The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-31
Negro and White Workers Unite at the
National Textile Workers Convention

not alone on the speed-up, the wage cuts and
so on, but more Significantly on the Negro
question, must be registered as one of the most
significant steps forward. Every white South
ern delegate got up on the floor and expressed
in no unmistakabe terms his determination to
do everything in his power to break down H.
lusions created by the bosses to break the unity
of the black and white workers They spoke
about the situation that keeps both Negro and
white workers uneducated in the South, they
spoke about how flimsy we're the excuses given
for racial differences, they spoke about their
attitude towards Negroes previous to the COM
ing of the National Textile Workers Union to
the South and how they recognize in its
programme unity of black and white work
ers upon the basis of complete equality-as
the only program to overcome the conditions
that exist throughout the South today.
We must not underestimate the tasks still
ahead of us in order to overcome the deep
rooted prejudices in certain strata of the white
workers of the South which is kept up by the
bosses, still the expression of these delegates at
this convention gives the lie to all those tales
we have heard coming from the South, espe-
cially from the ALL. and the socal-reform-
lists about the impossiblity of Negro and white
workers of the South getting together.
At the same time the expressions of the
white delegates from the South showed up a
real serious shortcoming with regards to those
comrades who have some apathy about bringing
the Negro and white workers together. In this
respect the absence of Negro delegates from
the South was a great Shortcomings There
were Negro delegates from the North and the
East, but not a single Negro delegate from
the South The preparations for convention
should not have overlooked this. Once and for
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we stand for militant fighting unions of all
workers which unity the workers upon basis
of complete equality regardless of race on the
basis of the class struggle. This is what the
workers have shown determination to have,
At all times and under all circumstances this
policy must be followed and carried out to the
letter in order to carry out militant revolu-
tonary struggle against all forces which are
arrayed against the working class
Negro Department Organized.
Then convention provisions made for the
creation of Negro department in the Ma
tonal Textile Workers Union for the purpose
of drawing the Negro workers into the unions
and into the struggle This department must
be made to function in the immediate future
and steps taken to draw Negro workers active
ly into all the activities of the unions.
Negro Workers Must Struggle.
At the same time Negro workers must be
determined to struggle against the economic
fetters--low wages, etc, struggle against the
speed-up md the stretch-out: they must enter
the struggle on the basis of the class struggle,
for Only by jointly struggling upon basis of
equality against the economic and social abuses
of the working class can we overcome racial
abuses and oppression. Class exploitation and
oppression is at the bottom of racial abuse and
oppression.
The growing struggles in other Industries