The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-24

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THE Negro workers and farmers have weghty
reasons to be opposed to a new inperialist
war. Their super-exploitation and cruel OPP
preston, expressed in the denial of most ele-
mentary political rights and enforced by lynch
ings and terrorism, is only further intensified
by war. After hundreds of years of slavery
and exploitation they today people with
out country, without political, social or eco
nomic rights, an outcast national minority,
kept in darkness, fooled, betrayed and "kept
in their place" by the iron heel of the lynch
law of the white exploiters' terrorism.
War for the Negroes will mean extension of
the whole system of discrimination to the bat
tlefront Stern and merciless white masters
martial law will crush every protest against
their intolerable position. And if few Negro
traitors are given an officers uniform for the
purpose of leading the Negro masses in
slaughter the Negroes must know that the
army is the army of the white exploiters and
the imperialist war will be an additional means
for the further enslavement and deeper exploit
alton of the Negro masses.
The struggle of the Negro masses must be
directed against the whole system of imperial
list exploitation. The Negro toiling masses have
been robbed, exploited and oppressed for 800
years by the capitalist class that con-
scripted them for the last World War, by the
same class that today Expresses and merciless-
ly exploits them the cotton plantations, in
the rice fields, as we'll as in the factories and
mines.
The system of lynching, terrorism and dis
elimination is not an accidental expression of
cruelty ignorance of the white people, but
a carefully planned and organized means to
keep IL million people in position where their
blood and sweat can be coined into gold by
the greedy, white landlords and capitalists
The Negroes are denied the most elementary
political and civil rights so that they may
not use these legal means to resist the cruel,
super-exploitation to which they subjected.
The Negro tenant-farmer, may not sell his
crops because the white landlord demands their
right as an additional and extra means of ex-
ploitation and robbery. The poor Negro farmer
is denied the use of ballot that he may
not repudiate the white exploiters who sane
ton and encourage lynching.
The whole system of race discrimination and
oppression is the American exploiters substitute
for the military subjugation of enslaved
and exploited national minority. British i'm
perialism uses troops in India, China, Egypt
and other colonies, in order to continue the
exploitation of the subjected peoples of these
countries. The American Imperialism uses
marines to do the same in Nicaragua, Philip
pines, Cuba, etc. But in America, the Gland
of the Free" and the "cradle of democracy"
the direct use of military force to subjugate
and exploit and Cypress national minority,
the Negroes, is replaced by the more subtle and
more Civilized" system of discrimination or
denial of those elementary political rights that
could be used by the Negro masses at least
partially to resist their economic enslavement,
their special extra exploitation.
War, to the Negro masses, will be the re-
enforcement of the system of discrimination by
bayonets and machine guns. The last imperial
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"war for democracy" has demonstrated to the
Negro masses that no sacrifice in blood for
the interest of the white imperialist oppressors
can secure any democracy for the Negroes
Even the Negro Gold Star Mothers were seq
gregated when the government sent them to
view the graves of their dead sons. In the
next war the Negroes as well as TIE white