The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-29
Negro Retormism Desperately
Fights tor It's Economic Interest

white workers and to incite the one against the
other has laid the cornerstone for the segregat-
ed Negro districts. Segregation at least assures
measure of separation off the job
Outside of this Jim Grow district, the white rul-
ing class reigns supreme. 1t could well reign SUI
prene on the inside if it chose to deny finan-
cial backing to the Negro capitalists, but to Ne
gro business 1t grants concessions, not such con-
cessions as would permit Negro business to grow
to any considerable size to become a threat OF
menace to it even in niger heaven, but con-
cessions, loans, mortgages, economic peace, all
of which are brides to Negro capitalism. These
concessions come to Negro leaders" when the
rising tide of niltancy among the Negro masses
threatens to overrun the wall of prejudices Gre
ated by the lies of bourgeois educators, "scien-
lists, preachers and labor takers, between the
Negro and white workers and to nlingle with the
wave Of revolt within the ranks of white labor
The Negro refor1lists are allowed by big bust
ness to live If they will ruthlessly stifle the mill
fancy of the Negro masses if they will help smash
the growing unity of the masses of both groups
The smashing of this unity would be vital blow
to the struggles of the Negro and white workers
for liberation from the starvation program of the
bosses. This developing mass movement spells
death to the Negro ghetto and the Negro ghetto
is life to Negro business That the Negro reform
lists can, through this betrayal of the revolution
airy liberation struggles of the masses protect
their own paramount economic interests and the
interests of the white ruling class is source of
strength to them in their chickering's 1t is on this
basis that they can bargain for concessions The
resistance of the Negro masses to their deepen
ing misery is a factor with which the Nesro
bourgeoisie can maneuver.
For this purpose, at the period of Americas
entry into the world war Du Bois called the
Negro masses to CLOSE ranks in support of
American imperialism. No one was more aware
than Du Bots that the bloody struggle was pre-
pared and forced upon the workers and toiling
masses in order that Africa might be redivided
the strength of German Imperialism broken and
the loans of Wall Street to French and Eng
llsh imperialists saved. Du Bois knew that the
Negro masses could only lose nationally and in
ternationally through war between the slave
holders. But he was fighting them for corces-
sons for Negro business as he is fighting now
1t was to the economic interests of Negro capt.
tai to sacrifice the Negro masses in a war be-
tween the capitalist states. 1t will be to their
interests to draw the Negro masses into the
next war to save capitalism
The existing crisis strikes Negro business a
desperate blow. Seven white and Negro banks
within the black belt of Chicago have failed
Many banks in the Southern states have failed
dealing capitalism body blow The decreased
buying power of the Negro masses, suffering
terribly from mass Unemployment and wage
cuts heightens the pressure Of the crisis upon
the Negro bourgeosie These Negro masses con-
stitute its only market
Its efforts to save and to strengthen its mar
ket becomes frantic. on the one hand, the Ne
gro reforinists cry aloud to the Negro masses
to exhibit race loyalty" in other words to give
them full support In the same voice, they rave
against unity between Negro and white work
ers, they denounce mas struggles as a means
of alternating the misery Of the Negro masses,
although they themselves only receive conces-
sions from the ruling class when they are strug-
Cling to stem the growing spirit Of revolt among
the masses. .t-,t
On the other hand, they hold their meetings
with the agents of American imperialism
Roosevelt, Rosenwald, etc. at the Pittsburgh
N. A. A. G. P. conference) (the Negro Business
Mems League conference in New York with many
heads of big business present.. At these meet
ings, the plans for heading and beheading the
Scottsboro defense, the share-croppers move
nent are worked out. Walter White who yes
terday was supposed to have price on his head
in the South, today has full entry into the prison