The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-08-06
Says We Sympathize
With Communists
The Editor.

The Northwest Enterprise,
Sir:
In view of the published reports of
the National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People, in its
weekly Bulletins, of progress in the
Seottsboro case, it seems to me the
statement in the editorial in your
July 18th issue that "the Commu-
nists have the Association licked" is
uniustified.
Further, the statement comes with
i'll grace from a former land for all
| know, still a. president of Branch
of that association. Indeed, it shows
such i'll Judgment that to account
it one can assign only malice or
desire to boost the Communist cause
among Negroes.
Notwithstanding the Indifferent
attitude of the vast majority of Ne
groes, and its actual financial sup
port by hardly one in forty, this or
ganization has gone steadily forward
battling heroically for the Negroes
rights; and by its achievements is
gaining National recognition as a
power to be reckoned with. Now
come the Communists who, disre-
garding this record of successes, call
the organization traitor to the Ne
gro. Immediately there arises a
crowd of Negroes tamong whom, to
my knowledge, are those who per-
sistently refused to give any assis-
lance to the N.A.A.C.P.. who eagerly
Join hands with these new champions
of Negro rights and help to belittle
their benefactors.
You might consistently be both a
Communist and member of the N.
A.A.C.P.=you cannot be truly both
while at the same time traducer of
the latter. have been following
your editorials on the case, and it
seems to me- you lose no opportunity,
and you IKE every means at your
command, falsely to make it appear
that there is battle between the
N.A.A.C.P. and the Communists as
to which shall defend the boys, and
that the former should surrender and
join hands with the latter. You say
1.-TWO groups of lawyers have been
hired. One would be enough" As
president of your branch which
would you desire discharged? That
"In New York and Boston the Reds
have invaded the N. A. A. C. P.
meetings and heckled the speakers.
Do you approve of this? or should
the Association give up on this ac-
count? "They have secured sigma
lures of the accused boys and their
parents so that they, the Reds, are
the sole legal representatives in the
case. The N.A.A.C.P. may only CO.
operate with the permission of the
Reds. It's in the court without eli
ents." These statements are 50 ut
terly at variance with the published
statements in the Associations week
ly releases (and you get those re.
leases that | am sending your edi-
torial to Walter White asking for q
statement as to its veracity.
The NA.A.C.P. is not licked, The
Communists have made the biggest
noise. but noise does not win vic
tories, nor do bricks hurting through
windows in American consulates in
European countries win law suits in
Alabama, nor do protests of foreign
ers prevent the legal lynching OF
either black or white boys in the
United States. Such did not save
Sacco and Vanzetti, and it would
seem to me that anyone who places
the lives of those boys above the
making of propaganda for Commu-
nists could readily see this.
Knowing something of your sym.
pathy for Communism and, also, OF
the WAYS of editors in sWavino their