The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-02
Padmore, FxpelIed Renegade, Is Exposed
By Ford as Servant Of ImperiaIist Slaoers

Negroes, for full equality, is of the
very texture and fabric of our Com
munist program. The cause of the
emancipation of the Negroes from
their special oppression is mex
tricably bound up with the cause of
the emancipation of the working
class. With Stain, we say: For
the revolution in the western world,
the path to victory lies by way Of
revolutionary alliance with the
struggle of the colonial and depend
ent natiOnaIities to throw off the
yoke of imperialism"
Mr.. Padmore charges that and
other leading Negro Communists are
Uncle Toms. Mr.. Padmore simply
cannot conceive of an organization
in which, in contradiction to every
accepted rule of capitalist society,
Negroes and whites are on a plane
of complete equality. The Commu-
mist Party is indeed proud of such
leaders as Harry Haywood, William
L. Patterson, Otto Huiswoud, Nzula
of South Africa, Angelo Herndon,
AL Murphy, who is the leader Of
5000 share choppers in the Black
Belt, and many others. Because we
work in complete harmony with our
white workers, with whom we
share the leadership of the Party,
Mr.. Padnore concludes that we are
sycophants and Uncle Toms.
Padmore, Servant of Slave Drivers
But who is the Uncle Tom? 1t is
precisely George Padmore, now serv-
ing the agents Of American slave
rule in Liberia, now placing weap-
ons against the Party in the hands
of Klansmen and lynchers
How low Mr.. Padmore has fallen
is shown when he makes in his
open Letter" the vile threat to
bring legal action against Comrade
Huiswoud, another Negro Commu-
mist, for having written an article
against him. He who once had pre-
tensions to be a Communist, would
go into the courts of the white rul-
ers; he would ask that they vindi-
cate him; he would bring his case
into the tribunals of the oppressors;
he would run whining to the slave
drivers and ask that they be the
impartial arbiters" of this dispute!
Can submission to the ruling class
60 further than this?
Padmore Removed For
Compromising
Mr.. Padmore distorts facts in the
most shameful manner. He says
that the Communist International
abolished the International Trade
Union Committee of Negro Workers,
Gin order not to offend the British
Foreign Office" Such is Mr.. Pad
more's egotism, such is his self
Qualification, that he believes him.
self to be the committee! He is
removed, therefore the committee is
abolished!
What is the truth? This commit
tee was founded by militant Negro
workers from all countries, and I
myself took active part in its work
from the beginning. 1t has never
been abolished; on the contrary, it
is hard at work today, and it's organ,
the Negro Worker, is being pub
lished as before. What is true is
that George Padmore was removed
from this committee because he no
longer carried out the policy which
the committee had set itself. In
stead of a line of uncompromising
struggle with all imperialism, with
all forces that grind down the Negro
masses, he passed over to a policy
of compromise with imperialism and
its agents.
Padmore says that after fifteen
years, the Communist Party has
been unable to make Roadway
among the Negro masses. His wish
is father to his thought; along with
the white ruling class, Padmore sim
cerely wishes that this were so. But
the thousands of Negroes joining
the ranks of the Communist Parties,
| fighting for liberation under its
leadership, give the lie to this accu-
sation Because the Communist
Party lives, the nine Scottsboro boys
were not sent to their deaths three
years ago, but have become instead,
not only here but the world over,
the symbol Of a fight to the death
with the bloody oppression of the