The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-30
The MA. A. C.P. Prepares New
Betrayals of the Negro Masses

remarks are merely part Of the campaign carried
on by the imperialists and their agents to under
mine the growing influence of the Soviet Union
upon the masses, to prevent the mobilization of
the masses, and in this case the Negro masses,
for the defense of the Socialist fatherland
Negro Masses Demand Action
But such phrases are not sufficient to cover
up the dirt and filth in the arsenal of the N. A.
A. c. P. betrayers More demagogy is necessary
The conditions of the Negro masses are worsening
from day to day They are clamoring for relief
from their misery. They are demanding action
on the questions of their vital needs. What then
do these takers offer as d solution?
They come forth with the proposal for con-
suners cooperativeS in this period of excruciating
misery. There is nothing new in this idea of
cooperatives. 1t has been used many times in
the history OF all countries by bourgeois takers
to deceive the masses and to divert them from
revolutionary struggles against their oppressors.
The ~ A. A. G. P. betrayers have eagerly seized
upon this shopworn program. Most of the
speakers mentioned this program. But it was
most extensively elaborated in the speeches of
George Schuyler and Abram Harris.
In order to understand the full treachery OF
such proposal it is necessary to realize that it
is made in period when the main cooperative
movements in all capitalist countries are under
the domination of capitalist trusts and mono
poles, on the one Kind and on the other hand,
when the Jin-Crow economic base of the Negro
bourgeoisie is being shattered under the blows
of the crisis with the Negro banks and other
businesses being driven to the wall. The latest
of these failures is the Douglass National Bank
of Chicago, which closed its doors on May 20,
1882, while the Victory Life Insurance Company
in Chicago is admittedly on the brink of disaster
In its report of the failure of the Douglass Ma
tonal Bank, the New York Amsterdam News
accidentally exposes the extent Of the collapse of
the Jin-Crow economic base: 1.-THE closing of
the Douglass left the South Side Negro section
Of Chcago-H. H with one bank. Two years
ago there were H. including the Binga State
Bank, another Negro owned institution"
1t is quite clear therefore that the idea of
consumers cooperatiyes is advanced with two
fold aim; to divert the growing fight of the
Negro toers for unemployment and social in
surance, against wage-cuts, etc, into channels
that will not endanger the existing capitalist
order on the one hand; and on the other, to
Strengthen the crumbling JIM Grow economic. base
of the Negro bourgeoisie.
So-called Cooperatives
In the same breath in which he advances his
reactionary schemes, Schuyler says: II personally
advocate the violent overthrow of the system
But the time is not propitious" Therefore,
argued Schuyler, the Negro cannot wait; they
must proceed to alleviate their conditions by
building up consumers coopsratives which, ac-
cordng to Schuyler, would LAY the basis for the
building up of the new society in the frame work
Of the old
What does it mean to play with the slogan
| OF violent revolution" in an organization that
invites the police to crush the growing resistance
| Of the Negro toilers? In an organization that
supports lynch terror? To come out with phrases
about violent revolution" in such an organza-
| ton Is the worst form of provocation against the
Negro masses. 1t is to prepare blood-bath fol-
| the Negro masses. The masses, as Schuyler
! well knows can fight only when they or
| gani2ed and led by the Communist Par y, tl1S
| vanguard of the worlSing-class.
| The mouthing Of such phrases by thcst. takers
shows that they understand the despers ion o.
the Negro masses in this period and are even now
! preparing the basis for the drowning of the
| growing revolutionary movement in blood. The.
! are attempting TO head the struggles of the Negro
masses in order to behead them. This is q new
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