The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-10
Fight Against White Chauvinism

meeting of the board vote was taken and the
majority vote of the white chauvinists discharged
the worker
Also in this same city 1t is reported that the
Party section organizer slandered and ridiculed
the Negro leadership in the YCL. This organizer
made statements that Negro work is no more i'm
portant than any other kind of work and that
Negro comrades should only do Negro work He
gave the vicious lie that Negro comrades in Gary
joined the Party for special privileges and accused
them falsely of importing white girl comrades
from Chicago for dance.
In the Needle Trades Union, the oficialdom
fails to recognize the necessity of doing special
work among the $4,000 Negro needle trades work
ers in New York In some of our union shops,
Negro workers receive lower wages than the
whites for the same kind of work. but the shop
committee does not think it important to pull a
strike and fight for equal pay for equal work
for the Negro union members Our comrades
stated that the Negro workers are not discrimin-
ated against in the industry, they only receive
lower wages
Methods of Work
Such Grass manifestations of white chauvinism
create Herculean obstacles that rightfully cause
the Negro toilers to be suspicious of the white
Communists, our program and unions and remain
on the fringe of the movement. We have not
conducted broad and intensified educational
campaign in our press and organizations Our
best efforts have been all too feeble. 1t has been
stated that we have not jumped at the Threats
of these one hundred per cent Americans. There
is no place in the movement, Party and unions,
etc. for such elements, who by their action con-
tribute to the support of American capitalist
oppression of the Negro masses
1t is not enough to pass resolutions of protest
week later after the deed is done and the cul-
prits have gone some place else to continue their
dirt. 1t is insufficient to have Negro speaker
come later to speak on the Negro question and
thunderously applaud him. Mild criticisms and
slow action to condemn white chauvinism do not
demonstrate to the Negro toilers that we are sin
cere in assuming the hegemony of the Negro
liberation movement.
But at the time the act is committed, the Com
munists and members of the revolutionary trade
unions must openly brand and expose those one
hundred per centers We must conduct a tenac-
ous systematic, and consistent fight against this
Yankee arrogance, which combined with social
antagonisms creates special forms of national and
social oppression under which the Negro masses
endure great hardships!
The Communists attending the Finnish dance,
should have instantly stopped the dance and ex-
posed the racial chauvnism which is capitalist
theology deeply rooted in the American working
class thirty minute educational talk should
have been given, denouncing the rowdies and call
ing upon the workers to pass protest resolution
to be published in the Finnish press and other
press. Wide circulation could have been given the
resolution. Many protest meetings should have
been held condemning bourgeois prejudices and
hooliganism. These same tactics should nave
been applied in the Lithuanian and Russian Co.
operatives.
Our leadership cannot retain polluted function
aries Unless they make sincere reputation.
and theoretically set about to purge themselves
OF bureaucracism and white superiority, they must
be expelled. Words of confession mean little,
but daily deeds and actions will convince and win
the Negro toilers to struggle with the white class
conscious proletariat for full equality In the
Party and press these functionaries must be ex-
posed. persistent barrage must be directed
against them. They should be placed on trial
before workers court and ruthlessly prosecuted
by white and Negro workers. At mass meetings
of the workers these elements must be stigmatized
for what they Special series Of meetings dis
cussing the subject must be held.
Role Of Negro Masses
Only such methCds Of work will win the Negt
toers for our revolutionary unions and Party,
thereby closing the gap between our tremendous
influence and organizatcnal gains.
The Negro masses are huge reservoir of dy-
manic revolutionary material II we fail to real