The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-19

and several individual dele
gates from other organizations
VINO rallied to their progam.
The labor delegates insisted that
the only hope of the oppressed Negro
Race was in lining up with the OPP
pressed of other races: that the op-
preston of the Negro had an eco
nomic basis and was for the purpose
of maintaining him as a voteless and
unskilled worker in field and mill.
All Workers Party resolutions. in
cooperating their race program, had
the unity of the black worker with
the white worker, as the solution of
the race problem.
Workers Party Demands.
This was shown in their vigorous
demand for the elimination of the
color line in the unions; in their in
sistence that the Ku Klux Khan
could only be fought effectively in
cooperation with the foreign-born
workers; in their demand that the
same schools must be open to blacks
and whites because where the races
were segregated the Negro always
got less attention; in their solution
Of the residential segregation into
black belts" by the remedy of hav-
ing all houses let to first Corners at
stipulated prices-regardless of the
applicants color, and in other reso-
buttons.
Ninety-eight per cent of the Ne
groes are workers or farmers, and
when farmers are almost invariably
tenant farmers, in many cases in
peonage or debt slavery.
Dean Mlller-the Deceiver.
Dean Kelly Miller, chairman of
the Sanhedrin, also declared at the
outset OF the congress that the Ne
gro group was essentially a labor
group, therefore the Negro problem
was labor problem.
This was said to members of the
Workers Party and other radicals in
the effort to throw dust in their ewes.
1t was said, with the promise that
labor would receive full considera-
ton in the sessions of the Sanhedrin.
Dean Miller never had any inten-
ton to give labor any consideration
at the Sanhedrin. Nor did he intend
to encourage any aggressive race at
titude against lynching, disfranchise-
ment, segregation in residential dis
tricts, schools and Jim Crow cars.
against the race. Dean Miller and
the organizers of the Congress want
ed to do nothing that would offend
the social welfare organizations
white chambers Of commerce, Repub-
lican Party and any Of the other in
stitutions which supported the lead
ers-tho not the masses.-of the race.
Nor would he do anything which
would offend any vested interests of
the Race.
Labor knew the Congress would
be controlled by conservatives but
it was not prepared for the deceitful
tactics Of the leaders. So when Dean
Miller explained that labor would be
given regular place on the program
they gave him chance to make
good.
Force Labor Committees.
There would have been no labor
committee at all if the radicals had
not insisted. Then Dean Miller APP
pointed a committee of six headed by
Arnold T. Hill, an official of the Ur-
ban League, a chamber of commerce
institution, and containing another
Urban Lacquer. One Workers Party
delegate, Lovett Fort-Whiteman got
on the committee. Other Workers
Party delegates and men from the
African Blood Brotherhood insisted
on getting onto the committee also.
Miller evened it up by other con-
sentative appointments.
However, the radicals had the only
program to present to the labor COM
mittee and most Of their program got
thru, especially the part calling for
the elimination of the color line in
the unions and the solidarity of white
and black workers.
Radicals Get Out Publicity.
To the alarm of the conservatives
the clear cut resolutions of the two
class conscious organizations-the
Workers Party and the African
Blood Brotherhood, were mimeo-
graphed by the hundreds and dis
tributed to every delegate and to
visitors, and mailed out.
The Workers Party labor program
for the Negro race was thus spread
far and wide.
Aiding the work Of the labor dele
gates was the Daily Worker, the only
daily paper in Chicago TO report the
trial. An average of 200 copies a
day was sold to the delegates. As the
regular Negro press did not come out
until the latter part Of the week the
DAILY WORKER, with the message
it contained, was the daily reading Of
these delegates from the North and
the South, the East and the West. II
awakened a sympathetic response in
many who were not workers but
whose associations were with the