The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-18
SANHEDRIN ENDS
WITH MONEYED
NEGROES AT HEAD
But Workers Issue Is
Before the Race
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Of delegates.
The labor delegates will make
themselves felt from the beginning
because they will not be fooled by
the promises Of Dean Kelly Miller
and his kind. At this last congress
Dean Miller fooled the labor repre-
sentatives the first day by assuring
them that he regarded Labor as the
most important issue before the Race
and promising them that it would re-
ceive full consideration.
Miller SabOtaged Labor
Dean Miller sabotaged Labor from
the beginning, as Otto E. Huiswoud,
of the African Blood Brotherhood,
charged. He ssbotaged Labor by
appointing chamber of commerce and
company union men to the labor COM
mission and by denying labor the
floor, in spite of previous promises.
Labor finally forced itself onto the
floor only by overwhelming the chair
man with the protests of the SYM
pathizers present.
Labor shook up the Miller machine.
Labor Weakened up Negroes to the
fact that the Race issue is a labor
issue tho the final decisions of the
Sanhedrin, as expressed by the report
of the Committee on Permanent Re-
suits, which boiled down the reports
of the various committees, would not
give that impression.
The final report of the committee
of permanent results, which is quoted
in part elsewhere makes no specific
reference to the color line in labor
unions, only implying that issue by
demanding recognition of Negro
workers in fields where labor is or
ganized."
Dodging Khan Issue
The issue of white and black OPP
pressed uniting their forces is ignored
as far as possible in discussing inter-
racial cooperation.
EntirelY ignored is the ferocious
Ku Klux Khan, which persecutes the
Race so much, especially the work
ingclass elements of the Race. The
Workers Party resolution calling for
unity with the foreign-born against
the common enemy" the Khan, was
the only anti-Klan resolution pre-
sented and was killed by the final
committee.
Segregation is ignored: real estate
dealers find the present policy more
profitable than a policy of letting
houses for the first corners.
Ignore Jim Crow Schools
The Jim Crow school issue is
ignored. Instead a weak program
calls for equal funds for Negro
schools, not realizing that as long as
the races are segregated that school
boards will always discriminate
against the black schools.
More government support is asked
for Howard University insead of de-
handing that the other universities
which discriminate against the Negro
drop the color line.
Soviet Russia recognition, an issue
displeasing to the government which
subsidized Howard University, was
kept from the floor.
Soviet Russia and the Khan were
never presented to the floor for con
sideration. The work of the confer.
ence, as Dean Miller said, was done
in committeeman committees APP
pointed largely by himself.
as, But No Workers.
The reactionary policy of the com
mission of permanent results is east
ly explained. OF the 46 members not
one is a workingman or farmer, the
workingmen and farmers compose 9s
per cent of the Race. There are
nearly dozen clergymen, there are
doctors, attorneys and business mer
and editors, chambers Of commerce
men and dealers in real estate.
Dean Miller comes from an institu-
ton subsidized by the republican adj
ministration; NAG -
The real estate men gain by the
policy of segregation:
The business interests generally
gain by the policy of segregation;
The chambers of commerce, which
control the Urban League that act:
as an open shop employment agency
in large negro urban centers, are as
reactionary as any white chamber Of
commerce. They are not only against
] labor organization but they arr
| against aggressive racial action thar
might offend their white capitalisti'
friends;
The editors fall in line, for the
most part.
The attorneys are attorneys anC
the preachers are preachers, tho SOD !,
of the latter are. more progressiv,
than the others. The preachers are
in closer touch with the workers Of
the Race.
Professors and Segregation.
The professors gain by the policy
Of segregation Of the race in Negro
schools. II the regular public schools
admitted Negroes to the same classe,
as white children, sharing the sam;
advantages, there would be little cal
for special endowed schools of the
Race.
In short the hope Of the oppressed
Negro workers does not lie in the
present set of Negro leaders. Marcus
Carney says they are too old. The
workers say they are too bourgeois.
Noted Aehiteet Dies.
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