The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-24
sue CALL FOR
.|ELP, SUPPORT
70 NEGRO ORGAN
all Johnson Choir in
Masterful Program

The American Negro Labor Con-
SIS, as the fighting vanguard Of
Negro masses, bases it's strug-
for the emancipation of the OPP
essed Negro race upon the or
lization of the Negro workers and
If unity with the workers of all
Ter races The only class which
the power and the will to
lsecute the struggle for complete
ancipation is the great class of
who toll and by their sweat pro-
'e the good things of life"
With these words, Richard B.
ore struck the keynote of the
ming at the Harlem Revels Soil
'ity Dance held Tuesday evening
the Renaissance Casino, 138th
and 7th Ave, under the auspices
the American Negro Labor Con-
'ss and the Negro Champion, its
liant weekly organ. Moore is
tional Organizer of the Congress.
Hundreds Attend.
hundreds of workers filled the
sino, representing 20 working
SIS organizations, of all races.
oh organization had a special box
it's own, with a banner or p'acard
iped in front of it inscribed with
gans and race solidarity.
Among the organizations repre-
ted were: the All-America Anti
perialist League; American-West
iian Benevolent Society; Archi-
tural Bronze and Iron Workers
non; Chinese Workers Alliance;
lily Worker; District Negro Com
ttee, WORKERS (Communist)
rty; Freiheit; Haitian Patriotic
ZION; Harlem Educational Forum;
rlem Tenants League; Institute
/, Social Study; International La
Defense; japanese Workers AS
.iation; Needle Trades Workers
lustrial Union; Negro Workers
lief Committee; New Masses;
w York Federation of Working
omen; Office Workers Union;
oletcos Cooperative; Spanish
orkers Club; Students Literary
ISOLATION; Trade Union Educa-
nal League; Window Cleaners
elective Union, Local s; Women's
" Workers League; Workers
ommunist) Party, District 2;
orkers (Communist) Party. Dis
ct 2, Section a; Workers Inter
tional Relief; Workers School;
Jung Workers (Communist)
ague.
Negro Choir Masterful.
The Hall johnson Negro Choir,
filling all expectations previous
the affair, brought the workers
thered to the climax of the even
with its masterful renditions of
egro spirituals. Protracted APP
ause at the end of the arranged
ogram brought the Choir back for
encores. In all they sang five
rituals, "Rise On, Jesus" "Water-
w." "Hold Onw, "You Better
md" and "Dis Hambone."
In his call for all workers to show
ass and racial solidarity, Moore
ntinued:
1.-THE parasitic middle class al
lys deserts the struggle of the
asses in crisis. This is most
airing in the history of the Negro.
Masses Are the Vanguard.
"While we welcome the support
those honest elements who SYM
thize with the struggle of the
)rkers, we depend upon the masses
workers, black and white, to
.uggle because their conditions
mpel them to.
"This solidarity demonstration is
elf concrete evidence of the fact
at the only force which can break
wn the barriers of race prejudice
the conscious and militant van
ard of labor. The employers main
in race prejudice in order to
vide and exploit the workers of all
ces. Though they play around
tn fake inter-racial committees,
ey will never do a single thing to
POLISH the class system for this
stem is an integral part Of the
lperialist profit system, out of
hich they draw super-profits. But
e workers are realizing inter-