The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-29
Negro and White Workers Unite
at ST. Louis Convention

nlobS, the K. K. K. ETC., these cotton pickers
struck against their land lords. Not only do we
find the farmers answering, but in other indus
tries, such as in New Orleans where many
workers went out and had a militant struggle.
Besides this, many of them taking place without
our leadership, we find that the Revolution is
growing by leaps and bounds. This is no &C
cident
Comrades, we have with us Comrade Sherman
Bell, who we tried to put on ballot for u S..
Senator. The Negro press tells us that there
are thousands of votes for Comrade Bell Do you
wonder that they want to join us, when we run
side by side with white and colored candidates
for the job of U. S, Senator Not only did we
run him then, but we are running him for Mayor
of Chattanooga, and hope he will win.
Tenant Farmers Shooting Landlords.
Besides the growth of the revolutionary move
ment we find that throughout the South isolated
shootings of white landlords. We also find in
one case where a Negro farmer refused to be
evicted and shot the landlord. These farmers
are answering the conditions by going out for
themselves, and we are to be criticized that we
were not there
Next year, we must have delegates from Louis
iana Mississippi, Arkansas and if we are not
able to bring delegates from these States the
heart Of the South, then we say that we have
failed
Without the Liberator in the South, we cannot
give voice to the Negro movements. Today, when
we discuss the facts, we must discuss what this
conference is going to do for the South. The
League of Struggle for Negro Rights can build
itself into mass movement because of the con-
ditions of Negro and white farmers who are
ready to join our ranks as shown by their revolts
and strikes.
Death for All I,yncherS
In Atlanta, in order to still the indignation of
the masses the bosses women met and said that
the lynchings for rape is not true. We find that
some Negro masses are following this movement
and we must break down this movement, by de-
manding death penalty for the lynchers, by
organizing Defense Corps White and Negro
workers must build themselves into Defense
Corps and we can answer by mass meetings
That is our answer The Negroes must have the
right to bear arms the right to the schools
and of local communities governing themselves
Step b. step we can build up these movements
We must also fight against vagrancy laws
Eighteen hundred Negroes during eight months
have been put on the chain gangs, charged with
vagrancy. No Negro worker dares to walk the
street without being put in Jail on charge of
vaerancy and work free while on the farms
COnfscate the Land!
We find that the Negro press is criticizing the
State the government in Sherman, Texas We
can utilize this criticism by the Negro press in
order to build up movement for the Negro
workers, taking over the land which belongs to
them. This can be done by building up the
movement step by step and our demands must be
To him that tills the soil belongs the land"
The white landlord class is going to answer us.
In Birmingham, Ala, they have recently passed
the Anarchist law. Our answer to anarchy, to
vagrancy laws, to Jim-crowism must be that we
must go down to the South, we must give these
workers what they want They have been filling
the land and it belongs to them We must Sc
cure the land for the Negro workers and demand
death penalty for the lynchers Our answer to
Hoover and the bosses government must be that
we are going to the Black Belt Mississippi Ar
kansas, Tennessee, Georgia, and organize then,
into giant struggle. We are going to be guilty
OF insurrection until these landlords are wiped
out.