to help in diverting the
masses from militant methods of struggle and
that he is adept in covering up his treachery
with generous use of struggle phrases. Was
1T not Marcus Garvey who saved the city of
Kingston, Jamaica, from longshoremen's
strike? Did not Garvey advise a delegation
of longshOremen who called upon him for
leadership, to buy new overalls and go back to
work? Did he not lecture these rebels to
the effect that the bosses had to have their
profits? Moreover, does he not ceaselessy
peddle illusions of escape to Africa, escape
through capitalism, escape through super
natural Intervention, to the Negro masses
grooming under oppression and seeking way
out? So the bourgeois press gleefully records
that Marcus Garvey opposed the efforts of
Huiswood to induce the U. N. !. A. convention
to take up the struggle against impe ialisr.
and describes how Garvey prevented the con-
vention from even putting itself on record as
in the slightest degree opposed to that very
system by which the Negro peoples of the
world are subjugated and oppressed, and
against which any real struggle for Negro lib
Grafton must be waged
And, like the traditional faithful hound re-
spending to his masters voice, Marcus Gar