The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-09
Everything Is Peaches Doevn in Georgia"


answered him by telling him that
he knew two people who wouldn't
go. The cop asked him who were
these. This worker said: 1T will
be me and you if you come after
me- The cop backed away and
said that he was only fooling.
Bosses Attack Unity of Negro
and White.
The authorities were particularly
concerned over the show of soil
darity among the Negro and white
workers. They were able to break
this due to our weak organization
among the whites. None of the
white comrades whom we had as
signed to take charge of the white
workers showed up, thus leaving
these workers without and leader
ship. So that when the takers
called the white workers into the
County Commissioners Office, they
shut the door on the Negro work
ers, and there was nobody among
the white workers to protest this.
The Negroes tried to get into the
office, but were blocked by the po-
lice. 1t is obvious that had any
white worker raised his voice in
protest against this maneuver the
rest of the workers would have fol-
lowed him and we would have de-
feated it at the outset. Because,
up to that time, all the workers,
Negro and white, were mingling to-
gether. Agitation will be carried
on in the future among the white
workers, exposing the bosses meth
cd of breaking up the solidarity of
Negro and white.
The takers talked to the white
workers about an hour, behind
closed doors, telling them, that the
county had no money and advising
them that if they had any relatives
on the farms to go back there.
These workers were very much dis
satisfied over this conference, and
went away mumbling that they
were in the same position that they
were before. But, as a direct re-
suit of this demonstration, The
County Commissioners held mel.t-
ing sthenext morning and decioe
to vote six thousand dollars TO.
immediate relief for the unem-
ployed. Even the capitalist press
admitted that it was due to cur
demonstration that the authori-
ties took this step.
Must Push Fight for Negro Rights
The local Unemployed Committee,
has received considerable prestige
among the workers of this section
as the result Of this partial victory,
and is following this up with organ
ization meetings and further DEM
onstrations before the city and
county authorities. Particularly are
they alive to the dangerous situa-
ton that is being created by the
desperate efforts Of the bosses to
prevent the growing unity OF the
Negro and white workers. There
must be a wide educational cam
paign carried on among the white
workers exposing the separation
schemes of the bosses, and the COM
rades here, must notas they have
in the past, depend upon the spon-
famous Development of Negro and
white unity. The struggle for Negro
rights must be in the forefront Of
all our struggles, and the fight for
the right of the Negroes to deter
mine their own for moi government,
particularly in this big section of
the BLACK belt" must be pushed
more determinedly.
Finally the intensification Of our
unemployed campaign connected up
with the election campaign issue
gives us the possibility to break
through this terror that has been in
existence particularly since the trial
OF the Atlanta Six" With con-
tinued work, we can look forward
to the time when everything will
REALLY be peaches" down in
Georgia.