The daily worker., 1934-09-03
S ch Ter Whitewashes
Wall Streets Role
in Slave Trade
by Burck


to a lying attack upon the Scotts-
boro defense and upon Angelo
Herndon, that the Communist
Party has at last, after many vacil-
lations, come around to his position
on the question of Liberia. Mr..
Schuyler tries to present the line
up as follows: on the one hand, his
own stand on Liberia, with which
the Communist Party at last
agrees" On the other side is Pad
more. Padmore's position, it hap
pens, is also that of Jones.
But the traitor Schuyler knows
that his position is as far from the
Communist position as the poles.
The fact is that his position is
identical with the stand taken by
Padmore and Jones.
Schuyler-Advance Agent for
Wall Street
At the time that the Barclay gov
ernment was flirting with British
and French imperialism, in a
vancouver to force Wall Street
and Firestone to modify their de-
mands, Wall Street hired the pros
titute pen of Schuyler to discredit
the Barclay government and to
place in power opposition elements
more amenable to American in
terests. Schuyler, in series of
articles carried in the New York
Post, and later reprinted in book
iorm under the title Slaves Today
raised the question of the prevailing
slave trade in Liberia, completely
whitewashing American imperial
ism, ignoring the horrible slavery
of the serfs on Firestone's planta-
tions, presenting the role of Amer
lean imperialism as that of "civiliz-
ing influence"
Schuyler placed sole responsibility
for the trade and the bitter
oppression of the Liberian masses
upon the native Barclay govern
ment He CLOSES over the fact that
the Barclay government is the will
ing tool of Wall Street and Fire
stone. Thus the lackey Schuyler
placed in the hands of American
imperialism sharp weapon against
the Liberian masses, supplying it
with a needed excuse for its pre-
datory intervention, acting as ad-
vance agent for his imperialist
masters
And today, at a time when the
Barclay government, spurned by the
League of Nations, is forced once
more to turn to Wall Street, Mr..
Jones comes forward to offer his
services as go-between, calling upon
the U. S. to assume the role of
big Brother"
Thus Schuyler, Jones, Padmore-
one and all conceal the true role of
the American slave-masters.
The Communist Program
Against these reactionary schemes
what is the position of the Com
munist Party? The Party calls for
uncompromising struggle against
the white imperialists, and against
their native hangers-on. The Party
calls for abrogation of all oppressive
treaties between Wall Street and
Liberia, annulment of the loans
and complete and unconditional in
dependence of the Liberian Re-
public.
Thus the independent Mr.. Jones
finds himself aligned with the worst
enemies of the Negro people, with
the Wall Street imperialist govern
ment, Harvey Firestone, the con-
temptible charlatan Schuyler-all
against the revolutionary movement
of the Negro toilers in Africa and
in the United States. The ''inde-
| pendent Mr.. Jones, who will not
be slave to any Party who re-
fuses to accept the guidance of the
Communist Party, now finds him.
self accepting the dictates of the
Wall Street masters
THE END.
(Note: Mr.. Jones' other re-
marks, particularly his slanderous
statement that the slogan of self
determination for the Black Belt
means segregation, and also his
attack on the Soviet Union, will
be answered in a future article.)