The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-29

This is gesture to clear himself
of any charge that he is idle in the
face Of the increasingly vicious at
tacks against the Negro people.
His Real Attitude
De Priests real attitude toward the
struggle for Negro rights has been
revealed time and again-but most
strikingly-when he was called upon
by a delegation OF the Scottsboro
Marchers headed by William l.. Pat
terson of the I. L. D.
Did De Priest welcome either the
delegation or the Civil Rights Bill2
Not at all! Sullen and evasive, the
Negro congressman had the gall to
say that the bill would serve to
"segregate" the Negroes even more
than at present. At the same time
ne echoed the alibis of the Roosevelt
administration officials who sought to
placate the delegates with oily talk
about adjudication in the courts. -
In his recent speech-after recit-
ing a list of lynchings during the
past year or so, De Priest apologies
to his fellow representative of cap
italiSm by declaring:
81 am not stating these things
because I want to stir up any racial
> animosity, but the American peo-
pie ought to know that 100000
people should not be tempted to
join some organization ~ that is
not for the best interests of Am
erica. 1 do not think communism
means any good to this country,
either to me or anybody else in it,"
HERE we see the real purpose of
ii De Priests speech-not, forsooth,
to aid in the fight for Negro rights,
but to attack the Communist Party
and the I. L. d. which are the only
effective forces in the struggle for
Negro rights. And that is why he
begged the services of Hamilton Fish
to assist him in this attack
AS for stirring up racial amino
sity," what the Chicago real estate
operator means is the fight of the
Negro, supported by the white work
ers, against national oppression,
lynching, peonage Complete
surrender to the BOSSES SER
vility-this is De Priests formula for
what he calls avoiding racial amino
sity."
De Priest, who has piled up for
tune out of the rents of his miser-
able novels on the South Side of Chi
cago in which Negro families are
herded together, says Communism
doesn't mean any good to this coun-
try, either to me or anybody else in
it,"
No doubt, since the Communists
demand no payment Of rents by the
unemployed, and have led militant
fights against eviction Of Negro
workers in De Priests own district.
Is De Priests friend" of the
Negro people?
During the Hoover regime he con-
sistently supported the most reac-
tionary administration projects. He
voted against the payment of the
bonus and opposed federal relief
and supported the rugged indivi-
dualism" plan of Hoover which called
upon local communities providing re-
lief for the unemployed, principally
by throwing the burden on the backs
of the workers still employed.
More recently De Priest emerged as
defender" of the Negro workers
by insisting on their right to work
in Roosevelts forced labor C'refor-
estration" camps. He demanded
that Negroes shall not be discrim-
mated against in being enrolled in
the slave, jim-crow camps. But he
said not one word about jim crowism,
nor did he protest against the prison
wage paid both Negro and white
workers.
De Priest, far from being a friend"
of the Negro people, is one of its most
dangerous enemies. He is Wall
Streets undercover man in Congress