The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 28, 1932, Page 4

Published py the Comprodailty Publishing Coe., ine, daily excep! Sunday, at 50 fast Dail Yorker’ BUBBCRIPTION RATES: i3th St. New York City. N. Y. ‘elephone ALgonquin 4-7956. Cable “DAIWORK.” By mail everywhere: Une year, $6; six months, $3; two months, 31; excepting Boroughs Address and mail all checks to the Daily Worker, 60 East i8th Street, New York, N. Y. P, US.A of Manhattan and Bronx, New York City. VForsign: one ‘year, $8; six months, $4.50. << — a ict THE UNITED FRONT IN THE | [*°"=" . : i] E N) [ RIKE Richly Gowned ~ ‘THE CONSTITUTION, ATLANTA, GA, eons By TOM JOHNSON I and Ohio fields 115,000 miners | or on strike under the leader- actionary union, the United Mine Workers of America. In Western Pennsylvania four mines at Avella, including one of the Pitts- burgh Terminal Coal Corporation mines, (the UMWA has an agreement with this company). are engaged in strike which until last week was compl inated by the UMWA. The largest mine Central Pennsylvania is on Strike under their leadership. Two circumstances contribute to the develop- | ment of local iggles such as the Avélla and | Portage strikes, under UMWA leadership. On | | he Illinois d of do! the one hand the ution is striving desperately to rehabilitate i itself in the eyes of the miners | forces the leadership into call- (with the entirely conscious | aim of latter betraying them) On the other hand the UMWA is striving to raise its prestige as a strike breaking agency with the operators by taking over the leadership of the growing number of local struggles (which, as was the case in Ohio, may be transformed over night into mass strikes) developing from below in order to betray them and thus prove its usefulness to the operators. | Despite the recent heroic struggles under its leadership in Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky, the National Miners Union to- day finds itself relatively isolated from the pres- ent strikes and in grave danger of this isolation continuing in the wave of strikes unquestionably maturing in Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia. It cannot be brought home too sharply ‘that today our union is imminent danger of being seriously weakened in its own stronghold, the Western Pennsylvania and Ohio fields. There is only one means whereby such a ca- tastrophe can be prevented; that is by a stub- born struggle for our independent leadership of present and coming etrike struggles through the correct application of the united front from be- low. Today the tactic of the united front is lit- erally a life and death question for our union. After several years of unproductive work had demonstrated to all but the blind the bank- ruptey of our sectarian policy in those fields such as Illinois and the Anthracite which are completely dominated by the UMWA, we have | at last sueceeded in working out (or rather are im the provess of working out) the correct meth- ods and forms for the application of our united front tactic, As frequently happens, with. us, the reaction from the sharp self-criticism of our former pol- icy of building, or trying to. build locals. of. the National Miners Union in these fields at the expense of work in the UMWA, has led to some mistakes amounting in practice to the complete elimination of the role of the NMU from our agitation and propaganda. However, on the whole it may be said that we have now seizbed hold of the correct policy in these fields and that our comrades are energetically building a strong left wing opposition inside the UMWA which is already mobilizing masses of miners for struggle for concrete demands under our leadership. The Ohio Strike. Unfortunately the same cannot be said for fur work in Eastern Ohio. Here, up until the resent strike, the UMWA had little or no-'sym- wathy or mass influence and even less organiza~ fional strength. The miners of one mine of. the anna coal Co. struck first, largely as a result ff 2 leaflet issued by the NMU calling for strug- gle against a recent wage cut, In other words ithe strike actually started as a result of the Work of our union. Our comrades were present at the first meet- img of the strikers. Again they repeated the old wistake of merely making agitational speeches and failed to even elect a Strike Committee. Following this first meeting our comrades. sim- wy stepped out of the picture and left the strik- ers to their own devices for several days, ‘The UMWA promptly seized hold of this op- portunity, sent in speakers and organizers and tok the leadership of this local strike right out f our hands. This was bad enough but it did mot end there. The strike spread and with it Spread the influence of the UMWA, until the Geld was solidly struck and as solidly under the | our union. leadership of the reformists. The line of our comrades in the union, and to a lesser extent the Party, leadership in Ohio | has been one of complete capitulation in the face of the difficulties with which they are con- fronted. Our comrades have developed several theories to justify their passivity. No. 1. “It is impossible to take over the leader- ship of the Ohio Strike.” No. 2. “The strike will be lost anyway. Theve- fore, let the UMWA continue to lead it. After it is betrayed the miners will realize the strike breaking role of the UMWA and will flock into If we take over the leadership now and the strike is lost the miners will hold us responsible.” No. 3. “The miners will remain in the UMWA. What is necessary is to liquidate the NMU en- tirely and to build an opposition movement in the UMWA in Ohio.” To take the last of these “theories” first. The miners have little or no confidence in the UMWA. They are following UMWA leadership in this strike for one reason only—Because of the failure of our union to really root itself in the mines following the last strike and to de- velop there local struggles for the most press- ing needs of the miners. The fact that 15,000 | miners are on strike under UMWA leadership is not to be attributed to the miners confi- dence in the UMWA. It is due to our passivity and to nothing else. The miners have no confi- dence in the UMWA. They follow it half-heart- edly today because in practice our union refused for their most urgent and burning demands. In this situation some of our comrades are attempting to justify a continuance of this same criminal passivity with this “theory” that. we must liquidate the NMU and work only within the rejuvenated UMWA. This “theory” has nothing in common with the Bolshevik policy of | determined struggle for the leadership of the masses; it is a policy of complete capitulation in the face of a difficult situation which is admittedly largely of our own making. As.for “theory” number 2: It is not true that “the strike will be lost anyway”. The Ohio strike can yet achieve a partial, if not a com- plete victory, providing the strikers themselyes take the leadership of the struggle into their own hands under our general guidance and put into effect our policies of militant mass struggle. Miners Lose—UMWA Wins if we continue our present inactivity the strike will surely be betrayed by the UMWA fak- ers insofar as the interests and the demands of the strikers are concerned. But this does not mean that it will surely be lost from the stand- point of the UMWA leaders. Nor does this neces- sarily mean that the UMWA will ‘be’ smashed in Ohio. The.miners were defeated in the ‘last: strike in Scotts Run, W. Va., but the UMWA, which led the strike, was victorious: It succeeded in signing the famous “out scab the scabs” agreement whereby the miners of Scotts Run are chained to the lowest scale in the state, 22% cents a ton with $1.50 check off to the UMWA each month, Lee. Hall, the president of District Six, has ale ready announced that the UMWA stands ready to conclude an agreement on the present terms offered by the néwly formed Operators Assdci- ation, providing the operators agree to the check off. These terms are 35 cents a ton’ and $3.20 for 4 | day work. If the strike is terminated on the basis to give them adequate leadership in the struggle | of these terms certainly the miners will have been defeated, for these terms represent a sub- stantial wage cut. If the operators take Hall’s offer, and there are some indications that they will, the strike will be a victory for Hall and his fellow mis-leaders and it will chain the min- ers of Ohio to the UMWA. (TO BE CONTINUED) The Struggle for the Scottsboro Boys in Germany 8 By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. patently Germany (by mail).—The , Catholic regime in Cologne, where the great Cologne Cathedral stands sentinel near the central. railroad station as if to bar en- trance to any who are unwelcome, joined the socialist regime in Altona-Hamburg in the ef- fort to silence the appeal of the Scottsboro mother, Ada Wright. The meeting here was forbidden. Three other meetings, however, were carried through here in the great machine building in- dustrial center around Dusseldorf. But even here obstacles had to be overcome in the Lower | Rhineland. The Socialist Center (Catholic) com- bination that rules in Dusseldorf, had refused the use of any municipal hall for the Scotts- boro protest, and all the large halls are munici- pally owned. Instead. of taking a small hall the first meet- ing was held in the Germania Hall, of the sub- urb, Obarkassel, under close police surveillance. This meeting held on a Sunday, was marked by an unusually large attendance of children who | took a keen interest in the detailed translation of everythirig’said by the Scottsboro mother, Ada Wright. Throughout. the Lower Rhineland the children have been writing letters to President Hoover, drawing up resolutions and petitions of their own. One of these letters read at the meeting was as follows: Dear President Hoover:—In America eyery- thing is said to be so beautiful, as my uncle has yery often told me, and as we have been taught in the schools, that there is much more freedom in your country than there is here in Germany. Dear President, my father has read to me “from” the newspapers, that you are going to ” permit the Negro children to be put to death. That would not be good from you. What have these children done? The police here in Ger- many is very severe with us. But they do not put children to death. Let the poor Negro chil- New York City Election Conterence Confirms 14th Plenum Resolution W hairy City Election Conference Held on May 22, clearly confirms the resolution of the 14th Plenum of the Central Committee. It shows: 1) Failure to do shop work and bring the election campaign into the shops, the reolu- tionary unions and where individual Party members work. 2). The Party members in the revolutionary unions failed to rally their organizations for the conference. 3) The revolutionary opposition in the Am- erican Federation of Labor unions carried on no real Bolshevik work. 4) The Unemployed Councils, themselves weakly represented, failed to mobilize further masses of workers. 5) ‘The Young Communist League and other youth organizations were poorly represented. 6) The mass organizations controlled by the reactionary were only feebly reached. ‘These facts show clearly that the District, in spite of the Central Committee Plenum and the discusssion now taking place in the ranks of the Party, is not taking the first steps towards mass$ work, but we remain within the old rut. Further, it shows that the comrades have no understanding of the United Front and that this conference, which should have been the broad- cast United Front possible, rallying all sections of the working-class on the basis of the six planks of the Party platform, was none the less narrow, despite the fact that 700 delegates were present. It was further manifest in the fact that none of the shops, few of the unions and mass or- ganizations, made any preparations whatever for sending delegates to the Chicago Convention. ‘This shows the same opportunist approach to the campaign as in the past, namely that the Election Campaign is something separate from the basic struggle conducted by the Party. ‘This ‘opportanist approach must be broken ue j down immediately if the election campaign is to reach the shops, the unions, Negroes, Latin- American and other workers and be coupled up with intensified struggles for unemployment relief and insurance, against wage cuts, for Negro rights, etc. ' The next steps are: 1) Putting the Party on the ballot, for which the entire Party, Y. C. L. and the membership of the mass organizations must be rallied to carry on the signature campaign. This cam- paign must be a broad agitational campaign in each worker's home where efforts are made to get signatures. 2) The State Convention in Schenectady on June 19th must afford us a real representation from the shops, the unemployed, Negroes, unions, also of the A. F. of L., Latin-American and other mass organizations. This can only be achieved | if the campaign is taken into the shops and among the unemployed in a vigorous manner, where ever there is shop organization the issue being raised. Where there is no shop organiza- tion, groups should be formed and delegates be elected. . The conservative mass organizations must be reached and delegates be procured from them. ‘This is not a difficult matter if the conception of the Party members is turned towards a proper application of the United Front on the basis of mass work. Finally, at the City Conference, it was clear that many of our leading comrades were absent. These comrades _2em to believe that their only function in the election campaign is to make speeches. Th: - must understand from the out- set that they will be drawn into the organizations activities on their respective fields and they, to- gether with the fractions and the whole Party, be smade responsible for makin; this Blection Campaign a real Communist Campaign, DISTRICT SECRETARIAT. dren live, because their fathers and mothers will shed many tears for them. We here in Germany would be glad to hear that you are for justice. If I should happen to come to America, then 1 shall visit you. Please write me if you have received my letter.” Some of the difficulties in carrying through mass meetings in Germany were revealed in Dusseldorf. Special permission, with a special stamp of the police department, had to be se- cured for the distribution of leaflets. Any dis- tributor of leaflets who did not carry his permit was liable to three months imprisonment. Pla- cards, handbills and other publicity was not allowed to carry any slogans, not even such an appeal as “We Call Upon Workers to Come to the Meeting!” Instead only the name of the speaker and what he is to talk about. I was not allowed to speak because my name had not been reported to the police, The Obarkassel meeting was presided over by Car? Jannack, secretary of the International Red Aid for the Lower Rhineland district with its 13,000 members. We were the guests of the workers of Dussel- dorf in the-evening at an unusual performance given by the Workers’ Singing Society in the ; State Theatre. There were 400 singers, men, women and children, who presented through song and declamation the struggles of the Com- munist propagandists. $2 FOR 55 HOURS IS PAY TO GIRLS) IN SWEATSHOPS 22: Qne Such Is ‘Sole W Wage Earner in Connecticut Family of 8, Labor Chief Finds. NY. TELE GPA BY the United Press, NEW HAVEN, May,19.—Connect| DIME cut girls work’ fitty-five| hours week in sweatshops for as little $197 to avoid starvation or th| streets, J Brat 3 State-Com; drank @ quantity of poison in Ce kitchen of his home, walked intd the parlor, told members of the then. staggered to-a couch. He died an hour later. The widow and four children survive. Trades Pig for Beauty El Centro, Cal., May 8 (®)}—A pig} in exthange for a marcel wave. That was & trade reported made by a young woman in Imperial valley, where’ bartering has become ‘popular. Two dozen eggs.for a att went 3 friends. WEF By HARRY HAYWOOD (Article No. 1) N. A. A.C. P. Conference recently held in Washington, D. C.,, marks a new chapter in the long record of, dastardly ‘betrayals of the ‘Negro masses by the leaders of this organization. At the conference, tho Negro reformist leaders and their “enlightened” white imperialist friends in the leadership of the organization, indulged in the most unbridled demagogy. This in itself was @ reflection of the desperate impasse into which the organization has gotten itself in the recent period. In the process of the struggle: itself, the N. A. A. C. P, has been exposed as:a agent of the worst enéemies of the Negro people; it has been compromised before increasingly wider sec- tions of the Negro toilers. “The conferehce, therefore, had a very definite aim. This aim was to overcome the complete political and moral bankruptcy of the N. A. A. C. P., to bolster up its rapidly waning in- fluence among the Negro masses. To this con- ference, the N. A. A. C. P. leaders came, conscious of the long list of their crimes against the Negro masses. The disruptive activities of these misleaders in the Scottsboro case are well known. Here they vieed with the imperialists in the campaign of vicious slander against the Communists and re- volutionary organizations which organized and led the revolutionary defense movement. Raising Spies and Terror or How Ford's “Philanthropy” Works By F. B. M. To the Daily Worker: DETROIT, Mich.—The Ford Motor Co. is con- ducting an watensified réign of terror on their employees, through their servicemen (spies). When a worker is seen talking to another, a service man appears and asks each worker sep- arately of. what they were talking about. .’ If their statements to him do not ‘coincide, they are taken to the-office and fired immediately for being a°Réd. Recently, a worker was: ‘spied upon, his badge number and address were taken, accused of being a red and was fired. This worker empMatically denied being a red, but this did not save him. Henry Ford, the great “philanthropist,” has greatly improved his system of exploitation of human beings. He is now the owner of the most ruthless and advanced system of exploitation. In the fan department of the Press Steel ‘build- ing, where five machMes and five. men. were. used, one machine (modern development) and one man is now doing the same amount of work. On the muffler job, where ten machines were Tun by ten men, two machines and two. men are now used. All through his factory the same system of eliminating men by the use of modern machinery is applied. Boesey, foreman of the Universal Joint Hous- ing job department, and who works under Fox, the superintendent, is one of the most brutal of Ford’s slave drivers. Quite recently this lick- spittle walks up to a worker, whom !e thought wa snot working fast enough, grabs uid shakes him and tells him that if he cannot do the work to get to hell out. The hoo department is an actual prison. There are dozens of fore~ men in this department and slavé-driving is rampant. Last week a Negro worker, who by mistake put some scrap material in the assembly line, was abused and immediately sent home, and, as a consequence, lost one hour and a half that day. ‘The assistant super‘atendent will abuse and promptly send home any worker who happens to make a mistake ever so petty on the job. A worker who works in the open hearth build- ing was accidentally hit on the side of his neck with a sledge hammer. He was unconscious as @ result of the blow and was taken to hospital. Instead of examining him after he came to his senses, he was asked what was wrong. His re- ply was, due to loss of memory, that he did not know, but the blow he received on his neck mi ye could be obyiusly seen, because it was swollen, ‘These Ford doctors were only interested in GET- ‘TING rid of this worker as quick as they could, so they sent him home. A worker in the buffing depaytment, due to the faulty machine on which he was working, was hit in the left eye and was almost blinded. He was given hospital treatment and sent home. Next‘day, when he reported at the plant, he wes _| questioned about his eye and was told that he did- not. get hs eye hurt there. This worker, who had -his card of admission for treatment in his pocket, signed by.one of the doctors, promptly refuted their statements, calling them a liar and producing his card. He was laid off and-wes told to return for treatment. He had just re- turned to work about three weeks and is with- out funds, He informed them that. he lived six miles away and has no.money for carfare, They told hitn to walk back. This is Ford’s system, the great “humanitarian.” The following are some of the facis of ‘the miserable conditions of the workers in Detroit factories: “I work. at Jenks and Muir Corpora: tion, makers of ‘auto parts. I work on one of those machines that are doing labor work. For this work I used to get-58 cents an hour, but now they are paying me 48 cents an hour; a cut of 10 cents an hour. I am now doing two men’s work, as a result of the speed-up system. T am working two and three hows a day, two and three days a week. They told us that if +e are not satisf"d to get out, for there are others: who will gladly take our jebs.” “I work at the American “Rediator Company. We are doing plece-work, making fire pots and water dooms, They used to pay us 18 cents a mould and we worker 8 hours; but now they cut us to 12 cents a mould and we work 9. hours. We are also speeded up, because three men used to do this work and now two men must produce the same amount of work, or get out.” “I work at the Studebaker Corporation, makers of Rockne and Studebaker automobiles, one and two days a week. We are working twice as fast and hard as we did months ago. We start to work at 7 a.m. and quit at 5 pm. We get 40 cents an hour. We are informed that we will be laid off soon.” At the Farm Crest Pe Company the girls work from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. and from 1 p.m. to 1 a.m. ‘They receive 23 cents an hour and are speeded up terribly, Women Gamble In Gilt Penthouse ‘Dollar Chip Players Released After Police Raid Sumptuous Apartment NEW YORK, May 7 (AP.)—Paah- fonably gowned women an¢ their ig wae PAID C GIRS domen, SS reive. the cry of “red menace,” even louder than the lynchers themselves, they tried to make it appear that the main enemies of the Negro masses were not the ruling-class lynchers and their fascist agents, but the Communists and the revolutionary organizations, in their manner completely ab- solving the imperialist hangmen in their mur-- derous attacks ypon the Negro masses. Simul- taneously and’ with. the active support of the bourgeois cow'ts and ‘police officials, they re- sorted to the most foul and villainous means to wrest the authorized legal. defense of the, boys from the: International Labor Défense. In this manner, they attemtped to disorganize the re- volutionary mass movement isolate the revolu- tionary organizations, thus furnishing a cloak for the ruling-class lynchers to carry. out their bloody work. In brief, their attacks were directed not against the violence and lyneh terror of the capitalists, but against the resistance of the masges., Moreoyer, they actyally joined with the lynchers for the physical suppression of the Negro masses.’ In ‘Chicago .and Pittsburgh, Pickens and other N. A. A.C, P. fakers were instrumental in having white and Negro workers jailed for protesting against the Scottsboro lyneh-verdiets.. In Chicago, the massacre by the police of Negro unemployed workers was provoked by local N. A. A.C, P. misleaders. acting in concert with Negre and white landlords and the city administration. They helped the Mary- land bosses in the vile frameup of, Euel Lee (Orphan Jones), their Baltimore attorney and representative declaring his “belief” that Euel Lee was guilty No before the lynch-courts treid him. ‘ Their great white “friend” Darrow, who sits in the executitve councils. of the N. A. A. C. P a member of the national board, is now fully exposed as an agent of U.S. imperialism and. its most vicious and reactionary clique— a clique which carries out the most. despicable provoca~ tion against the Hawaiian masses, aimeed * completely enslaving them for the purpose of furthering the war aims of American imperialism, The purpose of this vicious baiting ‘of the Ha- walian people is: now openly admitted in the hearings of the Senate Commission on the Will introduceed by, Representatiye Britten for the fortification of the Hawaiian Islands, and in the provocative articles by Floyd Gibbons in the Hearst gutter press against the Hawaiian masses, ‘Characteristtic of the hypocriscy of the N. A. A, C. P. leaders is the fact that’ while pretending to protest. this introduction of’ lynch-law into Hawaii, they are. conveniently silent about the disgusting role ‘played by this agent of tm- peviafism, Darrow, who still rechains an hon- ored member of their execu.ive, board, Add-J to, the incomplete list of. infamies, is . | the a .ompt led by Pickens to betray the Negro masses into the new world sicughter being brewed by the imperialis' Ina series of ariicles in the Negro ‘pres’, Pickeis hus atr tempted to present the reaclichary, feudal mili terists of Japan, the murderers .of «Japanese workers ‘and of’ the, Chinese mas.es, as th¢ “champions” of the darker races, ‘Thus Pickens, to the glee of his white imperialist masters, aitempls to mobilize the Negro. meses ‘behind Japanese imperialism, which is teday the spear- , head of world imperialism in the criminal plans for ermed intervention against the Soviet Union —the fathgrland of all the world’s oppressed Classes and peoples. Truly this wes a ‘record thet requived a groat deal of “cxplaining” at their 22rd annual conference. Asa result of this open policy of betrayal, there has developed 2 gow.ny cpposition among the. petty-bourgeois rank and file and those workingclass elements oevr which the N. A. A. C. P. has influence. This is reflected in the oppositions to the official policies of the leader- ship. This incipent rebellion has expressed itself recently, especially in connections with Scottsboro, and again in the Darrow case, where N. A. A, ©, P, local branches have called upon the leadership to repudiate Darrow. Thus the Negro petty-borgeois paper, the “Washington World,” voices this sentiment in the following manner: “We reiterate that in the handling of the sit- uation in Alabama (Scottsboro—H. H.) the pres- et administration of the N./A. A, ©, P. bimchansined me BS Mee teeny his Desperate because she had had tine, 12, nothing to, eat for two days, Marie! M ‘Housley, 1% years old, of 118 G10 atreet, was in Grady hospital eriticel condition ‘Tuesday nigh the result of polson takes Tu ‘afternoon at her-home, accordi wahene af her family. No food {] (WOUNDS Hs Wie, TAAGKILL KILLS SELF ALLS SOW AND Skip RAE 2 TELEGRAM - May23 Prd Man Wrote He Was = | Broke, Jobless, Homeless. SS. Mrs. Stella Knauth, 20, Wounded by a bullet in 4s the only survivor today of Girl, 17, Hungry and Out of Work, Near Death After Drinking Poison’ isa punit 9+ + | LOAN TO MEET 3. Inf tae Neste, Sal | Al critically f the. ab- er aay. that) = ed a8 \ The bodi (Snare Monday cel v Be Hoag — 4 HORNE Hic, [Undernour eae Prugteral Hospitat li areeeees he corny ing of IT HARD t Wo. ba, \ Poison J Farmer Drinks e mene Holm es, $57, eo ks ties 0) Huntington, Ind., May.\8—Despo! ht, she ’ to), 8: gat gver farm debs, Frank Mommer, ‘fe ee eclat 20 Coa, vents Olt, Creek township, n- ft THE N.A.A.C.P. PREPARES NEW BETRAYALS OF THE NEGRO MASSES cause to question the militancy of the Associa tion and the wisdom of its policy.” ‘Thus at the conference, the wiley DuBois, in order to give an air of authenicity to the dema- gogic pratilee of a “change of policy,” was forced to admit that “the N. A. A. C, P. has been criticized very severely in the past. few years: both from the inside and from the outside, Much of this criticism has been justified.” And again, in his demagogic statement that the N. Ay A..C. .P. “must now choose whether to stand with mass or class,” meaning by class the Negro bourgeoisie. It is clear that under such conditions, of the growing exposure of these misleaders, they can- not play their treacherous role without at the game time trying to cover up their reactionary deeds in a more clever than heretofore. ‘The conference represented an attempt to re- vive old reformist illusions in a new form, wrap: pe in the garb of radical phrases. The fact that these misleaders find themselves forced to appear,more radical at the present time before the’ Negro masses is due precisely to the growing influence of the Communist Party among the Negro toilers. Therefore to save their faces, they not only utilize old phrases, but.add new ones, which, aé we shall see later, went so far as to play with the slogan of “revolution by violence.” Although hardly any of the speakers at the conference openly mentioned Communism, it is “elear to anyone who lad a chance to follow the conferenc® that the growing influence of Com- munism among the Negro masses and the at- tempt. to counteract this influence by forging new weapons of deception was the main aim of the conference, The recognition of the growth of Communism. among the Negro masses, and the fear of this, expressed itself, although not openly, in all of the specches of the betrayers. In fact, we must remember that Communism atid how to check it constituted an important part of the pre-conference discussions which appeared in the symposium on Communism or- ganizéd by the Crisis, official organ of the N. A. A. C. P. Then again, the question of how to check the growing. struggles of the Negro masst was a question of immediate urgency inv-view of the immience of the election cam- ign. é The task of the Negro betrayers—to linc up the Negro macses behind. the old reactionary parties, bacomes exceedingly difficult under the precent circumstances of growing political con- scfousness of the masses. Therefore, along with the usual demagogic phrases such as “Reward your friends and punish your enemies,” “Cut a%ross the old’ Party lines,” “Split your vote,” etc, eic., there was talk of an Independent Lebor Party. This was noted in the speeches of Professor Dewey, Abram Harris, LaFollette, George Schuyler, etc., etc. and has the definite aim of Iining’ up thet section of the masses beforé whom the old. bourgeois parties stand plainly ‘exposed. Tt {s clear that this new domagogoy must be understocd in the light of the present devastat- ing evonoinie erisis, which falls with greatest force on the Negro masses of the country. Goaded to desperation by the increasing on- slaughis on their already starvation conditions and meager politica’ rights, the Negro masses aro turning more and more to struggle against. their opprescors. In their reason for a way out, they are turning more and more to the Com- munist Parity and revolutionary organizations, recognizing in them the only force organizing and leading a struggle against increasing misery, starvation and terror. ‘This develop- ment constitutes a direct threat to the hegemony of the Negro bourgeoisie, whose hegemony over the Negro masses is being increasingly challenged by the Negro workers, which have now come forth as an Inderendont class force wa the Negro Uberation movement. Tt is clear that under these ogni the Negro reformists cannot go on betraying the Negro masses in the old way, The old methods of pacifying the masses are no longer effective in the present situation. New forms of deception must be found, in order to check the rising re- yolutionary tide. New weapons of betrayal must be fo _ Hence Sieg feesaien: demagogy ot the was vious