The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-28
What May Day
Means For Negro
Masses In i. S.

their barring Of Negroes from meme
bership in many A. F. of L. unions,
their denial of the Negro workers
right to any job, are against the
interests of the working class.
The sabotage of the Negro lib
Grafton movement by the Socialist
Party leaders, their pernicious
theories of the Negro liberation
struggles as a race war against the >
entire white population, of the L
separation of the national revolu-
tionary struggles of the NegroS
masses from the proletarian revo-
luton, of laying off the race ques-
ton" as a ct N. T. mine in the
South" (menacing the capitalist
landlord system of national oppres-
sion and plundering of the Negro
masseS), must be exposed as in the
interests of the Southern slave
drivers and the whole capitalist
class.
Expose Bearers Of White
Chauvinism
These social bearers of white
chauvinism within the working class
must be pilloried before the work
ers in their true light as enemies
Of both the Negro and white toll
ers, as people working in the ser-
vice of the capitalist class, paving
the way, as did the Socialist parties
in Germany and Austria, for fas-
cism and imperialist war. The 18th
Plenum of the Executive Commit
tee of the Communist International
issued ringing call for a relent-
less fight on chauvinist theology.
Comrade Kuusinen, reporting on
FaScism and War, declared.
I'm our work in mobiIizing the
masses against fasciSm and the
war danger we must now, more
than ever before, pay attention
to the struggle against chauvinist
theology Evasion of this diff
fieult task, or even mere passiyity
and silence on this question, in
dicates in the present conditions,
the most dangerous OppOrtunism
in the struggle against fascism
and war, the abandonment Of the
most important and urgent tasks
of the revolutionary education of
the tOilers."
The Negro masses, like the white
toilers, are searching for g way
out Of their present intolerable con-
ditions. Like the white toilers, they
are bedeyilled by misleaders who
seek to hide from the masses the
truth that there is only one way
out of the capitalist morass of mass
misery and suffering: the revolu-
tionary way out, the example pro-
vided by the Soviet masses, by the
victorious October Revolution which
overthrow Tsarist oppression and
emancipated ALL sections of the
toiling population of Russia.
National Minorities in U. S. S. r.
The October Revolution achieved
the social emancipation of the Rus
sian working class and the national
liberation of the oppressed nation
alities in a land that was formerly
correctly described as the prison
house of nationalities. Today we
see these formerly backward ma
tionalities, liberated by the October
Revolution, achieving to tremendous
economic, social and cultural
heights under the leadership of the
Communist Party of the Soviet
Union. The Soviet workers, under
the leadership of the party of Lenin
and Stain, have abolished ma
tional oppression, unemployment,
insecurity and the harassing fear
of poverty from their land. Their
example points the way out to the
toilers and nations still enslaved
under capitalism.
Demonstrate this May Day
against fascism and war, against
national oppression and plumber
ing of the Negro masses, against
the increasing fascist attacks on
the entire working class, directed
with especial fury against the Ne
gro masses. For the defense of
the Soviet Union, the stronghold
of the world proletariat and of the
liberation struggles Of the Negro
and colonial masses,