The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-12
THE JEWS

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THE JEWS
We NAV expect an increase OF
anti-semitism in this country, as
more and more of the Nazi poison
gas fills the world. The Nazis have
begun to buy up American racke-
teering scribblers. We can already
suspect some of their publicity in
magazines like Liberty. But there
will be more, great deal more.
Yes, anti-semitism will increase,
history'S most famous and venerable
red herring.
The Jews are not unified group,
but. like every other race, are divided
into economic classes. A rich jew
ish clothing boss hasn't the slight
est feeling for his proletarian jew
ish workers, and will hire italian,
Irish. Jewish or even Nazi gangsters
to assassinate his fellow-Jews, If
they are on strike. A Negro boss
will do the same against Negro work
ers. an Irishman against the irish,
Italian, German or Chinese-each
race is split by the class war.
So when the Jews are attacked
because of small minority who are
rich. remember that like every other
race. the so per cent are working
class paupers. Don't let Nazi lies fool
YOU.
It follows without saying that
every anti-semite is also a foe OF
working class freedom, just as every
foe of the Negro is quite naturally
our bitter enemy You never find
one hatred without the other.
Many of the so-called friends OF
the Jew, the liberal people, have but
faintly-hidden anti-semitic preJu-
dices. They will tolerate Jews who
know their place, but the Red Jews
seems to them something insolent
beyond words.
The African minority is going
through this same kind Of psyche
logical handicap. Many Of their
bourgeois white friends will make
any concession so long as the Negro
will consent to acknowledge he is in
ferior, so long as he will let them
keep the lead.
But every free and proud-spirited
Negro will reject such compromise,
this Hindu caste idea. If accepted
it is one OF the surest ways of break
ing down a races development.
Whoever has felt some Of the
race-hatred in the capitalist world,
VIII love the Soviet Union for what
it has done TO clear away this
ancient wrong.
Over there no race is handicapped
ncw-ell have a truly equal place in
the sun. The Tartar and the Jew,
the Slay Mongol and brown Uzbek,
the Volga German and the Siberian
tribesman, all work for the great goal
of Socialism, there is room and need
for them all 1t is the one land to-
day where there are no race prob
lens. even though over hundred
formerly hostile races live together.
Some day the whole world will be
like that.
THEODORE DRESSER
Which leads me to note briefly
that Theodore Dresser not only has
come out for Mira, but has made a
curious statement about the Jews
that is certainly worthy of debate.
The American Spectator, rather
feeble imitation of the American
Mercury is a new broadsheet monthly
magazine. Mr.. Dresser is one of its
five editors. The others are Eugene
ONeill, Ernest Boyd, George Jean
Nathan and James Branch Cabell.
These editors went through an
editorial conference recently on the
Jewish question with wine, they
add. The account of their discussion
is printed in the September issue Of
their sheet.
There is something very SNUG and
fatuous about the style OF the COM
ment. The five editors are patron
izing, and indulge in Menckenite wit
of the pre-war vintage.
One reads 1t all with the feeling
of the sons of Noah when they found
their venerable daddy naked, drunken
and silly on the ground. This dis
cussion is a sad self-exposure, and
one really grieves and marvels to find
Theodore Dresser in such a galley.
But there he is, and his contribu-
ton to the conference Is the notion
that the Jews are too clever a race,
and should not mind a handicap.
There are too many Jewish lawyers,
for instance, and Mr.. Dresser sug-
gests that they be limited from
100000 to ten, and that similar quo
tas be made in other fields.
1t is of course Nazi idea, though
in the embryo. Mr.. Dresser doesn't
seem to understand the implications
OF his suggestion, or that he Is advo-
eating that whole race be put in
an inferior position. He may have
similar Jim Grow ideas regarding the