The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-27
SPEAKERS URGE
ALL TO SUPPORT
WORKERS PARTY
"Only Freedom Lies in
Class Organization"

Warning against the spreat
north of Southern institutions pre-
judicial to the Negro masses ant
pointing out that the only hope o
the Negro is to, organize as workers
and strengthen their power by ALI
ance with those, sections of the ex
plotted white workers who are class
conscious and ready for such an al
lance, leaders of the American Ne
gro Labor Congress received tire
mendous ovations from large
crowd of Negro workers who turned
out Friday night for Nthe organiza
tons mass meeting at4 Boyles Mem
NJ E. Zion Church, Gates Ave. anc
Irving Pl., Brooklyn.
"You can talk until doomsday
about freedom" Richard tB. Moore
National Organizer of the A. N. L
c. told the meeting, "you can talk
until doomsday about emancipation
but unless you organize the only
class which has the power and the
will to struggle for emancipation
your talk is useless.
Organize Labor Power.
"Not until the Negro masses or
ganize their labor power and unite
with other oppressed groups ano
classes will we win our freedom
The only hope of the Negro is to
organize as workers and strengthen
their power with an alliance with
the class-conscious white workers of
America and the white, brown and
yellow workers of the world"
Describing the American Negro
Labor Congress as the basic Negro
organization, fighting for better
wages, better conditions of labor,
equal pay for equal work, and
against all inequalities, political, So
cial or economic, the A. N. L. c.
National Organizer warned the audi
erce that there were two groups of
white workers: those who still had
the theology of the bosses and aided
TIE bosses in practising discrimina-
ton AGAINST colored workers, and
those who had learned in the school
of revolutionary activity that the in
terests of all workers. black, white
and brown. were identical and were
ready to make common cause with
a'l sections of the working class.
"The American Negro Labor Con-
gress is organized to smash the bar
riers raised in the trade unions by
the first group and to force equal
ray for equal work, equal oppor-
tunity for employment and equal
representation in the unions,
Moore said.
Henry Rosemond. secretary of the
Haitian Patriotic Union and a mem
Der Of long standing in the Amer
lean Negro Labor Congress. urged
unon the meeting the necessity of a
militant organization such as this
and called upon those present to
show their sympathy with its aims
and program not merely by APP
rlause but by becoming active mem
bers and helping to build up the
Brooklyn Council of the American
Negro Labor Congress.
Grace Campbell, chairman of the
Harlem Educational Forum, gave a
brief and interesting outline of
working conditions among Negro
women in the needle trades and
other industries. She emphasized
the necessity of these workers join
ing the unions in their industries.
Raps Old Political Parties.
Ripping the mask of false friend
ship from the Republican Party and
showing it up in its true colors as
a party dominated by financiers and
employers whose exploiting inter
ests were necessarily opposed to the
interests of the exploited black and
white workers, and further remind
ing his hearers of the traditional
ennity of the Democratic Party,
George Padmore called upon the
Negro workers to vote for the party
which by it's working-class program
and its outspoken, fearless advocacy
of the interests of the Negro work
ers had shown itself the true friend
Of the Negro, the Workers (Com-
munist) Party. He severely casti-
gated Judge Atwell for his preju-
diced remarks in a recent case be-
fore him, and warned that "Atwell
is not individual. There are scores
of Atwells come up from the South
and trying to introduce Southern
prejudice and Southern institutions
in the North. We must meet this
growing menace by eternal vigil
lance and effective working-class
organization" Referring to the agi-
tation for Africa for the Africans
Padmore told the meeting that "un-
less we are sufficiently organized
economicallp and politically, we viii
not be able to help our African
brothers when they, taking couragt
from the heroic revolution of the
Chinese masses, launch the newt.
able revolution against capitalist
imperialist domination and exploita'
ton"