The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-23
N.A.A.C.PE. AIDS
TERROR DRIVE
Reformist Allies of the
Landlords
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There is increasing evidence of tn
growing sympathy of the white crop
pers with the Negroes. ely toda,
we learn that the posse thu ,-illeC
three Negroes in Tallassee had 20 b
recruited from neighboring counties
because the white farmers in the i'm
mediate region were highly Sympa
thetic with the aims of the Negr,
choppers. In its work of dividin,
the working class along race lines
the bosses have certainly found al
excellent ally in Mr.. Dubois.
Said Mr.. William Pickens, field or
ganizer of the N.A.ACP., in a state
ment to the press in August, 1881:
1T must have been the aim of
Communist agitators to deliber-
ately nuddle up the matter and
stir up trouble" If thousands of
Negro farmers and their children
quietly starve and die without
protest, that is not trouble" ac-
cording to Mr.. PickenS. But if the
Negro choppers insist on organizing
and making demands of the land
lords and bosses, if they WILL
fight for their rights and for de-
cent living conditions in spite of
everything MIR. Pickens can do to
stop them-then they need expect
no sympathy or help from Pickens
or any of his gang. And there is
nothing Mr.. Pickens fears more
than trouble" for the bosses and
landlords.
Said Pickens in Chattanooga il
1881:
Let the white people of Alabama
sit up and take notice: this Com
muniSm sapping through the
deDSely ignorant portion of the
colored population, while not i'm
mediately menacing government
itself, is certainly menacing to good
race relations" Here Mr.. Pickens
no doubt refers to the good rela-
ton" which have been response
bic for lynchingS, murders by white
police, the Ku Klux Khan, a double
economic burden for the Negro,
and widespread Acknowledgement
Said Walter White:
The N.A.A.C.P. had no eonnec-
ton with the Camp Hill organiza-
ton"
This statement was intended bot
for the white bosses, who might DOS
sibly be misled as to the intention
OF their very best allies, and also 70
the rank and file of the N.A.A.CP
who might mistakenly expect he'll
and sympathy from the leaders G
their organizations.
The landlords, bosses and sheriff
of the South have no better allie
than the N.A.A.C.P. misleaders.
Continue Betrayals.
Since the above article was writ
ten, some of the Negro papers whic
support the present system of white
landlordism and all that it nipple,
have completely justified the state
ment that the landlords and sheriff
of the South have no better allie
than just these misleaders.
The N. Y. Age, rock-ribbed sup
porter of the Republican Party, re
ports the brave fight of the Alabam
share-croppers as a race riot" al
though its editors know very we
that the fight is against white land
lords and that in this struggle tn
white choppers have been syrnpa
thetic even to the extent OF hidin
the hunted Negro troopers in thei
homes.
Like the N.A.A.C.P. misleaders an
the landlords and sheriffs them
selves, the New York Age bIames tn
organizers of the choppers for tn
murders committed at the Landlords
orders. The Age says:
Officers engaged in the encounte
expressed the belief that the troubl
was partly due to the distribution O
radical literature in this section. /
was but q few miles from the seen
Of another disturbance In July 1881
in which an officer was shot and
Negro killed when the Sheriff's fore
attempted to dispense an allege,
meeting of the Share Choppers I'm
ion."
To the Age, the heroic fight of TIL
Choppers of Camp Hill In 1881, 70
the right to live. was merely dis
turbance" of the orderly course o
events in which choppers are starve,
and cheated and lynched by tn
white landlords.
The same stand--that the organ
izers of the troopers are responsible
for the murders--is TO be found il
the Amsterdam News.