The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-28
HIT RACE HATRED
BY
BALTIMORE SHEET
I. l., D., Other Bodies,
in Sharp Protest on
Provocation

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Charges that the Baltimore World, |
local boss weekly, is attempting to
stir up antagonism between Negro
and white workers and to incite
lynchings Of Negroes, is contained in
a letter written to the editor Of the
World and signed by three working
class organizations of this city-the
International Labor Defense. the
Polish-American Club and the Work
ers International Relief.
The World printed a story of the
attack on the interracial dance held
by the Workers International Relief
on January 8, in the Polish Ameri-
can Hall At this dance. white gang
sters and police attacked Negro
workers coming out of the building.
The white workers came to the de-
Tense of the Negroes and the two
fought side by side. Two persons were
stabbed and five Of those attending
the dance, one a Negro, were ar
rested and thrown into Jail. Since
that time, the city, urged by the DO
lice department, has condemned as
unsafe" the Polish American Hall
and other halls used for inter-racial
assemblies.
In its vicious account of the af-
fair, the World said in part:
1.-THE Melting Pot of Baltimore is
about to boil over.
Blood has already been stopped
down its seething sides, and Eastern
district cops, sitting on the lid, are
finding it pretty hot to hold.
"The big cauldron, which has SIM
mered quietly for generations, turn
ing out wholesome stock, has been
violently disturbed by the admix-
ture Of new ingredients.
Baltimore is due to learn, as other
communities have learned, that the
red of Russia, the black of the Congo,
and the white of European nationals
will not mix.
Residents OF the neighborhood did
not approve of these dances. Proud
Of their racial integrity, they resented
black and white promiscuity. Lights
in the dance hall were turned off
from time to time and water spigots
tempered with, flooding the prem
ises."
Filthy Race Hatred; Poem
The World prints with the story
poem referring to those who par
ticipate in the mixed dances as wild
beasts" on their way black to the
jungles."
"At this writing" concludes the
World, sit appears likely that the
Workers International Relief will at
tempt to bring Manhattan's Lenox
Ave. to East Baltimore. And it ap-
pears as likely that there will be
more trouble when reds, whites and
blacks mix
In their letter denouncing this Vi
cious chauvinist attack on the Ne
groes, the three working-class organ
izations wrote in part:
ION behalf of a membership of
hundreds of white and Negro work
ers of Baltimore, the International
Labor Defense, the Polish-A American
Club and the Workers International
Relief wish to register an indignant
protest against the vicious attack
upon Negroes published in the first
number of your paper. Your account
of what happened at the dance on
Broadway and Eastern AYES. on Jan.
8, is worthy of the lowest sort of
gutter and undertaking journalism.
And then to top il off, your people
have the hypocrisy to announce in
your editorial proclamation that
truth, fairness and decency will be
(your) household gods"
Nov let us. see how much truth,
fairness and decency' there is in your
story First, your reporter paints the
dance as a redlight booze joint,
brothel. Everyone present at this
dance knows that it was conducted
in a most decent manner. The only
disorder was that created by the
white-chauvinist young hooligans
who came looking for trouble.
''Your vicious, outbound hatred of
Negroes is shown by the degenerate
poem published containing such lines
as thick black hands on slim white
back black paws fondle a white
girls charms, back to the jungle
tlle wild beasts prance,' etc This vile
sort of propaganda could only ema-
nate from a mind that is drunk with
race hatred and the lynch spirit OF
the Southern plantation owners
carried over from days of chattel
slavery and the present cruel oppres-
sion of the Negro people.
ut is very significant that in
your warped account Of the fight
you omit the fact that Negro work.
ers stood their ground most cour-
ageously and were in turn hero
icaIiy defended by their white
friends. 1t was this splendid f'~ht-
ing unity of the Nero and white
WORKERS that enahied them TO beat
back Tire attack Of TIE m'sled young
hco5lums--and The ro,ice who as
sisted them! Naturally you do not
have anything TO say about this
becauge the whole intent of ycur
story is TO arouse racial hatred, 10
rut whites a~airst blacks, TO make
Il seem rs ti,surh a race riot took
pace, In da;1'r tIfis you are oniv
csvryinT thv0re1, fro wishes az TIC
big bases ana rcjiiciars. WHO n
the present reric1 Of starvation
end Unemployment are most anx-
i0us TO divide the working people
into hostile and warning groups in
order to keep them dawn the more
easily. They ere irving to do this
by melting the whites against the
Ne~rces. the AmcriGHrs AGAINST tire \
foreigners, che religious grcRp
against another, etc.
The three unde signed organiza-