The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-07
Minor Hits
Tiger Terror
on Negroes

NEW YORK.-Twenty- five Negro
and white worker representing
churches, unions, clubs and fraternal
organizations, who were told by
Mayor O'Brien, after he kept morn
ing appointment with them at four
o'clock in the afternoon, that there
was mo proof Of lynch terror,
against Negroes in this city, heard a
different story when they interviewed
Robert Minor, Communist candidate
for Mayor
They had waited five hours for
Mayor O'Brien, but they found Minor
waiting for them at the Workers
School, SO E. 18th st. There were no
political flunkeys, detectives or po-
lice squads to usher" the workers in.
The delegation told Minor of the
protest they had against the lynch
terror being whipped up by the Po-
lice Department with its hunt for
ficticious gorilla man"
What stand does the Communist
Party take on the lynch indict-
ment?" they asked.
"You have been to the Demo-
cratic city government" said Minor.
I'm coming to the Communist
Party you have come home. This
is your Party"
He held up copy of the protest
containing a list of melting actions
against Negroes, which the Mayor
had tried to make little of, and said:
"The Communist Party backs these
charges with its signature, but it does
not stop there. The Communist
Party is Party of deeds, not words. !"
"The Democratic Party of O'Brien
is the same that rules the South
and has the blood of thousands of
Negroes on its hands," he con-
tinued.
He pointed to the numbering of
the Negro worker Matthews on We'll
fare Island as an instance of the
normal functioning of the Democratic
Party.
Referring to the Fusion candidate
LaGuardia's speech Monday night at
Cooper Union, the fighting Commu-
mist candidate asked:
did you see. what he said about
the Negroes? I'll show you all he
said-on this piece of paper"
He held up a blank sheet.
why is this lynch terror being
brought up from the South? Starva-
ton is rampant in New York. Bank
ers do not wish to relieve the situa-
ton. Tammany is the representa-
tive of the bankers and they do not
wish to tax the bankers to pay for
unemployment relief.
"They know that the only way we
can obtain what rightfully belongs
to us is through mass struggle. And
the most ominous thing they see is
that the color line is breaking down
That is bad for them and they know
it," said Minor.
''They work up their lynch hysteria
to keep the Negro and white workers
divided"
Minor barred the anti-Negro posi-
ton of the Fusion, Republican and
Socialist Parties. Then, turning tc
what the Communist Party advises
the workers to do, he said:
Organize for self defense, not
only with Negroes, but with the
militant white workers also. Don't
take the white mans word for it,
make him prove his sincerity in
fighting for Negro rights with ac-
ton" He pointed to Isadore Dorf-
man, a member of the delegation,
who was arrested and beaten by
police at the Abyssinian Church
after he came to the defense of a
Negro woman, as an example Of a
sincere fighter aaginst Negro OPP
preston.
"Stir up the masses, Negro and
white, so that no cop will dare to
frame or beat Negro. Use your
candidates, Burroughs, Patterson
Ford" said Minor, mot just for meet
ings, but to lead you in exposing
and smashing every Jim-Crow place
in Harlem and outside. Demonstrate
against the discrimination in relief.
Don't you feel ashamed" he asked
a worker in the delegation, "that you
haven't yet picketed these Jim Grow
stores, theatres and buildings with
a sign reading, Jim Crow, Keep
Out?'"