The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-24

the opportunity for educational purposes The
worker is tried in public. A prominent political
figure is the prosecutor. He points out the anti
social and anti-Bolsheyik character Of anti,
Semitism. Frequently the worker confesses and
explains the reason Of his guilt: that he has not
yet shaken off the traditions of rs pre-revolu-
ti0nary past, that he went 10 church In his
youth and imbibed the anti Jewish spirit, that
he has not attended Communist courses suffi-
GENTLY and has not learned the Marxist APP
proach to racial questions. In this manner such
trials are exploited to expose the significance
and purpose of anti-Semitsm 1t is a INSIDE
meanor to make an anti-Semitic joke in Soviet
theater or vaudeville performance Russians
have been arrested for applying the lmcompi-
mentary epithet of Zhid (Yid or Sheenie) to
Jews Jews not caricatured or nirnicked.
"AI pre-revolutienary disabilities have Of
course, been removed. All restrictions have
been lifted and no person would dare to impose
his own without Immediately inviting the wrath
of the state. Soviet universities enroll thousands
OF Jewish students Whereas Jewish young
men and women in European universities are
exposed to offensive determinations and at times
violent attacks, race is completely ignored in the
matrtculations In Soviet higher institutions Of
learning.
"Of all the benefits conferred by Bolshevfsrn
pogronls. These maSsacreS occurred frequently
before the war, and when they did not occur,
the fear of pOgromS was ever present Life was
nerve-racking and precariouS. But no pOgroms
have ever taken place in the Soviet Union. Exc
perience in CZarist Russia, In postwar Poland
and Rumania, and more recently In Palestine
has shown that a pogrom is, by definition, vio-
Ience perpetrated with the active assistance or
at least the connivance of the authorities. Po-
grons are therefore impossible under the Soviet
regime. And this security means more to Jewry
than any hardships it must undergo during g.
transitional period Of economic adjustment Far
from discriminating against Jews, the Soviet
Government has been known to discriminate In
favor Of Jews. Agricultural colonization is the
outstanding illustration. The Bolsheviks submit
and President Michael Kalinin once enun-
ciated the policy in public - that more money
and more attention should be given to the set
tlement OF Jews on the land than to the settle
ment OF non-JeWs, because conditions before the
revolution initiated against the creation of
jewish peasant class. The revolution must wipe
out the handicapS imposed by the monarchy.
This is one of the fundamentals Of BoIshevik
policy vis-a-vis nationalities"
Contrast this with the deliberate cultivation
OF race prejudice in America by the capitalist
press, the theatre the church. the schools, courts
it with the hullabalo raised in the capitalist
press when jurors in Hawaii dared to bring in
verdict of guilty against four self-confessed
white lynchers of a dark skinned nati7ei Con-
trast the Soviet policy of burning out race pre-
JUDGE with the reward given by the United
States government to these four lynchers, the
pressure brought to bear by the United States
government and the Congress to secure their I'M
mediate release the enthusiastic welcome given
them by the capitalist press and the American
1mperialists upon their arrival in this country,
the present move in Congress for a full pardon
to wipe out any disability imposed upon them
by the verdict of guiltyl
"Progroms are therefore impossible under the
Soviet regime" While Iynching OF Negro work
ers is rapidly increasing during the capitalist
crisis with the courts Increasingly used to carry
out the lynch yerdicts, as in the case of the
Scottsboro boys, Orphan Jones (Baltimore), Will
Lie Brown CPhiladelphia), Willie Peterson (Birm-
tngham) and scores Of other Negro victims Of
ruling class justice.
And how do the Communists of America
combat Iynching and national oppression Of
the Negro masses? Mr.. Rhodes admits that
they went into Scottsboro and Salisbury (Or-
phan Jones Case) with banners flying con-
demnlng the persecution of Negroes"
But, OF course, the stock in trade of the bour-
geois Negro misleaders is that the American