The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-21
Solidarity Of Northern, Southern
Workers--A Slogan of Action!
BY BMycR

workers led by them, in open cooperation with
the capitalists and their government, that it
appeals directly for support on the basis that
it is against social, economic and political
equality for Negroes, but that it brazenly de-
serts workers deluded by it's leaders as soon
as the necessities for open struggle bring the
workers into conflict with the bosses and the
government.
In Marion, N. c.. where six workers were
killed and some twenty wounded in cold
blooded massacre organized by the mill owners
and carried out by the sheriff and his gunner,
the UTW leaders left the workers to the tender
merces of the mill barons and, in addition to
this now apologize for the heroic struggle
which the workers carried on in spite of them
(Hoffnan.-)'
Neither is it surprising that these social
fascists receive plenty of publicity and praise
in such open fascist organs as the Labor Adj
vocate' which, appealing to the lowest class
and racial perjudices of the Southern rulers
and their hangers-on, openly calls for forcible
suppression of RED organizers"
The editorial published on the first page of
the Labor Advocate" on March Is is classic
of A. F. of L. fascism and merits reproduction
IN full. 1t is entitled This Way Out"
"Red" organizers sent into the Birming-
ham District from outside territory are
finding their difficulties in promoting the
delusion of Communism piling up much
faster than they can overcome them.
Southern white men and women, what
ever their condition or circumstance, won't
stand for social equality as advocated by +
the REDS"
Neither will the Negro of even average
intelligence, who has racial pride, and who
wishes to maintain the purity of his race,
subscribe to doctrine that would tend to
eventually destroy racial identity by the
process of association and amalgamation
Also, the Southern worker is relgiously
Inclined and even though he may not be a
church-goer, there is within him an innate
and Unborn reverence for supreme being
that rises above poverty, hardship and the
ills that assail him to make his faith firm
er that there is a providence to guide and
guard to the end of the road.
When the Red proclaims that there is no
God the SOutherner will rise in his wrath
and destroy he who would abolish the faith
of his fathers.
Then, too, his Americanism comes to the
rescue to tell him that there are orderly
and lawful methods which can and will be
applied to the solution of his problems be-
fore they become too acute for endurance
E look for the ease of the burden was never
I brighter than at present.
The "Red" revolution is not the answer
and never will be in the United States.
We, of the South, won't stand for it.
The sooner the "Red" organizers aban-
don Birmingham realizing the hopelessness
of thei rtask the less time and effort they
will waste -~sss
1t might be we'll that once started they
keep or going.
This way out! ~ssf.
Some two weeks after this editorial ap-
. peared, the home of an organizer for the
Metal Workers League in Birmingham was
bombed.
The American Federation of Labor joins
hands openly with the Southern rulers. The
social fascists join hands with the fascist
leadership of the A. F. Of L.
The murder of Ella May in Gastonia and
( the six Marion workers, the linking of legal
and extra-legal methods of suppression, TIL
use of the semi-feudal measures of chattel slav-
cry era the demands for the death penalty for
organizers of the masses, the attempts to sup
press and outlaw the Communist Party and the
revolutionary unions which alone have organ
lied the Southern workers, Negro and white,
anad led them in struggle, in all Of which
the A.. f. Of L., the Musteites and the socialist
party have been found united with the blacklist
reaction in one form or another, shows clearly
the recognition by the ruling class and it's
agents Of all stripes, of the fact that Southern
workers. SCATTERING all capitalist lies about
their "docility" and "backwardness," repudiat-