The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-01
By GILBERT LEWIS.
Negro TUUL OrgdnideI)

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Gastonia signalizes not only the
first attempt to smash race prejudice
and unite the brutally exploited Ne
gro and white toilers of the South
in a joint struggle, but it also marks
the first sincere effort ever made to
organize the oppressed Negro work
ers of the South, at all. Organized
labor, heretofore, had either capt.
ulated before the sharp white chau-
vinism of the South, regarded the
Negro as impossible of organization,
or, like the social-fascist American
Federation of Labor, played the
game of the bosses and completely
ignored the Negro altogether.
The correctness of the Communist
International analysis of radicali-
cation of the Southern proletariat,
of the rehabilitation of the Negro
masses and the possibility of win
ming them for the revolutionary
struggle, of the possibility OF smash
ing race prejudice and uniting the
Negro and white workers for a COM
mon struggle against Imperialism,
has been indicated on a wide scale.
Gastonia has had it's repercussions
on many fronts.
Revolutionary Trade Unions
in the Sou.
In various cities of the South, in
Houston, Texas, in Atlanta, Ga,
Chattanooga, Tenn, New Orleans,
La, Birmingham, Ala, Charleston,
S. c., Greenville, S. c., Winston
Salem, N. c., Charlotte, N. Ca, and
others, locals of the Trade Union
Unity League have been set up and
hundreds of Negro and white work
ers drawn into the revolutionary
struggle, Again and again, both
white and Negro speakers have ap-
peared before mixed audiences ex-
pounding a program of revolutionary
unionism, of full social, economic
and political equality for Negroes,
for the ultimate establishment in
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ers' government.
Glass solidarity - class interests
rising supreme to any interests OF
race-has been demonstrated on
many occasions.
At an open air meeting in Chatta-
nooga, when the Negro organizer for
the .TUUL along with the white or
ganizers and four workers, was ar
rested, a band of Ku-Kluxers gather
ed around him and raised the cry:
Lynch him, lynch the damn Ne
gro!" Immediately white and Ne
gro workers gathered around the
Negro organizer to protect him
should anyone start anything.
White Workers Protect Negro
Speaker.
At a factory gate meeting before
one of the largest metal plants in
the city, white and Negro workers
again gathered around the Negro or.
ganizer to protect him when he took
the platform to speak.
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lie T. u. u. l.. in Chattanooga,
white and Negro workers have
taken the floor and voiced their
intention of fighting side by side
and refuting any attempt of the
bosses to set one race against the
other in the event that any of our
meetings should be smashed.
The rehabilitation of the Negro
masses, their determination to strug'
gle against the bosses and their gov
eminent, their willingness to fight
side by side with the white workers
for complete emancipation of the
working class, has been given SHARP
expression.
In Charlotte, N. c., the March Str
demonstration was made possible
largely through the determination Of
the Negro workers to demonstrate
despite police interference.
In Greenville, S. G., Negro work.
rs threw down their tools on Feb