The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-06
Call Negro Workers to Meet

As a special drive to bring to
the attention of the Negro work
ers the call of the Trade Union
Educational League to send dele
gates to National Trade Union
Unity Convention, in Cleveland,
June IL, the Negro Department
of the T. U. E. L. has issued
special statement to Negro work
ers. The statement has been en-
dorsed by the American Negro
Labor Cor ress and is to accom-
pany the regular call addressed to
all workers when distributed wide
spread in those districts where
there are many Negroes in the in
dustries. The call to the Negro
workers is as follows:
FELLOW WORKERS.: The Ma
= tional Committee of the Trade
Union Educational League has called
for the election of delegates to con-
stitute the Trade Union Unity Con-
gress, to meet in the City of Cleve-
land, Ohio, at 10 a. m. on June /
1929, and to conclude on June 2
This call is Of special interest to
Negro workers.
With the partial check of immi-
grafton which came about during
the last war, and which has con-
tinued since, bringing about the mi
grafton of Negro workers to north
crn industrial centers and with the
growth of industry in the south
the demand for Negro workers in
the large industries has increased
The introduction of more machin-
cry in the factories would, under g
better system, shorten the hours OF
labor, but under the present cap
italist system it is used by the EN-.
ployers to reduce the number OF
workers, increase the amount OF
work and lengthen the hours fol
those left on the job.
Since the great majority CT Ne
gro workers are, unskilled and unor-
sanized, they suffer more intensely
than any other group from the eff,
fects of naturalization.
They suffer from double oppres.
sion, being oppressed as Negroes
and as workers.
They are the last to be hired anc
are always the first to be fired. II
every shop, mill, or factory they are
given the worst jobs.
Negro workers are always The
lowest paid workers in all indus
tries. The worst and lowest PAL
jobs are considered "Negro jobs
and the better jobs are for The
whites.
The Negro worker, no matter hov
capable, is seldom allowed to ste.
into what is considered by the en-
rloyers as a white mans job.
In the industrial centers to whicl
these workers migrate, they ar;
forced to live in the worst houses
in the worst districts and pay thu
highest rents in spite of the low
wages that they receive.
Because of the small earnings o.
the men the wives and children arr
forced to work in sweat shops ane
in the fields under the most miser
able conditions.
The women are the prey of tht
lust Of the white bosses and over
seers. The children have little op
portunity to attend schools because
of being forced to work at an early
age. In the South they are forced
to attend Jim Crow schools UNI
usually far away from where they
live.
The Negro worker has always
been used by the bosses to reduce
the cost of labor.
The white bosses, therefore, con.
slider the Negro a valuable source
of cheap labor. We could go or
endlessly talking about our miser.
able conditions. What we must dc
now is to find a way to better these
conditions. That is the purpose OF
this call.
We must organize together with
the fighting unions Of white work