The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-23

lem the task of covering up the all-powerful
community of class interests of the workers.
For this purpose they inject as a backfire their
theology into the heads of the workers. The
teachings of racial national or religious divi-
sions are the most virulent germs of disunity
sown by the capitalists among the workers.
When the workers manifest their community
of interests in a united fight for better wages,
the capitalists appeal to the prejudces they
have planted in the heads of the workers. They
ask them to forget their real community of
interests. They appeal instead to the COM
munity of interest with the boss on the pre-
tense of color. The worker, blinded by CAPT
talist way of thinking, cannot see that this
pretended community of interest based on
color has neither a material nor a biological
basis; it is only an optical illusion.
Upon this optical illusion and to support it
American capitalism has built dastardly sys-
TEN of national oppression of 13 million Ne
groes. This oppression and exploitation is the
only reality in the fiction of racial superiority
This special oppression of the Negro masses
serves the purpose of pressing special profits
out of them and conveying them into the
pockets of the capitalists; at the same time it
is designed to support the capitalist illusion in
periority; it is designed to lend touch of
reality to the illusion. The bestial oppression
Of the Negro masses is presented by the CAPT
talists as normal necessity in the relation
ship between black and white workers. This
normally" assures capitalist rule not only
over the black but also over the white worker
The National Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People in several recent state
ments deplored the disturbance of the normal
relations between the white and the black peo-
pie in the South by the Communist campaign
to save the Scottsboro frame-up victims; yet
the CHASTITY monuments of these normal rela-
tons are countless charred and bullet-riddled
bodies of black victims Of hangings and burn
ings by capitalist-inspired lynch mobs This
n1urderous normal relation Of white and
black workers under capitalist rule can only be
combatted by militant unity of black and
white workers against their exploiters, against
the capitalists.
Czarist Russia maintained its rule with the
help Of the same principle; it kept the masses
Of oppressed down by keeping them divided
among themselves. The many national minor
tiles which Czarism had stuffed into its IN
satiable imperialist stomach were not only SC
many victims Of czarist oppression but also SC
many instruments of maintaining it.
In America, though the foreign-born work
ers are made ever more the targets of the CAPT
talist policy Of dividing the workers in order
to rule them, yet the color line is the mair
capitalist DOGGY to keep the workers disunited
In Czarist Russia the main DOGGY were the
Jews. While the Russian ruling class was nail
ing the Russian masses to the cross of insult
ferable oppression and exploitation it shouted
into its victims ears the fable of the cruel
fixion of Christ In order to prevent the "vic
Tins from fighting those who actually cruel
fled them in the goth Century, they organized