The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-13

Negro patients being butchered and
Negro doctors and nurses being dis
eliminated against in Harlem Hos
pital, but are also trying to divert
the fight against conditions in the
hospital away from the whole strug-
gle for Negro rights.
The New York News, Harlem pa
per controlled by Rev. NJ. J. Divine,
typifies the lying smoke screen be-
ing laid down by several Negro pa
pers throughout the country and
shouts in three inch headlines at the
.op Of the front page Of its Feb II
ssue, Reds Kill Doctor Feud."
The paper attempts to confuse the
Negro masses in their battle against
discrimination by raising the cry of
'Reds!" The refusal of a fellowship
to Dr.. Peter Murray, Negro, by the
white doctor controlled New York
Academy of Medicine is used as a
pretext by Divine's paper for launch
ing into a long TRADE OF lies against
the Communist Party and the newly
formed Peoples Committee Against
Discrimination in Harlem Hospital
which is not a Communist committee.
Plain Lies
The New York News lyingly states
that the purpose of the Communists
is to secure d" the signatures of
$4,000 Communists, if there are that
many in Harlem The New York
News knows that the signatures are
TO be secured from the people of
Harlem, and not by the Communist
Party, but by the Peoples Commit
tee. To save the face of the N.A.A.
C.P., Divine's paper is trying to
stampede the people of Harlem away
from mass pressure, prevent them
from signing the petitions Saying
if they do they will become Comnu-
nistS), and stifle any attempt to
really end the horrible conditions in
the hospital.
The New York News also tries to
make capital of the fact that James
w. Ford, vice presidential candidate
IN the Communist ticket in the last
election, spoke at the ST. Lukes Hall
meeting which elected the Peoples
Committee.
While the Peoples Committee is
not Communist, the Communist Par
ty supports the Negro People of Har-
lem in their fight against discrimi-
nation. The Communist Party will al
ways wage a relentless fight against
all forms of oppression against
the Negro people and for uncondi-
tional equal rights for Negroes.
The doctors Of the North Harlem
Medical Association, who are waging
fight against the hospital admins
tration, the New York News refers
TO as "soie-heads," but praises the
NAA.C.P. and the Manhattan Med
ical Society, both of whom are in
league with the heads of the hos
pital, the Negro DR.. Wright and the
white DR.. Corners, who carry out
the Tammany orders.
Its Efficient Work"
In the following manner the pa
per goes on to try TO drive home its
LES and create the impression upon
the people Of Harlem that they need
10 longer keep up the fight but in
stead continue to subject their bodies
10 the experiments Of incapable white
. doctors who replace able Negro ply
sicianS:
SO to our correspondent il
seems that if the reds fail the
North Harlem Society doctors in
this drive for names, then they are
through, and the community has
seen through the situation and is
already tired of 1t. The man in the
street knows all about it, and is
not apparently worried; and in the
meantime the hospital is going on
quietly doing its efficient work for
all people in increasing numbers
every day"
Three editorials in the Feb. 4 issue
of the New York News openly un-
cover the demagogic and hypocritical
face OF this paper. The first editorial
follows the lead and instructions of
the N.A.A.CP. officials, denounces
the doctors fired and forced to re-
sign from the hospital, and calls for
white ruling class "impartiality" in
choosing Negro doctors for the hos
pital staff
The second editorial urges readers
to patronize establishments that adj
vertize in the New York News, show
ing very clearly that it is the bosses.
such as the Chevrolet Co., who decide
the policies Of the paper along with
the rest Of the enemies of the Negro
people and white workers.
The third editorial, in the face of
statement in the first editorial on
the same page that: There can be
no two standards, either q doctor is
Q good doctor or bad doctor, and
color has nothing to do with it,"
states, referring to two Negro artists
who died some time ago after being
attended by white physicians, that:
"CoIored doctors would have been
more sympathetic and cautious
With the vital operations prescribed
or them than were the white sur
cons whose sole interest In their
'atrons was the substantial fee
which they collected. Two Of these,
tsr's managers, told us that 1t
seems to them case of too much
ether"
Such is the brazenness of the boss
class when they have been caught
with the goods.
To get on hospital staff today
a Negro must be much moe capable
than a white doctor trying for the
same position. These are the orders
Of Tanmany and the white bosses.
The doctors ousted from Harlem
Hospital stand head, shoulders and
ankles above the SANDER campaign
Of the New York News and the n. A.