The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-18
BY WILLIAM WILSON.

THE ant-lynching campaign of the Communist
Party of the q. S. and the League of Struggle
Or Negro Rights and the nationwide sup
port given it by the Negro masses has driven the
Negro refornlists, particularly of the radical"
group into a furry of excitement. More and
more loudly they emphasize the necessity of in
creasing their petitions to the United States
Government and asserting pressure upon sym
pathetic" senators and representatives in the
Congress for the passing of a federal anti
lynching law.
These extremely effective measures" for the
curbing of lynching receive the "firmest'' sup
port from the inter-racal committees particu-
larly in the South where the reformist National
Association for the Advancement of Colored Peo-
pie and the senli-fascist National Urban League
tells us the composition of these committees con-
sist Of the 'best people, doctors lawyers editors,
judges, legislators and even governors, all of
whom are much disturbed" at the 'unaccount-
able" new wave of lynching and mob terror
against the Negro masses.
Bosses Fear Militancy of Negro Masses
There can be no doubt about it. The anxiety
OF the "best people" is real, but they are not
concerned about the passage of Federal Anti
Lynching Bill They are, however, seriously
disturbed by the growing militancy of the Negro
masses. All of the Negro reformists and reac-
tionares big and little, have been pressed
into service. The best known and best trusted
reactionaries have been sent on international
missions either to quel the growing unrest of
the exploited and oppressed Negro toilers on an
international scale, or to prepare the way for a
further penetration of American imperialism into
Negro countries or both. Such were the tasks of
the commissions upon which Dr. Russo Motion,
the Dean of Negro reactionaries and also Incl
dentally Dean of Tuskagee University, Alabama,
Charles S. johnson of Fisk University and
George Haynes of the nter-denominationa
Church Council served in Haiti Liberia and
South Africa respectively
But in surveying the treacherous activities of
these individual tools of American Imperialism
and even the larger activities of the reformist
bourgeois and petty-bourgeois organizations; in
reviewing the increasingly widespread lynching
campaign of the fascist Ku Klux Khan and the
American Legion organizations and the sancti-
nonious lies "deploring these horrors" which
emanate from the ranks of the liberal wing of
the American bourgeoisie and of the activities
of the American Government with reference to
these incidents, it is particularly important that
we place the performance of these groups of
betrayers and deluders of the Negro masses in
their correct perspective. The Negro masses
must be taken behind the scenes in order that
they may see and be well aware of the game
which is being played with the object of holding
them fast to the theology of the master class.
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They must be shown the social political sig
nificance of the maneuvers of the bourgeoisie
and the Negro leaders who are so zealously
petitioning for a Federal Anti-Lynching Bill
The 18th, 14th and 18th amendments, written
into the Federal Constitution after the civil war
were to guarantee all of the rights of citizens to
the Negro masses These have been nullified by
Rrious class and anti-Negro legislation in vir-
tually every state of the union. Yet these same
Negro leaders" who protest" the failure of the
government to enforce these guarantees" are
seeking the addition of another such innocuous
law. What game are these Negro reformers play
ing with the government? And what directives
are the government giving in the matter of the
suppression of the Negro masses?
The United States government takes its place
In the front rank of the imperialist agencies,
formulating, propaganding and disseminating
the bourgeois racial superiority theology This
is but natural, since as the Executive Committee
OF the t59" owners of America, one of the tasks
of the government must necessarily be the for
mutation of the line to be followed by the cor
rupt bureaucracy of labor the fascist organiza-
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