The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-07
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Is and BOIsheviks
By JORGE

We got all excited at receiving three unusual
n9pars from south of the Smith e. Wesson Line
the other day. two from Texas, one from Birm-
ingham And we're going to let you take peek
at EN-.
First, is THE Fundamentals" and take it
from us this sheet from Fort Worth is Funda
if not "nentaIist' Across the front page at the
top is headline in red ink capital letters read
ing: "Old Fashioned Heaven-Sent Fire-Baptized
Holy Ghost Sin-Convicting MournerS-Bencn
Shouting Revival in Amarillo"
That would make you sprout wings right where
you're hitched, if a god-fearing Baptist But
this sheet is so ALFRED fundamentals that 1t
declares a new civil war on the Baptist Church
of the perfidious North.
But now comes Brotherhood Eyes" weird
little Dallas sheet 1t seems also Baptist, but
Jim Grow Baptist More, it says it is after
"the Evil Doer within the Race" and mostly it
Specializes in lecherous Negro Baptist preachers
whose sins are related in cold type
1t opens up by saying that Although the State
Baptist Convention is split asunder, we find the
same crookedness prevailing" Kinda of a left
wing" But its main line is such things as
Preacher Faces Charge of Being Father OF
Baby" and "Old Sugar Daddy Still Likes Them
Young" inside Madame ISmar, Spirttualist, is
advertised to tell past present and future for
white CT cclored."
What rot, both of these bughouse sheets, with
real issues of starvation, misery, lynchingS, and
war facing millions of southern workers and
poor farmers!
And what breath, of sanity and clarity for
all toilers we get from the third, the Birming-
ham paper, the Southern WORKER! Here
straight from the mill towns and cotton patches
we get the pulse of class struggle of things that
matter! The fight of the jobless, the struggle
against lynchngs, Chattanooga Elections, stories
of how the farmers fight With guns for bread
and it's not all in Arkansas, either!
AS an antidote to the Baptist bunk-an eX-
posure of the mathematician Ministers
Alliance in its leading the bourgeois Negro pow
WOW at Chattanooga celebrating the so-called
Emancipation Proclamation" which it rightly
terms: Celebrating Piece of Paper While
Negroes Remain Slaves" This article alone is
worth any workers time
The Southern Worker" is the voice of the
Communist Party in the South and it deserves
pushing. The issue we have, printed before the
Arkansas outbreak, shows it was felt" in adj
vance. An editorial opens:
Armed warfare for very existence shoulders
the countryside. The rock bottom prices
Of cotton and tobacco, the taking of the whole
proceeds of crops by landowners, the refusal
of landlords and merchants to advance any
more credit for food severe unemployment, the
drouth, winter, bank failures-is why warfare
smoIders on the countryside. People do NOT
starve peacefully, no matter how the bose.
would like it So"
Here, workers, is something vital, something
alive! Not the Holy Ghost Revival of the Fun
damentalsts, nor the immoral morality" of
Brotherhood Eyes," but the voice of the Negro
toilers, of mill hand and hill Billy rising to the
dignity of social revoution Here is a paper
| that means something!