The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-12

General Plan for the Election of the Negro
Delegation to Attend the International Trade
Union Conference of Negro Workers To Be
Held at London, England, July LIST, 1880.
THE International Trade Union Committee of
Negro Workers, jointly with the Trade
Union Unity League, has worked out plan
whereby the election of the Negro delegates to
attend the International Trade Union Confer
ence of Negro Workers to be held at London,
England, on July /, will be an integral part
of the election of the delegates to attend the
Fifth World Congress of the Red International
of Labor Unions The National Committee of
the Trade Union Unity League has already is
sued instructions to all of it's affiliated or.
CARNATIONS to proceed with the election of dele
gates.
Forward to World Congress.
To this London Conference of Negro workers
will come Negro delegates from Africa, the
West Indies, parts of South America and the
United States to work out plans for uniting the
forces, of Negro labor and joining with the
workers of other races and nationalites for a
combined struggle against capitalism and i'm
perialsnl.
The election of the delegates in the United
States will be conducted on the basis of wide
campaigns by the Trade Union Unity League
to organize the unorganized Negro and white,
Latin American and other foreign-born work.
ers of the U.SA., to struggle against unem-
ployment, to fight racial discrimination, to es-
tablish unity between white and black workers,
to support the struggle for elf-determination
of the Negro masses in the Southern part of
the United States, to bring big quota of Ne
rl-o into he 7 T in re ~ for
$4,000 new members, and finally to carry on
wide campaign to link up the struggles of the
Negro toilers of the U.S.A. with the struggles
of the Negro toilers in other parts of the
world.
General Plan of Elections.
The T.U.U.L. is beginning a campaign to
elect 80 delegates for the Fifth World Congress
of the R.I.L.U., a minimum of of these dele
gates shall be Negro workers, who shall also
be delegates to the London conference of Ne
gro workers. At least two shall be young
workers and one woman.
Negro minorities in American Federation of
Labor locals Negro workers in ALL. jim
crow locals, independent unions of Negro work.
ers and other Negro working class organiza-
tions are especially invited to participate in
the T.U.U.L. elections by placing nominees in
the election campaigns Of the various indus
Trial unions, INDUSTRIAL leagues anu inc OlSCrcCS
of the T.U.U.L. Generally the elections will
be conducted on the basis Of industries. A
minimum of one Negro delegate shall come
from the following industries: Mining, metal,
marine, automobile, packing railroad and ag-
ricuture.
Plan of Nomination and Election.
denominations: Each local union, local lea
que, shop committee Of all the National In
dustrial Unions and Leagues and districts of
the T.U.U.L. is entitled to one candidate Mass
meetings are to be called by these locals and
groups to which shall be invited all workers
from shops and factories in the locality-or-
ganized and unorganized, employed and unem-
ployed, Negro and white. Nominations for can
didates are to be made at these meetings and
voting conducted by show of hands (there will
be no secret balloting). The worker receiving
the highest number Of votes in each local or
group shall be the nominee for that local. The
names and all particulars are to be sent to the
Executive Boards not later than April 81.
2.-Elections: The Executive Boards or spe-
cial election committees shall select the 20
highest candidates of this nomination, write
them on sheet of paper and submit them for
national industrial elections, instructing the
locals to hold similar mass meetings as for the
nominations. A vote is to be taken on the
quota Of delegates allotted to the respective
industrial unions. The Executive Boards or