The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-04
Negro Women in Industry
BY BURCK

to join the unions The fascist leaders of the
A, F, of L. who follow the policy of the Amer
lean bosses Green's promise to Hoover not to
lead any strikes, which can only be in the inter-
est OF the boSseS), also follow the policy of the
bosses in lowering the standard of the Negro
workers, which was terribly low even before the
wage slaSheS began. Negro women are totally
unorganized in the American Federation of
Labor, for added to its policy of discriminating
against Negroes generally, the A. F. of L. does
not even make pretense of carrying on work
among Negro women workers. for they are
mainly unsklled workers.
Only in the revolutionary unions of the Trade
Union Unity League do the Negro workers, both
women and men, find place. In these unions,
the Negro workers stand and fight shoulder to
shoulder with the white workers. The Trade
Union Unity League not only admits the Negro
to its ranks, but carries on a militant fight to
line up the Negro workers. 1t conducts a bitter
struggle against white chauvinism Cthe feeling
of superiority of whites over Negroes en- the
basis of bosses ideas taken over by the white
workers. it MAKES it the duty particularly of the
white workers in is ranks to fight for the rights
of the Negroes against jmcrowism, segregation
and discrimination. Thus, not in words alone,
but in deed, the Trade Union Unity League is
the only organization of the workers on the
industrial field where the Negro and white work
er is united in struggle against the bosses.
This applies in equal measure to Negro women
worker, who are growing in numbers in indus
try. Still the number of Negro workers in the
Trade Union Unity League and particularly of
Negro women workers, is insigniicantly small
Therefore the Trade Union Unity League must
pay far more attention to this important sec
ton of the working class
The Communist Party, which unites the work
ers OF all nationalities in it's revolutionary
ranks and leads the struggles of the entire work.
ing class is the only political party of the work
ing class which fights for its interests. The
Negro women together with the Negro men, have
been fooled by Negro leaders, also of the stamp
Of the socialists, who work together with the
fascist strkebreaking leaders of the American
Federation Of Labor and the BOSSES The So
cialiSts make bid for the support of the lily
whites of the south and of the north. They not
only do nothing to prevent lynching, but even
aid 1t by their indifference. The Communist
Party is carrying on a bitter fight for Negro
rights, and has as its policy the prevention of
lynching by demanding the death sentence for
lynchers, and also the organization Of white and
Negro workers into defense corps to prevent the
mobs from laying their hands on Negro work
Of the Negroes to self-determination lii the
south, where the Negroes in the black belt are
the majority. 1t fights for the right of Negro
state thus founded to, separate from the United
States If they so desire
4. This policy, for which the Communists fight
openly, has made them feared and hated by the
white bosses Of this country and their govern
p1ent. The Communists are hated also by the
Negro intellectuals and businessmen who see
that the Communist Party is being regarded by
the Negroes as the ONLY organization that rep
resents their interests.
The Negro women workers must begin to rec
ognize that only through organization and fight
ing for working class rights will they be able
to improve their condictions. The white work.
ers, and particularly the women workers, must
recognize the need Of getting the Negro women
workers into the fighting industrial unions Of
lining them up for strike struggle This is the
duty Of the Trade Union Unity League and the
Communist Party toward this growing section
Of the American working class, at the same
special grievances and demands of the Negro
workers
international Wornen's Day on March 8, must
be day for mobilizing the Negroes and particu-
larly the Negro women for the struggle against
the crisis and the danger OF a new irnperialist
war. The Communists must make this one Of
their principal duties in the campaign to unite
and lead the entan working class In struggle !