The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-30
BRING TO THE FORE THE SPECIAL
DEMANDS OF THE NEGRO WORKERS

unity Of the Negro and white work
erS and toiling masses without plac-
ing the question of full equality Of
the Negroes in the forefront in every
struggle of the working class. Spe-
cial demands must be raised for the
oppressed Negro masses in every
struggle, in every shop, factory or on
the farm. Special demands must be
raised for the Negroes because they
suffer special forms of oppression
and discrimination. "CaSte of IN
touchables." &C. I. Resolution.
We must mobilize the white work
ers to fight against this discrimina-
ton; we must at no time allow the
special demands Of the Negroes to
be put into the background. The
white members of our Party must be
the first TO raise the question of the
special demands of Negroes and
Eight for those demands. Negro
members of our Party must fight
against all bourgeois national ten
denotes, and anti-working class ideas
in the minds of new Negro workers
coming into our Party.
Laundry and Textile Industries
In New York City, thousands of
Negro workers are employed in the
laundry industry. The needle indus
try employs about $1,000 Negroes.
Both in the laundry and needle in
dustries working conditions are bad,
and are getting worse. Wages are
at a starvation level. In both of
these industries the women workers
are earning as low as three and four
dollars per week. The Negroes en-
plOyed in both Of these industries
are given the worst and the hardest
Jobs.
Yet we have not seriously taken
up the task of prepar'n these work
ers to fight for the bet.erment of
their conditions on the job. We have
not made the white workers in these
industries fully understand the need
Of real solidarity and unity with the
Negro workers, nor that precisely be-
cause the employers are able to play
the workers, one against the other,
that it is much harder to win better
conditions.
A Breach in the Struggle.
A leading" Party comrade pre-
sent at the laundry fraction meeting
accused the Negro comrade present
Of "nationalism" and of being an ad-
herent Of "Garveyism". The local
party leader was supported in this
accusation by the leading" laundry
union comrade. Both Of these COM
rades show sad lack Of knowledge
Of the C. I. line on the Negro ques-
ton, which states very sharply that
the duty Of the white workers is to
be in the forefront of the struggle
for Negro rights, and that "the white
revolutionary workers must fly at the
throat of 100 percent bandit that
strikes Negro in the face.
Could not a con1rade who can use
such phrases as "Garveyism' and
"nationansm" to cover up his failure
to raise the special demands OF Negro
workers easily develop to a point
where he would strike Negro in The
ace?
Every white members of the Com
munist Party of the U,SrA must at
once, and without moments hest
tation, take up the struggle for the
rights of the oppressed Negro mas
SEES; Negro and white Communists
together must carry on such strug
gle for the purity OF our Bolshevik
line. that deviations and distortions
shall be cleaned out Of our Party.
We must Immediately and in a
Bolshevik manner take up the special
fight of the Negroes against discrim-
nation, m-crowism, inequalities on
the job, for full social, political and
economic equality, and especially on
the JOB and in the trade unions.