The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-13
BY SOL HARPER.
Negro Worker.


to dupe the workers. Today, they are mobiliz
ing the Negro workers into separate Jim crow
relief" movements, while in Arkansas boss
nightriders are terrorizng Negro workers. Al
ready eight Negro workers have been lynched
in 1881. and several electrocuted on fake charges
of rape" At the same time the white and
Negro capitalists, and their agents are uniting
behind country wide Jim crow movement of
Negroes to attack the foreign born. This spe-
cial Negro group supplements the terror carried
on against foreign born workers by the XII Klux
Khan and similar boss agencies
No doubt some Of the white sponsors OF this
Jim crow movement are members of the Khan,
the White Crusaders, the Georgia Blackshirts.
the Anglo-Saxon Clubs, etc. and associated with
those white sponsors of the movement are such
persons as Professor wofteI University profess
sor and well-known Negro hater, who is an au-
thor of books on the so-called Negro problem.
VOTER was selected after President Hoover called
the Manufacturers and American Federation of
Labor to conference, in the Fall of 1929, short
ly after the stock market crash on how to fool
the workers.
The Hoover conference was not complete, how
ever since no Negroes were invited and the
Rosenwald Fund of Chicago offered to pay the
expense Of a special survey group (no doubt
upon VOTERS own recommendation If the gov
eminent would syndicate a series of news ar
ticles by Professor Voter while the survey was
being made. These articles we're mailed to lead
ing Negro reforrnist papers, they contained anti
foreign born items vicious attacks were made
upon the foreign born workers and particu-
larly Mexican workers. Evidently, being South
erner, Wofter could not overcome his white su-
premacy theology enough to attack white for
eigners directly and to him Mexcans are not
white
There have been book after book published
by refornists, and capitalist institutions attempt
ing to show that Negro workers are not hired
in the North because of the foreigners" Not
a line appears in these books, newspaper ar
tcles, showing that the slave drivers, in general
Pnd the American Federation of Labor chauvin-
Ut officials are responsible with the churches,
The Jim crow school system, ETC., for the preju-
bice against Negroes. Nor the fact that the
whole system of discrimination against Negro
workers is an instrument of oppression that the
foreign born white workers had nothing to do
with before they came to this country And
that any such tendencies they have now is due
to ABSORPTION of the boss poison Of race preju-
dice
The boss governments Negro officials are
linked hand in hand with the lynchers Ne
groes, but in Chicago following the nation wide
demonstration on March 6, 1880, special move
nlent was started by some of these same agents
of the bosses. This movement was Matched up
against the Mexican stock yard workers Ne
gro reformists and politicians formed a club
under the name Of the Economic or Bugs Club
and held series of meetings in Washington
Park. The leading Negro refornnists we're in
vited 70 speak, Carney leaders, politicians, ETC.
Later, another movement was organized under
the maine of the Don't Trade Where You Can
Not Work"
With the publication Of the Wofter series of
anti-Mexican articles, and those Of William
Green. Matthew Woll and Company calling for
restriction of immigration to "solve unemploy-
nent," the Chicago misleaders got on the band
wagon Of foreign born haters, the fact that the
Ku Klux Khan rode beside them was overlooked,
and within two months after March 9th, 1880,
more than 1000 Negro petty business men had
become members of the Economic or Bugs Club.
The club changed its name to Economic Fedora
ton, and consolidated with the Don't Trade
Where You Can Not Wor-' group which was
boycotting the Woolworth stores in the jim crow
section. The Chicago Whip. Negro refornlist
weekly. led the campaign and began to publish
series Of photographs showing Negro workers
standing on sidewalk looking at white workers
shovelng stone in the streets in the Jim crow
Negro sections. These photographs were repub-
lished by the Chicago Defender, and the Chicago
World. Negro workers whose photographs ap-
pea:ed on the front pages Of these papers we're
invited to call at certain place and get 81.
From those who came to get the 81 caucus
group was selected, and series of attacks
against foreign born workers started a few days
later A series of four direct mob attacks by
unemployed Negro workers were made upon the
white employed workers. The largest of these
was staged on 51st ST. and Washington Park,
near where the Economic Federation held its
open air meetings.
Following the first attack which came during
the heat of the election campaign, the Amer
lean Negro Labor Congress, now the League
of Struggle for Negro Rights, issued series Of
leaflets pointing out to the Negro workers that:
ct is not the foreign born workers who lynch
Negroes "25 jobs on the street railway lines
will not solve unemployment for the $4,000 I'M
employed Negroes on the southside." at is not
the duty Of Negro workers to seek jobs only on
the southside but to demand them from the
bosses in all sections Of Chicago" Demand real
relief! Demand Unemployment Insurance" etc.
The movement broke up, in part, and today
thousands OF Negroes in Chicago are joining in
huge demonstrations of the Councils of Unen-
ployed. However, the Don't Trade Where You
Can Not Work" movement has spread to Cleve-
land, Ohio; and New York.
In Cleveland, Ohio, these meetings were at
tended by at least 5000 Negroes: In New York
City, the meetings are being held in the largest
Negro churches, with membership Of thousands:
the speakers In New York are making Violent
attacks upon the foreign born, thus keeping