The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-04

| an outrage against the Negro work
ers, but is also crime against the
working class as whole. Especially
at this period, when our class OPP
pressors are sharpening their attacS
against the workers and are in every
way possible trying to divert the
working class from struggling against
] the vicious attack upon their class
organizations and their living stand
ard, it is becoming ever more i'm
portant for the workers to solidify
the class solidarity of the Negro and
white workers.
The narrow clannishness that has
been thrust upon the foreign-born
workers Of this country by the Amer
lean imperialism, which utilities the
! petty bougeoisie and its influence
/ upon the minds of many of the
workers, has, to certain extent, led
to an isolation of the Finnish as we'll
as other foreign-born workers from
the class struggle of the American
workers. American imperialism uses
this artificial separation Of the work
ers into groups to further split them
from each other by spreading its
vicious doctrines of race and national
prejudices and by playing the Negro
and foreign-born and American
white workers all against each other.
At the time of my white chauvin-
istic statements, I was under the in
fluence of these anti ommunit and
-proletarian ideas that are foisted
upon us by the ruling bourgeoisie.
But do not wish to bring out these
facts as an excuse for my conduct.
As a, member of the Communist
Party. should have been a staunch
supporter of the line of the Party,
Which at all times and everywhere
lights resolutely against all forms of
'o5u'geois race and national preju-
dies among the workers and against
ali oppression. I recognize. also. that
my attitude only served to give aid
( end comfort TO all the agencies of
tie ruling class, such as the Fish
Committee, etc, who are now en-
r ged in launching a vicious attack
I PARTICULARLY against the foreign-born
To~l,ing class and generally against
he working class as whole.
recognize that the vicious oppres-
sion of the Negroes on the part of
the American imperialists, and the
fostering of the doctrines of race
hatred against Negroes among the
white workers by the agents of the
imperialists in order to support that
oppression. strengthens the whole
capitalist system of oppression and
enslavement. Therefore, the strug-
gle of the Negroes for freedom is not
the struggle of the Negroes alone,
but of the entire working class. The
white workers must be in the fore
front in the struggle of the workers
against all oppression in America.
I realize that my statements, di-
rected against Negroes, were anti
working class in their content. I re-
flute and condemn my previous atti-
tude, but at the same time I realize
/ that it is not enough to merely state
my complete break from my former
attitude, but want to prove in ac-
ton that I no more have the slight
est white chauyinistic tendencies.
ask this workers court not to de-
prive me of the opportunity to fur
Their carry on my activity for the
Communist Party and for the work.
ing class. pledge myself to fight
unflinchingly against all tendencies
of white chauvirism among the
workers, to fight for the social, polit-
ical and economic equality of the Ne
groes and for the solidarity of the
working class as a whole.