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in regard to petty bourgeois nationalist influences in our ranks, we have spoken very little. I wish to deal briefly with this angle of our fight on two fronts. Comrades, there is no Chinese wall between the masses of Negro people and our Negro Party membership. Therefore, it is quite natural that the pressure of the growing wave of petty bourgeois nationalism also finds its expression in our ranks, in tendenices [[tendencies]] to surrender to the propaganda of the petty bourgeois nationalists.

Concretely, this tendency is expressed in: (a) The attitude of distrust and suspicion in regard to the integrity of the Party and its leaders of the Negro question. This is extended also to leading Negro comrades who seriously strive to carry out the Party line, the tendency to regard them as "Uncle Toms". (b) Pessimism and doubt as to the possibility of building the unity of Negro and white workers in the struggle for Negro rights, doubt as to the possibilities of drawing in white workers in support of this struggle. (c) In the false and mechanical conception that nothing can be done in the development of Negro work until white chauvinist tendencies are completely eliminated from our ranks. Whereas, it should be clear that the struggle against white chauvinism will remain on the order of the day long after the proletarian revolution in this country. To make the complete elimination of white chauvinist tendencies from our ranks a condition for the development of any struggle, is certainly incorrect and in practice, is really a surrender to white chauvinism. This idea reveals a failure to understand that white chauvinism, as all forms of patriotism, can only be finally broken down in the process of struggle. The propaganda and agitation against it must, in the first place, be directed to the organization of joint struggles of Negro and white workers against the capitalists and their agents. (d) And finally, in connection with this, the tendency on the 

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part of individual Negro comrades to vulgarize the fight against white chauvinism by raising the cry of white chauvinism to cover up their shortcomings and weaknesses as well as their petty bourgeois nationalist tendencies.

However, the most glaring expression of petty bourgeois nationalism was seen in the attitude of certain Negro comrades in Harlem in connection with the campaign for jobs for Negroes. The Section committee, under the leadership of Comrade Ford, undertook the development of a campaign for jobs for Negroes, concretizing the demand for Negroes to work at all jobs to the situation inn Harlem in connection with the campaign for jobs for Negroes. The Section Committee, under the leadership of Comrade Ford, undertook the development of a campaign for jobs for Negroes, concretizing the demand for Negroes to work at all jobs to the situation in Harlem where Negroes are excluded from employment in many establishments and institutions. The Section worked out a correct line, avoding the petty bourgeois nationalist pitfall of creating friction between Negro and white workers.

The line of the Section Committee was based on the development of a united front of Negro workers with the white workers in those institutions against which a struggle was being conducted. This was to be carried through on the following basis: simultaneously with the demand for jobs for Negroes, to raise the demands of the white workers employed in these places, i.e., not to demand the removal of white workers as do the petty bourgeois nationalists, but on the contrary, to demand a reduction in hours without a reduction in wages for the white workers on these jobs, and that the jobs created as a result of this, be given to Negro workers, and that in the future employment of workers by these establishments, workers shall be hired on the basis of "first come, first served," without discrimination against Negroes, etc. The line of the Section was not to confine this movement to Harlem but to make it a starting point for the development of a real drive throughout the city for the right of Negroes to work on all jobs, in all trades and professions, against all forms of discrimination, as the jobs in 

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Corrected one typo; the rest should be good to go.