1. (p. 317.) Cyril Briggs, "The Negro Question in the Southern Textile
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Strikes," The Communist, June 1929, pp. 324-28; "Further Notes on Negro Question in Southern Textile Strikes," The Communist, July 1929, pp. 391-94; "OurNegro Work," The Communist, September 1929, pp. 494-50 I.
2. (p. 317.) Briggs, "Our Negro Work," p. 494.
3. (p. 319.) Daily Worker, October 4, 1929.
4. (p. 320.) Briggs, "Our Negro Work," p. 498.
5. (p. 321.) Daily Worker, October 17, 1929.
6. (p. 322.) Otto E. Huiswood, "World Aspects of the Negro Question,"
The Communist, February 1930, p. 133.
7. (p. 322.) N. Nasanov, "Against Liberalism in the American Negro Question," The Communist, April 1930, pp. 296-308.
8. (p. 322.) Harry Haywood, "Against Bourgeois-Liberal Distortions of Leninism on the Negro Question in the United States," The Communist, August 1930, p. 706.
9. (p. 322.) Stalin, "Marxism and the National Question," Works, vol.
2, p. 304.
10. (p. 323.) Haywood, p. 696.
11. (p. 323.) Ibid., p. 698.
12. (p. 324.) A. Sik, "To the Question of the Negro Problem in the U.S.," in Revolutionary East, No. 7, 1929, quoted in Haywood, ibid., p.
708.
13. (p. 324.) Stalin, "The National Question Once Again," Works, vol.
7, p. 225.
14. (p. 325.) From Haywood, p. 707.
15. (p. 326.) William Z. Foster, History ofthe Communist Party, p. 282.
16. (p. 326.) S. Mingulin, "The Crisis in the United States and the Problems ofthe Communist Party," The Communist, June 1930, p. 500.
17. (p. 326.) Earl Browder, "The Bolshevization of the Communist Party," The Communist, August 1930, p. 688.
18. (p. 327.) The Daily Worker, June 23, 1930.
19. (p. 327.) Browder, p. 689.
20. (p. 327.) The Daily Worker, June 23, 1930.
21. (p. 327 .) Browder, p. 690.
22. (p. 328.) I first met George Padmore in December 1929, when Foster had brought him to Moscow. I got to know him quite well and on a number of occasions visited him in his room at the Lux Hotel. I remember him as a slim, handsome, ebony-hued young man of medium height, neatly dressed. A native of Trinidad, he had studied journalism at Howard University. Hejoined the YCL and then the CP in Washington, D.C. Later he was assigned to work with the TUUL as a national organizer. He was a good speaker and a prolific writer.
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At the time I sized him up as a pragmatist with only a superficial grasp of Marxist theory. Politically, he appeared to be a staunch supporter of the fight for independence in Africa and the West Indies, but was adamantly opposed to the right of self-determination for U.S. B lacks, whom he regarded not as a nation, but as an oppressed racial minority. I was to clash with him publicly several years later. See also p. 429n. 14.
23. (p. 330.) A. Lozovsky, Inprecorr, August 21, 1930, p. 782.
24. (p. 330.) A. Lozovsky, "Ten Years ofthe Red International ofLabor Unions," Inprecorr, July 31, 1930, pp. 675-76.
25. (p. 331.) A. Lozovsky, "The World Crisis, Economic Struggles and the Tasks of the Revolutionary Trade Unions," Inprecorr, September 4, 1930, pp. 867-74; September 11, 1930, 891-96; September 18, 1930, pp.
919-24.
26. (p. 332.) Documents from this commission are not available.
Consequently, I have had to rely on my memory, as well as consultations with comrades active at the time.
27. (p. 333.) "Resolution on the Negro Question in the United States,"
The Communist International, February 1, 1931, p. 66.
28. (p. 334.) Ibid., p. 65.
29. (p. 334.) Ibid., p. 66.
30. (p. 334.) Ibid., p. 67.
31. (p. 335.) Ibid., p. 68.
32. (p. 336.) Ibid., p. 70.
33. (p. 336.) Ibid., pp. 71-72.
34. (p. 337 .) Ibid., p. 73.
35. (p. 337.) Ibid., p. 73.
36. (p. 337.) Ibid., p. 72.
37. (p. 338.) Ibid., p .. 74.