The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-30
By 1. AnTTER

L.
srEE Socialist Party in practice is lily white
1 party Following the policy Of the Republican
and Democratic parties, the Socialists" have
hitherto treated the Negroes as quantity to be
ignored But the revolutionary struggles that
the Negroes have put up under the leadership Of
the Communists, in the unemployed struggles in
Chicago and Cleveland and theI miners strikes
have made the Socialists" as well as the Repuos
Iicans and Democrats take note. They recognize
that the Negroes are no longer voting cattle" to
be sold by their misleaders at the highest price,
but that the crisis has produced fundamental
change. Having been convinced by the ConlmU-
nists that there are white workers not only
willing to tight together with them for their
immediate needs but for their emancipation from
the system OF slavery that exists today, the
Negroes are buckling up and fighting
This basic change in the life Of the Negroes
must OF necessity produce change in the atti-
,ldeN of the capitalist parties. When, on the
outn side Of Chicago, the Negro and white
orkers boo off the platform capitalist derna-
ogues, then the capitalists know that something
" wrong for them When in the mining sections
+ Of Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia, and in
4 New York, Negro workers see that the Trade
/ Union Unity League is fighting for their rights,
\ and is organizing them into the unions side by
side with the white workers, then they know that
race prejudice (white chauvinism) is not part
and parcel Of the life of the white workers, but
is something put into the mind and practices
Of the white workers by the white bosses When
the Negroes see that the Communist Party, the.
International Labor Defense and the League of
Struggle for Negro Rights fight for the lives Of
the nine Scottsboro boys, and mobilize millions
Of workers throughout this and other countries
In struggle for their release then they know that
a growing section Of the white workers look upon
them as brothers and comrades.
The capitalists and Socialist allies recognize
these facts and therefore they change their front
TO keep the Negro Workers from going to the
Communist Party. But we shall not forget the
Socialist Party. Is it not fact that A. Philip
Randolph together with Frank Crossthwait or
ganized the Negro Pullman porters and sold them
out on the very eve of strike-when they voted
almost 100 per cent for strike? Is it not a fact
that in this betrayal they were openly assisted
by VIM. Green, president of the American Fed
Grafton Of Labor, who said the time was not
ripe and the Negro porters had not yet secured
the support Of the publc?" Is it not q fact
that their miserable wages have been slashed
with the aid Of Randolph, Crossthwait and
Green? Thus do the white and Negro misleaders
tetray the Negro workers.
Is it not fact that Norman Thomas In his
presidential tour in 1928 refused to speak to
Negro audiences in the south? Is it not a fact
that Haywood Broun In 1880 said it would be
lnadvisable to fight for the enforcement Of the
18th, 14th and 18th amendment of the u. S.
constitution, although these we're supposed to
nave been the fruits Of the Civil War? Did not
an old socialist in Tennessee write letter to the
New Leader in the election campaign of 1880,
stating that I'VE (the Socialists) do not stand
sor equality for the Negroes" and declared it
Fould be calamity for the Socialist Party If
did?
Still this Haywood Broun had the nerve TO
'eak to Negro audience In Harlem on March
h and talk ahout Economic Justice and the