The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-04
NEGRO PAPERS
SEE LABOR ISSUE
SINCE SANHEDRIN
Radicals Got Results
Comment Shows


That the result Of the Negro ALI
Race Congress or Sanhedrin which
the DAILY WORKER reported at
length during its sessions in Chicago
was to put the labor issue squarely
before the Race is evident from tbs
comment of the Negro press.
The Negro press comments at
length on the part taken by dele
gates from the Workers Party and
the African Blood Brotherhood in
showing the necessity for an alliance
of black and white workers and it
notes that the social welfare type
Of leaders at the Sanhedrin such an
Dean Kelly Miller were unable to
keep the labor issue off the floor.
Crusader Reporting Fine.
Most important Of all the Negro
press agencies is the Crusader Ser
vice, published by the African Blood
Brotherhood and distributed to Negro
publications particularly and to
labor papers generally, regardless Of
race.
This service had splendid reports
Of the All-Race Congress and en-
phasized the same significant fea-
lures that were brought out in the
DAILY WORKERS reports. The
Crusader Service scored the reac-
tionary real estate sharks, who
sabotaged the fight against segrega-
ton, and the chamber of commerce
interests that sabotaged efforts to
place the Sanhedrin on record for
solidarity between the oppressed Of
both races.
Quotes Daily Worker.
Just at hand is a copy Of the
February 90 issue Of the Pittsburgh
American, a Negro paper that is not
radical or of a special labor charac-
ter. But it found the labor issue at
the Sanhedrin of sufficient news inn
portance to reprint nearly half a
page from the DAILY WORKERS
reports.
The American gives special atten-
ton to the DAILY WORKERS re-
porting of the personnel of the gov
erning committee, consisting of Dean
Kelly Miller, F. B. Ransom, j. L.
Neil and R. N. Hawkins, showing
the professional and business connec-
tons of each which prevent their
championing the cause Of labor. And
it gives the labor newspapers ac-
count of Miller's efforts to sabotage
labor at the conclave and his failure
to cover up this vital issue.
Pleads For BOurgeOisie.
The Pittsburgh Courier, a rival
Negro paper, managed by Editor
Vann, who took prominent part in
the Sanhedrin, argues with the
DAILY WORKER and with Lovett
Fort Whiteman of the Workers Party
who had an article therein. The
Courier fears for the Negro bour-
geoisie, that Fort Whiteman criti-
cises, fears frankly, pleads that the
progress of the race is dependent on
the prestige of the Negro leadership
drawn from the ranks of this new
bourgeoisie and wants radical labor
to handle them more gently.
This at least shows that radical
Negro labor is no longer ignored:
that the old line Negro leaders are
on the defensive.
Numerous Negro papers comment
ed on the part radical Negro labor
played IN the convention, some hos
tilely, some favorably.
Labor Issues Before Race.
The mass of comment shows that
the labor issue is before the Race;
it will not down. The labor issue
was put before the Race by the rad
ical workers present at the Sand
hedrin in spite of the efforts Of the
conservatives to make it just a nice
Sunday school social service sort Of
affair.
This means that the campaign for
the elimination of the color barrier
in the remaining labor unions will
be waged with more and more in
tensity and the time is brought near
er when the workers will show un-
divided solidarity, regardless of
race, creed or color.
FOrIS Remembrance