The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-21


without discrimination of color to
the people at a fixed low rental.
whereas, it is a custom of
large employers Of colored and
white labor. such as mine opera
tors and mill owners, to house
their employees in Company
houses and thereby to control
the lives of the workers, being
able to throw them out of house
and home whenever the bosses
please and wherever there is a
disagreement about wages or
working conditions, we demand
any legal measure that may be
necessary to prevent any employ
er of industrial labor owning or
controlling the homes rented TO
his employees.
pending legislative relief, and
during the present period when
the Negroes rights are ignored by
governmental agencies, we call
upon the residents Of all Negro
communities to organize colored
tenants unions so as to be able
in an organized way to refuse to
pay exorbitant rents, or to con-
sent to live in inferior buildings
or segregated DISTRICTS"
Urban League Scab Agency.
AS opposed to this espousal of the
cause of the majority of the Ne.
groes, in both housing and labor
problems, the Urban League, in an
nouncing their "Plans for 1924" IN
their official organ, Opportunity"
makes no mention of negro housing
conditions. In officially announcing
their program for this year tho
Urban League shows itself up as a
go-between connecting the indus
trial oppressors of labor with a
Negro cheap labor market.
eve will standardize and co-ordin.
ate local employment agencies of
the League so that exchange of in
formation and more regular cores
pondence can assure applicants fol-
work more efficient and helpful SER
vice and employers of labor a more
efficient group of employees. We
shall work directly with large in
dustrial plants.'' That is the pro-
gram the Urban League offers the
Negro workers to help them secure
higher wages, and fight discrimina-
ton in unions and in renting their
homes.
A part Of the Workers Party plat
form on the other hand, declares for
"the abolition of all discrimination
against Negroes in housing"
1t was this very evident and at
once apparent thwarting of the
clear cut program offered by the
Workers Party and labor delegates,
voicing the hopes Of the large ma
jority of Negroes, by the few trail
tors to the Race like the Urban
League officials, that led the South
Side Negroes to form the Negro
Tenants League.
Tenants Meet March 81.
The Negro Tenants League, which
holds its first mass meeting on
March 81 at Odd Fellows Hall, So.
State street, was formed by repre-.
sentatives of the Negro workers
who are tired Of being held down
by the so-called social workers. They
have concluded that the controllers
of the Last Sanhedrin program have
been proven to be hand in glove
with the real estate firms and the
large white industrial concerns. 1t
is to be expected that the mass
meeting indorses' a vigorous and
definite program similar to that
turned down by the Sanhedrin POI
litical manipulators. If the San
hedrin did not take definite action
to aggressively better the housing
and labor conditions of the Negro,
at least it showed the Race where
the interests of the colored workers
really lie, and prompted them to act
for themselves.