The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-27
Tasks Set by Convention OF League
OF Struggle for Negro Rights
BY BURCK

capitalists of forty acres and mule" for each
"emancipated" slave. 1t has shown itself in the
struggle of the Negro farmers elaine Ark. etc.,
against the control of the bankers and planters
and for the right to market their own products
BY demanding conf1scation of the land, the CEN
vention sharply concretZed the struggle for the
right of self-determination and state unity of
the BLACK Belt" as the only solution of lynch
ing and Negro oppression. On this point, the
convention declares in its manifesto:
Land Monopoly Basis of Negro Oppression.
1.-THE so-caed proclamation of emancipation
only Signifed formal abolition of slavery with
out removing its real basis, the monopoly of the
land by the plantation owners of the South
monopoly they still enjoy after the civil war
with the connivance and support of the so-called
friends of the Negroes, the northern capitalists"
Other tasks laid down by the convention in
cude the organizing of mass violations of all
jfm-crow laws, forming of defense groups of
white and Negro workers for resistance to the
bosses lynching terror; organized mass pressure
on the United States imperiasts for the removal
of their armed forces from the BLACK Belt" as
guarantee of the right of self-determination of
its Negro minorities; militant struggle for full
equality of Negroes with all other nationalities
by demanding the abolition of all forms of dis
elimination. disfranchisement, anti-marriage
laws, segregation, jim Crowie:n, etc. organiza-
ton OF the Negro agricultural workers; estab-
ishment of united trade union movement that
shall include the Negro workers on a basis of
complete equality with all other nationalities and
the cementing of real fraternal solidarity be-
tween white and black workers in the struggle
Tor their common interests; and the waging of
an inceSsant struggle against the domination of
the Negro masses by the reforrnist Negro petty
bourgeosie and against the social bearers of
white chauvinism in the ranks of the working
class; the American Federation of Labor and the
socialist party. On this latter point, the con-
vention in its manifesto pointed out:
In order to obtain the moral support of the
masses of the white population in the brutal op-
preston of the Negroes. the white ruling classes
and the hirelngs create false trace theories"
purporting to prove" the natural inferiority of
the Negro people. In this manner the Negroes
color becomes a badge by which he is singled out
as an object of scorn and hatred BY bribing
section of white skilled workers with higher
wages out of the huge profits-a large share of
which comes from the special exploitation of
the Negro workers-the capitalists succeed for a
time in interesting this section in the support of
hundred percent white Americanism This
group under the leadership of the A. F. of L.
bureaucrats socialist" party, Musteites, etc.
betraying their class interests for monetary
gains align themselves with the ruling classes
not only against the Negro workers alone but
also against the great masses of unsked, for
eign born and native workers The bosses with
the connivance Of the labor takers strike to keen
these later unorganized. So their lot is little
better than that Of the Negroes"