-■■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■■ ' —i— —— What does the Communist # Party Offer the Negro? (by William Z. Foster. Commun ist Candidate for President) Note: this is the last of u series of articles, released thru the I’rusader News Agency, writ ten by William Z- Foster, candi date for president of the Unitod States on the ticket of the Com munal Party. Foster’s running mate I* a Negro worker of Ala bama, Janies W. Ford. Mr. Foa ter anu Ford were nominated by •co’aiu* at the convention called by th - Communist Party late in May in Chicago. This convention r.u i the demand for e^uai right* fur Negroes and self-deter mination for the Black Belt. The tirst article dealt with the condition of the Negro workers in America today. a» Mr. Foste.r ace* it the second with the atti tude of the various political part ies and organizations towarda the Negroes. The article below deals with the methods of solv ing the Negro problem that would lie followed under an American Soviet government, which is the avowed aim of the Communist party. ARTICLE N. O. An America Without Jim-Grow The capitalist class not oidjr roll* the workers as a whole, but it viaita special exploitation upon Chose sections of the working class— Negroes, foreign-born, womeu. youth, the aged, etc.,— who. for one reason or another, are the least able to defend them selves in the class struggle. The American Soviet Government will drastically eliminate such spec ial discrimination, along with cap italist exploitation generally. 8mashing the Jim Crow System Tbs American Soviet govern ment, immediately it takes power will deal a shattering blow to the whole monstrous Jim-Crow sys tem. To deatroy it ruthlessly will be one of the real joys of the vic torious proletarian revolution. Every remnant of slavery will be abolished In a Soviet system, the Negro will have the most com plete equality—economically, po litically, socially. The doors to every occupation, to every social activity, will be wide open for him. He will have ample land, confiscated from the great white landlords, lie will be^free to do and go as any other citizen, with - J out let or hindrance. Attempts to maintain the capitalist white chauvinism and ostracism of the Negroes will be punished as a serious crime against society. Socialism will mean the first real freedom for the Negro. He it beginning to realize this, hence] hi* ina>s turning to the Commun-j i*t Party for leadership, and the eonequent deep alarm of the cap- j Halts!* and the big landowners at this growing unity of white and! black toilers. The status of the American Ne-1 gro is that of an oppressed na-1 ltonal minority, and only a Soviet! system can solve the question of1 such minorities. This it does iu addition to setting up equality j in the general political and social life, by establishing the right of self- determination for national j minorities in those parts of the! country where they constitute! |he bulk of the population. The j constitution of the Soviet Union5 provides that. “Each united re public retains the right of free1 withdrawal from the Union. “The "Program of the Communist In ternational’ declares for: The recognition of the right of all nations, irrespective of I race, to complete •elf-determin at ton. that is. self-determination inclusive of the right of State separation.” Negroes Will Rule Black Belt Accordingly, the right of seJf determination will apply to Ne-1 groes in ihe American Soviet sys tem. In the so-called Black Belt of the South, where Negroes are in * majority, they will have the fullest mrht to govern themselv es ami also such white minorities as may live in this section. TheJ same principle will apply to all the colonial and semi-colonial peo ples now dominated by Americ an imperialism in Cuba, the Phil lipines. Central and South Amer ica. etc. The experience with self de termination of national minorit ies in the Soviet Union shows that the Rusians have solved this prob lem with the revolution. The many national minorities have the right of self-determ!’'«tion: they have their own language, their own culture. Yet they all live together in the strongest unity under the general constitution of the U. S. S. R. Where there is no capitalist exploitation there can he no suppression of weaker na tionalities. The radical liquida tion of the 4 ■ insoluble ’* Jewish problem in the U. S. S. R testi firs to the completeness of the Bolshevik cure. The solution of the question of suppressed na tionalities, a question which caus es untold misery in the capitalist world, is one of the great achieve ments of the Russian revolution. The Question of Intermarriage The American Soviet will, of course, abolish all restrictions up on racial intermariagt. The ar guments of Ku Klux Klanners and the like that Negroes are an inferior race and that mixed peo ples are less capable, have no justification in science and social experience. Those “scientists’' who endorse such “white supre macy” theories are only so many bought and paid for upholders of .jj'italist exploitation. The facts aie that all the big peoples of to day are already hopelessly “mon grel” and that wherever Negroes ha e half a chance they demon ;trate their intellectual equality vith the whites. Geographic is olation of the early human stock into widely separated groups brought about its differentiation into individual races; contact be tween these various groups, bred of modern industrialisation, is just as irresistibly breaking down these racial differences and bring ing about racial amalgamation. The revolution will only hasten 'his process of integration, al ready proceeding throughout the world with increasing tempo. FORD, VICE- PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE, DENOUNCES DIES BILL Schenectady, N. Y. (CNA) — Condemnation of the Dies deport ation and exclusion bill as a weap on against Negroes, and against white workers who join in the struggle for Negro rights, was contained in a statement made by .James W. Ford, Negro worker of Alabama and Communist candi date for vice-president. Mr. Ford is now on » country- wide election tour. - Yii jg Mr. Ford characterized the Dies bill, which provides for the de portation of aliens professing Communist beliefs or holding membership in Communist or sympathizing organizations, as “the latest step by the white bosses for the legal persecution of the workers.” “The Dies Bill, if it becomes law, will provide a sharp weapon against the Negro workers of A merica,” said Mr. Ford. “It af fects directly not only the for eigu-born white workers, but the lOO.OOONegro workers who have come here from the West Indies. Should these West Indian work ers express sympathies with the Communist Party, or enter its ranks, they would he subject to deportation under the provisions of the Dies Bill. ‘Deportation is coming into fre quent use a,gainst white workers who dare to take a stand for th* rights of Negroes. The Circuit j Court of New York recently up-1 held the deportation order against August Yokinen, Finnish work- j er. stating frankly that it was do ing so because of Yokinen 's| pledge to the Communist Party,1 of which he was a member, to re- j pudiate his attitude ofwhite su periority. George Stalker, an- I other worker with a white skin,! organizer for the Communist! Party in Omaha, has just been; released from jail and is threat ! cned with deportation to Scot-' land. Stalker's ‘crime’ consisted of holding interracial dances in Omaha and defending a Negro worker who had been arrested for attending them. "The Dies bill also represents one more effort of the white boss 's to divide the working-class in to groups—to set white against Negro, native against foreign-’ born. The fight against the Dies bill, which is now under consid eration in the Senate, deserves tne heartiest support of every mil itant Negro and white worker in the country.” TWO VETS COMMIT SUICIDE P*Tis, Ark., (AXP)—Financial 'ifficulties aiul poor health caus ed Thompson S. Haney of Little Hock to shoot himself to death at the home where he was stopping Tuesday. He was doorman at the American hospital at Neuilly, France, during the world war. Chicago, (AXP) John H. Den nis, 32 years old. a veteran of the world war. shot and killed himself in the waiting room of the Ed ward Hines Jr. Memorial hospital Friday. He had gone to the hos pital from his home at 4838 Wa bash avenue for examination. 2 BOYS SENTENCED TO DIE Chattanooga. Tenn.—Two color ed youths were condemned to b.e electrocuted here on charges of halting a white couple on a street driving away the man and crim inally assaulting the girl. Both Andrew Wileoxen and Oscar Biv ens, were charged with assaulting the white girl. Efficiency Wins MOW/ MlJolOMO* CHICAGO—(AMS)—Modem efficb> •ncy offers tbs only real solution M the world’s economic Ule. according to Harry W. Solomon, whoas widely heralded system of centralised con trol forms the baste at successful oper ation tor a gigantic gl00.000.000 hotel corporation of which today, at Jt. M has Just been made president here. Credited with showing the nation* praybeards how to turn the depression •to a golden opportunity Mr. Solomon who began life as a *2.50 a week office boy. and later spent IS years in the building industry, starting as a sires be? of the construction gang, told a recent meeting of national l irlnmi mecutiTee in the Hotel Wlnderaeers a Chicago, that the present economic *1*1* br routing sham and pretense hem the world, and pnnplg Wsrywbere more alncena. FEDERAL BOARD FOR VOCATIONAL TRAINING Farm Shop Work Important Part of Agriculture Courses. IIow itinerant teacher trainers travel from 01^, Ntyjro Vocation^ agriculture sctyool^ $ to another showing'iteactiers hoav to organizlp and operate the fa nfl shop courses given for the boys in these schools is outlined in a report received by the Federal Board for Voca tional Education. The work of! these teacher trainers is supported in part by the State departments of education in Louisiana, South j Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, and Mississippi. To illustrate what can he done by the itinerant teacher trainers who serve teachers of Negro vo cational agriculture schools, the Federal Board for Vocational Education points to the method used hy one of the intinerants, W. W. WilkinR, and to a specific in stance of his instruction activit ies. Wilkins gets around the country by means of a special truck in which he carries the tools he needs in giving instructions to teachers. Let us follow Mr. Wilkins as he arrives at the Great Branch vo cational school near Orangeburg, S. C. and see how he proceeds. The first thing he did was to find i out from the students what type 1 of repair work they thought was needed at their homes. Next he drove out to some of the homes of | those who seemed interested in doing repair work. At the home j of a farmer who had two sons in j the vocational agriculture school; he found a number of repair and construction jobs. The farmer a-j greed to buy the lumber and other materials necessary for the jobs. For distinct jolts were laid out—j the construction of a new poultry house and a new tool shed, chang ing the location of the garden fences, and repairing a number of farm tools. Mr. Wilkins stayed i long enough at the Great Branch school to make a drawing of the i farm showing the exact iocation ■ of the different farm shop repair jobs involved in the project as well! as sketches and plans of the dif-1 ferent buildings to be erected. Before he pushed on to the next j vocational agriculture school he left instructions with the Great Branch teacher of agriculture to get all the materials together for the job. and promised to return a little later and show the teacher j how to start the farm shop stu-1 dents off on the work planned on i the local farm. And to see Mr. Wilkins organize and start the work on this farm when he returned was an eye op ener. Before the actual work be gan he discussed it thoroughly with the agricultural teacher and the pupils of the Great Branch school. He used the sketches and plans he had drawn up originally to explain just how the work should proceed and what part of the work each student should un dertake. While some of the 12 boys who aided in this job as a part of their farm shop work wert tearing down the old garden fenc es and erecting new ones, another group was busy erecting a poul try house, and still another was repairing farm tools. The farmer on whose place the work was be ing caried out, as well as his two sons were working with the teach er and the other boys when the teacher trainer pulled out for an other school, there to repeat what he had done at the Great Branch School. It is an easy matter to tell the localities in which the itinerant teacher trainer has been practicing his art by the improvements which are being made on the home farms of students. The observa tion of the Federal Board for Vo cational Education is that in order that the best work in farm shop nractiee m*y be done, it is neces ?lary |or vocational agriculture schools not only to have good buildings and equipment but also that the farm shop teachers be trained for their job. And the itinerant teacher trainer is doing his part in the teacher-training job. Negro farmers who are interest ed in enrolling their boys in voca tional agriculture schools in their community may get information concerning these schools by ad dressing a letter to the State Su pervisor of Vocational Education in Agriculture, who is usually lo cated at the State Capitol. GERMAN WORKKERS TAKE PART IN THE SCOTTSBORO STRUGGLE Hannover, German, (by mail) j In Hannover, the social demo cratic police chief, Barth, in his written decree denying Ada Wright, Scottdboro Mother, the right to speak at the meeting; de clared he had been in communi cation with the notorious Berlin (police head, Grzesinski, ' and would carry out the^aame policy, which meant that Ada bright was not to enter the meeting hall, or send any message through any one else. Just as the great meeting was adjourning, however, with the workers singing the International Ada Wright was escorted into the hall and up to the speakers’ plat form by a workers’ guard. The police were taken by surprise and remained inactive as the singing of the International increased in spiritTTfld masses ojs fvorkelK, nich ed toward the stage as if to-pro-1 Negrp Mothej;. With the singing of the International ended Ada Wright was escorted out of the halUas quickly as she had arrived. Protest telegrams were sent to American ambassador at Berlin and to President Hoover, at Wa»h ington, and to Governor Miller, of Alabama. On the train coming to Hann over from Stuttgart, passengers approached Ada Wright and earnestly discussed, very often in extremely broken English, the facts of the Scottaboro persecu tion. Many of them promised to join and aid the work of the Committee for the Liberation of the Scottsfyoro Negro Bovs. They were given literature and prom ised to earefully read it themsel ves and pass it on to their friends. ILD. PLEDGES UNWAVERING ?IGHT TO SCOTTSBORO BOYS “And now that we have finally succeeded in getting the case be fore the United States Supreme Court,” read a letter to the Scotts .boro boys from Carl Hacker, Acting General Secretary of the International Labor Defense, ' we must continue, yes, we must make ever a much greater fight than we have made up to the present time. We must get to gether more millions of workers Throughout the entire world to demand your release. Only in this way will we he able to suc ceed in getting you boys out of prison finally." This is the promise the Inter-] national Labor Defense has given the Scottsboro hoys. The formal receipt from the Alabama auth orities of the papers granting an official stay of the execution has already been received by the ILD. national office,—papers demand ed by the Supreme Court accept ance of the case for review. “But says Carl Hacker, today, “there must he no relaxing of efforts!" SCOTTSBORO BOY WRITES LETTER TO THE I. L. D. - i “I am also glad that we will have a visit from our kinsfolks. Sunday,” writes Andy Wright, one of the nine Scottsboro boys, in a letter to the International Labor Defense organizer for the southern district, expressing his appreciation of the visit the In ternational Labor Defense had a rranged between the boys and their parents. The boys are weary from the long-confinement in the death cells every hour of the day, and denied all opport unity of outdoor exercise; but they feel confidence in the Inter national Labor Defense. About the Supreme Court acceptance of the appeal. Andy says, ‘‘I thought that everybody on earth should have rejoiced (at) our good news.” At this juncture, however, the International Labor Defense fac es a most, serious shortage of funds. With the greatest bur dens in the history of American Labor on its shoulders, and with inspiring victories in sight, the need of money to carry on the Scottsboro campaign is now so pressing that a direct appeal is made to the working class of the United States. Help the International Labor Defense now! Send funds to the International Labor Defense, i "" ■ ■» I ■■ ■ ■ - ■ room 430, 799 Broadway, New York City. Government Still Dodging On Negro Jobs at Hoover Dam New York, July— Although Secretary Ray Lyman Wilbur of the Interior department, person ally assured a joint committee from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peo ple and the National Bar Assoc iation that Negroes would be em ployed on the huge Hoover dam at Las Vegas, Nev., in June, the government and contractors are still pussyfooting and no Negroes have been hired. The daily payroll at the dam has averaged $10,000 through tha winter and has run as high as $18,000. The government con tract with the construction com panies specifies that U. S. citiz ens be employed, but so far only white citizens have drawn any of the huge payroll. About sixty foreigners are working at the dam. Secretary Wilbur and the Six Companies, Inc., builders of the dam, are resting on the technical ity that Negroes will be employ ed “when additional men are hir 6d,” in other words, when the present force at the dam is in creased. However, * colored res ident of Las Vegas reports to the NAACP. that the turnover in the present force runs as high as 80 a day. The NAACP. and the National Bar Association do not see why Negroes cannot he hired at once inasmuch as from sixty to eighty new men are taken on each day, replacing those who are dropped or who quit. Walter White, NAACP. Secre tary, in a letter to Secretary Wil bur on July 1, asked that, in view of the high turnover reported at the dam that Mr. Wilbur again confer with the Six Companies, Inc., so that the discrimination a gainst Negroes may he ended. Jos. W. Dixon, assistant Secretary of the Interior, has replied that he is calling for a report from the contractors and will notify the I NAACP. of the findings. Mean- j while in San Francisco, a commit tee headed by Leland S. Hawkins, a director of the National Bar Association, conferred with Presi dent W. A. Bechtel, of the Six Companies, and renewed the de mand that Negroes he employed, Negroes from other sections are warned not to flock to Las Veg as. as there is no work of any kind there foi a colored man evfm while waiting for the jobs at the dam to open. NEGRO BOY WINS HIGHEST HONOR IN NEW YORK MUSIC CONTEST New York, —David Johnson, Jr., a 17 year old colored boy, won the gold medal with the highest rating given to any con testant in the New York Music Week Association contest for this year held on Sunday, in Carn egie Hall. Mrs. Constance Edson Seegar, the boy's violin teacher, has sent to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peo ple. the following facts about this colored genius of the violin: ‘He was born in New York and began his musical studies at the age of 4% with his father who is a musician and violin teacher. Da vid attended St. Marks Parochial School and is now a student at George Washington Jligh school. “In 1925* the boy entered the Institute of Musical Art of New York City and obtained a schol arship. For the past six years he has been studying with Mrs. • Constance Edson Seegar, mem- | her of the violin faculty of the Institute. He has been in form er contests of the New York Mu sic Week Association winning a silver and bronze medal in 1926 and a silver medal and pin in 1930. His gold medal was obtain ed this year with the high rating of 97%. “At the 9th Annual Concert of the Music Week Association held June 19 in Carnegie Hall, young Johnson won immediate success with the large audience by his fine playing of the Kreisler ar rangement of the Praeludium and Allegro by Pugnani. “It is predicted that the boy will have an outstanding career and will take his place with the fine artists of his race who are now before the public.” JULY CRISIS TELLS HOW JOURDAIN DEFEATED EVAN STON, POLITICAL RING New York. —How Eward Jour dain, former track star of North western University, not only "be came the first Negro alderman of Evanston, Illinois, but there de feated the local political ring with the aid of white votes, is told in the July Crisis magazine. The article entitled, “Evan ston’s Negro Alderman”, tells how Jourdain was ousted from office he had fairly won and how j he came hack with overwhelming victory. He was aided in his dramatic fight by Northwestern U. Profes- i sore and two all American foot ball stars who kept all-night vigil at Evanston’s City Hall, to see that Jourdain’? name was filed. Another feature of the July Crisis is an article on the 8outh ernafres Quartet, entitled “Radio Rhythm Makers” by Roy Wilk ins, Assistant Secretary of the NAACP. Where Human Life Is Cheap by R. A.‘Adam* ( The Literary Service Bureau) Often we hear the expression,, “for dear life.” It is used to be apropos, but considering actual conditions, it is obsolete, in this country. In this money-mad, crime-ridden country no longer is life dear—it is almost the cheap est thing. Confirmation of this contention is in the reign of law lessenss and the multiplicity of murder* in America. The notorious Young brothers killed perhaps a dozen men before they ended their own lives. Not long ago robbers killed seven members of a family because the head of the family could not eomply with the demands for $5,000. Gang killings, wholesale and retail, are of every day occur rence. Parents kill themselves and their own children and often children kill their own parents in order to gain possession of their property. Nearly £Very day women are brutally murdered by men who were tired of them or were jeal ous of them. Women kill women like the bloody Ruth Judd who murdered two women who had been her close friends. Women kill men, also, oftentimes their own husbands and many times men of whom they are enamoured and of whom, they are jealous. The only negation of this con tention that life is cheap is in the efforts of criminal lawyers to save the lives of the perpetrators of these dastardly crimes. These legal mercenaries exhaust their ingenuity in striving to win sym pathy for murderers. They plead the dearness of human life-life of the criminal—and forget those who have been ruthlessly murder ed, and others who will suffer be cause of the laxness of the law and its failure to punish crime ef fectively. Yes, life is cheap, and, unless there shall come rapid and radic al improvement in the curbing of crime and of law enforcement, the law will be compelled to confess itself impotent and citizens will be compelled to go armed for the protection of their own lives. And this will spell anarchy, and ( chaos! SOME WIVES AND OTHERS by Mr. “X” “Making A Big Show’’ (The Literary Service Bureau) (Next Week: “Those Husbands of Outs’’ by Madam “X” An exasperated husband com plained, “My wife forgets we are poor, or she tries to keep the neighbors from knowing it. She is forever ‘keeping up with the Joneses'; and it keeps my nose on the grind-stone. This wife of mine joins all the social and reli gious clubs, and when they meet at our house she entertains lavish ishly; and it's awful the bills 1 have to pay for these clubs, She tries to outdo folks that can sell and buy us, and seems never to think that the people know we are not able to do all this. When I get after her she whines, ‘I don’t have any vacations; I don’t have any pleasure but with ray friends; and I don’t want to be left out of society! ’ ’ Well, it keeps a man hard-np, Xr BURT JOHN T. DYSAR1 . DISTRICT JUDGB Bnflorsefl try Bar - --y ... and prevents him from saving for tie proverbial rplny day. Bat, what can he dof I think a man ought to just rebel—but I do not know just what X would doj • J t l ——!> w ■ « nr—1 '■ j' 1 Poetical Works of Eudora V. Marshall Published and Distributed by MXbb Eudora V. Marshall, 1433 97th Ave.t Duluth, Minnesota This little brochure is filled with the poems of Miss Eudora V. Marshall, which, we learn by read ing the preface, were all Vritten subsequent to May 1930, as the direct result of a disappointment in love. • • • The poetess has expressed her thoughts on a great many pertin ent subjects, in rhyme, and scat tered throughout her verses are bits of auto-biography which we patiently piece together and thus learn of the historjrb# rhie of bur young writers of note. # • # I We learn that ah# was born in Minnesota on May 30th, 1906 and Schooled in the public schools, and the University of Minnesota 'rom which school o| learning sh£ is a graduate. She has taught in t|ie high schools ©f Mississippi, and, judging from her poetry, she ■ilso experienced a few of the ro mantic arts while in Mississippi. * • ' « M, m nr Jt w v lapp m mmsim We further-lean! that her poetitj contribution^ have been accepted and published in periodicals pub lished in . 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