The daily worker., 1925-10-31
negro LABOR
MEET ATTACKS
KU KLUX KLAN
Calls for United Action
of All Workers

sion of the American Negro Labor
Congress, now meeting at 311s Giles
Ave-, in a strong resolution attacking
the ku klux kIan and showing the
class character OF the government
which brings into being and protects
such organizations as the khan called
upon the workers Of all races and ma
tIons to unite in struggle against the
klan.
In the measures taken during the
past two or three years against the
foreign-born worker-restrictive inn
migration, proposed laws to finger
print immigrants-the American Ne
gro Labor Congress sees the working
out of the khan ideas with respect to
workers who are not necessarily Of
another color, but who belong to the
class which the American government
is interested in keeping down. The
resolution adopted by the congress
follows in full:
AZ. Ku KIux kIan.
"The ku klux khan declares its
purpose to preserve white supremacy
meaning to keep the Negro perma-
nently out of his rights of equal ci-
tizenship and degraded to the condi-
tions of wild animal to be perse-
cuted, hunted, tortured and burned at
the pleasure of white individuals or
mobs not content with the legal
means of suppressing the Negro un-
der democratic government, which
are bad enough.
The ku klux khan forms itself in
to criminal band for illegal murder,
coercion and terrorization assuming
to act as a secondary government,
The khan directs its venom, criminal
ity and bigotry not only against the
Negro but also against other hard
working people who happen to have
been born in other countries and brot
here to do the hardest labor of the
industries of this country and also
against religious liberty.
"This criminal organization shares
the authority of the government in
many places; it is semi-officially rec
ognized in some states and has com
plete control of other state govern
ments. Not only does the federal gov
ernment fail or refuse to act against
the band of bigotry and crime, but
the influence of the ideas of the khan
can be seen in refusal of congress to
enforce the fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments; and can also be seen in
legislation recommended to congress,
including the proposals which seek
to force all foreign-born working peo-
pie to carry passports and be regis
tered with the police and to be segre-
gated in special residence districts as
the Negroes are segregated. There
fore,
United With All Workers.
'BE 1T RESOLVED by the Ameri.
can Negro Labor Congress that we
declare the ku klux khan an enemy
to humanity. and that we will fight
it to the bitter end. and will make
common cause with foreign-born work.
ers and others who are\persecuted by
4 it," 4..a
In a resolution attacking the ex-
clusion of the Negro from the Jury
in trials where Negroes are tried. was
decried as an attempt to prejudice the
Nero and to sentence him long before
he is really tried. The congress in the
following resolution makes some sof
It's demands that a belief in white
supremacy be made a bar to anyone
wfo is to be impanelled ON jury:sr
Juries. III
| "k is a general custom OF police
and criminal courts to accord to every
white defendant jury composed OF
white persons, but at the s~me time
to exclude Negroes from juries TO try
Negro defendants in important cases.
This custom is based on the theory
that the white man alone proves the
presence of race prejudice in every
such trial; therefore, be It
Resolved. BY the American Negro
Labor Congress that as long as the
principle OF white supremacy exists
Negro cannot get fair trial before
white jury or mixed jury; and we
demand that belief in white
supremacy shall be a legal bar to
anyone serving on a jury to try q
Negro; be 1t further
Resolved. that no Negro owes
any respect or obedience to the de.
cisions Of any court In which he is
Disseminated against"
The American Negro Labor Con-
gress scores the attempts Of those in
power to strangle the working class
thru the curbing of free speech, press
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