The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-09
Mitchell Us. DePrieSt

A NEW Negro Congressman, Arthur w.
II Mitchell, has been elected in Chicago,
taking the place of the defeated Repubh-
can, Oscar DePriest.
But the Negro Masses the Negro
workers who feel the daily lash of starvation mis-
cry, jimcrow oppression and discrimination, who
face eviction and unemployment, have no cause for
rejoicing in this result
On the very next day after his election Mitchell
made it plain that he has not the slightest inten-
ton Of embarrassing the Roosevelt government by
carrying the fight for Negro rights into Congress.
Yesterday Mitchell told the press that he believed
"the race issue should not be the dominant idea Of
Negro in Congress"
In these words the Democratic Mitchell pledges
to continue the serve. spinelesS surrender to the
lynch jimcrow system which characterized the &C
lions of the Republican DePriest.
How was Mitchell elected? He was elected by
an INSCRIPTIONS campaign Of trickery and deceit
The Democratic Party brought the Negro farmer
Sylvester Harris, from Alabama as proof that
Roosevelt was giving the oppressed Negro masses
relief from the yoke OF landordism and oppression
But he forgot to point out that RooseveltS trans
action with the poverty stricken Negro farmer Syl-
Vester Harris, was only cheap publicity stunt that
solved the problem neither of Harris nor of single
oppressed, impoverished Negro in the South Roose-
velt loaned the poverty stricken Harris few dol
lars to forestau his eviction.
But how will Harris ever pay this loan back
while he is being ROBBED and plundered by the
Southern landlord? What will Harris live on while
his landlord takes every cent of what he produces?
Roosevelts loan only tghtenS the chains of debt
which bind every Negro sharecropper to the land
lords IN the South with chains of feudal bondage
MITCHELL played cupningy on the hatred which
AVA the Negro masses feel for their oppreSsors by
denouncng the Republican evictonS" and the
Republican jimcrow of the Gold Star mothers"
But does it make any difference to a Negro
worker whether he is evicted by Democratic or
Republican landlord? Do not the Democratic
landlords in the South evict and lynch Negro work
ers? And do they not evict in Chicago as well?
And is not the filthy jimcrowism of Hoover the
official policy of Roosevelt as well? Has Roosevelt
ever opened his mouth against the filth Of jim
croWism? Has he ever opened his mouth on the
lynch plot against the scottsboro boys2
Mitchell sings the praises of the Roosevelt New
DEAF as the salvation for the oppressed Negro
masses. There is no prejudice against my people
in the present administration" he said yesterday
MITCHELL is trying to hide all these things from
IVA the Negro masses Mitchell is a wealthy real es-
tate operator who knows nothing and cares less
OF the grinding misery that faces the Negro masses
Mitchell will not fight jimcroWism because he is
part of the upper strata of wealthy Negroes who
are part and parcel of the capitalist system and
who are willing to betray the Negro masses to
American capitalism for the bride of patronage,
crumbs of favor, and real estate profits in the
Negro ghettoes.
IL IS only Communists, Negro and white who
truly organize the Negro masses for struggle against
the curse OF jimcrow oppression against the lynch
system, against the double yoke of national and
class oppression. The Negro workers of Chicago
nave tradition Of militant mass struggle for re-
lief and against jincrow. 1t is this mass struggle
OF Negro and white worners against the landlords
and exploters that alone can win better conditions
Tor the Negro masses. man like Mitchell is only
tool OF the landlords and the lynchers.