The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-22

been profuSe with individual struggles of share
troopers and landowners, small fights in which
the landowner usually received the worst share
These battles, expressions of revolt against the
oppressive conditions, are usually one between a
Negro share-cropper the most exploited of the
farm labor and the white landowner. Each fight
presents in bold relief the background of furi-
Gus robbery of the Negro farm toilers and in the
foreground is presented sharply the organized
lynch forces of the deSpotic landlords, the wea-
pom that holds in slavery entire nation. To
show how we'll the Southern Bourbons have
learned the art of despotism, it is well here to
quote news clipping from the Charlotte News
of September 15 1881 No clearer idea csn be
given of the effectiveness of the poisonous cam
paign of Negrophoba handed out by the white
ruling class of the South. The clipping starts:
National guardsmen, state constables and
county officers combed Union County today for
Wade Moore, negro farm hand, charged with
Staying Aubry Wilburn cotton plantation over
seer"
Then continuing, Moore, barefooted, fled"
and, "as news of the Staying spread, a mob of
angry men, at one time numbering 1000, gath
cred" Then to make sure the job is done right,
GONSIHOT bldChWOOQ OTQeT6Q OUT UHe Union Ma
tional Guard company to maintain order and
aid in the search for the alleged slayer" The
parasitic landowners making sure no Negro
would escape being terrorized secured blood
hounds from Asheville' and then gave orders out
to their lynchers to search every nook in the
county for Moore
Here clearly, is a large part of the lynch ma
chinery. The mob of 1000 brought together by
the theological campaign conducted through
newspapers; the National guardsmen; blood
hounds; sherrifs and deputies; the chase over
miles and miles of plantation land where thou
sands of Negroes are bound to the soil; all these
are natural factors in the terrorization and
grinding down of the share troopers under the
bloody heel of American Imperialism
Cases like the one above happens on an aver
age of almost one week No doubt such an &C.
casion is deliberately utilized by the landowners
that is, the man-hunt, to spread terror over as
wide an area as possible in order to assure the
terrifying of huge numbers of Negro troopers and
the whipping up of race hatred in all or most
OF the white share choppers on the route of
chase Only recently in the case of Wilson Autry,
Negro farm hand was chased for almost 100
miles across plantation country of North and
South Carolina. without doubt such hunt has
a disastrous effect upon the horrible conditions
of the white and Negro farm toilers giving them
the impression of the futility of resistance to-
wards their oppressors.
The landowners are feverishly trying every
means possible to prevent a unity in the ranks
of the white and Negro share troopers and no
wonder with the horrible conditions existing, the
workers are in desperate need OF organization
against the robbing landlords
Everywhere in the farming areas the demands
of Sharecroppers Union is enthusiastically re-
ceived. 1t is way out from under the clutch of
the landowners, way to better living conditions.
Each demand forwarded by the Choppers Union
is a step towards National liberation for the
terribly exploited Negro masses.
AS the misery and suffering of the troopers
deepens and the need for organization grows
greater, the white master class are brewing up
more repressive measures to be used against their
slaves. More Scottsboros are springng up every
where. More than ever are the Negro reformists
rallying to the defense of the starvation system
of peonage and terror.
The Choppers Union must spread, Only unit
ed fighting front Of white and Negro workers
and farmers can secure better conditions for the
farm toilers. Demand the right of the share
troopers to organize! Demand the right of self
determination for the Negro majorities of the
South, with the confiscation Of the land of the
rich landowners for the Negro, and white workers
who work the land Demand the withdrawal Of
all armed forces from the Black Belt Build the
Share Choppers Union