The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-24
By LOUIS HYMAN.
president of the Needle Trades Workers
Industrial Union.)

Industrial Union.)
A CLIPPING of Mr. Haywood Broun's column
n in the New York Evening Telegram of
April 26th last, dealing with the Negro prob
lem, came to my attention. The attitude of
the candidate of the socialist" party in the
18th Congressional District of New York to-
wards the equality of Negroes is rather sig
nificant and throws light on his stand on
various other problems.
The column was written in the days when
the press was discussing Hoovers nomination
of Judge John J. Parker, to fill a vacancy in
the Supreme Court. Objections were for
warded against Mr.. Parker because of his role
in enforcing the yellow dog contract and be-
cause of his anti-Negro attitude. And here
is what Mr.. Broun had to say in this situa-
ton:
Is Against Equality of Negroes.
eff 1 were a candidate for high executive
office or judicial office, l would say, even
without being cornered that l would not now
sanction the efforts to enforce the Four
teenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the
Constitution of the United States. believe
in the purpose for which they were formu-
lated, but we must face the fact that in the
year 1880 they cannot be put universally
into practice except through coercion and the
use of armed force"
ment that the Fourteenth and Fifteenth
Amendments to the Constitution of the United
States which are supposed to provide for the
equality of the Negro, cannot be enforced now
unless armed force is used. AS if this was
not enough. Mr.. Broun continues to elaborate
his point
"If were a man in the White House." Mr.
Broun continues few paragraphs after, sit
would not necessarily go against my grain to
send southerner to the Supreme Court.
admit that would not select John J. Parker,
because even though there were nothing
against him, the fact remains that there is
nothing particular for him.
81 could find sage southerner and say
to him: How about taking job on the Su
preme Court? | know of course that you
do not believe in the Fourteenth and Fiji
teenth Amendments and l do, but | realize
that they can't be enforced throughout the
South without getting United States Mar
ines to restore order and l am against that
Unfortunately, you are also against the
Eighteenth Amendment, which can't be en-
forced either. You go on the Supreme
bench with clear conscience. You don't
believe in trying to enforce the unenforce
able. Neither do T." (Our emphasis.)
Here we have Mr.. Broun's open statement
that if he were the president of the United
States, he would not shrink from selecting an
anti-Negro judge for justice of the Supreme
Court, even though he knew that this particu-
lar southerner is openly in opposition to the
Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments! Broun
openly says he believes that the Fourteenth
and Fifteenth Amendments cannot be enforced!
Mr.. Broun's excuse is that all southerners
are against these amendments that are sup
posed to insure the equality of the Negro, and
being a pacifist, he would not care to lead
the United States Marines into the South in
order to suppress war which might have
been started if the enforcement of these
amendments was insisted upon. Where, then,
is the difference between Haywood Broun, the
socialist" and any other southern anti
lynching politician?
Probably no politician, perhaps, with the ex-
ception of open supporters of the Ku Klux
Khan, would state in public that he person
ally" is opposed to the Fourteenth and Fiji