The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-02
By B~rek

come to recognize the ASSISTANT
HANGMEN of the Negro masses
are the Negro reformist leaders.
Quotations from editorials from
the Post and Agc-Hcrald declare:
THAT the dreadful affair should
have taken place in section
ornamented by so useful and hope
full and enterprise as Tuskegee
Institute serves only to deepen
ones sense of defeat" POST
Happening in the shadow of
Tuskegee Institute where Booker T.
Washington preached his sermon
of racial cooperation and where
Robert r. Motion has carried the
work on since, these incidents are
doubly unfortunate" (Age- Herald)
1t is clear that the capitalists and
landlords see the Negro masses
slipping away from the control of
their Shrewdest betrayers, the Ne
gro reformistS, and turning to
Communism. How we'll they regret
it. The role of assistant hangman
in the Alabama troopers struggle
which the misleaders are called on
to play is grabbed at by most of
the Southern Negro newspapers,
who are dominated by the ideal
ogy of the churches, big lodges and
the National Associations for the
Advancement of Colored People.
SEEK TO
SMASH PARTY
Long articles discussing ways
and means of smashing the Com
munist Party appear daily. Attor-
ney General Knight of Scot sboro
infan1y promises to prosecute the
District leaders responsible" for
the "Tallapoosa riots" The Biz
ningham police are congratulated
for keeping tabs on the Red
leaders" They quickly raided the
office OF the l. L. D. the day after
the Reel1own battle. They break
into private house meeting and
Jail Alice Burke. They shout that
the Birmingham leaders are res
ponsible for telling the troopers
that 1.-The war question should be
the daily agitation of all the COM
rades," they declare that the Bir-
mingham leaders are teaching the
Negro masses the principles of
Sovietism, of the workers owning
the mills and land with the cap
italsts overthrown, and the elm
lnation of racial and social lines"
1t is clearly necessary to prepare
for the sharp terror that;is coming.
nm the whole the District leader
" ship of the Party reacted quickly
and correctly to the first news of
the struggle. Our fundamental
line was correct-that it was a
planned murderous attack by land
lords armed deputies on Negro
poor farmers defending themselves
and their means of livelihood
which the landlords could not turn
into race riot because Of the
tremendous support given the
heroic Negroes by the toiling
whites. We issued publicity leaf
lets and resolutions quickly, our
leadership worked tirelessly and
the entire District membership
was swept into motion, organizers
went into the field, legal defense
was put into action, a committee
left to see the Governor etc. But
aside from this, many bad mistakes
cropped up the first few days,
growing primarily out of failure
to understand the feminist ap-
proach TO the national question,
bIurring over of the national
aspects of he Negro question. One
comrade thought that we were
pushing the Scottsboro case aside
by taking up the fight for the
Alabama troopers. This comrade
did not understand that the
struggle Of the Alabama choppers
and the Scottsboro case must be
linked up, that they both stand ON
common ground, the, struggle for
Negro rights and against the whole
system Of Negro oppression.
Even the capitalist press adj
mitted that the choppers gave
ga featured place to the Scotts-
boro case in all their agitation"
Another comrade put forward
resolution saying that the condi-
ton of the white farmers were
just as bad as the Negro farmers,
which of course is absolutely
untrue, In one resolution the
winning OF the white workers was
placed on the basis of blurring
over the Negro question.
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