The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-26
The Negro and the
f'NeqV Deal"

THE New Dealer" Roosevelt, has given
| official government sanction to the
monstrous national oppression and plum
dering of the Negro masses and the &C
cOmpanying degradation of the Southern
white tOilerS.
This is the clear unambiguouS mean
ing of his dictatOrial decree upholding
the traditional diferentials" of starvation wages
for Southern white workers, with the additional
jim-crow dierential of even still lower wages for
the Negro toilers. Rushing to the support of Ala
bama industrialists against the militant, united
struggle of white and Negro miners, Roosevelt fiat
ly declares:
a. 1t is not our intention to produce any
sudden dsruptive change in established
economic relationship"
What is this established economic relationship
which Roosevelt defends and protects9 1t is the
semi-feudal relationship existing between Southern
industrials and landlords and the toiling Negro
masses, under which Negro troopers and poor farm
ers are Systematically robbed Of their crops Negro
toiers brazeAly plundered of their wages and
lynched, in and out of the courts, hauled off
to forced labor on the murderous chain gangs for
demanding their wages or payment for their crops,
for protesting the dishonest bookkeeping system of
the Southern lynch lords.
Roosevelt defends this monstrous system He
gives official government sanction to the national
and economic oppression of the Negro masses He
comes out openly in support of the attempt of the
Southern lynchers and their A. f. of L. and So
cialist Party lackeys to maintain the division be-
tween white and Negro workers, and to crush the
rising tide Of struggle in which under the leader
ship of the Communist Party the unity of these
workers is being forged. He seeks not only to main
tain the chains on the Negro and the result
ant degradation of the Southern white toilers but
to use low wages in the South as the basis for new
attacks on the wages of the workers in the North
This is the New DEAL slavery that the Negro
reformist misleaders have glorfied as the SALIVA
ton" of the Negro masses! In their shameless CO.
operation with Roosevelt in putting over the New
Deal" the leaders of the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People, the Urban
League the Pittsburgh Courier" etc., have pre-
tended that the worsenng conditions of the Negro
masses under the New Deal was not a funda-
mental policy of the Administration, but merely
Incidental and accidental to the carrying through
of the New Deal" Roosevelt's statement clearly
shows that this discrimination is a fundamental
policy of the New Deal"
Roosevelts decree affects the lives of all workers
not only in the South but throughout the whole
country The workers white and black North and
South, should answer this attack on our living
standards with thunderous protests and intensified
struggle against hunger starvation territorial and
Jm-crow differentals and for the national liberia
ton of the Negro people The Negro workers, in
their fight against intoersbe conditions are faced
with the necessity of wagng ruthless struggle
against the reormst misleaders and lackeys of the
jn-crow capitalist government