The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-19
BY HARRY HAYWOOD.

feTrneIG among LIl6 uaSS6S u NGSIO JOl4C4o
The miHtancy displayed by Negro workers in the
struggles of the unemployed, the great mine
strike, the fight Of the Negro share choppers at
Camp Hill and the vigorous mass response OF the
Negro toilers all over the country to the cam
paign of the Communist Party and other rev.
olutionary organizations for the release OF the
nine innocent scottsboro boys, can only be con-
strued as an immediate fore-runner Of great
upsurge of Negro struggles for national liberia
ton
CONFRONTED with this rising miltancy, the
y white liberal and Negro national refornist
agents of the white ruling class have already
sounded the alarm. Thus Oscar de Priest, mil
Honaire Negro congressman, as result OF "close
observation" during extensive travels all over
the country has "sensed serious and deep
seated dissatisfaction among all classes of Ne
groes in every section of the country"
Howard H. Kester, southern secretary Of the
Fellowship of Reconciliation after a recent tour
of the South warns his imperialist masters that
sit is questionable whether they Cthe Negro
Masses will continue to rely upon evolutionary
methods in attempting to secure the rights and
privileges guaranteed them by the Const1tu-
ton; and that unless they (the Negro masses)
are convinced in uncertain way that the eyo-
Iutionary method is the best way, they will turn
10 violent methods" (Our emphasis, HID. q.
Intensity Lynch Terror Against Negro Masses.
THE imperailist bourgeoise is alarmed at these
l. Developments In desperate effort to quench
this rising miltancy OF the Negro masses, 1t is
rapidly discardng all vestiges of democratic pre-
tense and is swiftly passing into direct, vide
spread violence and terror. Following directly
upon the vicious Scottsboro frame-up, came the
Camp Hill massacre This was the brutal reply
of the slave driving landowners to the first or
ganized expression Of unrest among the pauper-
ized Negro share choppers, and marked the be-
ginning of a new wave Of lynch terror rivaling
in ferocity the suppression after the Civil War
Reconstruction Period (he period following the
Hayes Tilden Agreement, 187D
Notorious examples are, the frame-ups Of the
disabled Negro war veteran, Willie Peterson In
Birmingham Ala; the aged farm worker, Or
phan Jones' in Maryland, and the young worker,
Barney Lee Ross, in Texas. The frame-up Of
Peterson was used as a pretext for a campaign
of savage repression against the Negro masses
and their leader, the Communist Party, in Biz
ringham and vicinity. According to the report
of Kester, this fresh onslaught has already re-
suited, since the middle Of August, in the cold
b1ooded murder Of rs Negro workers. The latest
outrage was the savage lynching Of the Negro
worker, Matthew williams in Maryland a few
days ago
Increase Efforts to Deceive Masses.
DUT American Imperialism does not depend
u solely upon violence and terror to suppress
the rising tide Of Negro militancy; its chief bull
wark in this emergency is Negro refor1nsn. Thus
hand-in-hand with, and complementing this new
wave of white chauvinist persecution, Negro re-
forrnist dernagogy is becoming more and more
cunning and desperate. The Negro national re-
last reserve OF tn1perialist Jim Crow reaction.
Everywhere they are seeking to deInoralize the
growing movement and to dssipate its revolution
airy energy Ehey are trying to distort and limit
It's aims They are trying to confine 1t to Negro
ghettos and preventing it from merging with the
revolutionary labor movement. Their demagogy
Is glar1ngiy apparent in the Scottsboro case Here
they are playing the role Of assistant hangmen
by pretending to defend the boys on the one
hand while they viciously attack the real leaders
Of the Negro masses the Communist Party, on
the other Faced with the burning indignation
of the masses against the mounting wave of
iynching, the Negro reforTnists together with
their "enlghtened white millionaire friends" in
the NAACP, Inter-Racial Commission and Eel
1owship of Reconciliation ETC., have developed
In the recent period a series Of demagogic ma
.neuvers intended to steer the rising mas energy
into Intellectual, legalistic channels.
THIS is clearly exemplified in the following:
The two million signature drive of the NAACP
In support of the Dyer Anti-Lynch Bill; the re-
: port on the Southern Commission on Lynching
which by ignoring the numerous lynchings that
have taken place this year assert that lynching
has decreased; and finally the delegation headed
by william Monroe Trotter raising the question
of fynching before President Hoover.
Supporting this demagogy on lynching
is the letter Of the Rev. Mr. Harten, who in the
name of the National Afro-Protective League
warns the president "that if lynchings increase
and the federal government fails to aid the
lynched race may in desperation feel compelled
to protect themselves" (Our emphasize. The sum
total of all these activities is to fool the NEGRO
masses into believing something is finally be-
ing done, and thus disarm them in the face of
the growing lynch terror. (But the Hoover Wall
street government stands fully exposed as a
government of lynchers and Jim Growers Of tHe
Negro masses by the fact that Hoover in his
message to Congress did not so much as men
ton the Negro question:
War Danger Sharpens Attacks
A FURTHER explanation for the present ruthless
AZ. attack on the Negro masses is in connection
with the feyerish war preparations of American
Imperialism. In fact the whole campaign OF white
chauvinist violence must be regarded as rart
and parcel Of the war preparations of the Hoo
yer government directed towards "pacifying' the
NEGRO masses. The "home front" in the coming
war for the repartition of China and military
intervention against the Soviet Union must be
prepared, and the Negro masses are an extreme