The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-31
LILY WHITE AND PURE"

ging Of Coder and Hurst white workers fight
ing for the rights of the Negroes.
Before the civil war the slave owners feared
and hated the enslaved Negro masses. They
had terrible dreams about revolutionists like
Nat Turner and the uprising of the enslaved
nation Today the ruling class of the United
States and the Wall ST. government fear not
only the Negro masses but the starving white
workers as well. They fear and hate the ten
millions of unemployed. They fear and hate the
Communist Party, which is leading and uniting
the workers, Negro and white, American and
foreign born, in the struggle for the demands
of the entire working class.
The white workers of this country have been
taught to believe that they are superior" The
Negro workers have been taught by rope and
faggot and nameless atrocities to hate the
whites.
White chauvinism is the belief the part of
a white person that he is better than the Negro.
1t is the task of the revolutionary workers to
break down this chauvinism which is a weapon
of the boss class against the entire working
class.
The natural suspicion and distruSt on the
part of the Negroes against the white workers
must be broken down in order to unite the
masses. This can only be done by determined
fight against white chauvinism wherever it raises
its head; inside the Party or in other working
class organizations. White chauvinism must be
fought in words and deeds. We must organize
defense corps in the south to protect the Ne
groes from the lynch mobs and we must defend
the Negroes in the north against all persecution
and intimidation.
White ruling class prejudice and hatred
against the Negro people was born in the fes-
tered brain of the slave owners Of the old south
1t came from the slave traders and slave mas
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And it is used today by the white ruling class
for precisely the same purpose. 1t was used
to terrorize the slaves then and it is used to
terrorize the Negroes today. 1t was used to
separate the white and Negro masses then and
has been used for the same purpose up to the
present time.
White chauvinism is just one weapon Of the
bosses against the workers. They have the
courts, police, jails and clubs and they have
white chauvinism.
The persecution of the foreign-born workers
at the present time is a part of the schemes of
the bosses to keep the workers divided by any
and all means. And in the same manner that
they spread the lie of "inferiority" so they de-
port the militant foreign-born workers under
the screen of criminal alien"
1t is the duty of the Communist Party to
unite the entire working class We must break
down all these prejudices planted by the bosses
against the Negro masses and against the for
eign born as we'll We must smash every trace
of white chauvinism. We must fight for the
rights of the Negro and the foreign-born work
ers in the United States
We call upon the entire working class to close
its ranks and to fight against every form of
terror of the bosses against the masses. The
Communist Party fights for social equality of
the oppressed Negro masses and lends all its
forces in the battle for Negro rights. We are
in the fight to smash white chauvinism in this
country and we will stand behind the Negro
Nation in its struggle for determination in
the south
Our slogans are: Death to the lyncherS, for
the rights of the Negro and foreign born
masses and for united working class.