The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-20
BUSINESS men
OF negro RACE
MEETING TODAY
League Has Reaction
ary Backing

ne Ndtlondl negro BUSINESS
league, which opens its annual
sessions in the Wendell Phillips
high school today, is receiving
from the capitalist press Of the
country a measure of ovation
accorded no other Negro organ
ization in the country.
When Negroes who have
taken prominent part In the ses-
sions Of the Business league die,
the local Chamber of Commerce
invariably passes a resolution
expressing its grief. The organ
ization yesterday received a
message from the Chamber Of
Commerce of Richmond, Va,
expressing their regret at the
death of Giles B. Jackson,
several times a delegate to the
conventions of the league.
Negro Workers Should Examine Fact
These facts alone should make
workers of the Negro race, who have
booked to the business league as a
help to the solution Of the race prob
lem, stop to think.
Here is the way in which Harry j
Barrymore of the Boston Transcript
paper notorious for the long series
of lies it published about the Michigan
anti-red raids of 1922, wrote concern
ing the initial meeting of the league
in 1899:
ut pleased me to see how brave the
Negro could be, and how patient.
waited for outbreaks of protest
against white oppression, and espe
cially against recent white cruelty.
heard none. -. Regarding materia
advancement as a basis of every Other
sort of progress, the convention lis
tened eagerly to accounts of Negroes
once poor, who had now built houses
bought land, opened places Of indie
pendent business and established
solid bank accounts"
InterIookIna Connections.
There are the closest of connec
lions between the National Negro
Business League, Tuskegee Institute
and the Urban League. With sin
gle exception-that of DIR. J. c. Napiel
of Nashville, Tenn, who served ;
term as president of the business as
| sociation-every president of the Ma
tional Business League has atesom,
time been president of Tuskegee In
stitute.
T. Arnold Hall, executive secretar!
of the Urban League, has been prom
inent in the conventions of the bust
ness association. This year Jess
Thomas, head of the Urban League il
Atlanta, Ca, is bringing a group o
Negro business men from his city Il
address the convention.
Who is behind Tuskegee Institute
and who is behind the Urban League
Behind Tuskegee.
Most of the board of Tuskegee Inst
tute are white men who have grow
enormously rich thru the operation o
huge factories. julius Rosenwald
head of Sears, Roebuck and Co., mai
order house, which pays its cir
slaves at the rate Of SIT week, /
on the board of Tuskegee. So is Set
Low, former mayor of New York, on
Of the most reactionary mayors tina
that reactionary city has known.
Behind the Urban League, clear
ing house of Negro labor, are sucl
concerns as the Baldwin Locomotiv,
Works of Philadelphia, a militan
open shop concern; Armour & Co., o
Chicago's slaughter hell, and Henri.
Ford.
Reservoir of Scab Labor.
The Urban League has for year
been the great reservoir of black seal
labor, from which Chicago and De
troit, especially, have drawn thei
strikebreakers.
The outstanding achievement Of tn
business league during the % year
of its existence has been the forma
ton Of a million-dollar finance corpc
ration, which makes loans to Negr'
business men. OF the capital at tn
disposal of the Negro Bushes
y ana ono -. -. z.-s4.Is.