The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-31
Haywood Declares Plan
Would Tighten Grip
of Wall Street
By HARRY HAYWOOD

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Mr.. William N. Jones, one of the
editors of the Baltimore Afro
American, in an article appearing
in his paper (Aug. ID takes sharp
issue with the Communist estimate
of his So-called "Save-Liberia
movement" That estimate was
made in detail in my report to the
Eighth Convention of the Commu-
mist Party. (This report was later
published in pamphlet form under
the title The Road to Negro Lib
eration.")
1t will be recalled that in this re-
port the plan of Mr.. Jones known
as the Liberian- American Plan of
Cooperation was characterized as
an instrument of American i'm
perialism, calculated to tighten the
grip of Wall Street and Harvey
FfreStone on the Liberian people.
Mr.. Jones takes vigorous excep-
ton to what he terms the careless
statements" which I make concern
ing his cooperation with George
Padmore, expelled renegade from
Communism. Jones admits, how
ever, the essential facts: That he
had a lengthy conversation with
Padmore, and that he and Mr..
Padmore agreed quite we'll on the
question of Liberia. He makes
much of the fact that this discus
sion took place, not, as I said, while
he was on his way from Liberia to
America, but instead while he was
on his way from America to Liberia.
Now what possible difference can
it make to the Liberian masses
whether the plans for their betrayal
were made on Mr.. Jones' trip there
of on Mr.. Jones trip home?
Mr.. Revolutionary
Marxist"
Mr.. Jones in his article holly de-
MES that his plan is against the
interests of the Liberian masses.
He denies that the plan is Gin any
way linked up with imperialism. .
He denies that it represents re-
treat from the program of revolu-
tionary struggle, or that it means,
in practice, support for American
Imperialism and its native hangers
on. He denies also that as far as
the American Negroes are con-
cerned, it is a new and more subtle
edition of Garvey's Back-to- Africa
program.
But this is not all. Mr.. Jones
not only denies all these accusa-
tions-but he actually lays claim to
being a Marxist. IT am a Marxist,"
he says, land believe in revolution
airy struggle" But in the same
breath, Mr.. Jones, with apparent
naivete, would have us believe that
his Save-Liberia scheme has no
connection with politics, whether
imperialist of Communist. Oh no,
his plan is merely an emergency
measure backed by a group of
friends of Liberia" who have as
their sole motive TO save it
Giberia) in a grave and impending
emergency"
Having made this defense" Mr..
Jones now takes the offensive
against his Communist critics. He
attempts to divert the question
from his own desertion of the
struggle for the liberation of the
Negro people, by a subtle" attack
on the Communist Party. Thus
Mr.. Jones will have us know that
although a revolutionary Marx
ist," friendly to Communism, and
having respect" for at least some
of the principles of the Communist
Party and even some of its lead
ers," Cd he emphatically rejects
what he calls the "goose-step tao
tics" of the Communist leaders in
this country. These tactics, he
goes on to say, make it necessary
to dot every 81 and cross every t.
with Moscow theology" Mr.. Jones
will not be bound BY what he would.