The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-16
QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS

Question: I learned at N. Y. High School
that a child which is born from Negro and
white couple is called Hybrid" This is supposed
to be very unhealthy child and has physical
as well as mental defects The child is known
as impure.
Have the Communists consideration for
this result of having impure offspring when
they draft program of struggle for the working
class?
Are the Communists not interested in better
ing the lives of the future generation?
Answer-This is typical of the poison being in
iected into the minds of the working class youth
by schools and other capitalist controlled insti-
tons Such a distortion Of scientific fact fol-
lows naturally from the vicious theory of Negro
inferiority by which the white master class seeks
to justify its brutal enSlayement of the Negro
masses during chattel slavery and atpresent, and
to keep the Negro and white workers divided so
that they can be exploited more easily.
The idea of impure" offspring of Negro
and white couple is based on the false assump-
ton that there are pure races.
BY 'impure" is meant that different races
have mixed, this has no reference to health
or physical fitness at all Furthermore no rep
utable biologist claims purity for any race, all
are impure" in this sense.
AS to the offspring OF Negro and white parents
being unhealthy, even bourgeois statistics deal
ing with the mulattoes in the United States re-
flute such an absurdity. On the contrary, bioo-
gists have proven that a mixture of races is
good and as a rule produces better offspring
physically and mentally on account of the mix
ture Mulattoes are thus as pure and healthy
as either Negro or white. incidentally most
of these offspring are forced upon black women
by the white master class. That mulattoes are
mentally defective is as much a lie as the non
sense peddled by the bourgeoise that the black
race is naturally inferior.
This race theory of white superiority and Ne
gro inferiority, is in direct contradiction with
the facts. That the whites are today on high
er cultural level is due to economic conditions
and to the fact that they have been able to
exploit and viciously suppress the Negro masses.
1t does not prove any racial superiority. Quite
the contrary, when the whites were in an I'M
favorable economic situation, they we're also on
much lower level than the Negroes and other
dark races. History shows that with favorable
economic conditions the black peoples have Gre
ated very high types of civilization
Communists are relentlessly opposed to the i'm
perialist theology Of race hatred and lies about
Negro nferiority and to all nonsense put out in
support of this theology.
Question: Please tell me the name of a re-
cent book by revolutionary trade union writer
that tells about strikes in the Northwest lum-
Der industry. r., New Jersey.
Labor and Lumber, by Charlotte Todes. 1t can
be bought from the Workers Library Publishers,
Box 14S, Station D, New York City, $1.oo.
Question: Why was France the last to be hit
by the present crisis?--N. r. Cleveland.
During the world war the French territory was
the hardest hit by the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
of the war. AS result, France took longer
time to rehabtate itself than other countries
in Europe This meant work for workers, SO
that unemployment was delayed on that ac-
count. France also seized rich Ruhr industries,
coal and iron fields Besides she gets huge
slice of the reparations payment.
There was shortage of labor partly due to
the low birth rate, and France imported foreign
workers. Poles and Italians who were shipped
back out of the country when work began to get
scarcer This kept unemployment down.
France has large tourist trade which has
helped keep industry up. In addition many Of
the exports of France are of the nature that
they could be called "uxures" which depend
upon the purchasing power of the richer groups.
But now, according to Paris correspondent
of the N. Y. Tribune, Feb 6, France was facing
one of the greatest crises in her economic his
tory" and that unemployment had already
reached, counting part-time workers, the huge
figure OF 100000. ---, Y-r- ~