The labor world., 1922-12-02

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ting ready here to organize the cooks
and walters union. You ought TO
have had one here but the difficulty
in the plumbers union and the paint
ers union has stood in the way.
Whenever the white Aboring men
make up their minds that they are
going to take the black laboring
men into, the movement as a labor
ing man and as q spiritual brother.
fighting for the same cause, make
up their minds that they are going
to suffer for the black man as we'll
as have the black man suffer for
them, the black people will come
flocking into the labor movement.
Loyal to . Cause.
When you get them in, here is
what you will find. Search the re-
cords of the black people. They are
as loyal and true-hearted people
as live in this country. They have
never betrayed a cause that they
enlisted in (You look that up). They
have never betrayed this country al
though they have had plenty Of op-
portunities to do so. They do not be-
tray.
The white laboring man is a. man
that can be told that the Negro is
an habitual raper, that he is simply
waiting, to attack your unprotected
families. When you hear that lie re-
member this. That during the Civil
war there were four million Negroes
in the South and that the whole man
power of the South had to be mob
ilized to fight the battles. The white
women and children were left at
home absolutely unprotected in the
charge of Negro men; and that
Southern white men will tell you to-
day that the finest example Of un-
divided loyalty and devotion ever
seen in the history of this country
was the loyalty of these Negroes to
the women and children Of the men
who were fighting to keep them in
slavery. =.
True to Obligation.
When the black man goes into
the American labor movement and
tells you that he can be depended
upon, he is going to be depended
upon. 1t is nothing for him to suf-
fer. He suffered for three hundred
years and is tuned up to suffer. The
only thing he wants to know is
whether he is suffering for some-
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he has to suffer anyway. If he stays
out Of the labor movement he has
to suffer, and if he goes in there he
is going to suffer. It Is a question
of whether he is going to suffer for
you or nots He is already prepared
to suffer.
Whenever you go into. a long
drawn out strike the men that you
can depend upon are the men that
are willing to suffer. The labor
movement will never be victorious
until all of it's members are willing
to suffer.
When you get a group of black
men Of sufficient size in the Ameri-
can labor movement. get them to
believing in your honesty and sin
cerity, you will have group of
men who can be depended upon to
suffer and suffer with shining eyes
and. cheerful hearts.
Excites Mob Violence.
Here is what I mean: They will
! tell you that down in Alabama q
do not know whether you know this
story or not) there was a great 1um-
ber company that was hiring all
white workers. The white workers
began to get organized and then the
company began to discharge them
and to hire all colored workers. For
the first few days the white workers
began to fight and threaten mob vio-
lence to the colored workers, but the
Negroes stayed on.
You will find that the Negro does
stay on. He stays on in the worst of
danger; he will stay right on. The
Negroes stayed on and then the
white workers got off among them
selves and said, 1--WE need to or
ganize the |colored workers." They
sent organizers in there and then
the lumber company woke up. 1t
went back to the white workers and
said, IF you will stop organizing
these colored workers. we will take
you back"
The company played one against
the other and the white workers
agreed. The Negroes saw that. ut
is no longer possible to deceive the
Negroes). Those men agreed. They
went in there. But as soon as they
got in there, the company began to
discharge both = the union white
workers and black workers and to