The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-14
ASK ALL NEGRO
ASSE M BLY, TO
LEAD The FIGHT
Strive for Open Door
to Trade Unions
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groes to Africa and the building of
a great African republic and the
Fan-Atrican congresses Of DR.. Du-
Dois which aim rather at the spirit
nal kinship Of the members of the
Race. w
The purpose of the Sanhedrin is
to bring what unity is possible be-
tween these two movements. Tho
Mr.. Carney has failed to send repre-
sentatives to the Sanhedrin the lead
ers here are hopeful of winning him
over to the united front idea at a
later date. Carney has many friends
at the convention.
An ardent appeal to all Negroes
TO support the Liberian people and
all Back-to-African movements. was
made by DR.. Jay Peters, a young Ne
gro from Chicago. He pictured an
America where the lot of the black
man would get worse and worse and
warned his hearers that when the
struggle for jobs becomes more tense
as times become harder the white
man would get the preference and the
Negro would be strapped.
Liberia has not failed.v he de-
clared: "the hard times she has had
are due to the interference of for
eign imperialism"
Both Haiti and Liberia have been
injured by Imperialism and Negroes
must support these Negro republics
warmly, he cried.
An appeal for literary sincerity
was made by Miss Jessie Faucet q
nationally known literary critic of
the race, in her talk on "The Impor-
lance OF Culture in Race Better
ment."
Literature and Lynching.
There is power in the truth. she
pleaded, urging that the race gains
nothing by the attempts of Negro
writers to describe Negro life, not
as 1t is but as the whites will admire
it.
Never be afraid Of the charge of
propaganda" she said, citing the
fact that so-called cultured people
cry out against unpleasant facts by
labelling them propaganda" The
wrongs of the race, such as lynching.
must be told. The injury to art.
from propaganda" is as nothing
compared with the injury to life
from lynching. However, she in
sisted, truth itself it art, if told with
the emotional power inherent in the
facts, as in the case of Dubois
Dark Water"
Negro Literature Needed.
Mr.. w. H. Moore, of Chicago, fol-
lowed Miss Faucet and urged the
creation of Negro literature that
would acquaint the race with itself
as the literature of Synge, Lady Gre
CORY and other Irish writers ac-
quainted the Irish people with them
selves during the Gaelic Rennas-
.cence.
Prof. Monroe N. Work, director Of
the department of records and re-
search at Tuskegee Institute, urged
the need of more race knowledge
knowledge about the past achieve
ments Of the race and its present
status.
The Rape Lie.
Value of research data was shown
at the senate hearings on the Dyer
anti-lynching bill when none of the
opposition attempted to repeat he
old charge hat lynchings We're made
necessary by rape. That charge had
beben exploded by Tuskegee's re-
search, which showed that only 20
per cent of lynchings were traceable
to rape charges-charges which were
usually unfounded.
Need of better organized Negro
press to cement the race together
and expose the atrocities committed
against the Negro was emphasized by
Mr.. Robert L. Vann, editor of the
Pittsburgh Courier and chairman of
the Negro Press Committee at the
Sanhedrin, before the session.