The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-01

ton of the Negroes, no serious steps
can be taken in the development of
the revolutionary struggle as a
whole.
The liberation struggle of the
Negroes is the ally of the proleta-
rian revolution. This is becoming
understood more and more by the
white workers. At the same time
it is more consciously recognized by
the awakening Negro masses-that
their struggle is inseparably con-
nected with the struggle Of the
whole working class.
Rulers Fear as Masses Learn
The campaign around the Scots
boro case has educated broad Negro
masses, has opened their eyes to
the truth that not by lying down
and submitting, but only through
the flercest struggle lies the way to
freedom from race oppression.
The Southern ruling class sees
with anger and fear how thoughts
of liberation of the Negroes are
breaking out in all strata Of the
toiling population of the United
States. The whole American bour-
geoisie sees with growing disturb
ance that the Negro question tears
off the whole lying hypocritical
mask of bourgeois democracy. The
Scottsboro case has brought to a
head this whole question in the
most concentrated form.
And so the bourgeoisie in the
South, as well as in the North,
would like to wrest the Scottsboro
case from the heart and fists OF the
millions. They are afraid of the
mobilization, the agitation. They
want by all means to discredit in
the eyes of the Negro masses the
only Party, the Communist Party,
that has written on its banners
1.-THE liberation of the Negro
masses" because this Party is the
deadly enemy of this capitalist So
ciety which enslaves the Negroes.
Seek to Stif1e Upsurge
BY attempting this the ruling
class utilities such instruments as
Leibowitz and professional mislead-
ers Of the Negroes, groups of Negro
refor1nist preachers.
With the help of such forces,
they try to stop the mass mobiliza-
ton for the ScottSboro boys. They
strive to prevent, from every town
and hamlet in the United States
and throughout the world, the ris-
ing cry: America What are you
doing with these nine Negro boys!"
The official lynchers are using
the Leibowitzes and these cliques Of
Negro reformists to silence the
growing upsurge of Negro and
whites. They want to divert the
attention, the watchfulness, the &C
tivity of the broadcast masses
against the lynchers and their
lynch system.
That the LeibowitzeS, those poll
ticians in the Democratic Party, in
the traditional Party of slavery and
lynching, play their role with the
greatest pleasure is quite natural.
Mr.. Leibowitz is after all Party
friend of the Southern lynch off,
Gals, Talmadge, Governor of Geor-
gia, and Miller, Governor OF Ala
bama. And we remember the old
proverbs: One hand washes the
other. One crow doesn't pick out
another crows eye. Birds Of a
feather flock together.
But it is incredibly shameful that
there are Negroes, themselves peo-
pie of an oppressed nation, who Of
fer themselves to play the role of
a screen behind which the lynchers
can carry on their dirty business.
The Fight Goes On
It was always the tactic of a sup
pressing class or nation to take
from the ranks of the suppressed,
through bribery and other means,
foremen and oyerseers to aid them
in supervising and depressing their
brothers. That is the role which is
played now in the present stage of
the Scottsboro case by groups of
Negro reformistS working with Lei
bowitz and the Southern lynch off,
Gals. This is a shameful treason
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