The Omaha guide., 1934-10-13
The Old Deal

The Old Deal
The Wilson Administration seek
ing the cooperation of the Negro peo-
pie, in the waging Of a war which
benefited only the rulers and the
right, promised the Negroes the full
rights of citizenship. Also the Off
Gals today by promises are seeking
to make Negro people bear the heavy
end of the burden of the crisis. Then,
on the battlefields of Europe, the Ne
groes did not find citizenship, but
death; and those that lived, the bit.
ing Indignation of insult, discrimina-
ton and jim-crow. Today, on the bat
tlefield of the crisis, 0. icial sanction
is given to the double standard Anne
rican democracy by ~condemning, in
official legal action. the Negro work
err to the lowest paid category, by
signing the death warrant for Negro
troopers in the plowing-under and
acreage reduction program. by ruin
ing the small Negro businessmen.
Never, in recent years has there been
such a program of humiliation de-
creed for the Negro people.
Nor has the whole system Of so
cial degradation, segregation, n
iim-crow been altered in any respect.
Despite their prmisees the officials
have not uttered a single word of
protest or made a single move to pun
ish the lynchers, or in any way or
form guaranteed the enjoyment OF
equal social and political rights by
Negroes. Instead, they signifed
their allegiance to the Southern slave
drivers by appointing an outstanding
white Southern bourbon as guard
an" of the Negro in the industrial
recovery machinery. The Bill OF
rights presented by the League of
Struggle for Negro Rights in the
Scottsboro March on Washington, has
been thrust into the waste basket
Chattel Slavery has given the place
to serfdom on the Southern planta-
tons; the slave regime, to all forms
of legalized and tacit prosecutions and
oppression. To this day the small
farmer and ~sharecropper does not
own land, the Negro worker is handi-
capped, the Negro professional peo-
pie and businessmen are being driven
out. The right to Ak free and equal
public education, to vote, to hold Of
fee. be an equal citizen is denied.
To Break The Chains That Bind
The Slave conditions which reign
in the Southern Black Belt have
plagued the Negro wherever he has
gone. The chain Of serf labor in the
South extend to the cities in the North
and enshackle the Negro industrial
worker. The shackles that bind the
Negro also bind the white worker
The Negro worker in the North an
not free himself as long as the Negro
masses are chained. The blow that
strikes the shackles from one must
strike the shackles from the other.
The leaders of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor (Woll, Gren, Lewis,
etc.) have Blinded the organized
white workers to this fundamental
fact. They have excluded Negroes
from unions. They are supporting
the special codes which assign lower
wages to these industries where Ne
Igroes are chiefly employed; they have
accepted the difference in wage-scaled
and working conditions for North and
South. They r a part Of the Roose-
welt machinery. They r doing their
best at the present time to halt the
widespread mass revole against MIRA.
They are doing their best to divide
the white and Negro workers even
further.
Of the same mould is the leadership
of the Socialist Party Thomas Solo
mon, Crosswathe). At the bottom
contemptuous of the Negro masses,
they are compelled by their desire to
keep their hold upon the rank and
file Socialist Party members to gloss
over their support of white suprema-
cy with such hypocritical remarks as:
LET US first lberate the white work
ers; then we'll work for the Negroes"
This is the answer that only those can
give who are quite content to see the
Negro people enslaved, who support
the white ruling class in keeping the
Negro people enslaved.