The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-31
Appeal to Negro Voters
Most Important Election Since Civil We
Says NeqV FOrd>FoSter Committee

The Daily Worker on Saturday
announced the issuance of a
statement by the FORD Foster
Committee for Equal Negro
Rights" calling upon all Negroes
TO support william z. Foster and
James w. Ford, Communist cam
didates for President and Vice
President. The following Is the
full text of the statement):
TO THE AMERICAN NEGRO
VOTER:
NOT since the Civil War have COL
~ ored voters faced such a serious
and urgent duty of making their
votes count in a national election
as at the present time.
Just how to vote the best way in
order to get the best results for
100000 colored citizens, some of
them diSfranchised; most Of them
jin-crowed into an economic cor
ner of the already exploited work.
ing class; and all of them discri-
minated against on account of
their race in some way in every
state in the nation, should be the
first consideration of every colored
citizen this year.
UNABRIDGED
CITIZENSHIP
It goes without saying that the
most immediate goal of every COL
ored voter should be full American
citizenship, including the full OPP
portunity to participate equally
with other citizens, in the indus
trial, political, and social life of
the nation.
The Negro will continue to suffer
from industrial exploitation, from
lynching, jim and the
other consequences of racial segre-
cation, as long as he accepts, with
out a definite struggle, a segregated
status in American life. There must
arise leadership which will make
no compromise with any white
man. woman or group, who or
which proposes to us that we &C
cept any economic, political, cul-
tural or social status which he or
she would not himself accept.
The white man has ploWed
through bloody battlefields to throw
off the shackles of oppression
wherever they have bound hi.
The fact IS this country was born
in a revolutionary struggle, and the
establishment of the American ma
ton followed q revolutionary war.
No people or nation which does
not have the will or courage to
make some kind of telling strug-
gle for its place in the sun will
get a place there. There must be
an uncompromising movement to-
wards status of complete equality
of rights for the Negro and aimed
directly at every form of racial
segregation and white chauvinism.
This movement must have behind
it not the feeble winnings of COM
promising leaders, but the firm and
uncompromising stand of men and
women who understand what the
cost OF this freedom may be.
RUT until we obtain this status,
- we will continue to be the most
oppressed victims of that expIoita-
ton which keeps white and colored
workers arrayed against each. other
through racial prejudice. We will
r. h. -,
tom of the industrial pyramid
where we die faster. have more
juvenile and adult crime, and less
economic and industrial outlet. And
what is worse We continue to be
one Of the biggest factors in keep
ing the thorny crown Of capitalism
pressed down on the bleeding head
| of mankind.
TIE REPUBLICAN
PARTY
In the present campaign, the Re-
publican Party is clearly on record
as opposed to equal rights for Ne
groes. The lily whiteism of Her
bert Hoover. the Republican adj
ministration's open policy of using
the color bar against citizens of
our group in every governmental
activity. is unmistakable evidence
that this party has no intentions
ct according equal rights to the
Negro. Even Negro leaders who
still cling to the Republican Party
admit this Not only do they adj
init it, but frankly declare they see
no hope that the Republican Party
will ever place the Negro on the
same status with whites in the par
ty councils.
1t is also clearly the party of
special privileges to the Industrial
exploiters who are responsible for
this depression in which babies are
starving in the wombs of hungry
mothers; in which the country is
filled with breadlines and the
shadow of desperation is haunting
the working masses. 1t is the par
ty which caters to that group Of
heartless moguls of industry which
7 produce to be burned as fuel, and
the hording of millions of tons of
food, while 100000 human beings
are slowly starving OH a ration
which comprises less than rs cents
worth Of soup and bread each week.
Nero, looking on while Rome burn
ed, presents no more heartless pic
ture than the spectacle Of Hoover
protecting the few rich and greedy
capitalists, while millions starve.
No self-respecting Nero could go
to the polls and vote an acceptance
of this half-portion of American
citizenship with clear conscience.
THE DEMOCRATIC