The daily worker., 1934-09-03
Jones, Padmore Schuyler>~>
LackeyS of u. S. Imperialism

MI. Padmore and their friends. Mr.
Jones says;
We are beating our hearts and
souls trying to break through the
thick walls of prejudice which bar
us from the higher brackets of big
industry here in America, when
there is virgin field which we
could develop in Africa" my
empasis-H. HI
This Utopian dream, it is be-
lieyed by Mr.. Jones and his friends,
can be fulfilled under the protecting
wings of the white ruling class mas
ters = the American imperialists.
Here again, the Negro middle class
reveals its parasitic nature, it's de-
pendence, its utter subservience to
American imperialism. This scheme
Of MI. Jones for industrial advance
ment in the dark continent is in
evitably bound up with the expan-
sion of American imperialism. Even
in this sphere, the. Negro bour-
geoisie cannot rid itself of its
sycophancy, its lackey role. Thus
Mr.. Jones says:
g. If own brain trust in
Washington is alert, it will make
strenuous effort to see that our
government takes enough interest
in the keeping of an open trade
door in Africa my emphasis
H. HI
Thus Mr.. Jones calls for an open
door" for American Imperialism in
Africa, an open door for robbery
and exploitation of the Liberian and
African people. Is it not clear that
the Jones-Padmore Plan is an ac-
tive instrument of Wall Street for
the further enslavement of the Lib
erian and African masses? 1t is
equivalent to a plea to the Amer
ican imperialist masters to take a
more active part in the rope of
Africa. In this reactionary scheme,
Mr.. Jones, Padmorei ct al. conceive
their role as that of overseer, sub
eXploiter, to the white master class
in this future expansion in Africa. =
Thus in glowing terms Mr.. Jones
says:
Nothing would stimulate hope
and effort on the part of our
young men and women more than
place coming out of Washing
ton in which they can get jobs
selling cotton goods and steel i'm
plementS to the Africans"
Thus a few upper-class Negroes
are to get jobs as salesmen-at
what cost? At the cost of increased
imperialist expansion in Liberia,
accompanied by increased oppres-
sion and exploitation of the ma
tive masses.
In addition to betraying the Ne
groes in the U. S., Mr.. Jones would
betray the African people by essay
ing the role of lackey in American
lmpeFialist expansion. This is the
sinister meaning behind the Jones'
Padmore plan Of Save Liberia"
A More Subtle Garveyism
Is not this whole reactionary
scheme refined and subtle edition
of Garveyism? Like the Garvey
movement, stripped of its false
phrases of freedom" and self
determination" the -Padmore
plan, stripped of its verbiage of
freedom of Liberia is at bottom
nothing more than the reactionary
and hopeless strivings of the Negro
petty bourgeois leaders for indus
trial expansion.
Not a struggle against the white
rulers at home, for equal rights, for
the land of the Black Belt, for the
right of self determination, not a
struggle for freedom of the African
masses, by supporting the revolu-
tionary movement of the African
toilers for complete independence,
for overthrow of the imperialist
yoke. But rather scheme to divert
the masses of Negro people, both in
Africa and in America, from the
struggle against the oppressor, an
attempt to tie them to the narrow
mercenary and selfish class aims OF
the Negro middle-class leaders and
hence to their imperialist oppressors
This is the essence of Garyeyism
This is the essence of the Jones'
Padnnore Plan of Saving LIBERIA ?
One Of the outspoken enemies Of
the Communist Party-the Party
which Mr.. Jones claims to support
! George Schuyler has recent ly
| stated, in column devoted chiefly