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

vey answers the call of the brutal exploiters
of the Jamaican masses and shamelessly comes
forward with the treacherous and slavsh prin-
ciple that the oppressed colonial masses
would not dare to accept mad foster some
thing that was tabooed by the mother coun-
try" This is the same as telling the masses
they cannot struggle against oppression,
not strive to better their conditions, cannot
wage the struggle to liberate their class and
race from imperialist slavery. Such struggles
are tabooed by the Mother Country" 1t was
in this same spirit of treachery that Marcus
Garvey few years ago told the Negro masses
that, Negroes must be loyal to all flags under
which they live!"
Oppressors His Friends.
To Marcus Garvey the expressing imperial
ism is the Mother Country! To Marcus
Garvey the imperialist oppressors are, in his
own words, friends who have treated him
(the Negro), if not fairly, with some kind of
consideration! British imperialism, with its
long record of fraud and punitive expeditions
against the African peoples, of native states
ruined by missionary intrigue and imperalst
treachery, of native cultures savagey ground
under foot. is the adored motherland of Marcus
Garvey! The British imperialists, their hands
dripping with the blood of countless Negroes
murdered outright or driven by robbery off
starvation, the friends of Marcus Garvey!
Sees Struggles as Disrepute.
Further serving to expose the treacherous
role of Marcus Garvey as the friend and de-
fender of Imperialism are his additional re-
marks in the article in question Referring to
the unions organized by Huiswood and held
in deadly fear by the local native and white
bourgeosie, because organized on lines of mill
tant struggle against the dreadful conditions
existing in the island of Jamaica, Marcus Gar
vey says, eve feel sure that after the expose
Chat is, the red hysteria in the bourgeois
press-C. b. the people who innocently
linked themselves up with the gentleman in
question, will forego any future attempt which
might bring them into greater disrepute."
Dsrepute with whom? With the toling masses
struggling against terrific colonial exploita-
ton? No! Disrepute with the exploiters,
with the imperialist oppressors! That is the
disrepute that Garvey fears And he goes
to make yet another self-revealing statement:
at may be right to create the alarm to pre-
vent innocent and ignorant people embracing
this militant political danger, but to accuse
directly anyone of being wholly Communistic,
seems far-fetched. We believe that if any
body has been reached it is only ignorant peo-
pie who play with fire, without knowing it."
Communism, Garvey here admits, is mill
tant political danger to imperialism, and as
such, a threat to the very existence of that
system responsible for the subjugation and
enslavement of millions of Negroes through
out the world, to that system which in recent
months has drowned in blood the liberation
struggles of the revolutionary masses of South
Africa, Nigeria, East Africa Haiti, etc. and
IS at this very moment engaged in shooting
down the heroic workers AMI peasants of India
and in open and deliberate intervention in the
struggle of the Chinese masses against the
native tools of Imperialism.
Communism threatens the existence of this
system of rapne and murder, of subjugation
and enslavement of the colonial masses, this
system which has built up an elaborate
theology of white superiority and supremacy
and race hatred and Negro inferiority where
by to Justify its slaughter of the colonial peo-
Piles and its super-expoitation of the Ameri.
can Negro masses. So, Marcus Garvey at
tacks Communism And hastens to assure his
imperialist masters that the Universal Negro
improvement Association has nothing in COM
mon with Communism.
"To show the great gulf between us ard
Communism" whines Marcus Carney for the
ears OF the imperialists, mot many weeks az,
the sail Communist agent sent to the island
a batch of newspapers, in which Marcus Gar
vey and the Universal Negro Improvement As
ISOLATION were attacked as being bourgeois
and that the organization was capitastc in
its tendency" And does Garvey deny the in
dictment that his organization tends to support
the system under which Negroes are exploited,
and that its leadership, from Marcus Garvey
down TO his most obedent rubber stamp, seeks
only a lrrGer participation in that evploita-
toJ? On the contrary, hc uses the nlict-