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man has no right to prevent him"
Merriam goes on: Douglas con-
stantly twitted Lincoln with belief
in Negro equality. This Lincoln dis
claimed; he did not believe in the
Negroes equality with the white
man; did not believe in making him
a voter or a juror; but because an
inferior, had Negro no rights?"
Not only did Abraham Lincoln be-
lieve the Negro to be inferior to the
white man but, like the rest of the
Republicans Of his time, che dis
claimed any disposition, says Mer-
RAM, Ito agitate against the fugi-
tive slave law; as to practical re-
striction, he had nothing to urge ex-
cept exclusion from the territories"
When he declared, at still another
time, that he did not believe the ma
ton could exist half slave and half
free, he meant just this: that
capitalist society could not exist side
by side with a bastard feudalism.
One of them had to be crushed.
Bastard feudalism was crushed only
because vigorous young capitalism
was stronger.
Frederick Douglass, whose mother
was a slave but whose father was
white man, was about eight years
younger than Abraham Lincoln. A
judicial balancing of their lives side
by side shows Douglass to be in
every way a greater man than Lin
coin. The very fact that Lincoln did
not believe in the full equality of
white man and black men. that he
was not personally concerned
whether the great masses of blacks
were ever truly liberated, marked
him as inferior to Douglass.
A True Estimate of Lincoln
And if Lincoln-day orators among
the Negro leaders" today absurdly
claim him as the Negroes Great
Emancipator, Douglass, who knew
the man and had every opportunity
to eulogize him, was never guilty Of
such a blunder. At the unwilling of
the Freedmens Monument in mem
ory Of Abraham Lincoln in Wash
ington, D. c., April IA, 1876, Doug
lass. enc of the main orators, said
frankly what he thought of Lin
coin. What he said was not denied
by anybody. 1t was what every
ood1 of that time knew TO be the
truth. It was only later, when the
Negro was needed by the Republi-
can Party, that the Lincoln myth
was created.
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Anderson, who worked in Graham.
two miles away. Burlington is
town of 9700 people, a little place
owned and run, lock, stock and
barrel, by the mill bosses, especially
by Eugene Holt, who runs the Holt
Plaid mill and some other mills.
There isn't an ant-heap in the town
that these textile bosses don't con-
troll Not only the mills, but the
local bank, whose president is the
owner of the Whitehead Hosiery
Mill And the mill villages, with
their small rooms, and green lum-
Der, and leaky, tar roofing. And
the welfare station, where you can
only get work If you're sin right"
And the schools, whose studies and
policies are dictated by the mills.
And the local newspaper, the Bur
lington Daily News, in which the
owners of the May Hosiery Mill
have $1,000 invested, and which
fought the strike tooth and nail.
And the city government and the
court and the sheriff, of course.
And even the hospital, owned by
officials of the mills, which sends
doctors to do you out of compensa-
ton.
Skilled Workers Become Learners
Some of these seven men figured
things would go better when the
N. r. A. came in. But the N. r. A.
only helped the bosses to press
them harder Lots of people we're
laid off, Skilled workers wages
we're cut. The mills are Just full of
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On this occasion Douglass said,
truth being beautiful at all times
and in all places" ut must be
admitted, truth compels me to adj
nit even here in the presence Of
the monument we have erected to
his memory, Abraham Lincoln was
not, in the fullest sense of the word.
either our man or our model"
Pointing out that Lincoln had
shown himself in his interests, in
his associations, in his habits Of
thought, and in his prejudices,' to
be devoted to the welfare Of white
man" meaning, undoubtedly. the
white men whose interests Lincoln
served, the white men of the ruling
class-Douglass said that the war
time president was willing and ready
at any time during the first years
of his administration to deny, post
pone, and sacrifice the rights Of hui
mainly in the colored people to pro-
mote the welfare of the white peo-
pie of the country"
But Douglass goes much farther
in telling the truth about Lincoln.
He says: ITO protect, defend, and
perpetuate slavery in the states
where it existed Abraham Lincoln
was not less ready than any other
President to draw the sword of the
nation. He was ready to execute all
the supposed guarantees Of the
United States Constitution in favor
of the slave system anywhere in
side the slave states. He wa willing
to pursue, recapture, and send back
the fugitive slave to his master, and
to suppress a slave rising for lib
erty, though his guilty master we're
already in arms against the govern
ment. The race to which we belong
were not the special objects Of his
conside-a alton"
During this week, when more will
be said in praise of Lincoln than Of
Douglass, it would pay every worker,
white and Negro, to learn something
more of the early history of both
these men; to learn more especially
of the early life of the man who,
not knowing who his white father
was, later dropped the name of
Bailey and adopted the name Doug
lass, because he liked the hero of
Sir Waiter SCOTS Lady of the
Lake" We need such leaders as
Douglass in our present-day strug-
gle for Negro liberation and for the
liberation of all workers from the
yoke of capitalist oppression
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All Seven Defendants
Shaved in Mills from
Childhood
By ANNA MAE JOHNSON

By ANNA MAE JOHNSON
THEY are all Southern-born and
1 Southern bred-the seven work
ers whom the textile bosses Of Bur-
lington, N. c., have sentenced to
jail And they are all mill workers.
They know and they hate the
strangle-hold of the Southern tex
tile mills on the life and being of
worker. That's why they organ
lied, that's why they struck. When
the textile workers in every state
came pouring out of the mills in
the great strike of September, 1884,
these workers of Burlington came,
too. All of them mill hands of
long standing, four of them MEM
bers of the United Textile Workers
Union.
To break that strike, to smash
the union, the Burlington bosses
had some dynamite planted, and
called in the sheriff, and got the
help Of three MISREPRESENTATION
they paid Well-and four dicks from
that happy hunting ground of
dicks, the coal fields of the Prick
Company in Pennsylvania The
Judge was right" and the jury was
hand-picked, so the seven workers
Tom Canipe, John Anderson,
Florence Blalock, Howard Overmeh,
J. P. Hoggard, Avery Kinney and
j. F. Harraway-these seven men
got total of q years in jail.
1t could have happened to al
most any textile worker in North
Carolina with sense enough to or
ganize and strike and stand up like
a man for his rights. These seven
men are just like most of the
Southern textile workers. They've
lived the same lives and had the
same troubles.
Take j. P. Hoggard, now. He's
a native of North Carolina. His
father was logger, and while his
father was away at work his mother
and the kids ran the farm. So the
boy got almost no schooling. At
IL he left the farm and since then
he's scratched for himself. At 10
he got a job in a cotton mill in
Duke, N. c., at 81 day. After
he got skilled they paid him SO or
SO a week. He married. They be-
gan to move from place to place
the Southern mill workers everlast-
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the South; therefore, said the Re
publican Party, don't even threaten
to do that until every other device
has failed. Lincoln obeyed his or
ders. He was a good party man.
Saving the Union
But Greeley's letter made Abrs-
ham Lincoln so angry that he
wrote. Il would save the Union. I
would save it the shortest way UNI
der the Constitution. The sooner
the national authority can be re-
stored, the nearer the Union will be
the Union as it was If there be
those who would not save the Union
unless they could at the same time
save slavery, I do not agree with
them. If there be those who would
not save the Union unless they
could at the same time destroy slav-
cry, I do not agree with them. Ny
paramount object in this struggle is
to save the Union, and Is not either
to save or destroy slavery. If I
could save the Union without free
ing any slaves, wotild do it; and
if I could save it by freeing all the
slaves, I would do it; and if could
do it by freeing some and leaving
others alone, l would also do that
What / do about slavery and the
colored race, do because ] believe
it helps to save this Union; and
what / forbear doing, i forbear be-
cause do not believe it would help
save the Union (My emphasis
z. GO
Did Lincoln actually say that he
was not in favor of giving the Negro
the kind of freedom white men en-
ioyed? If he did, then he was really
against real freedom for the Negro.
If he did, he was against equal
rights for the Negro. But how could
THE Great Enancipator" be
against equal rights for those whom
he emanoipated? If we remember
that he emancipated the Negroes
only because he thought that act
would weaken the South, we can
understand how he could oppose
actual liberation for the Negro
people.
Disclaimed Belief In Equality
In one of his famous debates with
Stephen A. Douglas. says Merriam,
Lincoln declared that the North had
a right to be concerned about what
the South would do with the Negro.
Your doctrine seems to be. Lincoln
said, that if one man wants to
make another man a slave, a third
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ing search for something a k
better" Worked in Roanoke Rap
ids, Greensboro, Winston-Salem.
Then Burlington, the union, the
strike-an the frame-up.
'1'm a Union Man"
I'm a union man and always will
be-" Hoggard says. Il was one of
the first to start this union here in
Burlington. They're sending us to
jail to make people think strikes
are bad things But that's the only
way the working people will ever
get anywhere.
"They tried to blacken my char
acter in the trial Here's how they
did: We've always been broke.
once my oldest son was killed on a
freight train. They wanted us to
send money to bring the boys body
home. We wanted to, too. We
loved our boy. But we just didn't
have any money. What do you
think the state did in the trial?
They used it against me. Said it
showed I had no feeling"
Or take Howard Overman. Fiji
teen brothers and three sisters. A
little work here and there-nothing
lasted long enough to get start.
1t was always that way in the fam
lily. At ten years of age Towards
mother had gone to work for ten
cents a day, working Il hours. She
was so little she had to get an older
person to wipe the ratings she was
supposed to keep clean. Since he
was old enough to work-and that's
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Lincoln Abolished SIavery-But Did Not Carry
Fight Against Southern Landlords to the End
srO Preserve their AM Save,Iw Would
to Horace as N4rOIH Liberation

The following article contains
valuable material to show the
realities behind the 'Lincoln
myth" which has been built up
by the American capitalist class,
p0rtraying Lincoln as some kind
Of inspired savior of the Negro
people. At the same time, the ar
ticle neglects to point to the gem
timely revolutionary character of
the Civil War and of Linc0ln's
act. It is correct to reveal the
bourgeois basis of Lincoln's ac-
tions; but it is also necessary to
show their evolutionary signifi-
canoe. Only in this way can we
use these traditions for the wora-
ing class revolution.-ED1TOR.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-12
BY EUGENE GORDON

ABR AHAM LINCOLN as a
n mythical figure is of recent orr
gin During his lifetime and shortly
after his death so much truth was
written about him that it is little
short of amazing how the myths
grew UP. The fact is that the fanci-
full tales about Lincoln's being the
savior of the Negro did not origi-
nate until the Republican Party
originated them. We do not intend
to go into a discussion of the Re-
publican Party. All that is neces-
sary is to point out that this party
of northern capitalism, feeling the
need of the Negroes loyalty, invented
the tale of THE Great Emanci-
pstor" Until then everybody had
taken Lincoln for just what he was,
clever politician and a tool of the
young capitalist class. George S.
Merriam, author of "The Negro
and the Nation" had no illusions
about Lincoln.
Frederick Douglass, who knew
Lincoln well, was far more realistic
in his appraisal than the Negro re-
for1nist leaders who today slobber
at the memory of the Great Ernan-
cipator." Let us, therefore, examine
the opinions of two men who knew
Lincoln, on the one hand, and Lin
coins own statements about slavery
and the Negro, on the other. Out
of the whole we should get pretty
fair picture.
Abraham Lincoln was not 1.-THE
Great Emancipator," cince, although
he signed the Emancipation Procla-
nation, he did nothing actually to
make the Negroes free. In fact, he
opposed freedom for the Negro;
that is. the kind Of freedom the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-12
Washington Challenges Baltimore

Entering the revolutionary competition TO
increase literature sales the Washington section in
the Philadelphia district issues the following chal-
lenge to the Baltimore section in the same district:
I'VE hereby challenge the Baltimore section to
sell more literature and especially Lenn Sets in
the months of February Nr>l'ch and April The
winner will h del,r.tned by the amount of money
sent in blythe h,, sse'''hs 20 the central Office.
We issue .,4,nN VIVA the lull KNOWLEDGE
that the Iaitimore section has at present much
bigger ma. "O eiian we nave here in WASH
ingtonr -
What's Si' oaitHnoref
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it mighty young in North Carolina
textile towns-Howard has trudged
each day to the mills, except when
there wasn't any work.
I'VE have been railroaded by the
mill companies Of Burlington for
crimes we are not guilty Of" says
Overman, ION evidence brought by
the mill company, which is I'm
true"
Tom Canipe, another of the de-
PENDANTS; his father was a mill
worker also. Tom was born in
North Carolina. Blacklisted since
the strike, the $13 a week his wife
makes in a hosiery mill must sup
port all three Of them-there's a
baby.
Fought For Better Ventilation
John Anderson was born out Of
the state-as far away as Virginia.
The mills claimed him when he was
IA. He fought against what he
thought was wrong. The workers
in the Mayfair Mill in Burlington
were almost suffocating, because
there wasn't any ventilation to give
you a breath of air. Anderson took
it UP with the Welfare Department
in Raleigh in 1881 He got fired
for his pains-but the Mayfair Mill
workers got their ventilation When
the U. T. w. came, Anderson got
elected president Of the whole
Piedmont Textile Council.
So with all the defendants. When
the union came, and then the strike,
they were all In Burlington-except
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Questions
and
Ans w 0P

This department appears daily the feature
page All questions should be addressed to "Ques-
tions and Answers" 70 Daily Worker, 50 East
18th Street, New York City.
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Change
the
World!
By MICHAEL GOLD

WHEN all is said and done, we Commu-
W nists must be credited with doing just
a little good in the world. Even our
enemies must admit that we have helped
the regal daughters of high society to be-
come aware of, in General Johnsons cute phrase,
"the ants of conscience crawling in their pants"
Let me explain. According to Dirty Willie
Hearst the Communists are the worst boogeymen
you ever saw They lurk in every corner, and
under every American twinbed. They are in the
schools the factories, the public parks. Willie
probably has found one in his soup and it crawled
out whiskers and ALL and Kissed, BOO! you double
crossing, sexuaizing, yellow rat of bloody money
bags!" or words to that effect, which scared him
nightly it would any peaceful millionaire, and
made him fee to Mother Hitler for protection,
as who with twenty million dollars wouldn't?
Yes they are everywhere And if this is true,
who can say with much confidence that among
the thousands Of buffers, first and second maids,
footnen, chaufeuts gardeners, lapdog guardians,
cooks masseurs, pastry bakers, coiffeurs, private
secretaries, ghost writers, dressmakers publicity
men. jewellers, personal DOCTORS yacht captains
and other able-bodied men and women who must
waste their valuable lives Nursing the idle rich
and their wives and daughters.
Who can say that in this vast army of forced
and useless labor there does not exist a nucleus
of rebels who would rather be men than mice and
VINO nabe bn6H worthless masters anu 4OuB 4OT
new world where manhood will be everyone's right
and no man can have money with which to ruin the
lives of other men and make Of them trained
hunkies?
In other words, surely there rebel hearts,
aye even Communist hearts beating under many
the stony shirtfront of perfectly trained butler.
And it is not fantastic to suppose that copies
of the Daily Worker or the New Masses have been
secretly thrust under the of Ruling Cawss
as Redheld has named them, in Newport or Palm
Beach.
The society ladies must surely have learned
what we think of them. Robert Forsythe has done
valiant service in expressing the lack of respect
for society growing in the mind OF the masses
His raspberTies have been inimitablej he is real
jeremiah of the Bronx cheer. Birck Limbach,
Chopper and others of our cartoonists have often
drawn Mrs. Fatt and her daughters The thing
must have struck home at last Even lady with
forty servants and mighty rear pooch has her
feelings.
Well, the ladies have taken our words to heart
and 1t seems they are going to work They have
been nationalized-I mean, democraticized. Hoorayl
Likewise bsnzai and baloney
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Those UngratefuI Bolshies

THIS is the story. AT first, they did not take
tinkindy barbs with suffcient seriousness. They
thought it was just catty spite or jealousy. They
had pearl necklaces and yachts and were carefully
massaged every day We owned pearls mas
seurs and so we were just being petty and jealous
The ladies, however, were somewhat touched
They made gestures toward proletariansm just to
divert some of the arrows Of spite. The ladies'
you will remember, became photographers models
to show their goodwill. Every cold-cream adver-
tisement, every ad for Camel or Lucky Strike cigar
cites was headed by de luxe photograph Of
the swellest DANES and fancieSt in high
society. You saw them in their velvet gowns,
against a background Of gilt luxury, dabbing in
cold cream or putting Camel They wrote Cor
their unkies wrote) exquistely worded little tes-
tironials testifying that cold improved their
faces or that cigarettes made them healthy 1t
was work of sort, and therefore irritating. but
the ladies did it calamity for the of democ-
racy.
Yet the awful Bolshies kept up the criticism,
the sneers and the boots. The sacrifice was re-
ceived ungratefully. The red bloodhounds still
bayed, and the ladies knew that something drastic
must be done.
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Our Pearls and Buffers
ACCORDING to a story in the New York Post,
n society women are 1ocking to Hollywood to enter
the movies There, you Reds, we hurl your in
situations in your teeth We are not parasites we
are going to earn our pearls and buffers in the
sweat of our brow. We are just as proletarian as
Joan Crawford and God has given us the same
lips, eyes noses ensmeled complexions, sex appeal
and rear ends
Two pretty and very, very blue blooded society
women. Dorothy Fell of Park Avenue, and her
sister in-aw Mrs. John r. Fell will board the train
tomorrow night for Hollywood and take screen
tests" announces the liberal Post.
Miss Fell is the daughter Of Ogden l. Mills chow
or why cannot tell, society being puzzle0 You
know him, Of course, he was Hoover's treasurer
and pal.
Miss Fell, the paper says, has been committing
between Palm Beach and New York getting in
training for movie career Life has grown serious
and 1t is all the fault of those Communists
The Washington times., 1935-05-13
Prominent Patrons
For Dance May %

ROCKVILLE, Md, May 10.
Many Montgomery county resi-
dents prominent in social and po-
litical circles will act as patrons
for the dance to be given by the
United Young Mems Democratic
Clubs of Montgomery County at
Brooke Johns "Old Barn" on
May 30.
The committee in charge Of ar
rangements was announced today
as follows: Jack Clagett. chair
man; Robert Hughes, Jack Spates,
James Christopher, T. Ormande
Nichols, Louis Thomas, John Cum
mings, Frank Ulmer, Edward
Northrop, Robert Maddox, Charles
Davis. Lloyd Jones, James Hoyle
and Donald Classic.
The Washington times., 1935-05-13
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Division, Public Works Branch, Wash
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from this office in the discretion Of the
Assistant Director of Procurement, Public
works Branch W. E. Reynolds. Assistant
Director Of Procurement, Public WORKS
Branch.
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