The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-12
HISTORIC NEGRO
ALL RACE MEET
SEEKING UNITY
Labor Seen as Big,
Dominant Issue
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the African Americans Relation to
Worldwide Race Movements, Frater-
nal and Benevolent Organizations of
the Race, the Religious Question, In
ter-Racial Cooperation, Agitation
against Lynching, Segregation, Dis
REIMBURSEMENT, Peonage and other
racial abuses, will act as advisory
bodies striving to unite the efforts
of the various organizations attempt
ing to handle these issues and I'M
dertaking special Jobs at the request
of the affiliated organizations.
The tremendous problem created
by the migration of million Ne
groes into northern industrial life
in the last few years will form the
basis for large part of the work
of the committee on labor. The
convention is greatly interested in
finding who will go on this commit
tee; which will play an important
part in Negro life after the conven-
ton.
Middle Class In Majority.
The majority Of the delegates are
from the middle class and include
editors, small business men, clergy
men and others, but there is CON
siderable proletarian element also.
Even the middle class representa-
tives are far more cognizant of the
labor question than a similar rep
resentation from the white race, for
the persecution of the Negroes from
the days of slavery to the present
policy of maintaining the Negroes
as a voteless, unskilled labor force
has so obviously its roots in the in
dustrial system.
Informal discussion among the del
eSates reveals a more aggressive
attitude than that likely to be ex-
pressed on the floor. This from a
Negro lawyer from Washington,
D. c.:
"When they started killing Ne
groes in Washington a few years
ago the Negroes fought back better
than our enemies. That's why they
haven't tried wholesale lynching
again. If the Negroes of America
hadn't resisted in Washington and
other places there would have been
massacres all over the county"
Saving the Race.
1.-THE Basic Importance Of the Phys
zeal Stamina Of the Race" will be the
subject for speakers at tomorrow
mornings session and will furnish
much opportunity for scoring the in
dustrial conditions responsible for
the diseases that are racking the
poorly paid workers. The long work
day in the steel iadugtrk where so
many Negroes are employed; the
adulterated food, sold to industrial
workers and the lack of medical at
tention given to the producers on
southern plantations; all these will
be dealt with by able speakers; in
GLIDING DR.. A. M. Curtis, ex-president
Of the National Medical Association;
DR.. Algernon L. Jackson, director
School of Public Health and Hygiene,
Howard University, Washington, D.
c.; DR.. A. Wilberforce Williams, Chi
cago and DR.. U. G. Daley, Chicago.
The Fight For Education.
sour Educational Program" will be
the topic for the afternoon, and the
bitter truth of the southern educa-
tional systems, which allow Negro
schools only fraction of the funds
provided for whites will be exposed.
This southern educational policy
makes a mockery of the American
boast that there is equal opportunity
for all, and is but part Of the system
attic policy Of maintaining the Negro
as an unskilled worker. The educa-
tional efforts Of racially conscious
Negroes will be explained in answer.
Speakers will include:
Prof. Gilbert H. Jones, Dean, Will
herforce University, presiding.
Prof. Garnet C.. Wilkinson, Assist
ant Superintendent, Public Schools,
Washington, D. C.
Prof. John M. Candy, Principal.
Normal and Industrial School, Peters
burg, Va.
Prof. John Hope, President, More
house College, Atlanta. Ga.
Rev. R. C. Woods, President, Vir-
GINA Seminary and College, Lynch
burg, Va.
Combating Race Hate.
The Negro Press, which is resist
ing the vicious propaganda Of race
hate Of the American capitalist |
dailies will be dealt with at the eve
ming sessions at Wendell Phillips
High School, 39th street and Prairie
avenue.
Speakers include Mr.. Robert L. |
Vann, Editor, Pittsburgh Courier,
Pittsburgh, Pa, presiding; Mr.. r. S. |
Abbott, Editor, Chicago Defender;
Mr.. Carl ]. Murphy, Editor, Afro
American, Baltimore Nd; Mr.. |
Claude A. Barnett, Director, Asso-
ciated Negro Press, Chicago, ILL.,;
Rev. w. J. Walls, Editor, Star Of |
Zion, Charlotte, N. c.
Discussion will follow all talks.
A full list Of organizations partici- |
pating in the congress will be given !
in tomorrow's paper.
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