The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-02

Denouncing Southern lynch terror, the
American Negro Labor Congress calls for
united struggle of Negro and white tolllng
masses. The call declares, in part:
"Two more Negro workers have been lynched
as part of the intensified lynching terror Of
the Southern bosses against the Negro toilers.
1.-TWO in one day! Dave Harris, brutally
tortured and ynched in Mississippi on April
"a; Allen Green, savagely murdered by South
Carolina mob on April "a.
"These two lynchings closely follow the mob
murders of j. H. wilkins, pullman porter, in
Georgia of Robert Burney, unemployed worker,
in Ohio; of Jimmie Levine, in Georgia; of
Chester Fugate, white tenant farmer in Ken
lucky; of Laura Woods, 65-year-old woman, in
North Carolina.
This murderous campaign is intensfying in
spite of the fake bourgeois figures purporting
to show "the decline of lynching" and in utter
mockery of the lies of Motion and other tools
of the Southern white ruling class that "con-
ditions in the South are improving" as the re-
suit of the fake inter-racial cooperation be-
tween the oppressors and their tools among
the oppressed. Many lynchings are being COW
cred up by the capitalist press or camouflaged
as disappearance" Attempted lynchings are
becoming almost daily occurrences.
"In addition, there are numerous legal lynch
ings Of Negro workers, against whom not the
slightest shred of evidence of crime exists.
Thus, we the attempt by the state of Ken
lucky to legally lynch Anderson Mcpherson,
young Negro worker; the attempt of the state
of Georgia to legally lynch NJ. H. Powers and
j. Carr, two Communist Write organizers,
whom the Southern bosses are frantically try
ing to frame because of their advocacy of race
equality and their activities in organizing the
Negro and white workers against the common
imperialist enemy.
"These increasingly vicious and murderous
attacks upon the workers, black and white, de-
velop directly out of the deep-going economic
crisis now developing in the United States.
Enlightened by the growing solidarity of
Southern white and Negro workers, which
found it's highest expression in the March
demonstrations against unemployment, in which
Southern Negro and white workers marched
side by side, the Negro workers in many in
stances playing leading role, the Southern
bosses are directly organizing race riots and
lynchings in the attempt to sow distrust and
hatred among the workers. By such das-
tardly methods do the bosses seek to divert
the workers from united struggle and the
real enemy
an the effort to throw the main burden of
the present economic crisis upon the working
class, black and white the bosses have thrown
nnluOnS Oh workers on the streets to StarVe.
Proportionatey, there are more Negro work
ers unemployed than white Especially is this
true in the South, where the mechanzation
OF agriculture is crowding out the Negro ten
ant farmers and greatly reducing the number
of agricultural laborers, while, on the other
hand, the development of Southern industry
under policy of the rankest racial discrim-
nation Tin certain sections Negros are for
hidden employment in factories by law offers
little opportunity for the absorption of these
displaced agricultural laborers. In the North
the situation is almost as bad In New York
state the percentage of Negro jobless is al
most twice as high as of white jobless; in Phila-
delphia it is five times as high; in Buffalo
Pittsburgh, Chicago and other industrial cen.
tiers 1t is from rs to so per cent higher than
the percentages of white jobless Fully
100000 workers are jobless in Hoover's "pros-
perity paradise" And in spite of the Urban
Leagues bunk of only 100000 Negro unem-
ployed-bunk deliberately hashed up to COL
laborate with Hoover's policy of minimizing
the situation and disregardng the UNEMPLOYED
mllllons-there are nearly million Negroes
in the army of the unemployed.
The present sharp and deep-going economic
crisis is causing widespread ruin among the
masses of farmers and share troopers and af-
fects with special severity the Negro farmers