The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-04

NEW YORK.-Nailing the lie re-
ceased by the local Negro Lawyers
Association that he would be one OF
The speakers at a dinner for Judge
Terrell of washington, D. c., Com
rade William Patterson sent a letter
of repudiation to the Negro reform
list press, reading in part:
Rejects Brides of Imperialists.
wish to state unqualifiedly that
I do not regard Judge Terrell as
having anything at all in common
with the telling Negro masses. Judge
Terrell was elevated to his 'honored'
position by that party which, while
not at the head of the government
of the American ruling class during
the perpetration of the rape of Haiti,
has nevertheless endorsed and con-
doned that bloody rape and has sta
toned its marines in Haiti that the
act of violation may be carried for
ward. This government of dollar die
tatorship, the troops of which today
are cold bloodedly numbering Mica
raguan workers and peasants whose
only crime is that they are struggling
for their independence, has hon
ored" Judge Terrell,
brands Terrell a Tool of Oppressors.
This class of bloody rulers with
their republican party leadership
hesitated not one moment to throw
gratuitous insult of Jim Grow
travel into the faces of the Negro
war mothers gold star mothers) who
had given their sons for democracy,
and Judge Terrell lacked the man
hood to protest in the face OF this
insult. It signalized its victory Ttor
democracy" which took toll OF the
lives of twenty millions Of men and
brought untold misery to the work
ing class Of poverty, starvation, dis
ease. and death, by proyocating IN
its vulgar, scandal mongering, MUIR
der fostering, lying press the race
riots" of Chicago, East st. Louis ana
washington and by provocating an
almost unprecedented wave OF terror
and mob violence that reaches
climax today in the already prepared
mass legal lynching-a bloody holi-
dav-of nine Negro boys in Scots
boro, Alabama.
Negroes Enemies Are Terrells
Benefactors.
This class of bloody landlords and
piratical industriahsts has since the
Civil war Haunted in the face OF the
Negro masses the open secret that
the 18th. 18th and 18th amendments
to its Federal Constitution, amend
ments which purport to bring the
RIGHTS of citizenship to the Negro
muses.. are but drops of ink upon
scrap of paper. This class through
its government has but recently
through its jim Crow and lynch sup
porting leader, Hover, flung into the
faces of the Negro masses OF the
Virgin Islands with the most cruel
mockery of their plight, the evidences
of their poverty, of the poverty
brought about by its own greed and
rapaeity. This ruling class which has
no morals, no ethics, no shame and
no honor, regards the Negro and
white masses as but labor force
from which untold millions can be
wrung by starvation and super ex-
ploitation, is Judge Terrells bene-
factor.
Hands That Elevated Him Red With
Workers Blood.
1t has spread the nauseous lie OF
White supremacy in order to main
tain division of the working class,
to delude and misguide the white
workers and thus to perpetuate its
rule over the toiling masses, a rule
of unemployment. starvation, misery
and priyation.
This is the ruling class which "ele-
waited" Mr.. Terrell to a judgeship.
The hands with which it raised him
TO the bench are dripping with the
blood of tens of thousands of Negro
and white workers.
I want the Negro masses to know
that I have nothing in common with