The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-04

list terror and oppression Of
the Negro masses. Mr.. Rich Proposed Candidate
ardson states for instance: Of the Communist
Negroes are being i'm Party for Vice.
pressed however, by the doc Fresioen"
trines and activities Of the Communists, since
the black race has been held literally between
the Republican Scylla and Democratic Charyb-
dis, with the capitalistic and ruling class hold
ing the masses in virtual Serfdom in several
sections Of the country
Although he admits that the capitalists hold
the Negro masses lin virtual serfdom" Mr.
Richardson sees as the main danger not capital
isIn-but Communism! He considers the leftward
trend of the Negro masses a grave danger. He
says:
Being an exploited, maltreated and disadvan-
tagged group, there is grave danger emphasis
NINE. w. FL, that Negroes will embrace any
doctrine which offers them relief from certain
oppressive, repressive and Oppressive conditions
under which they live and exc out an existence
in various parts Of the United States"
How does it happen that Negro editor con-
Siders the willingness of the Negro masses to
struggle against certain oppressive repressive
and Oppressive conditions as grave danger?
Because, as pointed out in my first article, the
objective role of these bourgeois Negro editors is
determined by their special class interests jim
Crow4sm furnishes the Negro bourgeoisie with
their economic base for the exploitation and loot
ing Through oppressive rents, etc. of the Negro
Masses While Jim-Crowisn means increased
exploitation, misery and degradation for the Ne
gro masses, it is accepted and defended, sly1y
and openly, by the Negro bourgeoise as affording
them the opportunity for careers-a chance to
pix the pockets of the Negro toilers of the few
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their footing. The revolutionary struggles of
the white and Negro workers against capitalism
and its national oppression of the Negro natio-
nality threatens with destruction this Jim-Crow-
economy base of the Negro bourgeoSie. There
fore their crashing of teeth at the growing in
fluence Of the Communist Party among the Ne
gro masses.
On one hand, the Negro bourgeoisie seek to
block the growth OF the revolutionary movement
On the other, they engage in an opportunist ex-
ploitation of the fact of the growing radicaliza-
ton Of the Negro masses in order to wiring pet
ty concessions for themselves from the white
ruling class, They use the rehabilitation of the
Negro masses to scare the white ruling class in
to conceding them greater share in the bitter
exploitation of the Negro masses In other
words, they offer themselves as betrayers of the
struggles of the Negro masses, as hangnen of
the Negro workers, FOR A PRICEI
This Judas bid for few additional crumbs
from the white ruling class is accompanied by
an intensive campaign directed at confusing the
Negro masses. Illusions are shamelessly peddled,
such the possibility" of liberation without
struggle against imperialism, of real democracy
under robber capitalism, of emancipation from
the skies, j. e-by supernatural means ETC., etc.
In his article Mr. Richardson peddles these il
1usions He does not attempt the hopeless task
OF proving" that Communism is danger to the
Negro masses. He rather defends the glorious
ideals and institutions Camong which are in
duitably lynch terror, legal lynching of Negro
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