The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-30
BY CYRIL BRIGGS.

most INDUSTRIOUS IldGlOIldl OppI6SSAO11
N existence anywhere in the world
today.
Coming in the period of deepen
ing crisis, Of rising resistance on
the part of the workers to the mass
starvation program solution OF the
bosses, May Day, 1881, finds the
American ruling class in the midst
of a vicious campaign Of terror
against the workers. This terror
is directed especially against the
Negro and foreign born workers in
an attempt to isolate them and to
cut them off from the general
struggles of the working class.
Lynch Law
BY their vicious campaign to In
cite white workers against Negroes,
and native born white and Negro
workers against the foreign-born
workers, the bosses are attempting
to divert the masses from the neces-
sary mass revolutionary struggle
against starvation; are trying to set
workers to fighting among them
selves in order to prevent a united
struggle against the bosses system
of starvation, lynch law, persecu-
ton of Negro and foreign-born
workers.
BY lynchings and deportations
they hope to terrorize the Negro
and foreign-born workers into hes
itancy in joining the struggle
against wage cuts and the stagger
plan, into acceptance Of lower
standard of living, into acceptance
of the starvation program, and into
the role of strike breakers.
Socialists and xxx
In this conspiracy of splitting the
working class in order to defeat
the struggle against starvation, the
ruling class of this country has the
full cooperation of the social fas-
cists of the socialist party, the fas-
cist A. F. of L. leadership and Ku
Klux Khan elements, and the vari-
GUS camps Of the Negro reformistS.
In the South we find the Ku
Klux Khan, the Caucasian Cru
saders, the Black Shirts and the
A. F. of L. Officialdom united in
the demand that mo Negroes be
employed while white men are
starving" and "That Negroes now
holding jobs be fired and white
men employed in their place"
In the North we find this same
maneuver to split the working class
taken up by the Negro reformists
in the form of a fake campaign for
Jobs for Negro workers. coupled with
the demand that the foreign-born
workers be discharged and kicked
out of "our" country.
Both cases represent a dastardly
attempt to split the working class,
to narrow down the struggle against
starvation into demoralized fight
for a few jobs atthe expense OF
other sections Of the working class.
As against this attempt Of the
boss agents to split the working
class and divert the struggle
against starvation into channels
harmless to the imperialists, we
must record the rising militancy
Of the workers, the growing unity
Of Negro and white workers un-
der the leadership of the Com
munist Party and the revolution
airy Industrial unions.
Especially is this noticeable In the
field Of the Negro liberation strug-
gle, where the new Negro proletar-
lat, under the guidance of the Com
munist Party, is struggling man
fully and successfully for proletariat
hegemony of the movement and
against the frenzied attempts of the
Negro reformists to maintain their
hegemony and influence.
Workers Lead
May Day. 1881, will record a high
err development of the struggle for
working class unity, for proletariat
hegemony of the Negro liberation
movement, and in the mass reyo-
Iutionary struggle against starva-
ton, wage cuts. race hatred and
persecution of Negro and foreign
born workers, imperialist war prep
arations against the Soviet Union,
and for real unemployment relief