The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-05
I he Importance Of
Unemployed Coun-
ellis and Agrarian
Work in the South
BY CLARA HOLDEN

TO successfully lead mass struggles In the
South to successfully build mass organiza-
tons and TO successfully build mass Party,
unity OF Negro ard white workers must be estab-
nshed. In the South, the capitalist centlry-old
poisonous propaganda Of race hatred, in order
to better exploit both white and Negro worksrs
has taken hold to an almost unbelievable ssp
tent. Our most difficult problem Is to break
down this barrier between the Negro and white
workers. This is particularly necessary with the
capitalist offensive against the working class
sharpening, and the possibilities In the future
OF race riots being used as part OF this oSfene
sive.
Unity between white and Negro workers can be
effected only through struggle. We must ash
ourselves in what fields OF work In the South
can we most easily and quickly bring Negro and
white workers into united struggle At the pres
ent time think that our two most important
fields Of work are Unemployed Council work
and agrarian work
IN building our revolutionary unions In the
South, we have the bad situation that in most
Shops where the great majority are white work
ers there are practically no Negro workers sn6
vice versa. In the textile industry, for example
the chief industry in the South with 100000
mill workers, there are practically no Negro
workers. OF course there are some few excep-
tons, as the Harlan, KY, miners, where Negro
and white workers organized and fought to-
gether. Also, some of our organizations and
fields of struggle do not attract the white work
ers of the South White workers, at this stage
Of the game, will not organize and struggle With
Negro workers on issues dealing specifically with
Negro rights such as Scottsboro Camp Hill etc
But in the Two fields OF Unemployed Council
work and agrarian work, white and Negro work.
erS can see that their problems are Identical
They can see that they have common basis
for struggle. In both instances OF course. thera
are special problems for Negro workers as for
example, We find cases where children Of white
share-croppers have q school bus, and Negro
children on the plantations do not. etc
The share troopers, both Negro and white. are
having 1t Yorciby brought home to them THAI
after year Of back breaking slavery they are
worse off than il they had done no work at Ally
They forced TO sell cotton at 5 cents and q
cents pound, which costs them I6 cents ano
20 cents pound to grow They know that
something must be done
Negro and white workers in the Soutnsy1o
cities and small towns having it forciblv
brought home to them that cold hungry and
ragged, as they have been conditions are coal.
tinuously growing worse They know that some,
thing must be done. For both farmers and CITY
workers, starvation, freezing and nakedness are
grim realities.
Now is the time to organize the Negro and
white workers together on the farms and In the
Unemployed Councils. They are meeting on
common grounds, where united struggles should
take place and will take place. BY orpanizine
white and Negro workers together, and by fight.
ing Jointly for relief and other demands, real,
unbreakabe unity OF Negro and white workers
can be achieved on the farms and in the cities,
A network OF Party units must be established.
And II We can also bring unity between the city
workers and the farmers. through Joint struggles,
Some real steps will have been taken toward os1y,
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