The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-09
Southern Worker" Faces
Tremendous Tasks
By TOM JOHNSON.

THE appearance of the first issue of the
Southern Worker marks a long step for
ward in the struggle of the Party for the
majority of the decisive sections of the Amer
lean working class. That this paper can be
published at all is proof that our Party has
begun to sink its roots deep in the most ex-
plotted sections of the American proletariat,
the white and Negro workers south of the
Mason and Dixon line
The special features of the class struggle i'll
the South impose great and important tasks
on our first Southern paper and make its main
tenance and extension matter of Importance
to the entire Party These special features
are:
/. The Southern working class is sharply
divided on racial lines. 1t is the foremost
task of the Communists to smash through this
age-old wall of hate and fear erected by the
master class between the races. This can best
be done in the struggle ITSELF The very logic
of struggle against a common enemy breaks
down the racial barriers At the same time
it is vitality necessary to carry on careful
and patient campaign of education of the
white workers particularly to the neces-
sty of class solidarity. In this campaign the
Southern Worker will become the best weapon
in our arsenal
g The Southern proletarat in large scale
industry is of comparatively recent origin.
Large sections of the workers have no tradi-
tions of organization and of class struggle.
The pressure of capitalist naturalization is
driving them to action-they are bndly CROP
ing for way out from their present intoler-
able conditions. 1t is the task of the Southern
worker to point the way to transform the
present growing blind revolt into a conscious
revolutionary struggle against capitalism.
3. In the revolutionary national movement
of the Nero masses the proetarian revolution
has an ally of tremendous potential power and
vigor. 1t is the duty of the Party to first
of all arouse the Negro masses to national
consciousness, then to give every support to
the national movement it develops, to clar-
ify its aims and to direct it more and more
into workngclass channels. In this struggle
the Southern Worker viii play an increasingly
important role.
A. Ours is a young party in the South--a
party of new members We have no developed
cadres of rank and file leaders which form the
backbone of the party in other sections. The
RAPID development of a native southern lead
ershp is one of the major jobs of the Party in
the South today. In this campaign Of prole
tartan education, in this development of Party
cadres in the South. the Southern Worker will
be most important factor.
Support Southern Worker.
II has been no easy job to establish the
Southern Worker. Its first issue has appeared
in the face of the rising wave of white terror
in the South. 1t will be much more difficult
JOB to keep our paper The whole forces of the
capitalist class and its state power will be
modified to crush it. Its publication is
major victory for the southern workers and for
the Party. Its suspension for any reason would
be major victory for our class enemies. Every
Party member every revolutionary worker,
both North and South. must realize this.
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