The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 10, 1926, Page 7

erence nsinncesostnasenanenensmacsisaaestit Pa Second Section: DAILY WORKER. This Magazine Section Arrears Every Saturday in The DAILY WORKER. SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 1926 See 290 Over the Cliff! revolution, says Fred Ellis, the Daily Worker Cartoonist. The foreign capitalists who have entered China for explo itation and robbery will be pushed into the sea by the Chinese i ac ce Jim Crow Justice WHITE man of the upper class of Lexington, Ky., committed the act, which is not so unusual as many think, of raping a little Negro girl eleven years of age. Because this happened almost simul- taneously with the hanging of a Negro who had a farcical trial, it became necessary to go thru the pretense of trying the young white man of the privileged class. Since it could not be denied that the white gentleman had with cold-blooded deliberation assaulted the little Negro girl, the man was declared “insane” and sentenced to live in a hospital, Can anyone imagine that a Negro, proven to have committed the same fiendish crime against an eleven-year-old white child, would lave been allowed to escape the gallows on the plea of insanity? » The elaborate fiction to the effect that Negroes possess some in- herent “race”. impulse toward committing violence upon white women, is one of the most useful means of maintaining a perpe- -tual reign of terror against the millions of Negro toilers. Members of the ruling class (which incidentally is white) have practiced violence against the women of the most suppressed of the toiling classes (who are incidentally black) for not less than three cen- turies in this country. The violence in the opposite direction has been almost entirely a fiction used as a basis for lynching and ter- . rorizing a section of the toiling classes in order to make exploitation easier. Recent deep-going changes in class relationships, brought about by such processes as the industrialization of the South and the migration of Negro laborers, have made it necessary to find a legal covering for the institution of terror against Negroes. Negroes ac- cused of rape have been “protected” from street mobs while they were being in fact lynched by being condemned to death in “sixteen- minute trials” without the slightest chance of a real defense, while the mob howled outside the court-rooms, The “sixteen-minute trials” are lynchings. The trial of this : Lexington aristocrat with the verdiet of “insanity” is a new asser- tion of the ruling class’ privilege over the lives and bodies of the exploited Negro. Capitalist class society shows that it cannot con- sent to a change in the status of the Negro masses, but can only produce a farcical covering for the old suppression. ’ The most contemptible sight is the “Negro newspaper” which es ” ”y 5) te 8p > o 4 oe wh a new and more efficient means of subjugation. & & * * Mussolini’s Nose A PISTOL shot of an unbalanced woman of the British aristocracy supplied the necessary psychological conditions for the departure of the pygmy Caesar, Mussolini, for a tour of his African provinces. “Il Duce” was shot. That it was only “il Duce’s” nose does not matter. The event enabled him splendidly to put his nose into Africa where and when it might have been a less splendid intrusion. There was a flood of headlines» proclaiming that “Mussolini, wounded, brave- ly proceeds to Africa,” where otherwise there would have=been a flood of headlines saying that Mussolini threatens to upset’ the peace of Europe with a military adventure. A petty incident enables Mus- solini’s campaign for a redivision of Africa to be launched with greater ease. The contradictions of imperialist capitalism, pushing toward a cataclysm, are intensified. The coming world battlefield in Africa is further staked out for trenches. It would probably be too much to assume that such an adver tising stunt as a shot im the nose could have been arranged for such exact execution; more like it was for Mussolini only a fortunate coin cidenée: 5 = sf. ., One: can imagine the terrorism that would have been turned loose on the basis of the incident if the fascist reaction could have found a working class partisan upon whom to blame the attentat. We observe that one feeble, distorted attempt has been made by Mussolini’s journalistic prostitutes to make it appear that the devout Roman catholic “Hon. Violet Albina Gibson” who shot Mus solini in the nose is “sympathetic to Communism.” But assassina- tion is not a weapon of the revolutionary proletariat. Nothing can make the affair appear as other than a psychopathic case in which both the active and the passive participant are of more or less the same political family. Since the expert nose shooter turns out to be an eccentri¢ titled catholic lady of the British aristocracy, she is to be pronounced “eccentric” and turned over to the custody of her family. et But Mussolini’s nose, minus a nostril, er’ Teka 12 is today grovelling before the ruling class, giving thanks for this Another step toward the overturning of the poli Burope. es ; am Ba. ' * % se ¢ Bh 9 eee | s