The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-08

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common defense grouping. Col
ored delegates from the Work
ers Party will be there; dele
gates from the African Blood
Brotherhood; from the Friends
of Negro Freedom, the Inter-
national Uplift League, the Ma
tional Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People,
the National Equal Rights
League, the National Race
Congress and other organiza-
tions.
Day sessions will be held thru the
week at the Wabash Avenue branch
of the Y. NJ. c. A., at 1853 South
Wabash avenue: evening sessions
open to the public, at Wendell
Phillips High School, seth ST.. and
Prairie Ave. Kelly Miller of Howard
University, Washington, D. c., will
preside.
The entire week will be known as
NEGRO Week" by the hosts Of col
ored people, who are behind this eff
fort to unite and organize their
forces against murder, disfranchise-
went and peonage. Turnout the
large Chicago area on che south side,
referred to by capitalist newspapers
as the ''Black Belt" meetings will be
held to further the unity program Of
the Sanhedrin.
Minor, Fort-Whiteman, Speak
Robert Minor and Lovett Fort
Whiteman will speak to a mass meet
ing of Negroes and Whites in Wen
dell Phillips High School, this Sunday
evening. The mass meeting is being
called in honor Of Frederick Douglas,
that great negro who worked so eff
fectively for abolition long before
Lincoln penned his document. Minor
and Lovett Fort-Whiteman will tell of
Douglass daring escape across the
Mason and Dixon line and the bril-
liant services he rendered in organiz-
ing the forces of abolition and the re-
taliatory efforts of the slave owners
to have him returned under the Fugi-
tive Slave Law.
Lynching, Ku Kluxism, segregation,
disfranchisement, unequal enforce
ment of the law and peonage are
cited as evils against which the All
Race Assembly must fight in the
original call sent out for the San
hedrin. The fight for industrial bet
terment will be equally emphasized.
The call, which is signed by repre-
sentatives of the organizations listed
above, read in part:
For Emancipation, Says Call
"The world today has come to a
critical period of its existence. Our
race likewise has reached a crucial
situation. The promises of ameliora-
ton and of full citizenship so easily
made during the critical period of the
Great World War have failed of full
fllment. In this time of readjustment
there is growing a very menacing
spirit of luminosity against the Race
and a determination to thrust the
Negro down into the most servile and
degrading status and to maintain him
there forever.
"Now while world readjustment is in
progress and when every other OPP
pressed group is exerting itself to the
utmost to gain its rights and liberties,
the Negro Race must bestir itself,
must concentrate It's best thought and
energy to Withstand the terrible on
sloughts made against it and secure
its due and right-status: equal man
hood rights and opportunities in every
department of life. The race must
be stimulated to utilize all available
opportunities for constructive en-
deavor and must be brought into har-
nonious working relationships with
the white race.
"The need is urgent, nay impera-
tive, then, for the assembling of a
national All-Race Assembly to con-
slider the present position Of the Race,
to ferret out and unmask the hostile
forces arrayed against it, to formu-
late plan Of defence and protection,
to discover the forces, agencies and
organizations which may be utilized in
that defence, to effect a United Front
Of the Race, and to devise ways and
means for full and compete emancipa-
ton.