Evening star., 1925-10-24
Chicago Convention Tomor.
row Designed to Make
Race Revolutionary.
MOSC0W'S AID ALLEGED:
LABOR UNIONS WARNED
Attack on Southern States Laws
and Inequalities" Special Object,
Manifesto Declares.
By the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
Communist agitators are seeking to
| bring the American negro into the
revolutionary fold.
The American Negro Labor Con
-ress, which is meeting in Chicago to-
morrow, is shown in the descriptive
literature, of which official note has
been taken in Washington, to have
been organized chiefly by Communists,
with backing from Russia, for the
purpose of awakening to revo-
tionary significance" the negroes of
America
The quotation is taken from a de-
scriptive manifesto for the congress
which has been circulated through
Communist orga nizations on both sides
Of the Atlantic by the press bureau Of
the Third 1nternationale. 1t is put out
under the signature of Lovett Ford
Whitman, who is identified as a negro
delegate to the Third Internationa,e.
Union Men Warned Away.
Negro trades unionists whose par.
ticipation in the congress has been
solicited have been warned by the
American Federation of Labor, through
its president, William Green, to re
/; frain from any connection with IT,
In a statement denouncing the
whole purpose of the congress. which
in the manifesto proclaims the pur-
pose also of redressing what il re
CARDS as the social grievances of
American negroes. Mr. Green declares
1T will not be held to benefit the
/ negro, bat to instill into the lives of
that race the most pernicious doctrine
race hatred"
A number of trades orsa sanizations
/ have been deceived into sending del
eCates,' Mr.. Green states. in warning
all negro members of trade unions
that they are being led into a trap
that viii eventually be their undoinG."
Race War Part of Plan.
| With an eye even beyond the negro
! citizenry of America. the ambitious
! program. as set forth would have the
congress also take the leadership in
an attempt TO rally the negro races
of the world for a struggle against
world Imperialism
As uppermost among the social de-
mandS of the negro workers and
peasants of the Southern provinces of
North America" to which the con.
Sress would address itself. the mani
| feSto includes the abolition of lin.
crowism,' or racial separation"
! 1t sets forth that the national COM
mittee" calling the congress has sue
! ceeded in organizing large number of
! local committees of action in many
| towns and cities for the purpose of
! popularizins and drawing an increaS-
/ ing number of militant elements" into
! the movement.
! Aimed Specially at South
! The national committee calling the
! American negro labor congress has a
! large Communist nucleus" the mani
! festo said, and this national com.
| mittee, sending out organizers through
| the country, has succeeded in organ
izinS large number of local commit
tees of action in many towns and
cities for the purpose of popularizing
and drawing in an increasing num-
Der of militant elements into the
American congress movement.
THE American Communist party
{ has not yet gained foothold in the
Southern provinces of North America,
and through the creation of these
1 local committees for the American
negro abor congress in the Southern
! provinces we see the beginning of
the extension of the Communist party
in those parts. In many of those
provinces the negroes are in a ma
Jority over the whites. and il is in
the South that the negro is most op-
pressed. Thus. it will mean in this
part of America that the overwhelm.
ing majority of the Communist party
VIII be members of the black
race
THE social demands uppermost in
the minds of the negro masses of
America are that of the abolition of
| JimcroWiSm.' that is. racial separa-
ton, political nfranchisement, equal
opportunities of employment for white
and black, measures on the part of the
| Federal Government against the prac-
tice of lynchins. larger appropriations
| for educational facilities for negro
children in the Southland. the abolition
! Of the lines of residential segregation,
! etc. The congress will take up these
social problems for deliberation and
action"