The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-19
By Burek

portant significance. But Com
munistS are never led into bour-
geois traps by softening words
or to use implications that would
tend to lessen the necessary
vigorous struggle against rotten
conditions.
That's what refornist and es-
pecially petty bourgeois Negroes do.
1t would entirely be their method,
for example, to change the title
Of Georgia Niger in order to
soften it, and have it read: Con
ditions Of Colored People in
Georgia." or to try in some way to
soften the use Of niger" which
would take away all of its OPP
pressive significance So far, how
ever. they have been too wise to
do this. They know it would make
them utterly ridiculous.
TAKE their policy in the Scots
boro case. They do not look
upon the Alabama Supreme Court
as lynch court that meant and
means to lynch the nine innocent
Negro boys. They talk about
'justice" in capitalist courts; they
look upon the Scottsboro case as
''just another case" to quote
Walter White of the National AS
ISOLATION for the Advancement of
Colored People.
When the Communist Party
went to the root of things, expos
ing the whole rotten system of
lynch terror Negro oppression and
''nigger status" set up by the white
ruling class, as the basis OF Scots
boro, the Negro reformists and the
NA.A.C.P. turned upon the Com
munist Party as bitterly as did the
white lyncherS.
S. P. LOCALS JIM-CROW
NEGROES.
The Socialist Party leadership
has downright contempt for the
Negro masses. That is why social
list perty locals in the south JIM
crow Negroes That is why Nor
man Thomas, recent presidential
candidate of the Socialist Party,
in the face of the whole system of
the National Oppression of the Ne
gro people and in the face of ex-
posureS in Georgia Niger" said
that there are no special problems
for the Negro masses different from
the problems of the white workers.
That's why the socialist leaders
refer to the Scottsboro Defense as
a racket. But GEORGIA Niger
shows clearly to every honest
worker that Norman Thomas lies,
the Socialist Party's declarations
about equality for Negroes is an
empty gesture. They support the
shameful system of American white
supremacy.
YES, comrades, the struggle for
Negro rights is one of the most
important struggles of the Ameri-
can working class. 1t means that
we must carry on a relentless
struggle against the conditions SO
amazingly exposed by Georgia
Niger" and for the release of the
Scottsboro boys which is the most
concrete expression of Negro OPP
preston and Immediately connect
ed with the conditions In Georgia
Niger. It is the task of the Com
munist Party to lead the struggle
for Negro Rights. 1t is the duty
of every Communist and especi-
ally every white revolutionary to
break down among white workers
all bourgeois prejudices and white
chauvinisn1 They must break
down the wall of this American
ruling class "nigger status" for
Negroes and jim-crowism. Throw
the full light of day on Georgia
Niger. Explain its meaning fully.
Negro comrades We must car
ry on tireless activity among the
Negro masses to free them of their
mistrust of the white proletariat.
We must explain the bourgeois
cause of the conditions exposed in
Georgia Niger. We must not
allow rotten liberalism, let alone
bourgeois influence, to prevent us
from relentlessly conducting such
a struggle.
Georgia Niger" is part Of the
background of Scottsboro The
Negro masses mi.st be aroused to-
struggle for the release Of the
Scottsboro boys Forward to the
struggle against white chauvipislnI
For the national liberation OF the
Negro masses against the chain
gang system! For ~ i overthrow
OF ivouFsJa1ist nrrragstt.. q