The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-07
By ALEX BITTELMAN.


The white ruling class of the United States wants
the Negro masses fodder for the coming I'M
pertalst especially for the military intervention
against the Soviet Union
But the Negro the same as the oppressed
everywhere awakening to their condition Es-
pecaly has the awakening taken place since the inpe
ralst war Of 194-1916 and the workers revolution in
Russia in November 1917 Ever larger masses of Negroes
in the United States coming to realize that their
greatest enemy is the white ruling class American inpe
rals; and that their greatest friend is the Soviet
Union.
The lynchers and oppresors of the Negroes are now
preparing for against the only country in the world
that has abolished capitalist exploitation and that has
realized in full national equality. The Hoover admins
tration busy organizing the capitalist powers of Europe
for joint nperialist attack upon the Soviet Union
This is what Stimson and Mellon are doing in Europe
to day. This is what Hoover wants to accomplish with
his plan for one-year suspension of inter governmental
debts.
Remember the War of 1914-1918
When the American ruling class represented at that
time by woodrow Wilson had joined the late imperiaist
war it depended considerably upon the Negro masses
The Negroes were to supply proporonatey the largest
number of conscrpts for the army The Negroes we're
expected to be placed at the most dangerous and diff
cult positions at the front The same as in peace time
the white ruling class of the United States was preparing
the worst deal for the Negro masses
At the same time the American imperialsts we're
holding out all sorts of hopes to the Negro masses
Equality, the abolition of nl-Crowism and lynching
the establishment of new era the relation between
the oppressor and oppresed-a this danged before
the eyes Of the Negro reward" partci-
patton in the of 1914-1916 The Negro refornsts
helping Wilson create these illusions in the minds
OF the
What happened in reality? All these promises of
the white ruling class TO be sheer DECEPTION
During the the Negro treated with the
utmost brutality, at home we'll at the front Fol
lowing the conclusion of the robber peace the govern
ment of the United States began to debate the Negroes
of their illusions that their participation inpe-
rlalist will bring liberation to the masses. The
awakening and resistance of the Negroes was met by the
ruling class with lynchng court martials engineered
race riots and intense persecution generally.
All the violence discrimination and oppression that
the Negroes subjected to in peace time repro
duced manifold for the Negro soldiers in the training
camps and the battle field. Negro soldiers were
almost entirely commanded by white officers So
rageous the treatment of the Negro soldiers in the
training camps that Emmett Scott of the Assistant
Secretaries of War felt compelled to write the following
early in the Summer of 1918 flood of
plants reached the War Department from many of
the camps, the burden of which that the Negro
soldiers being grossly mstreated by their white
officers, oftime physically assaulted and that the
lcred forced to work under the most
healthy and laborious conditions
The conscripton law applied with special dis
elimination against the Negroes Ratings of Negroes