The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-19
SUN GO DOWN ON YOU.
The Land of Plentyi


Such expressions arg used in
some towns in the South where
the Negroes are not allowed to live.
Most every town in the South has
its "Niggertown," "Buzzard Roost,"
"Darktown," and so on.
Dogs and Niggers Not Allowed
is found on signs in parks.
"A Niger has no rights that
White man is bound to respect"
This why, as CoInrade Brow
der said in one Of his speeches,
that the Negro comrades can smell
the stencil of the slave market
wherever there is the slightest
tinge of white chauvinism.
Many white workers know little
about these conditions of the Negro
masses, even some are absolutely
ignorant Of them. That is why
many of them do not whole
heartedly support the fight for de-
mands for Negroes. During the
election campaign a white worker
said to me that he just didn't
believe that such conditions as ex-
posed in Georgia Niger" existed
today, and asked me if I believed
it.
GRANDFATHER LYNCHED.
l remember to this day, when a
boy nine or ten years of age,
clinging to my mothers dress,
hearing a white collector say to
her in the harshest chauvinist
manner: you niger wench. you
will either pay up or I'll come
back and clean out the whole lot
of you"
In the state Of Georgia my
grandfather was burned on a pile
Of cross-ties by white lynch mob.
This was done before l was born:
but later on, as far as I can re-
member 7 have overheard members
OF my family talk of this lynch
ing. The white lyncherS said: He
was a smart niger" or the mig
ger didn't know his place" or "the
niger not only talked back to
white men but tried TO associate
WIFI WillUe women.
When my father. as a young
man, got his first job In a coal
mine in North Alabama, he gave
his name as Force. The white
foreman misunderstood him and
wrote his name down Ford, and
when my father protested in
order to correct it, the white
foreman said: Keep that name
and number, 1t don't matter
about a nigger's name anyhow.
Furthermore, / don't want to
spoil the book by changing a
niggers name on it."
I know something also about the
conditions of Negroes in the prison
camps of Alabama, and they are
exactly like the conditions pictured
III Georgia Niger" At Pratt
mine, Alabama, l have seen
Negroes arrested for the least Of
Tense and leased out to the coal
mine operators by police authori-
ties for a few cents a day and
used like mules to draw cars of
coal in the mines. Out Of these
transactions the coal company
made big profits. Pratt mine had
reputation throughout the state
as the hell-hele Of Alabama, where
bad niggers" we're sent.
During the election campaign
I was arrested In Washington,
d. C. with some Bonus Marchers.
At the police examination, when
l attempted to sit down, the chief
Of detectives, o. T. Davis said to
me: Don't put your black-in
that chair. You may be good
enough to run for Vice President
on the Communist Party ticket,
but no niger is good enough to
sit his black-in my chair"
If 1, as candidate of political
party with the backing Of work
ers throughout the country was
treated in this way at the capital
of the country, think Of what must
be the fate Of share-croppers and
convict laborers, with no friends
or backing, caught up on rural
chain gang in the heart of the
South.
AT an election rally in Denver
Colorado I was scheduled to speak.
Before the meeting the ku klux
khan got out leaflets with the fol-
lowing inscription on them:
"The Black cat of the niger
party speaks here tonight"
COMRADES, what Is the mean
v ing OF all this Negrophobis7
What IN tla4 .xnSa4alssg ess aenrnsIa