The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-11
Struggling Negroes! Remember
SaCCO and Vanzetti

Chicago whose blood is being split by the riot
guns of Chicago police in the struggle to prevent
evictions and for unemployment relief
1t is peculiarly appropriate to connect the
defense Of the Negro victims of capitalist perse-
cution with the legal murder Of two foreign thorn
workers Sacco and Vanzetti.
Why?
Because this connection expresses the sondar-
ity of all the oppressed.
Because at this very time when the whole
working-class and the Negro masses are SUI
fering such misery and persecution as never
beforehand while the persecution and terror Of
the capitalist government is being centered with
unrestrained fury against the Negro masses and
against the fOreign-bOrn workers in America
there are certain corrupt Negro leaders" who,
as political stool-pigeons for the capitalist class
are trying to turn the anger of the Negroes
against the foreign born workers of their own
class. This is the sly work of the enemy! This
is the sly work of that prosperous agent Of the
white ruling ass-Congressman De Priest fat
with the proceeds Of high rents from jim-crow
apartments
AS slap in the face Of such hypocrites-let
the Negro masses turn out by tens of thousands
in memory of the martyred foreign born work
ers, Sacco and Vanzettil
On the day of commemoration of the mar
tyrdom of Sacco and Vanzetti there can be
nothing more important than to bring forth in
every demonstration the struggle on behalf Of
the imprisoned Negro share-croppers at Camp
Hill, Alabama Throughout the slave planta-
tions of the southern states are to be found
many times the million mem that Vanzetti
said we're needed, when snlirking hypocritical
socialist party leaders and Anarchist reformist
dilettantes tried to substitute their puny legal
bubbles for the mass movement to save them
Into the South today ravels William Pickens, an
equally Sinking and hypocriical refornist Ca
renegade Negro and therefore the most useful
tool that the southern white ruling class can
find today Pickens plays the role today that
was played four years ago by the socialist party
and the intellectual Anarchists in trying to serve
the capitalist order by demoralizng and sup
pressing the mass movement and teaching that
the victims of capitalism depend upon the
mercy" and the Justice" of those who murder
them. And just as the socialist party and the
anarchist reforrnists today play the role of
strike-b breakers and police meters against the
working class-just so the Pickenses appeal to
the southern ruling class to sit up and take
notice" and take repressive measures against
'the densey ignorant portion of the coiOred
population" And the sheriffs mob of deputies
follows the renegade Pickens' advice by shoot
ing down the Negro share choppers.
But the mass movement proceeds and grows
against the class enemies who murdered Sacco
and Vanzetti. 1t grows nowhere so fast and
nowhere so strong as precisely among the labor
ing masses of Negroes Let all hypocrites who
pretend to know the psychology Of the Negro
and who make use of such knowledge in the
service of the Negroes worst enenlies-let them
know this:
The Negro masses are reserve of the prOle-
tartan revolution against capitalism. They will
cast off the leadership of petty bourgeois agents
of the imperialist white ruling class, and with
their own revolutionary party of the Negro and
white workers. the Communist Party, they will
come into action