The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-24
GARvEY H FOLDS.
.U.N.I.A. CONTROL,
Sheriff. IS OUT
TOOte, of Detroit, Is
Elected President
BY ROBERT MINOR.
Especial TO The Daily Worker)

DERToIT, March 22.-After a BIT
ter struggle between the supporters
Of Marcus Carney and those who sup
port William A. Sheriff., the conven-
ton Of the Universal Negro Improve
ment Association reached what may
be called the first round In the selec-
ton Of Fred A. Toote of Detroit as
acting general president of the big
Negro organization. Toote is Carney
supporter and his election Is victory
for the Carney faction. The Garveyites
also succeeded in ,efecting Or. Jay j..
Peters to the office of third assistant
president general. q
William L. Sheriff., who is leading
the anti-Garvey forces has been COM
pletely ousted from ofice by the con-
vention. He had previously, in the
capacity of acting second assistant
president general, directed the affairs
Of the association.
Political Trading.
Altho the victory for the supporters
of the Garvey side is very demonstra-
tive, it appears not at all to be COM
pletely sure of itself. Mr.. Wallace,
who appears now to be supporter of
Sheriff. and who is a powerful leader
in the Chicago organization, was
elected secretary general by the con-
vention. Thus the Carney forces have
apparently felt themselves forced to
m aira a conoaaqfnn
The Garvey side, altho victorious in
the voting Of the delegates, is not in
comfortable or stable position. The
most ominous sign is in the fact that
the two great cities; New York and
Chicago, appear to have been almost
completely captured by the Sheriff.
Wallace combination. The decisions of
Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati
and Detroit are with the supporters
of Garvey. tn.
The significance OF this lineup is
great. The membership which is
newest from the South, with the farm
psychology, appears to cling longest
to the narrow Zionist" illusions,
while the Negro workers Of the large
cities, especially those of the highly
developed life of NeE York, are begin
ming to ask something more. 1t is be-
lieved that the Garvey supporters
called this emergency convention in
Detroit instead of, as customary, in
New York, for the purpose of getting
away from the stronghold of those
who are dissatisfied with the Garyey
policy.
The possibility that Sheriff. may
succeed in finally and completely
holding the New York and Chicago
divisions of the organization may be
considered the chief nightmare of
those who have ousted Sheriff. from
control Of the parent. body.
The election, by the Garvey dele
gates, of Wallace as. secretary gener-
al altho Wallace is understood now to
be more or less with Sheriff., is said
to be an effort to break a supposed
Sheriff. combination and
thereby to win back Chicago to the
Garvey camp.
SherrilPs minority among the con-
vention delegates is strong enough in
itself to make a considerable show
ing. The reports are that the Sher-
rill delegates are making a persistent
fight, tho they have hard time to
secure the floor.
PROFESSIONALLY the real basis of
the present contest. is a political one
Of fundamental nature. 1t is the rest
lessness of great fmass of the keen
and most active Negro city workers
who find themselves in great organ
ization without the slightest substance
Of a program.
However, the opposition to Garvey's
utopianism, altho having a social
basis, is absolutely dumb as far as
any expression of q program is con-
cerned. Whatever influences may
move the rank and file to dissatisfac-
ton and make of them the material
for an opposition, the Sheriff. leader
ship does not give the slightest sign
Of program of its own It seems IT,
self to have no program different from
Garvey's, but to build upon the gen.
eral, confused CROPPING for a change.
The convention will continue until
March 81. Several offices are yet to
be filled, and questions of resolutions
and DrORram IN hm apted unon