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

VI NEGRO ana white ColerS for protection against
MOP violence and lynching, right of the Negro
tollers to bear arms in self-defense, freedom of
speech and press, abolition of Jim Crow laws and
practices, equal pay for equal work. right to en-.
Ter all occupations, unemployment relief with.
out discrimination, ETC., etc. For the South, in
AUDUBON 10 these demands the abolition of
snare cropping debt slavery (peonage) and all
transactions entailing bondage abolition of chain
gangs, vagrancy laws, convict labor, reduction
ana anontion OF rent, reduction of taxes and
refusal 10 pay taxes relief for poor farmers at
'lie expense OF the government and big land
owners mass resistance to evictions from the
land, ETC.. ETC.
z The mounting of lynch terror all over the
10 country moves forward the struggle againas
Iynching as most vital partial demand of the
Negro masses
Struggle Against Lynch Terror.
therefore the organization of a nationwide
mass movement against Iynching and for its ure.
Venton on the basis of initiating and Jirkino w,
struggles around concrete cases of lyncbinp and
Iyncn-frame-ups, is a link which must be ener
geucally grasped by the Party and revolution
airy workers for raising the whole Negro lib
eratlon movement to higher political plane
In this respect it is necessary to remember
that even some relatively insignificant acts of
tne hu kllX Khan bandits in the Black Belt
can become the occasion for important political
movements provided the Communists are ah,s
10 organize the resistance and Indignation of the
negro masses. October Resolution of the CT.
on the Negro Question: E
q All agitation and propaganda must proceed
hand-in-hand with the more energetic
champlon1ny of the everyday economic needs NJ
tne Negro toilers in the shops and factories on
tne UNEMPLOYMENT field and in the agrarian dis
1rlcUs' Irls presupposes an all-around strength.
enlng OF the work of the Party, YCL and reyo-
lutlonary organizations among the Negro masses
Whiie STRENGTHENING and developing the wort
among the Negroes in the North the South ,ruxt
now become the center of gravity in the vrorsr
among the Negroes. 1t is necessary to carry
through immediately the political orientation of
all revolutionary organizations unions
unemployed councils United Farmers League.
international Labor Defense, League of Struggle
Aor negro flights, Workers International Relief
etc-to the South, the DEVELOPMENT of a r,ropran,
OF action for the Negro peasantry on the bas,s
OF revolutionary struggle against the landlords
and their government including tI,e set+ir ~, -
committees OF poor farmers and unions of sp,I.
cultural workers in the agrarian districts of the
South.
Must Mobilize White Workers to Support Nexrc
Masses
In Inc utmost energy must be directed To
rallylng the broad masses of white toiler.
IN support OF the struggles of the Negro masses
including the conducting of propaganda among
the white troops in the Army and NAVY In de-
Tense OF the Negroes
The propaganda for the defense of the
Soviet Union should be conducted along
tne Following lines: Repatriation of the role Of
tne Soviet Union as the champion of the strue-
giles OF the colors,I and subiugated rat;ons
against imperialism in this connection to ponu
lar1ze the solution of the national question IN
The USSR. and the achievements of socialist
construction and the Five Year Plan. in the in
oustrlal and cultural development of national
iiiiioflCles' IL is necessary to bring before the
Nesro masses concrete illustrations of the atti-
tude CT the workers and peasants of the Soviet
Union in regard to the Negro question: s,,pnort
given to the campaign for the release of the
Scottsboro boys, the Stalngrad trial of white
American engineers convicted by a Soviet work
ers court for chauvinst attack upon the Negro
worker Brown.
~ 1t is the duty OF che revolutionary workers
in the United States especially the white
WORKERS 10 assist In deVelopinT the campaign
a"ainst war in the NEGRO colonies psrticularlv
the West Indies; in the first place by. the giving
OF r'or9l end material support to the deyelon-
ment OF the revolutionary movement In these
colonies bv carryirq out the widest campais1,
an1onG the posses IN the United States includ
l"T pronaoanda II the army and navy in defense
OF TIRE er'arcinati"n movements in these colonies
1"7irst the ifnreviHlist war which is at the same
tnA war fer TIE SUPPRESSION Of the colonial
raVc'"tio1. II this connection solidarity strikes
street dNno-'o'~0tio,s erd other forms of mass
action should be or7anized
1t is necessary to combat the reactionarv In
fl'le'ce Of Garvevisn1 BY opposing to this anti
Wor'''ng cless ideoloov the PROGRAM OF the G. 7.
on The Nero cnlories--conrr1ete national indie
perderce organization of independent REPUBLICS
in'"'HTiete withdrawal of armed forces of i'm
periaisn from these colonies etc. etc.
IT Is likewise necessary to expose the reaction
airy content of the ideas advocated by the
Gervettes in regard to the present war In which
Iaran is presented as the champion of the dark
or races r~airst the white imperialists Towards
this end it is necessary to expose the role OF the
,Tapennse inoperialists in the rape of Manchuria
the brutal persecution of the japanese toilers by
jar" ~ese irperiehsts and the alliance of Japan-
csc. Europepn ard American imnerisiists for the
crushiro of tie Chinese and colonial revolution
s"d the military Intervention against the
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