The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-09
BY !. AMTER,.

THE New York papers, when granted an inter-
view on the Yokinen trial, Immediately fea-
tured the interview, bringing forward not only
the significance of the trial, as understood by
the Communist Party, but the aims of the Party
in mobilzing the white and Negro workers of
the country for the defense of Negro rights-in
the struggle for full political and social equality
and for self-detertnination in the black belt of
the South for the establishment of a Negro
state
When the trial was over, the New York papers
particularly the New York Times-featlred the
trial. not merely demonstrating that the Com
nlunlst Party is very earnest in its determination
to uproot white chauvinism within its ranks, and
to carry the fight into the entire working class,
to unite the Negro and white workers in the
struggle against American imperialism. No, it
demonstrated much more-it manifested the
fear of the American capitalist class that the
Negro and white workers can get together on the
common basis of the Communist program and
organization for the struggle.
This fear becomes so much more manifest
when one realizes the dread that the capitalist
class and government have of the unrest that
is beginning to seethe throughout the country
in the strikes that are growing in number and
embracing larger numbers of workers both Or
ganized and unorganized-and in the militant
activities Of the unemployed under the leader
ship of the Trade Union Unity League and the
Unemployed Councils. This fear is expressed in
the manifold preparations that all local and
state governments have made to suppress "riots"
the recommendations of government and army
officials to provide gas, tanks etc., to quell mobs
1t is again clear in the campaign of lynching
against the Negro workers and poor tenant farm
ers, to crush their rising spirit 1t is manifest
in the savage drive against the foreign born
workers and the activities of the U. S. Immigra-
ton and Labor Departments, aided by the local
police and new police departments that are being
established for this and other activities
Thus the capitalist class through its press ex-
presses its fear of the mass trial conducted by
the Communist Party for the elimination of
white chauvinism from its ranks
For the working class this trial has double
significance. 1t indicates that there is only one
section of the working class that really unites
the workers of all races and nationalities in
struggle and that is the revolutionary section
OF the working class led by the Communist Par
ty Again. it indicates that when a worker is
expelled by the Communist Party, expresses his
repentance for his views and actions, and &C
cepts the tasks that are imposed upon him to
prove his unity with the Negro workers, then
too he Is accepted by the capitalist government
as their enemy. Yes, he is their enemy-if he
carries out the tasks placed upon hinl--the tasks
that every sincere revolutionary worker must ac-
cept This includes activities that will prove
to the Negro workers NOT IN WORDS but IN
DEEDS that the white workers will fight for
the rights of the Negroes.
This is the significance of the Yokinen trial
this is the significance that the Communist Party
ascribes to the trial-this is the meaning that
has well been understood by the capitalists, the
meaning that they fear. For once the dsunity
that they are sowing and trying to deepen once
the disunity that they are stimulating between
the white and Negro workers, the native and for
cign born workers, the Negro and foreign born
workers, is broken down. then the class struggle
will sharpen and the lines of the battling Amer
lean workers will be united in struggle against
the capitalist class the capitalist government
and all their Iackeys.
The lackeys of the capitalist class already are
complaining. They dare not come forth con-
demning the position OF the Party--althougl
the N. Y. Daily News calls it an advertising
stunt" They dare not criticize the Party for
the expulsion OF Yokinen, for that would mean
justification Of the attack Of whites upon Me-
groeG No-now that the dastardly hand q