The daily worker., 1931-02-19
Close Ranks Against Chauvinist
Influences
Resolution of the District Bureau c. P u S. A., District g.
On the Struggle Against Chauvinism

1. An all-round tightening of the yoke OF i'm
perialist oppression of the millions Negro toiers
is taking place together with the sharpening of
the crisis and the ferocious boss-class offensive
against the living standards and the political
rights OF the workers in general.
2. Thus particularly in the recent period the
white ruling class and their agents are redoub-
ling their chauvinist activities. Everywhere the
forces of reaction are engaged in frantic efforts
to fan into frame the emberS of racial and ma
tional prejudiceS and hatred among the workers
to split the ranks of the workers on the basis
of race and nation, to lynch and terrorize Ne
groes.
The object of this intensified wave of 100 per
cent Yankee terror is to distract the workers
from the struggle against the real enemy, to
scatter the workers forces and thus render
joint struggle impossible, and to isolate the Negro
workers from the revolutionary movement.
Every revolutionary worker and particularly
every Party member must understand that these
tactics of the class-enemy are not directed
against the Negroes alone, but are part and
parcel of the bosses attack against the whole
working class
3. Hand in hand with this new wave of rul-
ing class chauvinism and supplementing it, is
to be noted up-flare of bourgeois national
ism among the upper strata of the Negro popu-
lation.
In desperate attempts to retain the leadership
OF the discontented Negro masses in the Jim
crow districts of the cities, the Negro bourgeosie
and their spokesmen are increasingly coming out
with demagogic slogans and gestures on the one
hand and are on the other hand entering into
all sorts of treacherous agreements with the
white BOSSES
The object Of these activities Of the Negro
bourgeoisie is to prevent the growing movement
of discomfort among the Negro masses from find
ing its natural expression as part of the revo-
lutionary labor movement, to turn it into chan
nels harmless to imperialism.
The workers, black and white, must defeat
these sinister attempts of both the white ruling
class and the Negro bourgeoisie to break up their
ranks, by the closest solidarity Of the Negro and
white workers in the struggle against all op-
preston.
cent American chauvinism is felt in the revolu-
tionary movement and even in the Party itself
In the recent period, number of the most
disgraceful outbursts Of chauvinism, occurring
for the most part in our non-Party mass or
ganizations, have been brought to the attention
of the District Committee For example:
a. Negro workers attending a dance at the
Harlem Finnish Club New York, are confronted
with open hostility Members of our Party frac-
ton present, made little or no protest against
this outrage.
b. A similar incident occurred at dance given
by the Progressive Youth Club in Harlem. While
in this case Young Communist League speaker
took the floor and put forth the position Of the
YCL, the fact that such a situation arose, in
dcates an imper1nissible negligence Of our League
fraction in educational work among the white
non-League members.
c. In the Young Liberator group in Brooklyn
Negro non-League members justifiably accused
certain league comrades of white chauvinist ten
dencies. This matter was aggravated by the
fact that during the investigation, our league
comrades, instead of an attitude of frank self
criticism before these workers. almost unanim-
ously took UP defensive attitude.
d. In the needle trades union discrimination
Of Negro workers on the job and In some cases
even In our own union shops has been permitted
to 60 unchallenged by the union. The Party
friction has made Little Or ne sfsQ1t within III