The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-19
Vote Communist!
BY WILLIAM L. PATTERSON.

THE democratic party with its Ku Klux Khan
leadership has always proven itself an open
enemy Of the Negro masses. Its very name
must raise before them scenes of lynching and
mob violence, of jim-crowism and segregation.
The historical past of the republican party has
been cloak hiding from the Negro masses the
slave-master character of its leadership. 1t is
also party of the bosses. But the republican
party led northern capital during the Civil War.
Then, the demands of capitalist society for cot
ton and other raw materials, for greater mar
kets, could only be answered by the emancipa-
ton of the slaves
Unable to recognize these fundamentally eco
nomic demands as the forces making for the
Emancipation Proclamation" Negro leaders
rallied the Negro masses to the support of the
republican party as their liberator. These lead
ers found in this direct material benefits for
themselves Frederick Douglas said "The re-
publican party is the ship. All else is the sea-"
and the Negro masses believed. Today this ship
has become the leader of the new slave traffic
The socialist party has openly established its
jm-crow locals in the South. 1t has openly
declared that work in the South could be done
only when the customs Of the South were duly
respected. 1t has shown itself to be only third
party Of the bosses.
We are now approaching new election cam
paign These parties of the bosses will again
come before the Negro masses with the promises
they uttered yesterday. These parties do not
recognize the class struggle They claim to rep
resent the interests of all the people But all
the people have no common interest Eleven
millions of starving unemployed workers all
upon the streets, millions more are suffering
from vicious wage cuts. Between these masses
and the bosses, there are no common interests
The living conditions of the Negro workers
grow worse daily. AS the workers grow poorer
the bosses become richer. What have the parties
of the bosses to say about this? What have they
to offer to relieve tn enlisery of the Negro mas
SEES? Only lies and the unkept promises of yes
terday, the promises that we're not meant to
be kept that could not be kept, that are un-
raped yearly and brought out to fool the Negro
workers. The Negro misleaders voice these
promises the loudest
But on this occasion, the bosses candidates
will be faced by the representatives of the Party
of the Negro workers and toiling Masses the
Communist Party. Its election program sets
forth the methods by which immediate relief
can be secured by the Negro masses. Its cleo
ton program is a program of struggle by the
working class against the boss class. In relation
to unemployment insurance, it holds that every
worker irrespective of nationality, color or
sex, shall receive unemployment insurance to the
full amount of his or her wages for the full
time of unemployment. The insurance provisions
shall also cover part-time workers to make up
the amount of their regular wages The burden
of raising these funds are placed squarey on the
shoulders of the bosses. For the Negro masses,
particularly, it demands equal pay for equal
work, full social and political rights for the Ne
groes the right to live in any section of the city
and state they desire A fight against and per-
secution of all landlords charging Negroes high
err rents than whites for equal accommodations.
The right of Negroes to work on any job with
out discrimination. The right of Negroes to at
tend all schools colleges, etc. and against any
form of discrimination. Unity of Negro and
white workers in the struggle for equal rights.
For self determination of the Black Belt of
the South. Immediate establishment of public
parks and Fairgrounds in Harlem,
Negro workers. Vote Communist!