The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-13
Negro Writer
ASSailS BrO14n
ASChauviir1ist

1 . the Washington Tribune, Ne
gro newspaper, supports and praises
the position OF the Communists
against the use of white chauvinist
expressions injected into the Ian
guage by the imperiabst oppressors
of the Negro people and attacks the
defense Of these expressions by the
socialist columniSt in the ScrippS-
Howard press, Haywood Broun
Writing in his own column From a
Cynic'S Notebook" Murray states;
'DerOgation"
Haywood Broun, in his column
'It Seems to Me-" published in
the Scripps- Howard papers, at
tempts to get some fun out of the
fact that a writer in the Daily
Worker protested against the use
by one Nancy F." in that paper
of the very Objectionable phrase:
That was mighty white of you
which phrase, as he says, probab-
ly slipped by the proofroom and
the policy room Of the paper,
unnoticed.
Commenting on this, Broun
calls attention to many other
phrases. containing the word
white" and adds facetiously:
TT is too much to ask any,
body to believe that all this hap
pened by chance and without a
preliminary conference between
Morgan, Rockefeller and the Gov
ernor of the State of Georgia"
Nevertheless, the phrase is one
of belittlement and derision, and,
whatever its genesis, Comrade
Lawson is right when she says
that Communists and militant
workers land add, all who are
intelligent and fair-nlinded
should become conscious OF such
expressions, know what they i'm
ply and eschew them.
Comrade Broun's humor or
cleverness, if it was intended to
be that, was entirely too costly,
in this case-costly to the victims
OF the implications of the express
sion referred to, which implica-
tons are contempt and deroga-
ton.
EDITORS NOTE: The correct
ness of the Communist position
Of struggle against every express
sion of white chauvinism against
the Negro people is shown by:
ID The reaction of the enemies
of the Negro people, such as Hey
wood Broun and the rest of the So
cialist leaders all of whom deny the
right Of self determination to the
Negro people struggling against ma
tional oppression. These leaders
advise the white workers to stay off
the INT Of the national question
in the South, that is, to give no
support to the liberation struggles
Of the Negro masses.
(2) The favorable response from
the Negro people who are sensitive
to every expression of white chau-
vinisT11 and whose resentment to
these expressions forces Negro pa
pers such as the Washington Trib-
ume to emphasize the correctness
OF the Communist position.
While Mr.. Murray condemns
Broun's defense of these white
chauvinist expressions, he seems to
be unaware that this is not a ques-
ton OF fairness" Broun's chau-
whist defense reflects the class pol
icies of the leaders of the Socialist
Party whose role is to defend U. S.
against the rising strug-
gle OF the Negro and white toiling
The socialist leaders de-
fend the national oppression and
economic looting Of the Negro peo-
pie, the oppression Of the Haitian
and Philippine masses and other
people oppressed by Wall Street
Imperialism. Broun's article is case
in point. The main role OF the
socialist leaders is to divert the
masses from the revolutionary way
out Of the deepening crisis of capt.
talisr11, with its mass starvation.
misery and increasing terror.