The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-26
Ill ST. Fears Rising Wave of Strikes in the Auto Industry
Roosevelt Jim-Crows
Jobless Negroes On
CWA Work, in Camps

w. A. employment bureau by three
Negroes, James Taylor, Willie James
and Henry Williams. Vanlandingham
said, THE statement that world war
veterans should present their papers
for jobs did not mean colored men,
1t meant white men who were veter-
ands and have dependents.
Jim Crow Transient Camps
Jim Crowism is maintained by
the Roosevelt government in the
transient camps as well as in the
Q. G. Q. camps and on C. w. A. work
In California men are sent from
various concentration centers in San
Diego and Los Angeles to Work
Camps, where military training is
given. An abandoned Work Camp"
near the Mexican border has been
set aside as 8 Jim Crow camp for
Negro transients. The Negroes are
given military training here.
Discrimination in C.W.A. projects
against Spanish-Americans and Mex
leans in Colorado was so raw that
a county relief chairman was dis
missed as a gesture. But the stamp
OF approval was officially put on the
Jim Crow in Colorado. The Federal
Government is now conducting an
impartial survey of the charges of
discrimination in Colorado, where the
Spanlsh-Americans and Mexicans are
under peonage conditions in the beet
fields.
The New York Times of Feb. II, in
typical Jim Grow style, reports as fol-
lows Of the Federal Governments
plan to Jim Grow these starving
workers:
1T is understood here that the
Federal Government has concluded
the solution Of the problem does not
lie in forcing the issue, but in cir
cumyenting it, A plan is presumed
to be on foot to set aside large tracts
of land in the Southwest for sub
sistence farming by these essentially
Spanish people. Such 9 program
would seem wholly logical and intel
ligent, because the Spanish American
is not fitted for 3 high pressure in
dustrial civilization. His needs are
simpler and his ambitions less COM
pick than those Of the American of
North European blood"
Misleaders Among Negroes
The reformist Negro leaders of
the Urban League and the N.A.A.C.P,
have hindered the fight against the
Jim Grow practices Of the Roosevelt
government. They have merely coll
lected complaints and sent them to
Washington. They have spread illu-
sions among the Negroes that Roose-
Welt and Hopkins would act on these
complaints. They have tried to keep
the Negro workers from taking the
only action that would be of benefit
to then-orga nization together with
the white workers in the C,W.A. work
ers' unions and the Unemployed
Councils.
These Negro nisleaders have tried
to prevent 8 fighting policy, mass
organization and mass protest on the
part Of the Negro workers. They have
substituted instead the futile mea-
sures of bootlieking before G, w. A.
boards and cooperation with the
Roosevelt government.
Such n1isleaders as Robert VaJin,
who was rewarded with q job as
special assistant to the attorney gen
eral in the Roosevelt government, are
trying to prevent the organization
and struggle of the Negro workers
against discrimination and for better
conditions and wages.
These are only a few examples OF
discrimination against Negroes on c.
WA. projects which have come to
light. North and South the Negroes
have been the last hired, they have
been given fewer jobs, they have re-
ceived the lowest wages. The Ne
groes in C.C.C,, C,W,A. and transient
camps have been segregated on the
job. forced to pay grating foremen
and officials in the kick-back racket
They have been the first fired. They
get the smallest amount of relief.
Only g. united fight OF Negro and