The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-21
By SOL HARPER

DURING THE past IS years the history OF
the working class has no better example
of CAPITALIST Justice than the brutal shooting
of thousands of Negro and white workers by
the capitalist class, in America, and the lynch
ing of more than 1900 Negroes and many white
workers has been the most brutal form of ter
rorism to keep the Negro workers cowed and
afraid to organize to demand full Social eco
nomic and political equality.
In 1867, following the Civil War, the South
ern ruling class gasped for some means by
which the rising militant Negro workers could
be crushed and proceeded to organize what is
known as the original Ku "Kluck" klan, under
the leadership of an eX-confederate general,
then prominent democrat and one OF the lead
ers in the first re-assembled democratic party,
which held its first meeting after the Civil War
in Tammany Hall, New York, with the aid of
Augustus Belmont of traction interests.
The Khan and many others known as night
riders galloped about the South, terrorizing
Negro and poor white workers and few car
pet-baggers. 1t was the members of the Klan
who originated the system of direct numbering
of Negro workers without even gesture of
a trial The origin of the word lynch started
in the South by the activities of a man named
Lynch and has been used ever since when
workers are hanged, killed and burned shot
and hidden by group of bosses and their
agents.
Labor Organizations and Boss Mobs
While Negro workers were being lynched in
the South the bosses in the North for instance
in Colorado, Illinois, Montana, Washington,
Pennsylvania, West Virginia, New England and
other parts, were numbering thousands OF work
ers, by the use of armed military forces called
out to break strikes, by police, private company
guards and hired detective agencies.
Then, after number of years, lynchng be-
gan to become more and more weapon OF
the boss class against white workers. White
workers were lynched in the South and Negro
workers in the North.
After thousands of Negroes had been lynched
a number of fake anti-lynch bills were passed.
Some Southern states like North Carolina
passed what they termed an "anti-lynch BILL"
Ohio passed one of these bills calling upon the
county where worker was lynched to pay
a fine, and then the boss class began to find
ways to hide open lynchings in many states.
The unrecorded !ynchings numerous.
Anti-Lynch Bills During Past Fifteen Years
During the World War many reformist or
CARNATIONS agitated for the passage of worth
less anti-ynch bills and fooled millions of
Negro workers into thinking that lynchng will
be stopped by capitalists amendments to the
constitution of the United States. At the same
time the Negro women have been lynched while
carrying children who were to become slaves
to the boss class. (The usual pretext used by
| the southern bosses, "rape," could not be
| charged to these women.) Only in the bloody
record of the Belgian Congo in Africa has the
capitalist class exceeded the American lynch
ing bees brutality and oppression.
Lynch Negroes With Uniforms On
| During the capitalist war, Negro soldiers,
| workers were lynched with the uniform Of the
United States on. They were jim-crowed and
mobbed in training camps.
| Throughout the United States the Negro
| workers have been terrorized by bosses mobs,
! and the returned veterans militantly began to
| fight back. The unemployed white and Negro
workers began to organize militant movements
| at the same time the boss clan through re-
| born Ku "Kluck" Klan in Atlanta, Georgia,
| circulated race hatred throughout America
! against immigrants, stirred up religious hate
| by protestants against catholics and Jews and
race hate against Negroes.
Then the Palmer Raids started, aided
| by the American Legion bureaucrats, the Ma
! tional Defense Society, and other such bodies.
| White and Negro workers were taken out and
tarred and feathered. Negro workers were
branded and castrated in the South, and the
reformist petty-bourgeois protested constitu-
| tionally."