The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-04

Haywood Broun correctly expresses the view of
the Socialist party in opposing the enforcement
of the 18th, 14th and 18th constitutional amend
ments which claim to give citizenship and vot-
ing rights to Negroes. The so-called Socialist"
party has never stood for the liberation of the
Negro people. The Socialist party, just as the
NAACP leaders, is against any agitation and or
ganization Of what is called the ignorant class
of Negroes, which means the slaves of the white
ruling class in the South Being supporter
of the capitalist system, the Socialist party is
not interested in the Negro in the South, where
the Negro has no vote, and where the demand
for the vote would stir up the masses of Ne
groes" as is being done by the Communist Party
and the League of Struggle for Negro Rights.
Just as the socialist" British Labor Party,
In the government of Great Britain orders the
shooting down of the inferior" Indian people
in India and slaughters every effort of the Ne
gfoes to organize in the British colonies of
Africa, just SO their brother party the Socialist
party of America, is in favor of the arrest the
terrorization and suppression Of the Ignorant"
working class and farming Negro masses in the
United States And this explains why the MA
ACP leaders find today their best friends in the
Jinl-crow Socialist party
we call upon the masses OF Negro people and
of the working class, black and white, to rally
together into tremendous mass movement for
the purpose of saving the lives and liberty of
the nine innocent Negro boys framed up at
Scottsboro. We demand united front of all
who are willing to fight for this purpose
We call upon the rank and file members of
the NAACP to repudiate the treacherous mis-
leaders, Spingarn, Walter White Mary W..
o4l,a~
made themselves the conscious agents of the
white ruling class of the South We call upon
the masses who have in the past followed these
nlisleaders to throw off such leadership and rally
in one solid united front to fight for the i'm
mediate release of the innocent Negro boys
framed up and condemned to death.
We do not think that the national organza-
ton of the NAACP can be brought into this
united front. The function of their organization
as declared by Walter White and William Pick
ems is to work in accord with the Influential
whites" of the South who, as the ruling class
are directly responsible for the framing up of
the Scottsboro boys. This white ruling class is
interested only in the enslavement and exploit
alton of the Negro masses. The function of the
NAACP under these leaders is to help the white
ruling class in the South to suppress all agita-
ton and all organization of the enslaved Negro
MASSES CNdC FlCkeIlS calls Cne ignorant class OF
Negroes. The function of the NAACP is the
same as that Of the Ku Klux Klan to keep the
masses Of the Negro people under the terror
ization exploitation and rule of the white ruling
class which Pickens describes as good race re-
lations"
But the mass movement to save the Scots
boro boys is growing and will continue to grow
The nine innocent Negro boys can be saved
Demand immediate release Of the nine inno-
cent boys. Stop the legal lynching at Scots
boro!
Demand new trial by jury composed only
Of those standing for equal rights for Negroes
at least half to be Negroes!
Only the mass power of the workers and OPP
pressed farmers, black and white, can free the
victims of the Scottsboro frame-up!
Down with peonage, Jim cro,ism, persecution,
lynching and frame-up of the Negro people!
Equal rights for Negroes! Right Of self deter
mination for the Negro people in the black belt!
Black and white workers-native and foreign
born workers-fight side by side against wage
cuts and unemployment, against lynching, de-
portations and anti-foreign born laws and mass
arrests!
Negro workers and oppressed farmers. Fight
and defeat the sabotage and betrayal Of the
Scottsboro boys by the reactionary Negro leaders,