The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 21, 1930, Page 4

Publisted by the Comproda’ Square. New York City, N Addre+s and mail al) checks Page Four . ¥ Telep to the Daily ept Sunday, 7-8. Cable: “1). Union Sguare. New York Publishing Co. N.Y “SOCIALIST” BROUN-ANTICS | OF A KING'S FOOL By HARRISON GEORGE, }s the middle ages it was pe unfortunate child who was grotesquely pled, preferably a half-witted hunch-back improving on this by breaking and defc a few more bones, raise up this sad rem for sale to drunken monarchs as “The King Fool,” to be kept around the throne as a butt of jokes. e are forcibly reminded of this be eertain respectable slant-wit who writes ¢ for the New Y Telegram is ing for Con- gress on the “socialist” ticket. His name Haywood Broun.—No, not “Brown,” that would be too low caste, confusing thi j with real people who work for a When Hoover came out la: “Prosperity will be back in 60 d id “Hurray!” and started a lone campaign to “Give a job till June.” In June, of cour: things would be all right. Such was Broun vast perspicuity. The campaign rather fizzled, Though sands applied to Broun for jobs, the neither jobs nor replies to their not Even when they < stamped and self-addressed en- velopes. Evidently this Broun was a swindler as well as a fool. Broun Turns Pink. June came, but without “prosperity.” Broun announced that he was joining the “socialist” party, but that he “reserves the right to his own opinion” probably about polit since that was the subject under discus Hence, Broun and the “socialist” party made an agree- for ex tom: in that line to lay hold of some poor eri is got ment, it accepts Broun, but Broun accepts nothing “socialistic.” Score one for the King’s Fool. Being a denizen of night-clubs and hale-fel- low with the underworld fringe, Broun gets a “committee” of Earl Carroll’s “follies” and like “statesmen” or “stateswomen,” to back his candidacy. The King’s Fool takes his claim to the throne seriously. The Telegram, however, being a capitalist paper, i.e., guardian of the throne of King Capital, felt it necessary to explain that after all Broun is only the King’s Fool. Hence on August 18, while Broun was on a vacation, the Telegram editor, Roy W. Howard, wrote as follows: “The Telegram is opposed to Marxian so- cialism. ... But. ..,-the Telegram has no fear of the ‘mercerized’ socialism of Norman Thomas and Heywood Broun. Theirs is largely socialism in name only. Karl Marx would never recognize nor accept it as his brain child. . . . The socialism advocated by Thomas and Broun can be accepted as hav- ing a very real value in that it furnishes an outlet for the rapidly mounting public distrust of the two moribund major parties.” Broun Is Not Red. We Communists are thus obliged to the Tele- gram for certifying what we have said all along: that the “socialist” party is merely another capitalist party, but serving, because of its name, a special function for capitalism in attracting the radicalized workers who are “distr * the other capitalist parties, thus | preventing them from following the party of real a genuine Marxian socialism, the Com- munist Party As to Broun’s claim to a seat in Congress, Telegram says that it is “a matter of no the King’s Fool need not be con- seriously because he itches for the oyal ¢ r while the monarch is retired. to gentlemen’s room with a crisis bellyache. The Fool remains a Fool and can keep his job. st iportance” sidered Who Cares What a Fool Says? The matter of Broun’s opinion are of im- portance to nobody. Not to the “socialist” par- ty, beeause it accepts him though he abjure socialism, perhaps because he abjures it. The | Telegram says that it runs his drivel because | it is “interesting,” though they, too, don’t share his opinions. It adds that Broun’s read- ers also are “not in agreement with him,” Who in the hell takes the Kink’s Fool seriously? The answer is, the Fool himself! Trying bravely to reply to his editor boss, on August 19, Broun returns from his vacation and says | that the boss is absolutely right; that it is “not in the least inconsistent” for the Tele- gram to oppose socialism and yet support Nor- man Thomas. And, witless as ever remark: “It would be silly for a passenger to say ‘I can’t ge: on that Van Cortland Park ex- because I want to go only as far as id St.’ Surely Thomas and the rest of us are going in the direction toward which the Seripps-Howard papers are heading. Why shouldn't they get on board? We'll let them off when they think they’ve reached their | destination.” Certainly the “socialist” party will “let capi- talism off” when its “destination’—the side- tracking of discontent agai capitalism—has been reached to their satisfaction by the cialists.” Certainly the “ lists” are “going in the divection” of capitalism and its other servants and guardians, including the Telegram. Get On the Through Train. The workers have something to learn from this comedy of the King’s ool. That the ‘so- cialist” party is a capitalist party in disguise That it is being boosted now by capitalism to serve as a trap, to catch them and hold them away from the apitalist party, the only revolutionary workers’ party, the Com- munist Party, the Party of M and Lenin, The Communist Party does not invite the to get on any Van Cortland Party ex- | And it doesn’t promise to “let them | ” Tt is a through train to revolution; to a Workers’ and Farmers’ Gov- | | ernment, to a Soviet U.S.A. The Communist Par does, however, invite the workers to vote Communist, But it asks them also, as a guarantee of getting what they vote for, to organize in their shops for the cl struggle which goes on every day, for social insurance, for higher wages. for the seven-hour, five-day week, and to carry on their struggle until capitalism with all its “socialist” servants is overthrown. The Rising Fascist Térror Esthonia By VAL S. KOPPEL, ves since the beginning of the .Esthonian white government, the workers under the | leadership. of the Communist Party, been most brutally persecuted by the social- fascists of that country. Outstanding is the mass murder in 1919 at Isborsk, where hun- dreds of workers were shot in the back on their way to Soviet Russia. Throughout 12 years of the “white” regime, hundreds workers haye been arrested and sent to p: from 5 to 15 years each. There were mas trials of 149, 110 and lesser numbers. present there is no workers’ paper because the Communist Party itself has been out- lawed for years. On December 1, 1924, work- ers were once more drowned in blood when they tried to throw off the system of exploita- tion. What the Fish Committee is after in United States today, the Esthonian government has had ever since the start—the federal police. Of course the Esthonian government has its own name (“defense league,”) for them but they answer the purpose for which they are founded. The Esthonian government doesn’t trust its regular army, for the simple reason that in 1924, the time of workers’ uprising, the sol- diers in many cases resisted the officers’ or- ders to shoot the workers. In later years they showed revolutionary spirit by revolutionary songs on the march and by taking Communist leaflets to the barracks. The composition of the “defense league” is much different from that of the regular army. The regular army consists of sons of the workers -and farmers and the officers are the only offspring of the upper classes, but the “defense league” is composed of the rich farm- ers and business men—in other words, 100 per cent patriots, and enemies of the working class. Large sums of money are spent on them to have them trained and kept in good shape. Only last year this “defense league” had 103 maneuvers in which 50 per cent of the membership participated. It also should be noted that this “defense league” is most bru- | tal in running down the leaders of working class and is so the most hated by the working class. . Who Is Behind Fascist Outbreaks? The imperialists of the world are at a point where they think that war is the only solu- Workers! Join the Party of Your Class! Communist Party U.S. A. 43 Kast 125th Street, New York City 1, the undersigned. want to join the Conmmu nist Party Send me more information Address ........0. oeee + Vity..... Uecupation ..... Age... Mail this to the Central Office Communist Party. 43 bast 1Zbth St. New York, N. ¥ have | | of | n, | At | | in tion. And so do their little brothers at the | border of the Soviet Union. It was the money of imperialists United States, Great Britain, France and other | big countries that made possible the existence as capitalist states of Finland, Poland, Esthon- ia, ete. And now the imperialists are paying more money to them to prepare for the war with the Soviet Union. Yes, millions of dol- lars are spent by the big imperialist coun- tries to strengthen the battle line against the U, R. but not a cent spent for eco- nomic conditions so the workers cou!! breathe easily. in the Furthermore, the recent fascist outbreaks in border countrie: e all supported and en- couraged by the big bosses in other countries. Why are the world imperialists so anxious to have fascists in power in those small coun- tries? The democrats, republicans and so- cialists are now helping the imperialists in their preparations for war. But the big bosses want to be very sure about everything. Only recently we had the fascist outbreak in Fin- land, their butchery of workers, ete., and now the same situation is facing the Esthonian wor’ ers. We should always: remember the fact that installation of a fas regime in border countries means war with the Soviet Union. Workers in the United) States! The work- ers in Esthonia should not be left to face the onrushing fasci alone. They are fighting the government that gets the support of the imperialists of this country; they must fight the Wall Street government in the United States. The workers in the Unite] States should rally to the call of Esthonian workers and send’ mass protests to the imperialists of United States. who are using the governments of Finland, Esthonia, Poland and others, by supporting the fascist movement, to start war on the Soviet Union. Conditions in Moline, Ill. We will quote the reports on the conditions ia Moline and Rockford since they are typical of the conditions in the state: Moline: The decrease in employment in ma- nufacturing plants during the two preceding mouths was accentuated by a drop of 15.8 per cent in June. Payroll totals decreased by more than one-fourth, the exact percentage being 25.3, Much of this decrease is due to reduction in forces and time schedules by the farm implements planis, which are now in_ their slack season. The supply of labor in all lines exceeds the demant, Building activity is ex- tensive, and road work which is to begin in the near future will give employment to a considerable number of men, Rockford: The tenth successive decrease in factory employment was recorded in June, with a decline of 3.9 per cent, Payroll totals decreased 1.0 p nt during the month, The unemployment ratio increased from 120.0 in May to 4 in June an! there is a surplus of labor in all fines, All factories are reported | are one of the best means to he working parts time, and a number e closing for two or three week vacation period . \ Southern Sheriff “Protects” Negro Prisoners. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Sy mail everywtere: Une year $6; six months $3; two months $1; excepting Boroughs of Manhattan and Bronx, New York City, and foreign, which are: me yr. $8; six mons. $4.50 BY BURCK. Some Experiences in Collecting Signatures By HUGH McKIERNAN, HEN the Communist Party decided to enter the elections a few years ago, I thought it was all wrong, that it was useless waste of energy. Now I find out that the elections of reaching the workers. The bosses’ representatives at Wash- ington thought it was a brilliant idea not to allow the candidates of any new Pariy (aimed at radicals) to have their names printed on the ballot, without first getting thousands of signatures from the citizens where that Party candidate was running. They overlookej one thing. When we run candidates in every dis- trict all over the U. S., then we will come in contact with all the workers in the collection signatures, The mere fact of getting a worker to write his or her name on the petition list is not so important. The most important part of our work is to get the workers to talk about our Party. Even if they are opposed to us, we have a chance of talking to each one individ- ually and from personal experience I know that 80 per cent of the workers, when they hear the true facts about our Party and what it for are convinced that it is the only party that fights for. the workers. In the collection of signatures if I cannot con- vince them that the Communist Party is right and has the right policy, then I try to sell them some literature or ask them to buy the Daily Worker or, if nee go down to the stands and buy it for them, anJ visit them again in a couple of nights after and ten chances to one, they will sign the petition and buy the Daily Worker on the newsstands or else give a subscription as many have already done. Not only that, but some of them have asked for application blanks and are now or will be members of the Pariy. Many of the workers who have never heard of our Party except to have it slandered by the capitalist agents or their press, come to the open air meetings, buy literature and the last couple of weeks we have sold double the number of D. W. that were sold at the previous meetings. A few of my experie Last night I vis- ite an Irishman and his wife. I asked him to sign the petition; he said no, that the Daily Worker was handed to him once at the subway station, He liked the revolutionary articles in it and bought it on the newsstand daily for six months as h» believed in a work- ers’ republic for Ireland, but one day he saw a cartoon slandering the Pope, after that he was through with it. I explained the role 6f the pope and all o.her religions pla keeping the workers in subjection. He signed the petition, bought the platform of the Party and was at the last open air meeting at 52nd St. and 5th Ave., Brooklyn. However, it was too late to get any more signatures that night. v a Republican. I next visited a man who told me that he was a republican and that I had the hell of a nerve to come to his apartment, although he ‘ open air meetings, and will join the Workers had just invited me in, and bother him while he was cating his supper. I told him to hang a sign on his chest next election and then I would not bother him, 1 don’t blame the man as I’m sure he never did a day’s work in his life. He looke! as if he had spent a tiresome day down in Wall Street. I called on another in the same apartment house and he told me he was a democrat. He told me that I was not out for signatures, but that I was one of these agents from Moscow to spread Bolshevik propaganda and that I was getting some of the money that Foster brougnt baci trom Russia. I went to the next block. 1 met an Irish- man, named O’Brien. I explained to him about the Communist candidates that we were run- ning in that district. I asked him to sign the petition. He said certainly. He got his wife to sign. He bought one of the platforms. I met another man in that apartment house. He was also an Irishman. After the usual explanation he said he always was a democrat. He was now unemployed for months. He asked to see the After looking it over he says. this ‘“e Foster that’s in j I told him yes. Then he says, if I vote for that man I'll lose my vote. We had quite an argument. He finally signed the petition and told me when I was leaving that Smith last year got the last vote the democrats would ever get from him, . I asked one worker if he reads the Daily Worker. He said no, he never heard of it. That was on a Saturday night. I brought him oil cop’ Sunday morning. I went back to his house the following Tuesday evening and he gave me a month’s subscription for the Daily Worker. I met one Italian. Not only did he and his wife sign but he eame and got some of his friends who were zens, to sign also. One Joins the Party. One man, a Norwegian, told me he could not sign as he was holding a city job, His wife said she would sign. She is a needle trades worker. She filled out an application to join the Part; I met an ex-soldier lately discharged from the army. He got 7 days in jail for some minor offense. While in jail some Commu- nists were brought in giving out literature. They told him when he got back to N. Y. to buy the Daily Worker. He now attends the Ex-Servicemen’s League and the T. U. U. L. One old Spanish War Veteran said he was glad there was a genuine workers’ organiza- tion at last. Most of the ex-service men would not sign for any other Party. Ot years there was very little interest taken in eur Party. They either signed the petition or they didn’t sign it, without any arguments. This unemployment, ete., so far as 1 have seen, on the whole there is very litle opposition to the Party except from the yellow socialists who will not sign or listen to reason under any circumstances. The Southern Vagrancy Laws By CYRIL BRIGGS, AGRANCY laws constitute one of the most brutal weapons of repression in the armory of the southern bosses for use against the op- pressed Negro and exploited white masses. These laws in their present form, first ap- peared during the so-called “Reconstruction Period,” when, the Northern forces having withdrawn on the basis of an agreement be- tween the former slave holders and the north- ern capitalists, the former slave holders turn- ed to the job of re-enslaving the “freed” Negro One of the most effective means towards this end was the Vagrancy DW, utterly vicious in character and sweeping in scope. While form- ulations differ in the various states, the fol- lowing, from the Mississippi Vagrancy Laws is a good example of how the southern bosses, encouraged by the northern capitalists, set about to re-enslave the Negro masses. “That any freedom, free Negroes or mu- lattoes, over eighteen years of age; found on the second Monday of January, 1866, or there- after, with no lawful employment or business, or found unlawfully assembling together in the day or night time, and white persons so assembling with freedom, free Negroes or mu- lattoes on terms of equality, or living in ad- ultery or fornication with a freed woman, free Negro or mulatto, should be considered va- grants.” Th fear held by the oppressor class for ! its Negro victims is quite clearly revealed in these laws which make illegal any assembly of Negroes “together in the day or night time.” Closely exposed, too, is the role of the capi- talist state i» officially branding the Negro race with the stigma of inferiority, and in making it criminal for Negro and white work- ers to fraternize with each other, Here is sharply depicted the fear of the bosses that, unless divided by race prejudice and hatred, the white and Negro workers would get to- gether for joint action against their common oppressors. Negroes Sold Into Peonage Under Vagrancy ‘ Law, Under the Vagrancy Laws thousands of Ne- gro workers are being arrested every year and sold into peonage through the capitalist courts, to any vlanter who comes forward and pays their fines. Payment of their fines by a plant- ‘er is the beginning of debt slavery of hundreds of thousands of Negroes. Negroes are picked up by the police on the grounds of not having a job when millions are jobless, inability to pay their street taxes, when millions are on the verge of starvation. ATTACK ON By PHILLIP RICHARDS. ! 'HE attack upon the foreign born workers, | upon the best fighters in the foreign born sector of the American working class is in- creasing from day to day. In Los Angeles foreign born workers are faced with deporta~ tion. From El Paso alone more than 100 Mexican workers were deported during the last week, The condemnation of Comrade Serio, who is to be deported to fascist Italy, shows clearly how the United States government works hand in hand with the government of Mussolini. Many months ago Serio spoke at a meeting in Erie, Pennsylvania, against the reactionary attacks upon the working cla: In spite of the fact that he was legally in this country and that witnesses deny the charges made against him by the agents of the fascist con- sulates in the United States, he has been con- vieted of criminal anarchy and condemned to deportation. This shows clearly how the United States government uses the methods of fascist Italy against the workers. The United States government in its secret coun- cils, has decided to deport to their native countries, all foreigm born workers, whether naturalized citizens or not, who are active in the revolutionary movement. This is not only @ persecution of the foreign born, but is an attack upon the entire American working class. Workers Unite! Capitalism is trying to divide the proletariat by terrorizing the Negro and foreign-born workers, in order to bring greater pressure upon the entire working class, With the fas- cist attack against the best leaders of the proletariat, against the Communist Party, the forces of reaction are trying to crush the leadership of the proletariat and thus to make the masses helpless. Boss Hopes. Thus with the terrorization of Negro and foreign-born workers, with the crushing of the Communist Party and of the revolutionary unions, with the effort to divide the American working class and turn one section against the other, capitalism hopes to overcome the crisis by placing the entire burden upon the shoul- ders of the working class. It hopes to be able to prepare itself for the next imperialist war without protest from the workers, to send, without interference, guns, airplanes, war- ships and money to the Chinese warlords in order to smash the workers and farmers of China and the Soviets which they are estab- lishing. To the attack of the Fish Committee, to the continuous deportations and the threat of finger-printing of foreign-born workers, the working masses must respond with a tremen- dous protest. The protest must come not only from the organizations of revolutionary work- WORKERS MUST ANSWER FOREIGN BORN ers, but also from the great masses in the shops and factories. The millions of foreign- born workers must answer that they are a part of the American working class. The American workers must come to the defense of their foreign-born brothers. They must fight shoulder to shoulder with their brothers in the mills, mines and factories against the murderous attack of the American bourgeoisie upon the working class. A wide campaign is already started inyo};- ing 40 national mass organizations including all the revolutionary unions of the T.U.U.L., the LL.D., the W.I.R., ete, Other organiza- tions must be drawn in. The workers who are members of organizations under fascist or social fascist leadership must unite themselves with their fellow workers in the organizations already engaged in the struggle—they must fight against their own leadership, which works hand in hand with the capitalists and their agents, the police. Workers by the hun- dreds of thousands are already raising their protest. Millions more must join them. American born workers, foreign born work- ers, Negro workers, alk must unite in one vigorous protest against this new attack. From the shops, mills, mines and factories, delegates must be elected for the conferences that will be held all over the country during September for the protection of the foreign born workers. Resolutions of protest against finger printing and deportation must be sent to the Labor Department in Washington. Stop the Boss Offensive. From this campaign a tremendous mass movement must develop that will stop the capi- talist offensive and the fascist attacks upon the working class. In, this campaign, our fractions inside the mass organizations, and our shop committees in the factories must be the driving force. Every member of the revo- lutionary unions and of the language mass or- ganizations must become active agitators and propagandists. With from fifty thousand to one hundred thousand agitators and organizers we will succeed in organizing millions of workers. Our attack will smash the fascist reaction. Workers! American workers! Negro work- ers! Foreign born workers! Elect delegates to the district conferences for the protection of the foreign born! This struggle is your struggle, It is a struggle for your defense, It is a struggle of the entire working class. Smash the fascist reaction! Down with de- portations and finger printing! Stop the de- portation of Comrade Serio to fascist Italy and the continuous deportation of Mexican workers! Demand that the Cuban agent, of American imperialism, the bloody Machado, cease the deportation of the revolutionary workers! Demand the release of class war prisoners! By L. TODDY. QONSE again the butcher Machado govern- ment of Cuba cowardly murdered one of the best fighters of the Cuban workers, Com- rade Jose Wong! Machado, the puppet of Wall Street imper- ialism, maintains his bloody rule with a most brutal terrorist campaign against the workers. Antonio Mella and hundreds of other leaders of the working class and anti-imperialist strug- gle, have been assassinated one way or an- other, Many times these workers were secret- ly thrown into the ocean to “feed the sharks,” With the increasing and deepening of the crisis in Cuba, workers no longer can bear the increasing exploitation of the National City Bank, sugar barons and their native agents. Workers of all nationalities, Cuban, Spanish, Negro, Hebrew, Chinese, are uniting, under the leadership of the Communist Party and revolutionary unions of Cuba, to fight against Yankee imperialism and the native bourgeoisie of Cuba. Revolt Grows. It is with this increasing revolt that Ma- chado is carrying a savage persecution against all revolutionary workers. Four militant Chinese workers were deported last January. Many union leaders have been imprisoned or murdered since then. Last week 7 Spanish workers were deported through New York. And on August 14 Comrade Wong, one of the 70 held in the dungeons, was murdered! Many others are facing the same terror! Machado came out with the pretense that Comrade Wong “committed suicide in jail for fear that he would be sent to China where he would be executed.” This is a cowardly and deliberate lie of this butcher. Comrade Wong is known to the Cuban workers as well as to the revolutionary Chinese workers in America as one of the most brilliant and brave fighters. It is precisely since Machado deported four Chinese comrades to Chiang Kai-shek to be executed, that Comrade Wong took the leading part in organizing the Chinese workers for struggle. And it was his credit and effort that the revolutionary activities of the Chinese |. Workers were increasing as a result of Ma- chado’s deportation campaign. Such fighters do not “commit suicide.” In one of Comrade Wong's letters, he wrote, “Our best comrades were deported, but we will not give up the fight; on the contrary, we must work harder than ever before.” Prior to his arrest, in connection with the convening of the Soviet Conference in China, he drew up a leaflet in which he urged the Chinese workers in Cuba “not only to cele- brate and defend the Soviet Power in China, but to also unite with Cuban workers to fight for a Soviet Government in Cuba.” Just a few days before his assassination, ern Negrocs, charging them with being va- grants and railroading them into peonage. Va- grancy laws are being used today against the Communist Party, the Trade Union Unity League and the American Negro Labor Con- gress, whose organizers were arrested a few weeks ago in Birmingham, Ala., and jailed as Vagrancy Law Used to Prevent Negroes From Organizing. Vagrancy laws are used in all the southern states to prevent Negroes from organizing by the simple expedient of arresting the organ- izers and by “picking up” strangers and north- vagrants for their working-class activities. The Birmingham bosses and their police have threatened to arrest as vagrants every organ- izer sent into the South by these class-struggle organizations. These laws are boss class legislation of the Protest Murder of Workers in Cuba! Comrade Wong was preparing an open letter to the Chinese workers in America for a de- termine! fight against U. S. imperialism and its native agents, Machado, Chiang Kai-shek and others. To the revolutionary’ workers, butcher Machado is no less brutal and effi- cient than his brother, Chiang Kai-shek of China, in sucking the blood of workers and serving the interests of their imperialist mas- ters. To label the murder of Comrade Wong as suicide for fear of Chiang Kai-shek’s por- secution, is an ugly and cowardly lie of the hangman, Machado, The cold-blooded murder of Comrade Wong is part of the terrorist campaign of Wall Street bosses and their Cuban agents against the workers. There are about 70 militant workers fecing the same imminent danger. And still more will fall victims of the bloody Machado white terror. We workers in the United States must organize a powerful campaign to protest this brutal murder and demand the im- mediate unconditional release of the impris- onei workers. We must wage a determined fight against the butcher campaign of Wall Street and Machado. Protest. — Comrade Wong was also the secretary of the Cuban Branch of the All-America Chinese Anti-Imperialist Alliance. The Alliance is mobilizing the Chinese workers in America to join the protest campaign of the American workers against the white terror of U. S. im- perialism and its fascist dictators in Latin- America and in China. The Sacco-Vanzetti memorial demonstrations on August 22 must demand also the end of Machado’s regime of murder against the work- ers of Cuba! Building Work Down The official labor report for the month of June dealing specifically with building in- dustry is compelled to state: “During the month of June permits were issued in 45 Illinois cities for a total of 2,483 buildings with an estimated cost of $10,676,951. This is a decline in estimated valuation of 42.2 per cent from the May total, and a decline of 54.0 per cent from the total for June a year ago. The total expenditure authorized in Chicago during the month dropped sharply from the May figure, the decrease amounting to 59.2 per cent. Chicago, in fact, is mainly responsible for the decrease in valuation from the May figures, as the combined figure for the rest of the state was only slightly lesg than in May. The de- cline in valuation in Chicago this June com- pared to June last year was 64.1 per eent. likewise a great decline than that reported by the rest of the state.” most vicious kind and must be fought with the full energy of the working class, united, black and white, under the leadership of the Communist Party. Negro and white workers must be mobilized for relentless struggle against these laws and all other class legisla- lation, for full support to the struggles of the oppressed southern Negro masses, and for their right to have their own government in those sections of the south where they con- stitute a majority of the population, and for the demand for full political, economic’ and social equality. a