The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-15
LABOR FIGHTS
MACHINE RULE
AT SANHEDRIN
Denounces Efforts to
Ignore Great Issue
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eratlOn was discussed from the stand
point Of the Y. M. C. A. and the
church and every other point of view
but that Of Labcr-altho the Negro
race is pre-eminently a iaoor group
and its industrial welfare is bound
up with the inter-racial cooperation
with white workers.
-Four days had gone by and labor
had been ignored.
Chairman Against Labor.
Lovett Fort-Whiteman,, of the
Workers Party, rose and demanded
that the greatest of all issues before
the Negro race be given attention,
declaring there were eighteen repre-
sentatives of labor whose rights must
be respected.
He was ruled out of order by the
chairman.
Otto E. HousiwouId arose demand
ing attention. The chairman tried
vainly to shut him up but Housiwould
could not be halted and cried out:
Il see that labor is an outcast here
as it is outside"
Audience With Labor.
The audience applauded with more
enthusiasm than it has anything that
had been said so far in the conven-
ton.
Housiwould denounced the conspir-
acy to keep Labor from beng heard
at this great gathering of the race.
He censured the leaders Of the con-
vention for providing no place for
labor on the program.
At Housiwould's insistence that
Labor be discussed Friday morning
the audience again applauded. Fort
Whiteman and other speakers took
the floor on the same demand. The
chairman could not halt the tic Of
protest.
Against Lynching.
Lynehing is subject which
arouses the just anger of the Negro
race. The African Blood Brother
hood has a workable program against
this crime Of the ages. 1t is for the
Sanhedrin to invite all labor bodies
to form joint councils with Negroes
to take action to stop lynching. Only
interests that are opposed to labor
unions can oppose such a program
for effective action.
The program for equal support
from public school funds for the
Negro schools now so grossly dis
eliminated against, sometimes to the
extent of providing for the Negro
pupil at only one tenth the rate at
which the white child is provided is
another essential part of the rene
dial program. The only opposition
that has shown its head is from
teachers who think their jobs down
South might be affected if they fight
this system now.
K. K. X. the Common Enemy.
A resolute stand against the Ku
Klux Khan, calling for an alliance
with the foreign-born against the
common enemy, is demanded by the
African Blood Brotherhood. All
classes of the race hate the murder
Gus Khan, tho some delegates from
the South fear to voice their enmity,
fearing vengeance when they return
home.
Friendship With Russia.
Two proposals for clasping the
hand of the Russian workers are
presented: one by the Workers
Party delegates, urging the Sanhed-
rim to support the movement for the
recognition of Russia and the other
from the African Blood Brotherhood
asking the Sanhedrin to elect dele.
cation to visit Russia for the pur-
pose of making an impartial study OF
the situation there.
The African Blood Brotherhood's
resolution declares that the Russian
revolution is the most drastic social
change that has taken place since
the American Civil War, whichnwas
also revolution in as much as il
abolished slavery. It cites further
the fact that the Russian people have
welcomed all visiting Negroes with
open arms and that the Negro visit.
ors found themselves for the first
time of their lives in a country
where they enjoyed complete equal
ity and respect.
An apostle of Russia, as friend
Of the colored people, is found in DR.
G. 5. Brown, president of Lott Carey
Convention and head Of the Sanhe
drin's commission on worldwide race
movements.
DR.. Brown visited Russia last year
on a tour of inspection with Bap'
fist delegation and he declares thai
he and another Negro member Of the
delegation were received with ever
greater cordiality than their white
brothers by the representatives o.
the Soviet government whom he met
They found the Baptist missions
thriving.
Today is the day that tests thu
convention--as a mere getting to
gether affair or as the founding of ;
great movement for the emancipation
Of the race.