The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-16
PARTY LIFE
How Party Washington, DC.
Dealt With White ChGuUinism
Relentless Probe Started When Negro Workers
We're Refused Admittmtce to Ball

Negro hating landlord, but con.
tinues on to struggle with the gov.
eminent and the police.
az The Communists In the
WOmen's League and other mas
organizations which participated In
this ball should have put up a stiff
battle against the management
and have rushed to the defense Of
the Negroes.
81 The Party members In these
organizations should not have per-
mitted Jim Crow hall to be rented
unless they were prepared to pro-
tect and defend the Negroes who
wanted to attend.
A series of discussions were held
with the Jewish fraction and with
the Negro comrades. These discus
sions showed that the Jewish COM
rades who committed this act Of
white chauvinisp were those COM
rades who were still poisoned with
the theology of the bourgeoisie and
the Socialist Party. They do not
have the least understanding of the
national movement of the Negroes,
and It's relation to the revolutionary
movement. They speak such strange
words as: There must be something
wrong with the position Of . relent-
less fight against Negro discrimina-
ton, since to carry on such fight
| is not PRACTICAL" In no case do
these comrades admit chauviniSm (ex-
cept in the case of one), but they
defend their policy on the grounds
that the mass organizations like the
IW.O., Women's League, Icor, etc.
would split up on this question, and
that it would be impossible to um
successful" affair-that white peo-
pie would not come; ETC.. etc.
These ideas were completely broken
down, by exposing these ideas as
typical Socialist ideas, as ideas Of the
craSSeSt bourgeois degeneration. When
these comrades were told how the
Negro comrades were alarmed over
this incident, how outside Negro
workers we're holding meetings among
themselves on this question, how the
danger Of actually losing the pres
tige among the Negro masses Of
Washington, and over the entire
country, may result from such I'M
communist action, the comrades all
admitted their errors, and the fol-
lowing action was agreed to:
IL A statement to be written By
the Jewish comrades involved and
TO be discussed in the mass or
CARNATIONS on the mistake Of ex-
Guiding the Negroes from the Peas
ants Ball.
(2) Our comrades not TO permit
the renting Of the Jim-Cr hall
again unless they are prepared TO
defend the Negroes.
(3) These white comrades to orr
/ ganize themselves into defense
groups at the next affair which Is
being run by the IGOR at Jim
| Grow hall.
AZ A membership meeting of all
Party, Y.CL. and sympathixers
where thorough and frank dis /
cuSsion shall be carried through.
| 81 A statement to be sent to the
Party press.
While we do mt by any means be-
iieve this discussion will break down
white chauvinism in our Party, we
do believe that these comrades in
fvolved are not incurable chauvinistS.
We believe that in the process OF
/. involving these comrades in the mass
campaigns of the Party, especially in
the struggles for Negro rights, will
these comrades be able to understand
the correct Communist position or
the Negro question, and be able I'd
bring this position into the mass or
CARNATIONS.