Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-13
The Front Line

bosses, the Negro lnlsleduers
use Jim-CroW to exploit the
Negro asses themselves.
Therefore they sweat to keep
up Jim-Crowism.
OF course the whole policy
of the A. F. of L. leadership
discri m mating against
Negroes-gives the Negro
misleaders their point of
attack. But the deliberate
Jim Grow policy OF the A. F.
of L. bureaucracy is used by
the Negro reformists in such
a way as to cover up the real
issue. They are careful not
to point uot OF the Negro
masses the difference be-
tween the masses of white
workers in the A. F. of L. and
the A. F. of L. leadership.
They tell the Negroes that
there is one A. F. of L. policy
the policy of leaders and
rank and file alike-in a
word, policy of the white
workers against the Negroes.
An editorial in the Pitts
burgh Courier, unofficial organ
of the National Association for
the Advancement of ColOred
People, says:
I'VE deplore the fact that
the A. Il. of l.. closed shop has
generally been closed to Negro
labor, while the open shop has
so frequently been open to
Negro labor, but we cannot
deny its reality"
This is clear; the Negroes,
according to the Pittsburgh
Courier, must fight for the
open shop, they must help the
bosses and the A. F. of L.
leaders break strikes.
In his report on the Negro
question at the Sth National
Convention of the Communist
Party, Harry Haywood said:
Negro reformism with sing
ular exactness adapts itself
to the specific needs of Ameri-
can Imperialism at the present
moment. BY indiscriminately
branding all unions as natural
enemies of the Negro workers,
by blurring over the role of the
Communists and revolutionary
trade unions, the only force
fighting for the rights of the
Negro toilers on the economic
field and against the reaction
airy trade union A. F. of L.
bureaucracy-this means not
only to deceive the Negro
workers, but to sabotage their
struggle against Jim Crowism
on the job, in the shops, fac
tories, etc, to give direct sup
port to the capitalists and the
fascist A. F. of L. bureaucracy"
The present strike is a good
example of this. The Negro
misleaders try to hide from the
masses the fact that there is
revolutionary Marine Workers
Industrial Union, one of whose
main fights is against Negro
discrimination. The Negroes
on the Admiral Line must
smash the company union and
join the Marine Workers Indus
trial Union. Negro takers hide
the fact that there is a grow
ing rank and file opposition
movement within the |. L. A.
and the /. S. L. against the re-
dictionary policies of the Off
cialdom. But since the Negro
takers work overtime to fool
the Negro masses, it means
that the white workers in their
fight against the A. F. of L. mis-
leaders must also fight against
the Negro misleader.
And the first step in this
fight is the war by white
workers against Negro dis
elimination. This is the only
way to give the lie to the
Negro takers. That is why
the fight now being waged in
the East Madison district
against segregation at the
voucher station is an i'm
portant battle for Negro and
white workers alike.
The fight for better economic
conditions and the emancipa-
ton from capitalism depends
on joint revolutionary struggle
OF white workers and the Negro
masses-the Negroes in the
North and the nation of nine
and a half million Negroes in
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