The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-23
The Negro People and the
Election Campaign

armed forces of the American white
ruling class.
How does self determination for
Negro affect the white working
population in the Black Belt?
Self determination means tn
right of the Negro majority in the
Black Belt to govern itself and
any white minority residing there,
but, at the same time, the Com
munist Party is the Party Of all
the oppressed workers and farm
ers, black and white. The struggle
conducted for the right of state
hood and self-determination for
the Negroes is directed at white inn
perialist rule and must be sup
ported by the working class as a
whole. 1t can be realized only
through the closest fighting front
of black and white workers against
capitalist oppression. The crying
need of the poor Negro and white
farmer is for relief from the bond
age of the land owner, intensified
as it is by the present agricultural
crisis, especially in cotton. The poor
Negro and white toilers are faced
with starvation. They are robbed
of their crops by landlords and
loan sharks. The Communist Party
is organizing the struggle for emer-
gency relief for these farmers and
tenants without any restriction by
the government and also for ex-
emption from taxes and forced
collection of rents or debts.
THE bosses terror is most sharply
felt by Negro workers. The sys-
tematic terrorization of the Negro
people has gone on for the pass
fifty years. This system of lyncNH
and legal terror is increasing daily,
And now we have the case of the
nine Scottsboro boys in Alabama,
the frame-up of Orphan Jones in
Maryland and many other such
prosecutions. In Negro sections Of
cities and towns, police and UNDER
world gangsters frequently swoop
down upon the Negro people.
OF course, this terror against the
Negro masses is part of the general
terror carried on against the work.
ing class as a whole. Fof example,
the shooting down of woRkers at
the Dearborn Plant of Henry Ford,
and, following close upon this, the
shooting down of workers at Mel
rose Park in Chicago, the denial of
a pardon for Tom Mooney, the per-
secution of foreign-bo workers.
All of this is part of the reign of
terror now being directed against
the whole of the working class,
especially the suppressed minori-
ties and the militant sections of the
working class. The Communist
Party is organizing the struggle to
fight against this reign of terror;
against the lynching of Negroes;
against the denial of the political
and other rights of Negro and white
workers.
During the last world war was
not revolutionary. When l helped
to organize struggles against racial
abuses practiced against Negro SOL
diers, I was jailed in France for
carrying on these activities in the
army. My experiences are the ex-
periences of many Negro soldiers
during the war. But now we have
learned through bitter experience
why we are jim-crowed, segregated,
lynched and denied even the ordin-
airy civil rights. We have learned
that our fight is the struggle of the
whole working class, against capt.
talist oppression. We have learned
through long and bitter experience
that the Communist Party is the
only Party fighting for the inter-
ests of the Negro people against the
domination of the ruling class.