The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-14

the fields OF industry, politics and or
ganization, experience that has been
denied members Of our race in most
other lands. In the light Of the les
sons we have learned from the ter
rible struggle we have been forced to
wage, it is not too much to say that
from our ranks will come the leader
ship Of our race in its fight for liber-
alton from imperialist oppression.
ut is with the full knowledge of
our responsibilities to. our race that
we hail the rising liberation move
ments in Africa and Asia, that we
welcome the long-delayed recognition
of the necessity for solidarity of all
oppressed, black, white and brown,
as shown by the French workers In
support of the Rifian struggle, the
sympathetic attitude of the British
workers to the Chinese and Indian
independence movements, the grow
ing unity of the working class and
colonial peoples against their COM
mon enemy.
United Effort Needed.
"The white workers cannot free
themselves without the aid Of us
dark-skinned people, and we cannot
liberate ourselves unless they join
with us in an assault of the world
fortress of imperialism.
1--WE hail the workers and farmers
government of Soviet Russia as the
first to bring into being full social
political and economic equality for
all peoples, white and dark-skinned.
We call upon the members of our
race to recognize this signal accom-
plishment of the first workers and
peasants government as the sign
manual of what the future holds for
the toiling masses of the whole
world when the workers and farmers
follow its example and imperialism
has been driven from the face of the
earth.
"As first step in connecting the
struggles of our race in America with
its worldwide struggle against i'm
perialism, this congress of Negro
workers and farmers instructs the ma
tional executive committee to convene
world congress- Qr'Qqr race,
World Race Congress.
ut further instructs the American
Negro delegates to this world con-
gress to lay the foundation for a
world organization of the workers
and farmers of our race and to make
this organization leader and fighter
in the liberation movements of all
the darker-skinned peoples in the col
onies of Imperialism everywhere.
welcome Soviet Russia-the friend
and ally of the oppressed of all races!
Welcome to all who join with us
in the fight for emancipation from
imperialist slavery"
Condemns Segregation.
The American Negro Labor Con-
gress in the following resolution con-
dennis the segregation of Negro work
ers and demands that the sale and
renting of homes be taken out of the
hands of private real estate concerns
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agencies that will rent and sell to
workers regardless of their race or
color:
"The American Negro Labor Con-
gress declares itself unalterably op-
posed to the segregation of our peo-
pie in separate residence districts.
We declare the discrimination against
Negroes in regard to which part of
city they may live in and which part
they may not live in, is a political
question and must be dealt with just
as we deal with discrimination in
voting. The time has come when the
living Accommodations Of the public,
cannot be left to the private control
of a few wealthy parasites who de-
eide where the colored man may live
and where he may not live, or whe-
Their he can have house to live in
at all.
Demand Protective Legislation.
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