The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-08
A Hero and a Judas
Confront EachOther:
Herndon VS.. Schuyler
Angelo Herndon's Heroic Defiance of Lynchers
Enrages George Schuyler, Boot-Licking
Lackey of Lynch Rulers

and indict the social system. But
this you will not do. for your rule
is to defend the system under
which the tOiling masses are
robbed and oppressed"
George Schuyler-Assistant
Lyncher
Schuyler's role is also to defend
that systematic system of jim
crow oppression and robbery of the
Negro masses, of white supremacy
and accompanying degradation and
exploitation Of the toiling white
masses, of unemployment. hunger.
fascist terror and imperialiSt war
Like King Canute, Schuyler and
other reformist Negro misleaders
vainly attempt to stem the rising
tide of resistance on the part of
the oppressed Negro masses to i'm
perialism, desperately seek to shat
ter the growing unity of Negro and
white workers in the fight for the
liberation of the Negro people and
the emancipation of the whole
working class.
Schuyler attacks the Communist
Party which is organizing and lead
ing that struggle and successfully
rallying the white masses to the
defense Of the Negro people. To
Schuyler. the Communists waging
this fight are all lunatics. But, sig
niflcantly, George Padnore, who
abandons the fight aud adopts a
program of compromise and be-
trayal of the Negro masses. gains
the status of hero in Schuyler's
eyes-"George Padmore a bril-
liant young radical For
Schuyler and his kind the traitor
Padmore is the hero. not Angelo
Herndon, the fearless fighter of the
working class and Negro masses.
No SANDER Too Cheap for
Schuyler
1t Is clear that anyone who can
descend to SchuylerS cheap SANDER
of heroic Angelo Herndon and, like
Schuyler, can chortle with glee at
the prospect of the Scottsboro Boys
being fried in the electric chair"
is not above engaging in any SLAM
der and lies against the fighters for
Negro liberation. 1t is, therefore,
not surprising that Schuyler at
tacks as "opportunists" and Uncle
Toms" Cd every Negro leader of
the Communist Party, or that he
peddles the lie that Otto Huis-
would, Richard B. Moore and Cyril
Briggs were thrown out of the
Carney burlesque," when he well
knows that these comrades were
never members of the Garvey
movement, that from the very first
they relentlessly exposed Garvey's
program as reactionary and uto-
plan. And at time when Schuy-
Ter and his then associates, Ran
dolph and Owen, were flirting with
Carney in the speculation that it
might be financially profitable for
them to get into the "Garvey bur
lesque."
Through the Crusader Magazine,
of which I was editor, and the
African Blood Brotherhood, a mill
tant organization based on the
class and national struggle, Moore,
Huiswood and Briggs carried on
the fight for clarity on the Negro
liberation struggle. against Gar
vey's confused and utopian pro
gram and its reactionary attributes
of black imperialism. All three of
us were members of the then illegal
Communist Party, and worked as
the leading Communist fraction in
the A. B. B., despite Schuylers
slanderous lie that although there
was Communist Party then, they
did not belong to it because their
eyes were glued on Africa where
they hoped one day to sit regally
on the backs of the black workers. -
Schuyler knows the facts. But
truth means nothing to this Great
ure of the lynch lords who has
sunk so low in the filth of treach-
cry as to SANDER and attack the
heroic Angelo Herndon and the
mass fight for the safety and free
dom of Herndon and the Scots
boro boys.