The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-26
St. Louis Convention of the League
of Struggle for Negro Rights

conflict between the interests of the Negro rettv
bourgeoisie and the Negro masses:
Bitter experience has proven beyond doubt
the utter bankruptcy of the se1f-styled race"
leaders-the Du Bosses, Kelly Millers. Motions. De
Priests, Garveys-and the absolute fallacies con-
tanned in their doctrines Under the cover of
race loyalty incorporation, ETC., they at
tempt to deceive the masses into support of their
own selfish class interests as landlords, insurance
brokers, bankers, etc.
Their race loyalty is loyalty to their own
interests against the interests of the masses of
Negro toilerS. 1t is clear that the Negro poll
tician, business men, professional, real estate
men, preachers, ETC., who have been thrown up
to providence and wealth on the basis of segrega-
ton and discrimination of the Negro masses and
who are therefore directly interested in perpet-.
uating segregation, are incapable of carrying on
a consistent struggle against oppression and for
the equality of the Negroes While giving lip
service to the struggle for equality they are con-
stantly concluding reactionary agreements be-
hind the backs of the Negro toilers activities
of the National Urban League, Chicago race
riots ec).
Barter With Rights of Masses.
The struggle for the rights of the Negroes is
utilized by them as lever to raise themselves
to prominence or tostrengthen their ability for
maneuvering and bartering with the white rul-
ing class in behalf of their own class They never
question the dominance of the white rulers but
merely want a larger share in the profits that
come from the exploitation of the Negro toilers
In actuality, they concur in the policy of the
white masters by striving to keep the masses
of Negro workers isolated from the militant
white workers. This is glaringly revealed by the
representatives of this group in the Negro work.
ers organizations the activities of Philip Ran
dolph in the Pullman Porters Union, the $50
cialst" Crosswaith.)"
Betrayers Busy.
In glazing contrast to the militant fighting
spirit of the st. Louis convention are the antics
of the petty Negro bourgeois betrayers who are
meeting in Washington at this moment under
the leadership of the reformist Equal Rights
League of Boston. This bunch of lick-spittles
and belly crawlers eight" lynching and Negro
oppression by petitioning Hoover, ally of the Ku
Klux Khan and the lily-whites of the South. to
tissue public statement in the strongest pos
Sible language condemning lynching"
In other words the Iynchers are called upon
to condemn lynching. Hoover agent of the
American boss class with its jim Grow laws, its
lynching terror against militant Negro and white
workers, its theology of race hate, its policy of
isoatng the Negro masses for super exploita-
tion-Hoover who jim-crowed the Negro Gold
Star mothers is requested to condemn the prac-
tices Of his classl At the same time the Ma
tional Association for the Advancement of Col
ored People. another reformist organization
launches wide publicity on its projected cam
paign' to induce the bosses to Jail themselves
for crimes against the Negro masses
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