The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-23
NAACP Prepares
Whitewasling of
Hospital Charges
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secured this committee. Neither
die this guardian of Negro rights.
give rap about what opinion the
| doctors and nurses fired and forced
to resign might have about this type
of committee. In fact, not one o.
these doctors or nurses were invited
to be on the committee.
The letter goes on to list as those
Four Out of Eighteen!
on the committee, eighteen "distin-
guished medical experts and laymen
Only four of these eighteen are
| NegroeSl Not single doctor OF
Harlem is on the committed There
are no Negro women or nurses
There is no representative of the
North Harlem Medical Association
Negro organization in opposition to
the Wright-Connor controlled Man
haitian Medical Society, or of the
National Negro Medical Associa-
! ton. Instead, there is a representa-
tive. DR.. Dean Lewis, of the Amer
lean Medical Association and doc
tor of the American Surgical Associa-
ton, both of which organizations vi
ciously exclude Negroes!
So anxious is the N. A. A. c. p. to
cover up the stencil arising from
Tammany's Harlem Hospital that
they even drafted to the Committee
one of capitalism's ablest labor mis-
leaders and drunkard, the Socialist
Haywood Broun!
Broun, who in his column In the
New York Telegram stated that:
eff I were a candidate for high
executive Office, or judiciary office,
would say, even without being
ccrnered, that would not now
sanction the efforts to enforce the
14th and 18th Amendments TO the
Constitution of the United States"
Only last Friday. In writing about
Angelo Herndon. 19-year-old Negro
boy sentenced tn 1920 years of living
death on a Georgia chain gang
Brour called for Georgia TO ADOPT
Jews like that of New York where
che CHerndon not BrolIn of course)
might onlv be dubbed" for creaniZine
Negro aud white workers. this same
Brown is now asked by the N. A. A
C. P. to defend Negro rightsl
Only One Doctor
or1v one of tte -four Negroes ~
the "cnpnmittee" IS a doctor krd
he IS the hand picked Dr.. Ernest r.
.Tl'st. who is not a pra cticing nhvsi-
| - f..,4 81 rF III TI1,i
versitv.
The some w #. p. Dnpois uhe
made the ~re-mertinned vicious
ottacIl on the NEGRO doctors If Har-
lem IS ar"tl'or nemher Of the com-
n7itteei All the wav down fhe li1e
the list IS = dannable insult to the
Negro people.
All Enemies
m. wolta. LINDSAY Miles IF Cornell
University Medical Cnlleoe. which ras
excluded Nerroes 70" rnore than Fif-
taen wears: Or. NJ. r. Finrev Of the
Neorn-hatino Johns Honl1ins Uniyar-
city: Georra SCHUYLER CNegrol Of the
". A. A. G. p. which denends mon
CONGRESS TO stop the enSlaven1aut 81
Mario WORKERS. in the Mississippi
E1o~d Control REGION: Rev A. CLAW
ton Powell. nut on tl,e COMMITTEE tc
silence his son. Adam G. Powell. who
made the mistake of preachirg a
sermon on the need for an investiga-
ton. etc. compose this committee.
Not Impartial
This is the impartial secret iuves-
tigation" the N. A. A. c. p. wishes to
make, and not of the doinss of the
white doctors and Wright, but as
they state In their Letter "the quality
Of work done by them" that is, the
Negro doctorsl They offer no in
vestigation Of the conditions patient;
are subjected to or the discrirnina.
ton against Negro nurses by Write
supervisors.
The N. A. A. C. P. would inquire
. into charges which they themselves
, know inside out and condone.
To the newspapers and the rever,
end the letter was simply confirma
ton Of previous verbal agreements
and meant. Lay off the Harlem Hos
pital stuff: wait for further order;
from the N A. A. G. p. and Tam.
many, and we'll be able to save oul
faces and continue the same ole
game!
To the doctors the letter was al
offer OF bribe Of a concession Of
some sort and threat of blacklist
ing if they don't shut up"l
Threat to the Workers
To the Negro people as a whole
and to the white workers. Of Harlem
and New York City, the letter shows
the dictatorial attempt of the N. A
A. c. P. to cover up the horrible con-
ditions in Harlem Hospital and al
city hospitals and at the same time
exposes the attempt of the N. A. A
G. p. to pose as the defender OF
Negro rights" The NJ A. A. c. p
again stands exposed, as in the case
of the Scottsboro boys, as the tool
of the white ruling class for the
oppression of the Negro people.
The League of Struggle for Negro
Rights and the International Labor
Defense calls upon the Negro people
and white workers to come to the
Mass Protest Meeting at st. Luke's
Hall, l25 West l30th Street, Thurs
day, January 20, at pm, and de-
mand Of the city officials rea
Investigation by committee elected
by the people Of Harlem.
Readers are urged to pass this
article along to others, after they
have read it, especially to people in
Harlem.