The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-11

message for you.
The twelve million Negroes who live in the
United States have particular Importance to
the movement for liberation of the Negro and
other oppressed peoples throughout the world.
Here in the United States the modern Negro
working class has come into existence in mod
ern industry. In the revolutions of modern
times it is the wage working class which neces-
sarily must lead the struggle. And in Amer
lea a Negro wage working class of enormous
proportions has been formed by the develop
ment of capitalist society. During the world
war and since, the development of the Negro
proletariat in the United States has been pro-
ceeding at rapid pace A new militancy and
new consciousness of their position are
already to be seen. TIE rapid throwing in of
hundrels of thousands of Negro workers into
modern machine industry is transforming
large part of the Negro population into the
very best material for the leadership of the
struc lie for liberation.
New leadership.
The Negro liberation movement in the United
States has in the past been led by class
which will not and can not desire liberation
for the masses of Negroes. The National Asso-
citation for the Advancement of Colored Peo-
pie is the respectable" organization which
claims to struggle for Liberation of the Ne
gro. But to that organization sqiberation"
means merely the acceptance of a few Negro
intellectuals and business men into the priv
ilged class of American capitalism-and the
perpetu ton of the enslavement of the Negro
and white masses. 1t is true that the N.AA.C.P.
raises a "liberal" voice against lynching and
against the Excessive" cruelties of colonial
exploitation-but the entire leadership of the
Orpa pIz ie in foyo nf fba oil sf
tel and violently opposed to the raising of any
hand against the bourgeois class which it so
ardently hopes to be allowed to enter. To a
large extent the leadership of the N.A.A.C.P.
is composed of politicians of the Republican
party-the same party to which Hoover and
Coolidge and the other chief murderers of
Haitians and Nicaraguans belong. A few more
of these leaders belong to the Democratic
party of Woodrow Wilson, which 10 now rul-
ing, exploiting and lynching the Negro masses
of the South. A few busy little fellows among
its leadership belong to the socialist" party,
which supports the same program funda-
mentally and differs only in its position of
more ''liberaH words and more treacherous
ways.
An example of what can be expected from
the N.A.A.C.P. is to be found in two recent
facts. First, that the highest struggle for the
organization of the Negro working class masses
on basis of complete political, racial and So
cial equality together in the same trade
unions with the white workers has been going
on; men and women have been murdered,
flogged, jailed and given 2O-year sentences in
prison for attempting to organize Negro and
white workers together basis of equality
the N.A.A.C.P. has given no word of aid to
the struggle Of course the reason it has not
done is that the men and women who lead
the fight are Communists-people who want
to destroy capitalism. The N.AA.P. is for
capitalism, which enslaves the workers, black
and white. The N.A.A.C.P has in the last few
days made an open attempt to ally itself with
the American Federation of Labor just at the
when the A. F. of L. begins its pres
ent Southern drive" with tfe avowed pur-
pose of breaking up the Communist struggle
for the Negro and white workers.
Then there is the movement headed by the
famous and genial Mr. Marcus Garvey Carney
is charlatan of considerable natural talent
who has so openly prostituted himself by
begging for favors from the white ruling class
and openly offering to sell out his people, as
to leave very little influence for him. Garvey
thrived at time when the American Negro
masses were still seemingly hopelessly sat-
urated with peasant psychology-when they i
oIul uTedDieu The peasant uTedHl VI d IldIiNe
land" in Africa which Garvey promised them
without even the trouble of being obliged to
take it away from the British French, Belgian,
Italian, Portuguese and Dutch. imperialist
armies and navies. But just at this time the
Negro masses in the cities of this country are
losing the peasant psychology-they are getting
to understand themselves as wage-workers, as
members of the working class
The Negro masses in this country, in de-
veloping class consciousness, are at the same
time beginning to get their first understand
ing of the working class program of liberation
the program of the Communist Party and
Communist International. The experiences of
the American Negroes in present-day class
struggle are beginning to have effect. But with
this experience necessarily goes the approach
to the Communist Party which leads the work.
ers in the struggles and brings them to the
conscious program of struggle for liberation.
Of Negro workers got glimpse of the arrest
and failing of candidates for public office for
advocating on the public platform full political,
racial and social equality for the Negro masses.
and learned that these candidates were the
candidates of the Communist Party.
Then came the southern textile strike where |
he Negroes saw the Communist Party and the |
unions influenced by it, mobilizng masses of
white workers to fight for the full equality of |
he Negroes and whites and their organization
,ogether in trade-unions to struggle for eco
ionic and political demands.
More recently came the murderous assault
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