The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-02
Communists Lead
Anti-Lynch Fight,
Burroughs Says
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lOEQ III CnlCagO, charging negroes
high rents, segregating them, and he
was one Of those responsible for the
murder Of the Negro unemployed
workers in Chicago who were pro-
testing against evictions and demand
ing more relief. They say La Guardia
has supported the anti-lynching bill
But what does this mean in the face
jof the fact that La Guardia has not
even made gesture in support of
the Scottsboro boys, of Fuel Lee, or
against the lynching of Armwood. La
Guardia boasts of his work for the
Sleeping Car Porters Union. He
helped to make this Union a Jim
Crow union"
Replying to the advertisement in
the same issue OF the Amterdam
News, in which Samuel Leibowitz
comes out for Mckee and the Re-
coyery Party Comrade Burroughs
stated, "Leibowitz has lined up with
the party in the New York elections
closest to the New DEAL and RooSe-
velt the Democratic Party which is
trying to carry thru the lynch program
against the Scottsboro boys in the
South and which dominates the jim
Crow South, The Recovery Party,
! like the Republican and Socialist
parties and Tammany, are all united
in unfolding the oppression of the
Negro and the maintenance of this
oppression through legal and illegal
| lynchingS. Leibowitz was selected by
the LID. as one of the attorneys to
defend the Scottsboro boys and is
now trying to cash in on the case
to advance politically the lynch party
| of Roosevelt.
"The condition Of the Negro of Har-
lem is typical of the conditions of
the Negroes throughout the country,
Comrade Burroughs declared. 1.-THE
Negro workers more than any other
section are kept out Of jobs, are given
less relief, are forced to accept the
worst work, often degrading and
sometimes illicit work, to keep from
starving. What are they going to
do? The Negro is the first evicted,
the first fired, and last hired. The
Y.M.CA. building stands idle at 135th
Street, and meanwhile workers are
put out on the street because they
can't pay rent. There is only one
home relief buro in Harlem, and this
was won after the fight of the I'm
employed Council and the Commu-
mist Party. Fully 65-70 per cent of
the workers of Harlem are unem-
ployed.l The children are crowded
together in old schools, no new ones
being built by Tammany. Housing
is the worst in the city, the Negro
! families forced to live in crowded
tenements, and often in Easements.
"The Communist Party is the only
party which has opposed segregation
and has led the fight for better con-
ditions for the Negro workers and for
full social, industrial and political
equality for the Negroes. The Com
munist Party has supported the fight
OF the Unemployed Councils for I'm
employment Insurance and for relief.
The Communist Party has supported
the splendid struggle of the Inter
national Labor Defense against legal
and Illegal lynchings. This struggle
prevented the lynching of Fuel Lee
for two years, and has so far pre-
vented the lynching of the Scottsboro
boys. The Communist Party has led
! the demonstrations before O'Brien
| and Police Commissioner Bolan
against the killing of James Mathews
| at Welfare Island. The other parties
| do not even mention the Negro work
ers in their platform.
THE Negro reformists, such as
Pickens, have betrayed and sabotaged
| the ScottSboro cases. Adam Powell,
now coming out for Mckee, refused
| the use of his church for protest
against the Mathews killing.
"These reformist leaders among the
| Negroes, like DePriest, ETC., are try
ing to keep the Negro workers
chained to the MIRA. and it's dis
eliminating program. Adam Powell
is a member of the NRA. board in
Harlem, and is trying to hide the
Viciousness of Tammany against the
Negro workers as shown in the
Mathews killing and in Whalen's
strikebreaking activities. The A. F.
| of L. and its leaders continue to try
to keep the Negroes out of the
unions, or if they come in, bring
them in on the Jim Crow basis" Will
Llama Burroughs concluded.
The Communist Party the LID.
and the other militant organizations
OF the workers supported by the Com
munist Party have done splendid
work in the South, as for example,
in the struggle of the sharecronpers
IN Alabama, and In the North, in
leading ever growing masses of white
and Negro workers in the struggle
for better conditions for the Negro
and against lynching and discrimina-