The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-25
NEGRO PLUTES
END CONCLAvE
WITH NOTHING
Lackeyism to Whites
Marks Sessions

BY the reelection of Robert
R. Motion as president Of the
National Negro Business
league, in session at the Wen
dell Phillips high school here
this week, delegates to the con-
ventioh voted to continue a
policy Of pacifism in regard to
the race problem.
ServiIe to Capital.
Running thru the sessions of
the convention was an under
current of dissatisfaction with
the fawning on government
and corporation officials, which
is the attitude of the officers of
the league, of distrust of the
bankers, lawyers, small manu-
! facturers who determine it's
policies.
This dissatisfaction was evident in
the statement of DR.. Will w. Alexan-
der, head of the inter-racial league Of
Atlanta, Ca, taking exception to the
vote of thanks rendered julius Rosen-
valid, head of Sears Roebuck and
Co., for the money he has given to
set up Negro schools in the rural dis
tricts. DR.. Alexander suggested that,
were the policy of the states fair,
Negro children would be educated as
matter of course, if for no other
reason than that Negroes must pay
taxes as we'll as whites.
To Pebble Stock.
There was distate, too, in the recep-
ton given the announcement of Presi-
dent Motions million dollar finance
corporation, stocks in which are to
be peddled to members of the league.
But the conventions of the league
are packed with followers of the po-
Icy Of Robert Motion. A payment of
two dollars into the funds Of the
league entities anyone to become a
delegate. He may represent only him
self, but he has seat and a,vote. 1t
is these "two-dollar-a-heads," as Ne
gro newspaper men call them, who
are largely responsible for the non
militant and pacific view which the
league takes on questions of the Ku
Klux Khan, Of Jim Crowism, of the
cowardliness of the major political
parties in their attitude towards the
oppressed Negro.
DR.. Motion last year received the
praise of Southern newspapers for the
letters of apology which he wrote
when his wife, by mistake, boarded
the white section of Pullman train.
Compare Motion to Morgan.
Praise of DR.. Motion by speakers at
the sessions of the league went hand
in hand with praise of Coolidge, Dawes
and the entire republican administra-
ton. Beginning with the statement of
Mr.. B. ]. Davis, president of the Ne
gro Press association, that I'VE can
only hope that Robert Russo Motion
will do for the Negro race what Nor
gan, under the operation of the
Dawes plan, is doing for--the whole
world" and ending with the asser-
tons of Roscoe Simmons, republican
organizer among Negroes, that "the
Business League is not going to worry
itself about the Ku Klux Khan or the
question Of social equality" and that
only slaves will say that our debt
to the party of Abraham Lincoln has
been paid" every speaker made some
contribution to the policy of coward
Illness and evasion followed by these
Negro exploiters of Negro labor.
But praise of the republican ad-
ministration cannot go too far in a
league whose president must now go
back to Tuskegee institute, in state
which is militantly democratic, and
where Negroes live in constant ter
ror of the Ku Klux Khan. So when a
telegram came from President Cool
idge, congratulating the league on it's
attempt to solve the race problem by
accommodating wealth, DR.. Motion re-
fused to allow resolution of thanks
to be passed, but decided that the
matter should be referred to the ex-
ecutive committee for further action.
OF this decision Miss Halle o.
Brown, who two weeks ago refused to
permit discussion of racial discrimi-
nation during the sessions of the Ma
tional Association Of Colored Women,
expressed her hearty approval