The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-11
By CLAUDE L1GHTFooT

NOte:-The author Of this ar
ticie is the South Side Section
Organizer Of the Young Com
munist League, and a leader in
the struggle Of the Negro workers.
He is a candidate for the State
Assembly in the coming elections.
CHICAGO.-Harry Haywood, in
his report to the Eighth National
Convention of the Communist
Party, pointed out the increasingly
treacherous role of the Negro re-
formist misleaders. These mis-
leaders, he stated, become more
active as agents of the white ruling
class precisely at time when our
Party and League are engaged in
decisive struggles for Negro rights.
In some cases they constitute the
main danger to the Negro people as
an aid to white chauvinism.
1t is from this viewpoint that We
must review the activities of these
people in Chicago and their official
organ, the Chicago Defender, in
recent weeks.
Jim CrOwism Fought
Over a month ago the Young
Communist League and the Youth
Section Of the League of Struggle
for Negro Rights uncovered an
"unwritten' law of Jim Crowism APP
piled and enforced on the jackson
Park Beach. These organizations
Immediately organized struggle to
smash this law"
The Hyde Park Businessmen's
and Property Owners Associations,
together with the South Park Com
missioners and their police thugs
Immediately launched a terror drive
against the unity of Negro and
white workers. They scented in
this unity on the beaches a step to
further united actions for more re-
lief, against high rents, wage cuts
and speed-up in the shops, and for
other demands of the workers.
Wide Terror Protest
Over forty young workers were
arrested for violating Jim Grow
regulations on the beach, and were
vilely insulted and abused by police.
At meetings held to protest against
these arrests, hoodlums employed by
the businessmen threw stencil
bombs. Instead of crushing this
struggle through terror as the
white rulers expected, the bosses
we're flooded with protests, resolu-
tons and letters from workers and
intellectuals, from individuals and
organizations, demanding a cessa-
ton of terror and Jim Crowism on
the beach.
The South Park Commissioners.
becoming alarmed at this growing
sentiment, now called upon their
Negro agents, the misleaders, to
come to their rescue.
A mass beach party, scheduled to
take place on July 20, had these
people trembling in their boots.
Again they calculated on terror to
smash this demonstration Of unity,
but they realized that terror on
other occasions had only broadened
out the issue.
Negro RefOrmists Brought In
They realized that it was neces-
sary to take other steps. Accord
ingly, the Negro reformists began
to cry out There is no Jim Crow
ism on Jackson Park Beach. The
Communists are attempting to
create an issue for agitation. The
holding of mixed beach parties by
the Communists will create a race
riot, as there are people on the
beach who are opposed to mixing
Cd. The fence on the beach that
divides Negroes on one side and
whites on the other was not for
the purpose of Jim Crowism, but to
collect revenue from one side. .
CThough none was collected and
the fence remained.-C. Ii
The traitors of the Negro people
went to every length of SANDER
against the Negro workers.
IF the Negroes only used one
side of the fence" they shouted, 1T
was because they segregated them
selves"
1t was with these slogans that
the white rulers modified their
misleaders to smash the rising sem