The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1939-06-09
FEATURE RES
African revolutionary work, along
with his opportunistic sale Of oil to
Italy during the Ethiopian aggres-

African revolutionary work, along
with his opportunistic sale of oil TO
Italy during the Ethiopian aggres-
sion have been hard pills for the
i lored comrades to swallow.
y gro communists once terrori-
by Party discipline are toaay
& united is Charles Wnlte, i Negio
gNAlzer, who was oustea I4om lne
afty after having spent some time
z l.ussia, and having been active in
1sinei lca. lie charges that the Parts
has been leriacing all of it's Negro
eigahlzers with wfIta ones; that IN
SeW York, where the Party controls
oyer S1,500,00O in activities Of one
klnd and another, it err .le4s
t..ail fifty Negroes, most of thes. i3I
olmenial jobs. The late Dr, i.st.
ben Younb, IN ardent N gro com
munist, who had returned from Eth
i iopia and RUSSIA, was booted out of
! the Party because he criticized It's
neglect Of African work and the sale
| Of oil to Italy Mrs. frankie Duty,
! 4 Negro organizer who had served
FOR three years on the national
board Of the Workers Alliance and
three years on its New York gen
erai executive board, resigned from
! the Party, and in the Amsterdam
/ news said: resigned because
! want freedom Of speech and ac-
tion, neither Of which is permitted
/ h the Communist Party Be
! cause | questioned them (the COM
mnnists), they did all they could to
sabotage my work in the Alliance
/ The Workers Alliance is nothing
/ but communist racket They col
/ lect 55c from everyone who joins
| and 25c month dues Every
day the members Of the outfit come
/ around soliciting funds for this and
that, until the poor Harlem people
on Relief haven't enough left
to eat on
There seems to be complete un-
animity among thinking Negroes as
to the effectiveness Of communist
work among Negroes. 1t is nil The
writer has gathered opinions Of Me-
/ gro observers ii Dallas, Philadelphia
i Chicago, Milwaukee, Cleveland,
| birmingham and other centers Of
/ communist effort among the blacks.
They all sound the same. This re-
port from Detroit more OF less sums
them up
The effort put forth to hook
/ the Negro has been sporadic
and Ineffective the Party
has generally passed the peak
Of its effectiveness among the
Negroes. All that remains OF
| the vigorous breast-beating,
| tub-thumping era Of 1a3O-32 is
| a sort Of alluvial deposit OF res
idue Of terms, and the tech
| niques Of mass organization
and movements.
But even these techniques are not
new 10 American Negroes. They
were fighting for economic, politi-
cal. and civic rights long before the
| Communist Party existed. The eff
/ fectiveness with which Negro orgi-
nitions have successfully mobilized
money and numbers behind the de-
fense Of the Houston Martyrs, the
/ Elaine Rioters DR.. Sweet Of De-
troit, the Federal anti-lynehing bill,
and the campaign for educational
equality indicates that they are not
! tnovices. They fought on the barri-
cades in East st. Louis, Chicago,
| Springfield, Washington, d. c.,
/ Longview, and Tulsa. The speeches
and writings Of post-Civil War Ne
gro leaders indicate that they were
/ then as familiar with the class strug
gle as are communists.
Even the slim claim that COM
munist agitation has increased the
| Negroes militancy is untenable. This
/ would discount the influence of the
! 200 Negro newspapers and maga
zines with their 1,500,0 900 weekly
circulation, the virtual disappearance
| Of illiteracy, and the NAACP, with
its 400 branches funetioning slice
/ 1909. Being a canny fellow, the
! Negro is militant when there is hope
of success. Otherwise he bides his
time. There may come day when
he will go Red, but that will never
happen until he first sees white
Americans waving the Red flag and
| learns that Marxism is, at last re-
| ally popular Right now its enough
trouble being black without going
Red. a.'~ aaa.ssss afs