The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-07
Class Against Class in the South

has over large sections Of the Negro land
white) proletariat one can readily realize just
what such doctrines mean. One instantly
realizes that in just so many words do the
Negro middle class not only condone the whole
category of segregation, discrimination, class
and race oppression but lend moral support
to the bourgeoisie in its campaign of violence,
mob-rule and lynch law.
Much more can and will be said about the
Negro traitors and the southern Negro prole-
tariat in this article. However, the forces of
black reaction formed such complete united
front in their attack upon the TUUL when it
opened its southern headquarters, that word
about it will not be out of place here.
The press, the Chamber of Commerce, the
American Legion, the Khan, the police, the
American Federation Of Labor, the church, the
Negro politicians were all joined hand in hand.
After Shiny attempt on February 2, to
ridicule our meeting, held the night before, the
bourgeois press openly showed its fangs and
on Feb. 8, the "Times" blazed forth with the
following headline: Labor leaders keeping
watch on Communists Reading through the
body of the article we find this: observers
of the Saturday night meeting stated yester
day that the speakers swayed the crowd and
that the propaganda being preached here by
the trio representing the Trade Union Unity
League is menace to the peace of the com.
munity."
In the Chattanooga News" for February a.
under an editorial entitled: "No Cause for
Alarm" we find: Chattanooga labor is far
too advanced for the Communist agitation to
be considered seriously Then, too, the eye Of
the agitators who have appeared here appears
to be conferred on the amount of money con-
tributed when they pass the hat. Those who
wish to pay to hear violence preached may
lend them an ear. Others-sensible laboring
men-wil not be bothered" Opposite this
dribble is a long editorial welcoming William
Green and the A. F. of L. to the city. Fol-
lowing the long list of betrayas and sell-outs
of the working class by Green and the A. F.
of L. every worker knows why Green is wei.
coined while the Communists are attacked.
Attacks by various other agents of the rul.
ing class came in rapid succession. The Cham
Der of Commerce announced its intention Of
investigating our literature, the chief of DO.
lice declared that his department would con-
duct an investigation of the appearance here
OF group Of Communists if it were deemed
advisable" The American Legion called .
special meeting to decide on the most feasible
plan of driving US out of town.
Labor Bureaucrats Join Chorus.
The takers of the American Federation Of
Labor, leaping to the crack of the whip of it's
capitalist masters, joined the chorus in loud
howl against US. Says Robert M. Cooke:
Organized labor can be depended upon to do
its part in blocking the progress of Commu-
nism and class hatred in Chattanooga ;"
The part of organized labor" in blocking the
progress of the TUUL in Chattanooga was to
mobilize band Of thugs to smash our meet
ing the following Saturday night. When,
however, the thugs saw the powerful follow
ing Of Negro and white workers that had been
won to our program they Immediately cbangeS
their minds.
A. F.. Whitney, grand president Of the
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, "a. F. of1
L., after being welcomed to the city by the
mayor and feted at the city's finest hotel, !
declared, in bitter attack upon the Daily
Worker for exposing Hoover's fascist Econ
omic Council" and the Hoover-Green pact, that
"the president very wisely stepped in and
made an effort to stem the tide of business
reaction" In this manner do the so-called
"leaders" of labor not only betray the work.
ers by fighting real workers. organization
but actually defend the bosses in their attack
upon the living standards Of the workers.
ITO be Continued)