The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-31

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congress was to promote race pre-
judice," declared Lovett Fort-White-
man, after he had read the kilograms,
in denouncing the attacks of the press
on the congress. Here each night we
see workers, black and white, meet
ing together in a common cause.
Workers who are fighting for COM
mon cause regardless of cline, color
or nationality"
With a few Introductory words he
introduced the speaker Of the evening,
George Wells Parker.
at was five or six weeks ago that
I learned of the American Negro Con.
gress When l read the article by
William Green, president Of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor, warning the
Negro to stay away from this con-
gress because he said it was directly
connected with the Soviets of Russia,
the moment l read the article l be-
came interested in the congress-" said
Parker. "There was a time when they
said freedom was bad for the Negro.
They also said education was bad for
the Negro. They said association with
whites was bad for the Negro. No mat
ter what the Negro wants, what he
desires, it is bad thing for the
Negro. So when Mr.. Green said this
congress was bad thing for the
Negro became interested"
Parker then began to show the re-
lation of the Negro to the ku klux
khan. In decrying the attempts Of
many Negro workers to ignore the
khan issue, he said:
"The khan is not dying. The khan
is going ahead by leaps and bounds.
l receive at my desk fifteen different
khan papers. They are organizing
chapters in every hamlet and town.
They have set 1885 as the year when
they shall take government
"The members of the khan who wear
the nightshirts are the dumb-heads.
They are pawns in the game. The
men who are ruling the khan, the
higher-ups, they are brilliant, they are
wise, they are adopting measures to
rule the world. The only thing they
fear is Communism.
1.-THE future for the Negro in Amer.
lea is dark. The stars of hope in your
sky are gradually being blotted out
one by one.
''The order has gone into the steel
mills to hire the Negro last. The khan
is behind this"
Parker then read part of the ku
klux khan ritual which follows, in
which the khan shows that it's pur-
pose is the spreading of the idea of
race inferiority in attempting to keep
the white worker and the black
worker divided:
The social chasm between whites
and blacks is greater now than it has
ever been and it must still be made
greater by teaching the inferiority of
all races excepting the white. We
must not only constantly teach that
they are inferior and destroy all
facts that might prove otherwise, but
we must suit our actions to these
teachings so that they will forever
believe in their inferiority.'
When | read to you another part
Of the khan ritual it will be an ex.
PLANTATION to you why Mr.. Green is
afraid Of this congress.
when the workers of the world
clasp their hands, care not if they
are of the red sands of Syria or of
the Riff country Of Morocco, if they
say let us form an international work.
ers' organization and let us work ii
out together, if the workers of the
world believe that, then Negroes that
is your salvation. That is what Mr..
Green and the khan fear"
He then read another part of the
ritual which follows, showing the
aim Of the khan was the division of
those who opposed them in order to
crush each group much easier:
" "A world coalition of malcontents
could cope with us temporarily, but
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