The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-11
Huisw00d Tells
Convention of
Negro Work

The Daily Worker herewith re
sumes the publication of the report
of Otto Huiswood, head of the Ne.
gro Department of the Communist
Party of the United States of Amer.
lea, which he delivered to the sixth
business session of the Party's Con.
vention here last Saturday. Rea.
sons of space made it necessary tc
print the report in sections.
Branches are being formed in a
number of districts and the COM
mittee has recently affiliated it.
self with the Workers Interna-
tional Relief. The committee has
carried on campaign for relief
of the hurricane sufferers and has
effectively exposed the role Of the
Red Cross, with its policy Of race
discrimination and as tool in the
hands of the capitalist class. Eff
forts will be made by the Party
to help make this a broad mass
movement.
Harlem Tenants League.
The. Harlem Tenants League.
though still small and weak, can
be built and can serve as an eX-
cellent means of drawing the Ne
gro masses into the struggle. We
must by all means make an ef-
fort to strengthen and broaden it.
We should help to develop similar
leagues in other large cities where
Negroes are segregated and forced
to pay exorbitant rents for the
worst novels.
Negro Champion.
After cessation for over a year,
the Negro Champion is again be-
ing published by the American
Negro Labor Congress. But at
present it appears too irregularly.
All efforts must be made to help
build the Negro Champion into a
mass organ. This can only be
done if it appears regularly as a
weekly. The paper has consider
ably improved, but needs man
ager, in addition to the editor,
who is already overburdened with
'er Party work, and the support
OF e entire Party. We must re-
alize chat powerful organ is a
prime necessity for the building
of real mass movement. With
out this, it is extremely difficult
to reach the Negro masses, who
are chloroformed by both the
white capitalist press and the Ne
gro press.
Crusader News Service.
The Crusader News Service,
which the Party supports, is of
great value. About 200 Negro
papers receive it and use its prop
aganda material. The service was
of inestimable value during the
election campaign. Most of the
Southern Negro newspapers use
hardly any other source for their
news material. The news mater
ial can be improved, but the be-
ginning is very good one.
Negro Commission.
The Party has recently estab-
lished a Negro Commission. the
purpose 'of which is TO make a
thorough survey of our Negro
work, to study the problems from
every angle, to draw up concrete
plans and to make definite recon-
mendations and proposals for our
work. The Commission has divided
itself into subcommittee, with
one comrade responsible for the
work of each committee, so as to
more effectively study the various
problems, such as trade unionism,
agriculture, race movements, class
divisions within the Negro race,
etc. The Commission has already
begun its work. The findings of
this Commission will be of ines
timable value since we know so
little of the actual facts regarding
some of the problems we are con-
fronted with in dealing with the
life Of the Negro race.
Negro Department.
A Negro Department Of the
Central Executive Committee has
been established with ore COM
rade in charge of the work. The
task Of this department is to
supervise the work of the various
auxiliary organizations to direct
the Party's Negro work, to initi-
ate policies and to put into effect
the Party's decisions OH Negro
work insofar as it comes within its
scope. The Negro Department re-
Gently arranged national tour
fo~ Comrade Hall covering some
Of the most important industrial
centers and cities with large Ne