The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-15
PLAN DELEGATION
AT ROOSEVELT
MEET IN CAPITOL
.L.S.N.R. Issues Call to
Organizations for
Delegates


a conference of all governors of states
for March G. At this conference will
be discussed issues vitality affecting
all people in this country In his
call for the conference, Roosevelt
omits and mention of the Negro
the most forgotten Of the forgotten
men" The failure to specifically
mention the Negro means that the
pressing problems OF the suffering
Negro People are deliberately ex-
cluded, since cur disabilities and
miseries arise out of the peculiar and
special character of our economical
and political position.
Oppression of Negroes.
yet the day of Inauguration sees
the Negro People in this country
ground down under a mwderous
system of oppression and discrimina-
ton which is now sharper than at
any time since the Civil War. In
the South, where the bulk Of the
Negro population resides, we are de-
MED the most elementary democratic
rights, held in peonage virtual
OldfCtVt Wy Il PAL clollAN lctllOlOlA NlelDo
which Systematically robs us of our
crops and denies us the right to own
the land cultivated by our sweat and
blood. We are disfranchised, jim
crowed and degraded at every turn.
Throughout the entire country we
suffer from persecution and victim
ization. While unemployment has
dealt severe blows to the working
class as a whole, IL is the Negro
workers who suffer most under the
fierce onslaughts of the capitalists.
We are openly Disseminated against
on ''relief'' public works. The relief
bureaus viciously discriminate against
us, and in many cases slam the doors
in our faces altogether.
Lynch System
"Lynching throughout the South,
organized landlord-police massacres,
police terror, particularly vicious in
Birmingham, Atlanta, New Orleans,
Detroit, frame-ups such as Scots
boro, legal lynchings Barney Lee
Ross, Texas; Will Sanders, North
Carolina, etc. are on the increase.
Angelo Herndon, 19-year-old Negro
organizer of the unemployed, isfaeing'
murder on the chain gangs in Roose-
velt's adopted" state, Georgia. The
nine Scottsboro boys, who have been
proved innocent beyond the shadow
of doubt, are still in tn death cells
of Kilby Prison, Montgomery. Ala.
Fuel Lee in Maryland, Willie Brown
in Philadelphia, Lloyd Price in New
York City, are facing legal iynching,
We could list scores of other Negro
victims Of capitalist justice. The
chain-gang continue to take their
toll of the lives and health of our
people. The efforts of the Alabama
share-croppers and exploited farmers
to secure farm relief are drowned in
blood in the massaeres at Camp Hill
and Reeltown.
The rights supposedly guaranteed
us under the 18th, 14th and 18th
Amendments to the constitution are
braZeDly trampled upon. These
amendments have become scraps Of
paper l nthe South, particularly in
Texas, we cannot exercise the right
to vote. We are barred from jury
service in most states. In the rural
regions, the Negro tenant farmers
and hare-croppers are reduced to a
state of peonage-virtual slavery
from which the Civil War is sup
posed to have freed us. Their strug-
giles for bread and land are drowned
in blood.
Delegation to Present Demands.
"The League of Struggle for Negro
Rights proposes delegation of all
organizations interested in the rights
and freedom of the Negro People.
We propose that your organization
elect a delegate to this delegation to
go on March before the conference
of governors and the president of the
United States to present demands Of
a truly forgotten" and brutally OPP
pressed people. We conceive such de-
mands to be the following:
81. Immediate steps to end
lynching. Recognition of the Ne
groes TO elf-defense and halt to
the disarming of the Negro toilers
in the South.
"2. Passage of enforcement
legislation TO implement the 18th,
l4th and 18th Amendments, com
parable to the Yolstead Act in its
relation to the 18th Amendment.
Enforcement of the right to vote in
all states and at all primary cleo
tons and other elections. Abolition
of all grandfather clauses and other
laws and practices DISTINGUISHING
Negroes.
"3. Immediate steps to end all
Jim Crow laws and practices
throughout the United States.
"a. Abolition of discrimination
In employment in all departments
of the government, on public works
and elsewhere, an end to discrim-
nation at the relief stations.
IS. Cash relief direct to Negro
farmers and share troopers. Adolf
ton Of discrimination In practices
Of Farm Banks.
"6. No seizure of teh land of
farmers for mortgages, taxes, or
debts. The right of the croppers
and tenant farmers to organize and
to sell their own crops in the open
market.
~. Enforcement of the right to
serve on Grand and Petit Juries.
IS. Abolition of the chain gang
system.
-. Immediate and unconditional
release Of the Scottsboro boys, An
gelo Herndon, Fuel Lee and other
Negro frame-up victims of the sys-
tenn of national oppression and
econ0r71ic rohherx