The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-20
Negro Workers of South Africa
and American Negro Misleaders

masses of South Africa as patient jackasses"
His aim since being in America has been to
obscure the real conditions and the situation
of the toiling masses of South Africa and the
growing revolutionary struggle. These re-
marks have called forth a number of "rebukes"
from the Negro misleaders. General SHUTS,
the outstanding exponent of imperalist ex-
ploitation Of the natives of South Africa and
monger has played his role we'll; the
Negro misleaders have played their role
equally as well. But the Negro workers as
well as the white workers of America are very
much concerned and interested in the situation
in South Africa and the growing struggles of
the working class, which is closely connected
with their struggles in America.
What is the real situation in South Africa?
South Africa is in economic crisis and chaos,
the contending capitalist parties are pressing
down harder and harder upon the millions of
toiling native workers and poor sections of
the white workers who in open revolt and
struggle against capitalist AMI imperialist op-
preston.
The intensified struggle between the Ma
tionalist and South African parties during the
recent elections in South Africa was but a re-
Election of this situation. The Nationalist
Party, the party of the Boer farmers, wishes
to deprive the natives of the most limited
privileges which they already enjoy, reducing
them to a position of voiceless serfs, driving
them off the land into the cities and towns
where they undergo more intense forms of in
dustrial exploitation.
The South African Party, the party of the
imperialist chambers of mines and the new
city industrial bourgeois wish to use more
subtle methods in the exploitation of the ma
tives. Their methods is bride and conclude an
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tive intelligentsia. Thus they have intro
duced certain native bills which grant small
privileges to the native nteigentsia against
the interests of the native toiling masses.
The imperialist group (mining) who make
their profits by exporting COAL ETC., outside of
South Africa, overseas, depends upon securing
a cheap labor supply recruited from the rural
sections. Thus the three cornered struggle
between them goes on. The object of both
parties, the South African and the National,
is to check the developing native movement
and to preserve imperialist exploitation in
South Africa. The struggle going on between
them is merely over the methods to be used
to achieve this end.
The downward trend of standards of the
white workers AMI the appearance of unen-
ployed white workers with miserable pay be-
cause of the growing Importance Of the skilled
native labor is drawing the white and native
workers closer together for common struggle
against exploitation. All of these conditions
are producing intense class battles in South
Africa.
The recent Durham riots, the increased num-
Der of strikes, including joint strikes of ma
tive and white workers, the development of
trade unions under Communist Influence IS
we'll as the growth of the Communist Party
on the road to mass native party are all
signs pointing to more intensified class str,,g
giles and strike waves throughout South Africa.
Role of the Native Intelligentsia and
Reformsts.
The fact is that the native intellgentsia has
been small and weak still it is exerting re-
formst influence over the movement. During
the trials of the natives who participated in
the Durham riots last May Gumcdi made