The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-07
Negroes Have
Much at Stake
in Elections

What will the Negro people of
New York City get out Of the 1888
municipal elections2 Will they get
jobs? VIII the starving Negro I'M
employed get real guarantees of i'm
mediate relief and unemployment
insurance, and will they receive the
sure guarantee that after the cleo
tons the increasing discrimination,
growing lynch Indictment and terror
will be brought to an end2 Or will
they receive the usual promises from
the capitalist politicians and Social
list leaders?
What the Negro people will get de-
ponds on what political party they
support and what candidates they
vote for at the polls in November,
and on the militant, determined
struggle which they will carry on
before and after election day to force
their demands upon the government.
This election takes place at time
when fully three fourths of the Ne
gro working population are unem-
ployed; when the death rate is AZ
per cent higher in the Negro neigh
borhoods than in the white neigh
borhoodS of the rich. The most
shameless and vile form of discrinin-
alton is practised against the Negro
unemployed, the majority of whom
receive no relief whatsoever.
Under the N.R.A., that is supposed
to give prosperity to all, numerous
factories, shops, offices, and public
institutions refuse employment to
Negroes.
The criminal conspiracy of segre-
cation between the Landlords, CAPT.
talists and Negro reformist mislead-
ers enables the landlords to force rs
to 80 per cent higher rents from Ne
gro tenants. tuberculosis among the
Negro population of Harlem and
Brooklyn is now so per cent higher
than in 1929 and almost twice as high
as in the neighborhoods of the rich
bosses. The most frightful disregard
for human life exists in the butcher
shop" the Harlem Hospital. Negro
prisoners are being savagely beaten
up and murdered on Welfare Island,
while new wave of police inspired
lynch Indictment is spreading through
the city.
In the face of this growing misery
of the Negro masses, the Tammany
city administration cuts down and
refuses relief, stops rent checks and
organizes police attacks and club
bings at the Home Relief Bureau.
This outrageous and brutal policy
of Tammany against the Negro peo-
pie of New York receives the fullest
support from the Republican and
Socialist parties, and from the Negro
n1isleaders and henchmen of Tam
many.
The Negro misleaders, such as
Crosswaithe, Davis of the Amsterdam
News, Ferdinance x. Morton. the
Rev. Adam c. Powell, Dalmust, Steele.
etc, most shamelessly sell out and
betray the Negro masses by open COL
liberation with and support of the
capitalist class and its political par
ties; Democratic, Republican and So
c1alist. The Rev. Adam G. Powell,
assistant pastor Abyssinia Baptist
church, Harlem, while pretending to
be against lynching in the South,
refuses to permit a meeting called
to protest the murder of James Mat
thews, a Negro worker on Welfare
Island, to be held in his church. and
calls the Tammany police to attack
the Negro and white workers. This
same Negro misleader was also re-
sponsible for .expelling three Negro
workers from the Harlem Hospital
committee, because they insisted on
mass action to force Tammany to
improve the conditions and service
Of Harlem Hospital.
The Amsterdam News is in possess
sion of damaging facts regarding
Harlem Hospital, but in their own
words sit is too near election time
to publish these" Scottsboro and
Tuscaloosa are far away, so these
Negro misleaders can shed crocodile
tears for them, but to expose the