The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-30
Socialists Try New Methods to
Betray Negroes

brotherhood Of all mem! He did not say word
about the treachery OF the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored People, which
the Socialist Party supported in their betrayal
of the nine Scottsboro boys! He said nothing
about the betrayal of the Pullman porters by the
socialists, Randolph and CFossthwait He said
nothing about jimcrowing and segregation which
the Socialist Party does nothing to fight against
All he could talk about was the socialist COM
rnonwealth-but nothing about the beating down
of the Negro workers in Detroit who participated
In the Ford Hunger March-because the massacre
in Detroit was at the hands of Fords mayor
Murphy, whose election the Socialist Party
supported!
Norman Thomas said nothing about his speak
ing to 1ily-WHlite audiences in the South when
addressing the same Harlem audience week
later He talked about the Negro not trying ito
develop a middle class Of business men, in copy
ing a dying civilization" He spoke about "re-
moving every racial barrier, in attaining fellow
ship Of free men, Nice words-but Norman
Thomas what are you and your Socialist Party
doing to put an end to the discrimination against
Negro workers even in the matter of relief?
What have you done to expose the btrayal of the
Negro dressmakers by the socialist" leaders of
the International Ladies Garment Workers
Union? What have you and your Socialist Party
done to brand as a white chauvinist, Clarence
Darrow, whom you fought to get into the defense
of the Scottsboro boys with the assistance OF the
N A. A.. c, P-althongh this same Clarence
barrow fought bitterly for a lily white jury in
Honolulu to save four white imperialists from
prison for murder Of an Hawaiian!
Nice words, socialist gentlemen, because you
know that the Negroes are turning to the pro-
gram and leadership of the Communist Party
and the revolutionary unions. Because, now that
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pairing for war against the Soviet Union they
know that the Negroes, betrayed in the last
world war, are becoming a revolutionary force
against them! Because the Negro workers are
being inspired by the example of the Soviet
Union-not in talk alone, but in deed Because
the Negroes know about Stalingrad, where white
workers guilty Of Grass white chauvinism were
severely punished by the workers of the Soviet
Union, who would not tolerate white capitalist
practices" in their country Because the Com
rnunist Party Of the United States is carrying on
fierce fight against jrncrowisr1, segregation
and Discrimination Because the Communist
Party is fighting for Negro rightsl Because the
Communists are carrying on the ONLY fight
against lynching and are calling upon the white
workers to DEFEND WITH THEIR LIVES the
Negro workers. Because the Communist Party
is fighting for the right of determination of
the Negroes in the Black Belt of the South where
the Negroes are the majority and where the
whites will have to accept the position of the
minority
1t makes your blood curdle you capitalists and
your Socialist friends-but that is the program
Of the Communists. 1t makes you rave because
the Communists are carrying on bitter struggle
against the white chauvinism on the part of
workers who join the Communist ranks-expul-
sion Of Yokinen and numerous other members Of
the Communist Party and Young Communist
Leaguel Because the Communists are carrying
on the same struggle in all working class organ
izations, thus proving that they not only talk
out ACTi
Not as IN the Socialist Party, which, in the