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exist side by side with the capital
ism Of the North because it rendered
1t service: profits from the slave
trade at an earlier period, supply
ing the raw material for the rapidly
developing textile industry of New
England, the profit from the cotton
trade and commerce in food stuffs
and manufactured products with the
plantation owners.
But as capitalism grew further in
the North, as the factory system de-
veloped and the pioneer frontier
spread westward, the interests OF the
two systems came more sharply into
conflict and could no longer be con-
tiliatsd. Should the vast western ter
.itory be opened to capitalism or to
chattel slavery? This was the prime
question in the famous debates be-
tween Lincoln and Douglas; it was
cut of the conflict between slave
owners and pioneer farmers in Kan
sas that the Republican Party grew
which elected Lincoln to the preSi-
dency in 1860. But behind this was
even a more basic question: shall
capitalism or chattel slavery rule
upon the North American continent?
This question could only be settled
by force of arms; the Civil War gave
answer.
Lincoln's Real Attitude
The attitude of Lincoln to the
principal issues at stake reveal not
the revolutionary, but the liberal, the
conciliator, the compromise, the
petty bourgeois the interests of whose
class he really represented in the
,onflict
The principal Issue at stake wss
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-17
congress Anti-Lynch Bill
Calls Mass Meetings MODS -
ed To Break Picket Illness Prends Impartial
Only Negro Bill of Rights in Interests of Negro

the lynchers themselves, to prosecute
and to seek to disbar one VINO stands
In the forefront Of the real fight
against lynchiug in Maryland
IT is clear, then, that this reputed
! difference" between the local and
federal courts Is but new and more
cunning ATTEMPT Of the reforraistS to
preserve legalstic illusions among
the masses and TO revive theis faith
In the bourgeois government and lbs
institutions.
1t is new attempt to hide from
the Negro and white toilers the class
character Of these institutions as in
struments Of class and national OPP
preston. Federal legislation? Yes, We
are not opposed to effective federal
legislation against lylching, but it
can only be effective when supported
by an aroused and organized mass
movement for it's enforcement. And
it Is precisely this which the REFORM
lists wish to avoid.
The hypocrisy Of the sponsors Of
bne CoStlgan-Wagner Dill, as welt as
the other so-called anti-lynehins bills
now before Congress, is further
shown by the fact that In all Of
these bills, lynching is treated as 8
phenomenon entirely separate from
the general oppression OF the Negro
people. BY means of this obvioas
fraud, the bourgeoisie and their re-
formist lackeys seek TO divert the
masses from any real struggle against
lynelaing, which, as the experience OF
the Scottsboro campaign has shown,
can only be effective II earned thru
simultaneously with a fight against,
and exposure Of the whole system Of
national oppression, Of watch lynch
ing is only one expression.
Moreover, the bills atpresent before
Congress, are ali e,TiOusly silent on
lynch frame ups-legal or courtroom
lynchings. simultaneously with the
growth OF extra legal lynchings, we
witness an alarming increase OF legal
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$4,000 in JObIess and
.CWA Workers United
Front Demonstration

printed when an engineers Level Cls-
appeared o.. at Fork jag, and you
tell us that there Is no military
aspect to the c. W. A., when the
workers wished to join the Feb. 5th
demonstration, the army officers
openly spoke of getting machine guns
to keep US al our work because
have been active in organizing
technical workers, l am placed in the
lowest category OF c. W. A. pay
I wsS threatened when left my job
to join today's demonstration.
Puts Blame on Washington
But your legitimate place Of pro-
test is in Washington" interjected
the G. w. A. officials.
IF our place of protest is in Wash
ington, Shearer hurled back at them
then, in the name of the thousands
of workers down there on the streets
we demand that the c. w. A. provide
transportation and food for every
worker to go there in mass delega-
ton"
Delegate after delegate placed de-
mands before the c. w. A. UNI
employment insurance continue
tion and enlargement Of the G. w. A
. no discrimination against Ne
gro and foreign born workers. Finally
the C. W. A. board gave its answer.
DR.. IioWenStetn spoke. He threw
the entire burden upon Washington
Flaccid and ffabby, purple iowled
he sat back and weakly said: Il
have listened very sympathetically
This is g federal matter; this g. W.
A. body is a representative of fed
eral authority. The place for you
to address yourselves is in Washing
ton" Thus the G. w. A. adnliniss.-a
ton refused to act on the demands
The delegates reported back to
Union Square to the workers who
were waiting.
The delegates of the Unemployed
Councils, Sullivan and Work, placed
the proposals before the workers that
all the organizations present at this
demonstration hold delegated con-
ference and plan future united ac-
ton. The workers greeted this pro-
posal enthusiastically.
The demonstration disbanded at Z
pm. amid cries of "On to the mas
meeting at Bronx Coliseum; to the
Austria Mass Meeting at Bronx Col
iseunl."
The organizations participating IN
the united front demonstration in
Guided: The Federation OF Architects
Engineers, Chemists and TechnicianS
the Association of Civil Works EN-
ployes, Associated Office and Profes-
sional Emergency Employees, Home
Relief Bureau Employees Association
Worke1s Committee on Unemploy-
ment, Workers Unemployed League
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plantations or a final settlement Of
the issues which had precipitated the
conflict. Had an assassin's bullet not
been produced BY history, Lincoln
would have suffered the same polit-
ical and historical fate as Johnson,
his successor. johnson continued
Loncoln's policies and was destroyed
by the industrial bourgeoisie Of the
North, which had come to the ascen-
dancy and which, for 8 short time,
sought revolutionary solution.
In the end, Lincoln's policies we're
also accepted by the big bourgeoisie
turned reactionary. which after a
decade of sharp conflicts and mass
revolutionary upheavals in the South,
took the former slaveowners to their
bosom and re-enslaved the Negroes
on the Southern plantations.
The heritage left by Lincoln and
the class he represented is the pres
snt-day plantation system in the
South with its share cropping and
Deoaage, the oppression of the Negro
people, iyEching continual peTsecu-
ton and degradation. The failure of
Linccln and the bourgeoisie to carry
out the revolutionary struggle to its
conclusion has left these tasks for
the revolutionary working class, white
and black, to perform. They are
written on the banner of the present
day revclutionist. the Communist.
side By side With the demands of
the proletariat. Equal Rights fo-
Negroes, the Right Of Deter
mination for the egno People in the
Black Belt'-tllis is the Communist
answer 70 the Lincoln myth.
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By HOWARD BOLDT

NEW YORK.--As the 5000 C.W.A.
and jobless workers, who demon
strated at Union Square Thursday
swung into orderly columns, with
hardly single detection in their
ranks. hundreds of unlocking workers
Joined the march until, as the work.
ers neared the C.WA. office, $4,000
were in the lines. Singing reyolu-
tionary songs, shouting militant So
gans, with working class banners held
high, Communists and rank and file
Socialist workers. with inteTlocked
arms marched side by side.
The workers were joined at Madi-
son Souara by about 800 whit collar
workers. The line Of march, now
swollen to 14,e00 By actual count cir
cied the CITY C.WA. administration
Offices. Trade union. Socialist, Com
munist. and non-affiIiate6 workers
greeted each other in mutual solidar-
ity. Defving the police, the workers
refused TO march back to Union
Square until the C.WA. officials had
heard the mighty roar Of their de-
mands.
Delegates Meet With C.W.A.
A delegation of nine, representing
the Organizations which had partici-
pated in the demonstration, left the
line Of. march to present the workers
demands II 80 Tw.A They con-
FRED with F. I. Daniels, and DR.. S
Lowenstein of the C.W.A.
Michael Davidow, president Of the
Relief Workers League, pointed out
cases Of discrimination against c. w.
A. union organizers. To-day" ne
declared. "as we get first h4stv re-
ports Of C.W.A lay-offs. We find that
mass 1ay-offs have taken place at
Bear Mountain. Three hundred and
fifty workers have been laid of at
Kines County Hosrita1; 50 at Man
haitian Park, Brooklyn; the entire
crew at Belleview Hos~itel: the super
irtende,t at Marine Park has orders
to fire ten WORKERS dailv. These are
only isolated instances that have
come to our attention today. We de-
r"and ston to these mass lav-oFs.'
The C.W.A. board remained silent.
Demand Negro Discrimination End
Marcel Work, icbless Negro, men,
Der Of the City Unemployment Ccun-
Gil. demanded an end to discrimina-
ton against NEGROES on relief. on
the streets below could be heard the
migllty roar Of the workers
The delegate Of the Federation OF
Architects, Engineers, Chemists and
Technicians, Marcel Shearer, said to
Daniels, Negro technicians are re-
fused skilled jobs, and given work
with pick and shovel at Bear
Mountain, engineers we're finger
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Jim Grow Negroes On
New York C.W.A. Jobs;
Are First to Be Fired
LaGuardia and Daniels Are Responsible; Workers
Protest Discrimination

NEW YORK. Work, job
less Negro, representing the Unem-
ployment Council, demanded Of G.
w. A. Administrator Daniels an end
OF discrimination against Negro
workers on G. ". A, jobs in New
York City, during yesterdays united
front demonstration against Roose-
yelt's G. ". 4, layofis.
Daniels shirked all responsibility
for the scandalous treatment OF the
Negroes on G. ". A. work in New
York City. Under the New York C.
w. 4. administration sud the regime
OF Mayor La Guards, the unenl-
ployed Negroes have been jim-crowed
and have undergone sharper and
sharper discrimination.
There are at least 100000 unem-
ployed Negro workers In New York
City, with a population Of Negroes
which according to the 1882 Census
was 327,To6. AT least so per cent
Of all Negro workers In the city are
jobleSs. In New York there is the
largest concentration Of Negro popu-
lation in the world.
But OF the 100000 unemployed
Negro workers, only about 2,70o got
on G. w. A. jobs. Even in the heart
Of Harlem, where the Negro workers
are segregated, whites predominated
on C.W.A. jobs at least to /. Scores
of thousands of Negro workers were
not even permitted to register. Only
about 10000 Negroes were registered.
Even the registration OF Ne@So work
ers by the G, w. A. administration
was carried out on q jinl-crow basis.
Negroes were forced to register in
jini-crow Offices in Harlem, no matter
in what section OF the city they
lived.
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or courtroom lynchings in this period.
Along with lynchings by "mobs" or
ganized by leading citizens, the
courts taken upon themselves the
role Of carrying through the lynch
ings, by frame-ups Of innocent
Negroes, speedy trials by slI-wnite
juries Of business men and farmers,
conducted in . lynch atmosphere
with denial Of the constitutional
rights 10 the defendants---the right
10 choose their own COUNCIL, etc. This
Is 3 naaneuver 10 provide legal cloak
for the lynchers Of the Negro people.
These legal lynchirgs expose more
clearly than anything the system of
national oppressioi and the courts as
instruments for Che maintenance Of
this system. THUS, anyone proposing
to fight lynching without at the same
time fighting against the whole sys-
TEN Of national oppression, frame
ups and legal lynchiug is either an
ignoramus or a sly agent Of the
lynehers.
In sharp contrast to these reform
Aoy A44CelOd1CSg 10 Jill LII Vi SANAt
Riotts for the Negro People, proposed
by the League of Struggle for Nero
RIGHTS and taken to Washington by
me Scottsboro Marchers. The differ
fence lies in the following: Cd that
the PROPOSALS OF the bill are not con-
ceived as something to replace a
mass revolutionary movement against
lynching, but on the contrary, as a
weapon for broadening out and
strengthening such a noVemerA which
alone can out stop TO lvnching; and
% this Bill OF Civil Rights treats
lynching In correct manner, not as
an isolated phenomenon, but as an
integral part OF the whole system of
jinl-crow, national oppression. It
therefore approaches the question Of
the fight against lynching as q part
of the night for the constitutional
and civil RIGHTS of the Negro people
and for national liberation.
TO be continued
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Unemployment Councils, and Relief
Workers League.
The 16 point demands called for,
In part: Continuance and expansion
of the C. w. A.; restoration Of pay
cuts; no lay-offs; immediate cash
relief for all jobless workers; the
right to organize, and recognition Of
Job committees; no discrimination
against Negroes and foreign born;
and federal unemployment insurance
at the expense of the bosses and gov
eminent.
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Sculptor WithdrawS
Exhibit in Protest
at Mural Vandalism

NEW YORK Harkavy,
sculptor, has withdrawn from the ex-
hibition at the Rockefeller Center, in
protest against the destruction Of
the mural by Diego Rivera, because
1t contained a portrait of Isenin.
"The destruction Of the mural is
of piece with the revolving bru-
tality of that class which takes the
creations of the human mind in
the same way as it uses human
beings, and destroys them as ruth
lessly if they cease to serve its in
terests," she wrote in a letter to
Holger Cahill, director of the ex-
hibition, informing him of her
withdrawal.
ut was not so long ago that here
in America the cry was raised that
in Russia they were not preserving
their art. 1t is a fact, however, that
not ever was church or building
demolished in the US.SR., if it
possessed any historic or artistic
value, not even where the workers
demanded it. 1 was in Russia in
1931-1932 when millions of rubles
were being spent to restore the fres-
cos in the Uspensky Cathedral in
the Kremlin, in spite of the fact that
the subjects of those frescoes were
in sharp contrast to the prevailing
view.
Apart from its barbarism, the act
Of destruction carried out with such
furtiveness was an intolerable affront
to the dignity and self-respect of
every artist.
I'm the face of what has happened,
/ desire to have my name withdrawn
from the list of exhibitors.
" (SigneO MTNNA r. HARKAVY. p
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-17
To Celebrate FOrtieth
Birthday of ]. ". Ford

NEW YORK.-The Harlem See
ton Of the Communist Party VIII
celebrate the fortieth birthday of
James w. Ford, beloved leader and
Communist candidate for vice
president Of the United States dur
ing the recent elections. The af-
fair will be held at the Estonian
Hall, q West 18th ST., Saturday,
Feb. "a
Leading members Of the Party
will review the significance Of
Ford's work in the revolutionary
movement. Between the courses
of the birthday banquet, there will
be anecdotes and toastS by those
who have worked with Ford in
various fields Of Party activity.
There will be dancing and en-
tertainment. Eugene Nigob, IA
nous pianist, will render classic
selections and the Workers Lab
oratory Theatre viii perform some
Of their revolutionary skits. Ad-
mission to the affair, including
the banquet, will be so cents.
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The skilled work was not given to
Negro workers. Almost none of the
skilled Negro mechanics or building
trades workers got skilled C. w A
Jobs. Those few Negroes who got
G. W. A, jobs were given pick and
shovel work. The G. w. A. admins
tration offices are filled with thou
sands OF whites. Negroes cannot be
found in these Jobs.
Where the Negro workers got IN
skilled Jobs they we're segregated
from the whites.
In the firing Of workers now going
on under Roosevelt's orders, the
Negroes are among the first to be
fred. L@Guardia has allowed this
gross discrimination to take place
without so much as a word. La
Guardis as well as the Roosevelt
Tarnmany machine, is directly re-
Sponsible for the disgraceful jim
Grow practices OF the CWA admins
tration in New York City. The same
discrimination exists throughout the
country.
The League Of Struggle for Negro
Rights, as well as the Unemployed
Councils and the Relief Workers
Leagues are carrying on a vigorous
campaign for the rights of the
Negroes on CWA jobs. All workers
and workers organizations should
fight against the Jim Growing of
Negro workers on CWA jobs, against
the firing Of Negro workers from
CWA projects; for equal pay for
equal work for Negroes, and against
any form Of discrimination against
the unemployed Negro workers; with
no discrimination in the giving out
Of jobs and relief.
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LncOns Policies Protected the Interests of Northern Capital

Ths ssee@t ceaebrstscns u xAa-
coins birthday gives the following
article peculiar irnpertance. Arnexi-
can history, and the press today
industrtously foster the Lincoln
myth" the myth that lincoln was
the Great Emancipatcr'' Of the
Negro saaases from slavery. The
following article based on irrefut-
able historic facts reveals the capt.
talist class character Of this DELHI
erstely fostered historic legend. In
the present struggles Of the Negro
masses for liberation, - well rs
the struggles Of the Negro and
white tofers against race chaavin,
ism, the historic truths Of the fol-
lowing article ara Of the greatest
importance ~ weapons.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-17
ANAIIoN MASTERS

vacillating and hesitating center
petty botugeoisie. Not Lincoln, the
Great Emancipation" but Lincoln,
the Great Conpromiser" is the ac-
curzte historical picture.
The Civil War Conflict
The Civil War was q conflict be-
tween the rising, still young, pro-
gressive capitalism OF the North and
the reactionary slave regime of the
South for hegemony over the United
States. The nature Of the conflict was
essentially similar to the social strug-
gle which had been going on in
England and Europe since the 18th
century: the struggle OF the rising
middle class, brought into being by
the development of capitalism,
against the feudal regime and its
supporters, chiefly the feudal land
owners.
Such were the Cromwellian Revo-
luton in England. the Great French
Revolution Of 1889 which broke out
NEW in 184S, and the revolutions
which began in Germany and Austria
n the same year. Capitalism was
established only as a result of rev.
olution against feudalisn, when one
exploiting class was replaced by an
other, even as today we live in the
period Of profound revolutionary up
heavals, when capitalism must give
way to socialism, this time to abolish
forever exploiting minorities and
give rise to classics society
The Slave Regime
The slave regime OF the South was
l many Wsys similar to the older
felldalisnl of Ellroae II continued to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-17

the payroll Of Japanese imper-1
ialism in the high-sounding ca
pacity Of Counsellor of the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs Of the
Government Of Manchukuo."
Rea distributed his printed poison
through the journalistic nerve cen
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-17
by JAMES 8. ALLEN

The name Of Abraham Lincoln Is
associated with a great period in
American history 1t was a truly rev.
dictionary period In the history of
the United States-that of the Civil
War which destroyed chattel slavery
and inaugurated an intensive strug-
gle for equal rights for the Negro
people.
Those who today han Lincoln as a
revolutionary representative Of rev.
dictionary period, are simply pro-
longing the myth Of Lincoln, which
has been woven out of whole cloth.
lincoln was not revolutionary. He
did not represent the revolutionary
wing in the struggle against the
slsYeoYpess. but the compromising,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-17

Of armed conquest or economic penes
tration. The same result may be ate
tanned by propsg anda melting peo.
pies to overthrow their governments"
In other words, the ridiculous cry
Of Red impeiialism-directed against
the Soviet Union, the only non-ini-
perialistic power in the world. And,
despite the fast that Litvinoff, in his
press conference at the National
Press Club in Washington, declared
that "the Third International is not
mentioned in the document. You
must not read into it more than was
intended" Rea sputtefs this lie:
ITO obtain American recognition and
promise of financial credits that
would help the Soviet to push for
ward its preparations against Japan,
Lityinof was compelled to renounce
and repud;ate the very essence OF
Communism by throwing overheard
the Third international"
In the face of the indescribsble
terror being visited upon the miEt-
ant Chinese workers and farmers By
Chang Kai-shek and his japanese
colleagues, Rea repeats the fiction
about the horrors" Of the Russian
revolution which is "being reenacted
in China" And so, asks Rea, "Do you
wonder that Japan is uneasy and
jumpy?."
us own investigations" as to "the
III true detectives of Japanese
policy in Manchoukuo convinced Res
Of the basic and answering rolioy
Of Japan"-yes, the independence Of
Manchoukuo, when Japan considers
the time propitious. Haven't you
Cuba? And the Philippines, my
friends? Res asks American i'm
perialists, smiling Understandings
Nov, ! don't speak merely as an
investigator and appreciation Of the
fact that "Japan's resort TO self
defense has not resulted in the con-
quest or annexation Of new terri
tory" Rea confdes, but also as "a
dyed the-wool Jefferson D c m O.
crat." AS such an individual he IN
derstands that the Chinese work
ers and peasants must be exploited
by the various imperialists, especially
the Japanese, another century or
so to educate the Chinese in the
rudiments of self-government as we
understand it," OF course, it's for
Humanity. "In plain words, / have
reluctantly subordinated my political
ideals and principles to the exigen-
/ cies Of Humanity.
"For, unless l am wrong, the next
Government of China will be Red, III
league with Moscow. Manchoukuo
will then be compelled to fight for
its life"
And then the swelling note of the
paid imperialist song: IF Japan
fails to check this movement, if she
goes under in the struggle, the last
barrier to the Soviet domination Of
Asia will be removed. go. This is
Japan's fight. If the people Of the
United States can no longer applaud
or support her, at least give her the
benefit Of the doubt and remain
neutral"
Nevertheless, feel certain that If
Japanese imperialists attack the
Soviet Union in the Spring, they
will not only have to deal with the
magnificent ami powerful Red Army,
but also with the class conscious
American workers who will fight to
prevent American capitalism from
assisting Japan, by such action as
preventing shipments Of munitions
billed for Japan, to leave the docks.
Others will serve in the Red Army.
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