The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-02
I. U. (. |. MEETING
ENDORSES. NEGRO
LABOR CONGRESS-
Progress Shown in Left
Wing Activity


The meeting of the Chicago Gener-
al Group of the Trade Union Educa-
tional League held last Wednesday in
North West Hall was a well-attended
and business-like affair. Reports from
the local executive and the various
industrial groups we're given and dis
cussed. On the whole, progress is be-
ing made in building the left wing in
the trade union movement of Chi
cago.
p. L Doty, organizer of Negro plum
bers in Chicago, gave a report on the
coming American Negro Labor Con-
gress to be held in Chicago during the
summer. In convincing manner he
showed the discrimination being prac-
ticed against Negro workers by the
union bureaucrats. He urged that the
adherents of the T. u. E. L. take the
matter of the Negro Labor Congress
before the unions for endorsation. The
organization of the Negro workers is
of great Importance to the trade un-
ions, since being unorganized they
are used by the bosses against their
fellow workers.
The following resolution was car
ried unanimously:
WHEREAS, the unity and solidarity
of all workers is essential to carry
on an effective struggle against the
attempts of the bosses to lower and
dstroy the living standards and work
ing conditions, wages, etc. of the
workers; and
WHEREAS, during and since the
war some 100000 Negro workers have
come from the South into the North
ern industrial centers, and
WHEREAS, the Negro workers and
the unorganized are often used
against their will, as strikebreakers;
and g
WHEREAS, the Negro workers can
and want to be organized into the
labor unions in order to fight togeth-
er with his brother white workers
against the common enemy, the en-
ploying class and capitalist ruled gov
eminent; and
WHEREAS, racial prejudices be-
tween white and colored workers
have been fostered by the employing
capitalist class as means of prevent
ing united action and solidarity of
all the workers, and such racial pre-
JUDGES therefore spring from the
present capitalist order of society;
and sIs
WHEREAS, we believe that all
workers, regardless Of race, color,
creed or sex should be organized into
the labor unions, and are entitled to
equal wages for equal work, etc, and
should and must be united against
the bosses in order 10 effectively
struggle to break the shackles of CAPT
talist wage slavery; and
WHEREAS, the American Negro
Labor Congress called by representa-
tive Negro workers and farmers, is
to be held in Chicago this summer,
anu tAAAO ANCSlO OOA-
gress will consider and fight for equal
rights for all workers; for the organ
ization of the unorganized Negro
workers into the labor unions; and
will work to promote unity and har-
mony between the workers of ALL
races, of all workers; therefore, be it
RESOLVED, that the Chicago Gen
eral Group of the Trade Union Edu-
cational League endorses heartily the
aims and purposes of the American
Negro Labor Congress and pledges
itself to do everything in it's power
for the success of the American Negro
Labor Congress, which will mark a
great forward step in the struggle Of
the working class, white and colored,
against exploitation by the capitalists
and for the freedom of all workers
from oppression.