The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-15

gro in Washington, and thus stipnu.
late similar struggles in the South.
We say South deliberately, in orde.
to establish, once and for all, the fac
that Washington is not Southern
city, but Northern city.
Party's Struggles AgainsG
jim Crowism
The Communist Party, nationally
and locally, has made noteworthy
forward strides in breaking down
Jtm-CrowiSm in Washington.
The two National Hunger Marches
which threw overheard all the Jim
Crow practices of the Capital CITY.
set many Negro and white workers
thinking.
The Veterans March and Couyen
ton likewise violently shook the jim
Crow practices Of D. G. by the root.
Even the reformist "Crisis' carried
an article on this virtual resolution
in Washington conventions.
The recent delegation Of textile
strikers from Paterson, N. j., under
the leadership of the revolutionary
National Textile Workers Union,
crashed through the Jim-Crow prac-
tees Of the Tourist Camp, the semi
official lodging place for large visit
ors' delegations, and forced the Camp
to lodge the Negroes on the Delega-
ton.
The local Party has carried the
fight further, and with more consist
ency. A fight to force the PEOPLES
Drug Stores to serve Negroes at their
lunch counter took the form Of a
series Of open demonstrations, under
the leadership of the Young Com
muntst League.
Demonstrations
The Unemployed Council, under
open Communist leadership, has
forced the Relief Station to grant
equal relief to Negroes, and has fur
ther forced the relief station to stop
asking applicants for relief to fill out
TIL cir QUESTIONABLE answering
whether the applicant Is Negro or
white.
Inter-racial dancing is q regular
practice in affairs under Communist
leadership. Joint demonstrations Of
Negro and white workers for release
of the Logan Circle Boys and the
Scottsboro Boys have been frequent.
Washington workers, Negro and
white, staged its first May-Day dem
onstration in 80 years last May. The
photographers Of the capitalist press
caught striking scene. It was a
picture of a Negro and q white
worker holding aloft banner against
the background of the q. s. Capitol,
reading: Down With Jim CrowiSmg
Such activities have won for the
Communist Party the respect and
confidence Of the Negro masses, and
large numbers Of white workers.
Even the government employees,
which have made a practice of JIM
Crow unions, have recently, In ons
department, formed a union Of both
Negro and white workers.
Race discrimination is being TO q
great degree broken down, and this
is due to the leadership and influ-
ence Of the Communist Party, which
is the only force which is carrying
on q real fight for full social, eco
nofnic and political rights for thef
Negro. And, of course, the groundk
is being prepared by the deepeningk
of the economic crisis in Washing-s
ton, with its wage cuts, unemploy-
ment, etc.
The white workers, suffering under
the severe blows OF the crisis, are
gradually losing their ideas Of white
superiority. Even the arch-conser-
vative National Student Federation,
which held its convention a few
weeks ago in the aristocratic May
flower Hotel, met the issue Of dis
elimination, and the militants pres
ent won over the conference to the1
position Of mo Discrimination"
(To Be Continued.)