The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-02
2eforrnists Main Enemy Within Ranks of Negro People

ruling class. and the japanese i'm
peFialist butchers and robbers Of the
japanese, Formosan and Korean
workers and farmers are outstand-
ing examples.
The japanese idea was used to
mobilize the Negro masses by a frac-
ton Of the Negro iim-crowed wing
of the Republican Party and TO sell
them unsuspectingly into the Re-
publican Party machine. In return
for their services the representa-
tives Of the Japanese fraud, Mr.. and
Mrs. Takahashe, were amply paid
for their services; and the politi-
clans themselves are rewarded with
handouts, the right to sell Jobs
create systems of stool pigeons to
spy ON the Communist Party and
the revolutionary organizations.
powers Of "fixer" and "go-between"
the Negro raoketeers and the prose-
cutor's office and the courts, and
to carry out shake-downs They
were given monopoly over the
policy racket, bootlegging, prostitu-
ton and vice in general.
Fascist Auxiliary
Such practices and methods and
organization form an important part
of the creation Of a fascist auxiliary
apparatus among the Negro People
which, when the race prejudice they
spread, the sweet phrases and
bribery fail, and in proportion as
they fail to halt the leftward swing
and the struggle and growing unity
Of Negro and white workers against
starvation and robbery, police ter
ror, frame-ups and lynching of the
Negro People, come more aid more
openly as the direct aid and insti-
gators of the bloody Hitler fascist
slaughter Of the Negro masses and
the working class.
The method Of misleading the
Negro workers by subtle deception.
the use of sweet and radical
phrases, and at the same time carry
ing out the policy and program and
developing movements of the most
reactionary character, of downright
betrayal and misleadership. has been
carried to its highest point in the
activities Of Sweet and Roxboroueh
OF the Roxborough political ma
chine.
In the period elapSing since the
Eighth Convention of the Party, the
Party in the Detroit district has
made rapid strides forward in the
field of Negro work, as well as the
work Of the Party in general; first.
in the Qualification of all erroneous
views on the Negro question among
the Party membership and the
workers organizations, the roofing
out of pessimism, doubt, and under
estimation of the possibility and nee
essity of developing joint struggles
of Negro and white workers, and
mass movement among the Negro
people for Negro rights; in bring
ing forward and consolidating new
cadreS Of Negro and white comrades.
bAAS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS VI bllc A.O.N.fL.
and the penetration and develop
ment of activities within the Jap
anese movement, particularly in ex-
posing the role of the reformist
politicians and the sell-out of the
leadership of the Japanese move
ment to the Negro Republican poll
ticians in the last elections.
Critical Approval
However, the very fact of this
critical approach to Negro work, and
the intensification of the struggle
for Negro rights around the needs
and grievances of the Negro masses
for the freedom of the Seottsboro
boys and Angelo Herndon, etc., has
laid bare the major weaknesses of
the work in the hangovers and de-
velopment of petty bourgeois Negro
nationalism. hooliganism, moral and
political degeneration and irrespon-
sible practices; and moreover, has
exposed these irresponsible individ-
uals of whom such practices are
characteristic.
The Party in clarifying and con-
solidating its forces for its further
activity in the field on Negro work