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

No worker who reads the series of articles
depicting the suffering of the crew and the gross
misuse of funds by the Garvey officials on the
cruise of the Booker T. Washington" can fail
to realize the treacherous, eXploitive nature OF
the fake Carney program for Negro liberation
Those articles, written by Negro seaman on
the cruise of the Booker T. Washington" and
relating for the first time the crews story OF
the cruise-the starving of the crew, the cynical
disregard of the Garvey nisleaders for the health
and comfort of these Negro workers, the evident
intention to rob them of their wages, the ghostly
disappearance Of thousands of dollars collected
from impoverished Negro workers in the West
Indies and Central America-have thoroughly
exposed the characteristic petty bourgeois out
look and attitude of the Carney misleaders
A Petty Bourgeois Leadership.
In its organizational aspects, Garveyism rep
resents the leadership of the Negro petty bourg-
eoisie parasitic preachers rent gouging land
lords prostitute intellectuals, careerists, etc.,,
over the Negro workers Through various CAPT
talst enterprises, through the statements of Gar
vey and his leutenants, its object is revealed
as merely to exchange white capitalism for
black capitalism. With the social emancipation
of the Negro masses it is no more concerned
than are the white imperalist oppressors
For this reason Garveyism deliberately tries to
cover up from the Negro masses the class char
acter of capitalist society and of Negro oppres-
sion.
Presents False Picture of United White Race.
Garveyism presents to the Negro masses the
false picture of the white race as an entity, con-
fusing the oppressed white working class with
the capitalist class which exploits and Expresses
both white and black workers. Garveyism feeds
on the natural resentment of the Negro masses
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leaders have never yet categorically pointed to
the imperialists as the oppressors OF the Negro
masses. Garveyism takes no cognizance of the
irresponsible and constantly sharpening conflict
between the white ruling class and the white
workers of the home countries, as expressed in
strikes, uprisingS, and the growth of the Com
munist Parties (Which make no secret OF their
struggle to overthrow the capitalist SYSTEM in
most of the capitalist countries. Instead it
breaches loyalty of Negroes to all flags under
which they live" MARCUS Garvey). Garveyism
derives no inspiration from the gigantic struggles
of the Chinese and Indian masses against for
| eign imperialists and their native tools, nor
| from the mighty Russian Revolution whereby the
| working class won control over one-sixth of the
earth, scrapping the imperialist policies of the
Cars abolishing racial and minority oppression.
| and challenging the continued existence of i'm
| perialism throughout the world. Garveyism in
stead acts as an apologst and defender of the
| capitalist system under which Negroes are OPP
pressed
Like Rest of Negro Miseaders.
Like the rest of the petty Negro bourgeois mis-
leaders Du Bots, Kelly Miller, etc., the Garvey
misleaders are not interested in the social lib
Grafton of the Negro masses but merely in ex-
changing white capitalism for Negro capital
ism under which they would replace the white
capitalists as the exploiters and oppressors of
! the Negro masses. Like the rest of the mis-
| leaders, the Garvey misleaders are quite con-
tent to compromise with the white capitalists in
exchange for greater participation in the ex-
ploitation of the Negro masses. The Carney
misleaders not only refuse to carry on any strug
gle against the white capitalist enemies of the