The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-19
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fore, earnestly urge our colored fellow citizens
to join heartily in the fight for eventual world
liberation; we urge this despite our deep SYM
pathy with the reasonable and deep-seated feel
ing of revolt among the Negroes at the present
insult and discrimination to which they are sub
ject and will be subject even when they do their
patriotic duty" (emphasis ours, HID. Emmett
Scott, who functioned as assistant secretary of
war in 1918, must likewise be exposed. 1t is
also necessary to expose the united front OF Ne
gro reformsts and the Jim Grow government in
the organization and maintenance of Jim Grow
hospitals for Negro ex-servicemen. .@..o.
A This whole agitation should be developed In
H' the form of sensational exposures centered
around concrete cases. For example, such out
standing cases of imperialist persecution as the
brutal hanging of the 10 members of the Oath
Infantry by U. S. court martial at Houston,
Texas in connection with the mutiny against
the outrageous attacks upon them by the civilian
administration of that city: this whole case
should be. reviewed through establishing contact
with THE FAMILIES of the victims and de-
velOping mass campaign demanding reinvesi-
CATION of the whole affair, with the particpa-
ton of representatives of working class orgaiiza
lions on the investigation committee, the Grim
inal prosecution of those responsible and repara-
tons to the families of the victims. Similarly
the case of Willie Peterson, disabled veteran,
framed-up at Birmingham, must be taken up
and dramatized as a concrete example of the
reward to be expected by Negroes for their SER
vices to the lynch government. This case must
be utilized for the drawing of ex-servicemen
into the struggle against lynching. The case
of the Negro Gold Star Mothers who as re-
ward for the saughtering of their sons in the
imperialiSt blood-fest, were subjected to the
most humiliating Jim Crowsm by the govern
ment, must be revived. In this case these
mothers must be gotten in touch with and
Statements secured from them exposing their
treatment, Campaigns should also be conducted
around specific cases of discrimination against
Negro veterans in connection with bonus hos
pitalizaton and compensation
< simultaneously it is necessary to immedi-
0' ately develop the partial demands of the
Negro servicemen, regular army National Guard,
navy, on the basis of opposition to impefiast
Jim Grow policy. 1t is our opinion that the
Workers Ex-Servicemens League as the work
ing-claSs organization of war veterans, should
also further work out the demands of the Ne
gro war veterans in regard to discrimination in
compensation, disqualification, bonus, etc., etc.
and assist in carrying on agitation among the
Negro members OF the American Legion and
World War Veterans
& With the developing war situation and the
We growth of fascist reaction against the Negro
masses, particularly in the South, the demand of
the RIGHT OF SELF DIFFERENTIATION for
the Negroes in the Black Belt acquires increas-
ing vitality Therefore, side by side with our
fundamental slogans in regard to the war-con-
vert the imperiast war into civil war; defeat
the U. S. government, defend the USS.R and
the Chinese Revolution-it is necessary to ad-
vocate among the Negro masses the necessity of
turning the mperalst war into revolutionary
war for national liberation, equal rights and the
right of self determination in the Black Belt;
for the confiscation of the land of the big land
owners and capitalists in the Black Belt in favor
of the Negro toilers etc.
7 Hand in hand with these fundamental slo-
% gans and subordinated to them it is neces-
sary to advance in a more energetic fashion than
heretofore the struggles for the partial demands
OF the Negro liberation movement abolition of
lynching and the organization OF self defense