The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1937-02-05
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its Executive Committees. It
must organize Negro labor.
Roosevelt is IN. He is in
with a decisive mandate from
the American laboring masses
to govern in the interests OF the
majority. His social ideas must
not be allowed to waiver, but he
must continue vigorously his
fight for those who put him in.
The Negro Is demanding Of him
an endorsement of the anti-lyn-
ching bin and more prominent
place IN the administration Of
national affairs CDR A. Clay
ton Powell, Jr., Nel0 York City)
Here, culled from cross-sec-
ton of Negro opinion throughout
the country. is the mandate Of the
Negro people to Roosevelt follow
ing the elections. Space does not
permit other opinions and direct
expressions Of the peoples support
to those demands. In Harlem on
December 10 a great demonstra-
ton Of relief workers took place
demanding no cut in relief, no dis
crir1ination against Negroes.
The program Of the Communist
Party became the program Of the
masses of Negroes. A careful sur
vey of the demands listed above
compared with the platform put
forward by the Communist Party
in the elections will show that the
Communist Party was correct in
its demands for the Negro people.
It was this program that we were
fighting for.
On the day following the cleo
tons the Associated Negro Press
sent out the following dispatch:
"One of the surprises Of the
recent national elections apart
from the almost complete loss
of identity of the Grand Old
Party-was the remarkable gain
nationally made by the Commu-
mist Party in both voting power
and interest aroused throughout
the country. Better organiza-
ton methods, timeliness of their
appeal to the workers of the ma
ton and their unequivocal stand
against jim-crowism bigotry and
color prejudice are some of the
reasons advanced by political
observers for the showing made
by the Communists at the pre-
sent election. For the second
time, a Negro, James W. Ford
of Alabama. was the Commun-
ist candidate for Vice-Presi-
dent"
Comrade Browder's visit to the
Scottsboro boys in the county Jail
in Birmingham during his cam
paign in the South was one of the
outstandin gevents in the cam
paign and was hailed by the Ne
gro press in every section of the
country. Nearly every one Of $50
weekly Negro newspapers carried
Browder's picture with the Scots
poro boys. His fight at Terre
Haute was considered by leading
Negro people a part of the strug-
gle for civil rights for Negroes.
His speech at the state university
in Virginia, where he raised the
problems of the Negro in the south
was also hailed, as well as his
great fight at Tampa.
The candidacy of James w. Ford
for the Vice-Presidency on the
Communist Party ticket was hail
ed and praised as a great honor
to the Negro people, and the Com
munist Party was hailed as the
only real fighter for Negro rights.
travelled more than 10000 miles
in 38 states; spoke at so great
mass meetings organized by the
Communist Party and at more
than 20 gatherings of Negro lead
ers and people.
One of the features of the cam
paign was a national radio broad
cast on THE Negro People and
the 1886 Elections" Two thous-
and replies congratulating the
Communist Party on its stand
were received by the national cam
paign committee as a result of the
broadcast. Several came from for
eign countries Canada. Scotland
and one from a West Indian Negro
in Peru, South America, etc.
In addition to this my campaign
consisted Of twenty-five local ra-
dio broadcasts. In all of these
speeches the problems of the Me-
gro people We're raised as an in
tegral part Of the struggle of the
entire American people. Some of
these speeches were featured in
the locality in which they were de-
livered. An outstanding meeting
was one at Durham, N. c., which
was preceded by a local radio
broadcast that aroused the people
of the community to the problems
of the Negro in the South. A sem