The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-24
Only Communist Party De.
lends Interests of Negro
Masses
By CYRIL BRIGGS.

Mass misery and starvation arising out of
the brutal attempt of the capitalist bosses to
solve the present severe economic crisis at the
eupense of the working class affect hardest
the prejudice-isolated, frightfully oppressed
Negro masses.
In Harlem, and other northern ncenters of
Negro population, thousands of Negro work
ers are homeless and starving as, to the Bit
ter oppression of normal times is now added
the problem of unemployment. The Negro
workers suffer most severely because of their
unorganized state, their betrayal by the labor
takers of the A. F. of L., and the socialist"
party and the treachery of the Negro mislead-
ers. Thousands of Negro workers in the north
are walking the streets cold, hungry and home
less. Additional numbers are being evicted
daily by the landlords with the hearty cooper
alton of the bosses courts and police.
Starving homeless and freezing, these job
less Negro workers are the victims of the most
vicious discrimination in the midst of the eco
nomic crisis, the bosses trembling before
the growing solidarity and rising revolution
airy temper of the working class, deliberately
stir up the vilest race passions and engineer
mob attacks on the Negro workers, at the same
time continuously forcing them down to lower
levels of existence, subjecting them to the most
ruthless wage-cuts and selecting them as the
first victims of the general lay-off policy which
give the lie to the fake agreement of Hoover
and Green as to no lay-offs during the eco
nomic crisis
Increased Lynchings.
In the South, conditions are even worse.
There, for decades the Negro workers have
faced the most savage oppression, living IN an
atmosphere of constant terror and repression.
Today with millions unemployed the southern
bosses are taking advantage of their economic
helplessness to force them to work for nothing
but few scraps of food to keep from actu-
ally starving to death. And those who dare
to demand wages are thrown on the chain
gang or lynched. Already for the first nine
and half months of the present year there
have been 81 lynchings.
In this situation the Negro workers are
being told by the boss-class politicians and their
reformist Negro tools to vote again on Novem-
Der for the same oppressive capitalist sys-
tenn which has thrown eight million workers
on the streets to starve, and which regularly
supports lynching and Negro oppression. The
Negro misleaders (rent-gouging landlords,
parasitic preachers, etc. whose class interests
are Numerically opposed to the class inter-
ests of the Negro workers and farmers, and
the record of whose Leadership is one of the
base treachery and resultant futility, are again
busv peddling illusions in the hope of effect
ing another sell-out of the Negro masses.
Negroes Can't Be Fooled Any More
But today the Negro workers will not be
fooled Disguised with the bosses parties they
have long looked about for an effective medi-
UNI of protest, of demonstration of their re-
sentiment and hatred against their oppressors
And today they know that the Communist
Party is the only party fighting against lynch
ing, race hatred jinl-crowism, etc, the only
working class party, the one party held IN ter
ror nv the bosses Nor will the Negro reform
sts he able to convince the Negro workers