The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-18
Role of u. S. Government in the
Suppression OF the Negro Masses

tionS the refornist elements the prostitute press
and the professional bourgeois biologists in
dealing with the Negro masses.
Tools of Ruling Class
These imperialist agencies in keeping with
their program of division of labor, popularize the
official state policy, work out tactical measures
surreptitously or openly according to their ma
ture, fermenting acts of provocation which ter
inmate in race riots, lynching bees arson, and
even extend to the wholesale driving of Negroes
from their homes as has happened this year
in the states of Delaware, Oklahoma and
Texas
The subterfuges, lies, maneuvers and damna-
BILE hypocrisy, which feature the refusal of state
and federal governments, to proceed against the
fascist mobs, and murderers of Negro workers
and farmers is proof of their approval, of their
connivance with, and support for these agencies
while their direct guidance of the activities of
these tools of American imperialism is equally
obvious.
In laying down its line of procedure for the
suppression of the Negro Masses the government
proceeds openly particularly is this true in per-
iods of sharpening social contradictions. For
example, We have recently seen the open and
notorious insult offered to the Negro "Gold-Star
Mothers" When the Negro mothers were car
ried to France to visit the graves of the sons
they had given to be butchered in the imper-
ialiSt world struggle, under the illusion that it
was fight for the right of oppressed nation
alities to have voice in their own government"
they were forced to agree to the most humil-
Eating segregation in transit, and at the hotels
where they were CHARTERED. The separation of
the Negro working women from the white work
ing class mothers, was but a consistent step in
the policy of the United States government, with
reference to the working class. Thus did the
government publicly proclaim its endorsement of
the segregation of the Negro toiling masses.
Government Jim Crows and Segregation.
The segregation and discrimination imposed
upon the Negro employees of the government,
particularly in the various departments of gov
eminent, in the National Capitol is another ex-
ample of the manner in which the state lays
down the line to be followed where the Negro
masses are concerned. The Jim Growing of
Negro soldiers, the shutting of the doors of
military, naval and aviation schools in the face
of Negro candidates, the mass trial and legal
murder of Negro soldiers who only defended
their lives in the honor of their women the crea-
ton and partial subsidizaton of Jim Grow
College-Howard-a all notable cases of the
leading role played by the United States govern
ment in the suppression of the social, political
advancement of the Negro masses.
The reflection of this policy of the government
in the educational matters is readily to be seen
IN greater or lesser degree, in every state of
the union without exception. On every side
they seek to impress the white masses with the
myth of white race superiority" The line is
followed by the bureaucracy of labor, in the ex-
clusion OF Negroes from the trade union; the muir
derous attacks of the fascist, Ku-Klux-Klan and
American Legion, increase of the provocative
anti-race activities of the prostitute press are
outstanding examples. In industry the discrim-
ination operates in many ways, of which the
color wage scale-the paying of Negro labor
smaller wage than white labor on the same Job
is a glaring example.
The government now turns to more extensive
and intensive use of Negro reformist and reac-
tonary elements. These are now being utilized
to quiet the growing militancy of the native
bourgeoise and petty bourgeoisie in Haiti and
the South African natives, and to prepare the
way for League of Nations mandate over
Liberia, Nigeria and West Africa. The offensive
OF the American government against the Negro
masses never ceases; open and concealed, it
ramifies every phase of the economic political
life of the Negro toilers. Their struggle for So
cia1, national emancipation leads inevitably to
struggle against the federal and state gov
ernments