The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-21
WORKERS MUST ANSWER
ATTACKS OF ALA. FASCISTS

their benign supervision "white mans burden"
will be rudey kicked off and the Negro toiling
masses, together with the white toilers will
force their rights to be recognized-not perhaps
by illegal" means-for assuredly this will be back
ed UP by the organized strength of white and
Negro toilers.
Is it then surprising at the sudden fright and
Chills the capitalist class and the big landlords
feel at the progress Of the Party Indeed the
very thought Of the Negro farmers organizing
together with white farmers and workers to de-
mand better conditions is enough to give
these gentlemen" who promote lynchings as a
sign Of white supremacy" a nightmare. Here
indeed we see the close direct relationship be-
tween the ruling class and the governmental
apparatus expressed in classic form. How
closely linked up the interests of the capitalists
and the semi-feudal relationships on the land
together with the state machinery are. is ex-
posed very clearly. But a few days after the
Communist Party had sent an organizer down
into the Black Belt, the State Legislature has
decided to hold a special session-after the con-
ference of Gov. Miller and the state attorney
general-after wiring the Fish Committee for
help-to pass special laws to be modelled after
the vicious anti-working class Michigan law.
Not Content With Present Oppressive Laws
They are not content with their Criminal An
fine or with their frame-up charges of wa
grancy' etc. This they feel will not prevent the
mercilessly oppressed masses from rebelling and
refusing to be sensible" and quietly starve to
death. Motley must deal more severely with
these foreign agitators' (anyone outside the
state is a foreigner here). How smugly hypo-
critically they talk of this being done without
''any thought of violating the right of free speech
or free press montgomery Advertiser. 3-6-3D.
How touching their sacred regard for the Gin
violable" rights of free speech and free press
They who look upon the 14th 18th, and 18th
amendments, giving the Negro masses even the
so-called democratic" rights, as so many scraps
Of paper.
The significance for the Party in this latest
and most vicious attack lies in the fact that the
actions of the Alabama State Legislature are
only forerunner of what the workers and their
Party in the rest of the country will soon be up
against. 1t is precisely down here where the
oppression is Sharpest and the conditions worst
that the bosses attack is the sharpest and hard
est. 1t is precisely because here the Party is
doing something never before attempted-mob-
iizing white and coored toilers in a common
fight against their oppressors.
Forerunner of Attacks
Is 1t not natural that the capitalist prostitute
press should try to isolate us-and prepare the
solute illegality by its provocative lies of "Reds
call on Negroes to revolt" etc. Comrades-we
must draw the conclusions-that this attack on
the working class of Alabama is the forerunner
of other sharper attacks on the working class
and its leader, the Communist Party. Now is
the time for all comrades to prepare to with
stand the coming blows. Here in Alabama our
answ-r is increased organization in the shops
and on the farms to mobilize the toiling masses
of white and Negro workers against this latest
VICIOUS attack Throughout the country the
comrades must tighten up the Party, strengthen
the Iron Discipline and root ourselves so firmly
in the shops that no amount of terror or per-
secuton will be able to break the influence of
the Party. In spite of all the terror and per-
secutions Of the bosses and their government
the Party will win the toiling masses of Negro
workers and farmers of the South as firm fight
ers together with the white workers against our
common oppressors-the capitalist class
Resist the bosses attacks by roofing ourselves
firmly in the shops Mines and on the farms!
Smash all signs of white chauvinsm-for the
firm unity Of white and coIored toiIers against
capitalism