The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-24
Reply to An Arrogant Yankee

entire working class, to create huge profits and
maintain the power of the minority class over
the telling majority.
The toiling class has historical task to per-
FORM The bosses have increased their offensive
against all workers and poor farmers. Economic
misery, mass unemployment, and wage cuts are
on the order of the day. Negro workers are
lynched; foreign born workers are deported; and
native American workers are dubbed, shot and
given long prison sentences mooney and Bill
ings) if they dare to protest against the vicious
boss rule.
When workers organize and fight against
starvation conditions, the bosses increase their
attacks against all workers The bosses place
the burden of the crisis on the laboring class:
millions are jobless and starving; other millions
working part-time, barely able to make
living for their families.
The workers, Negro and white must unite and
fight against the system that breeds poverty,
misery, and starvation
To abolish the division Of people into classes;
to render it impossible for minority class to
amass riches which are squeezed out of the
sweat and blood of Negro and white workers;
to unmask national prejudices which separate
the workers, making organization difficult; to
destroy every hindrance which prevents united
struggle of the entire working class against the
oppressors is the cardinal task Of every revolu-
tionary worker and the Communist Party.
The masses of white workers cannot be lib
Grated from the terrible scourge Of wage slav-
cry, they cannot break the letters OF American
imperiahst oppreSsior, without forming an al
lance with the super-exploited and subjected
Negroes. Labor in the white skin cannot free
itself where labor in the black skin Is branded"
MARK
The special yoke of persecution to which the
Negroes are subjected serves as a basis to keep
them down and at the same time drives the
living standards Of the white workers to the low
est level To give economic and political free
dom to all workers; to destroy the idea OF race
theoreticians of master and slave; to stop the
ruling class from organizing wholesale slaugh-
tiers that drive millions Of workers to slay one
another in wars that strengthen the position
and power OF the imperialst rulers over the
workers, it is necessary to build united fronts
of all workers, to mobilize black and white toll
ers to give stubborn resistance to unemployment,
wage cuts and speed-up; to fight against lynch
ing and all forms of capitalist oppression; to
rally the broad masses of workers to fight for
immediate relief and unemployment insurance;
to wage relentless fight against the special
forms of persecution against the Negroes, which
keep the workers divided and perpetuates slav-
cry and the rule Of the minority class.
White superiority and race prejudices play
directly into the hands Of the bosses. American
chauvinism, Yankee arrogance Is aggressive ma
tionalsm Of American imperialists It Is the
superstructure Of the present social system and
part of the special apparatus Of extra exploita-
ton of the Negroes. The origin Of this bour-
geois mentality has its roots in the former slav-
cry of the Negro. 1t is downright barbarism in
a country at the zenith Of capitalist culture. 1t
must be destroyed as it forms the main hin
crance to organizing united struggle against
the white ruling class for better economic and
political conditions
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