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Steamship Lines" Negro Factories, ="
etc.
From the very beginning Carney
was opposed to Negro workers join
ing or organizing trade unions and
even after he went to Jamaica he
opposed the trade unions Of the
Negroes, where there is no excuse to
oppose joining unions because of the
exclusion policies of white unions as
in America and South Africa, since
there are no white unions in Jamaica.
But more of Garvey. My aim now
Is to give thread Of the role the
Negro reformists are playing in him
dering the development of class con-
seriousness among the Negro masses
and widening the cleavage between
white and black labor.
Advocates of Segregation
With the development of the Negro
intelligentsia, middle class intellec-
tuals, a layer of small capitalist
business men and bourgeoisie in
America and Africa, as well as Negro
bourgeois politicians, native chiefs,
there has grown up very substantial
block Of Negro reformists They line
UP with the white bourgeoisie against
the class interests of the Negro
masses. This group supports ghetto
life," racial segregation; they are en-
ployed by white capitalists and phil
anthropists to work out separatist
ghetto programs for the Negro
masses in order to keep the ranks of
the workers divided.
The Urban League has followed a
vicious policy of creating hatred
among Negro workers against white
workers. The Urban League leaders
tell the Negro workers: The white
capitalists are your friends. They
supply you with jobs; the white
workers don't want you to have a
job; you should accept job even at
lower wages than the white workers
from your white friends, the capital
lists. This is the counterpart Of the
policy Of the A. F. Of L. leaders. To-
day Kinckle Jones, 8 leader Of the
Urban League, is high paid official
in the government.
These leaders place the whole
blame of the plight Of the Negro
people upon the white working class
and free the white capitalist class
of all the blame. This is the fun
damental policy Of the Negro reform
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efficient" at trade and subordinate
ing any social or political aspirations
he might have to this.
Booker It. Washington was able to
sell this idea to the white rulers in
the following way: ''There is more
profit and less waste in utilizing
efficient and trained Negro artisans"
who would be educated in such a
manner as to make them satisfied
with the existing conditions such as
disfranchisement, etc., than to use
unskilled labor" For this service to
the white capitalists Booker T. Wash
ington got large sums of money for
Tuskegee Institute.
From the Booker r. Washington
philosophy sprang the petty bour-
geois Negro Business Mems League
of which he was the founder, and
his successor at Tuskegee, DR.. Motion,
is the present head.
The struggle against the Booker
T. Washington leadership was de-
veloped by DR.. w. E. B. Dubois sup
ported by other Negro scholars as
William Monroe Trotter, both Of
whom were graduates of Harvard
University and well educated, par
ticularly, Dubois
This fight was fight Of higher
education for Negroes versus the
Booker T. Washington Industrial
Education" It was fought bitterly.
1t resulted in the formation of the
National Association for the Adj
vancement of Colored People. The
social characteristic of this organiza-
ton today is that Of the petty bour-
geois middle class. OF 1t we shall
speak later.
Hatred Towards White Workers
The Carney movement arose as q
Negro nationalist bourgeois move
ment BY taking advantage Of the
unrest and resentment of the Negro
masses against intolerable racial
abuses and oppression, Carney built
Up program Of Negro bourgeois ma
tionalism and racialisrn. Carney de-
MED the principle of working class
struggle against capitalism; he used
the grievances which were grievances
against white bourgeois capitalism to
develop his nationalist movement.
The program Of Negro bourgeois ma
tionalism was clearly demonstrated
by the "get-rich-quick" schemes, such
as stock companies, BLACK Star
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Silk Workers Force
Seger tOPutHR 1898
in Congress Record
Clifton City Council
Sends Resolution
to Washington

NEW YORK.-The mass pressure
of the workers Of Clifton, N. j., the
silk town between Passaic and Pater-
son, forced Congressman George N.
Seger, Of Passaic, to introduce into
the Congressional record in the
House, the resolution Of the City
Council Of Clifton which supports the
Workers Unemployment and Social
Insurance Bill (aR759S).
Clifton is the silk and silk dyeing
center where, during the last silk
strike, militant pickets battled police
for the right to picket the mills.
The Clifton textile workers, led by
the Unemployment Councils, forced
the city council of Clifton to pass a
resolution indorsing the Workers Bill.
The resolution states that ''The
Clifton City Council endorses HR.
1898, known as the Lundeen Workers
Unemployment and Social Insurance
Act and that, the Congressman from
this congressional district and our
two United States Senators Be re-
quested to aid in the passage OF this
Bill, and that copy Of this resolu-
ton be forwarded to each OF them
to the United States Secretary Of La
Dor and to Representative Lundeen."
Seger, feeling the mass pressure OF
the Clifton and PaSsaic textile work
ers, raised the question in the House
and had the Clifton resolution IN
cluded in the Congressional Record
The National Unemployed Council
initiator Of the Bill, states that Seger
must be forced to fight for the enact
ment Of the Workers Bill and that all
workers and their organizations in
Seger's district should write and tele-
graph him, demanding that he ap-
pear before the House Labor Com
mittee and fight for the passage OF
the Bill
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| the white proletariat will free the
Negro slaves"
It was in this sense that the first
Macdonald Socialist Labor govern
ment of England acted when it used
bombs to kill and massacre Indian
workers and when it sent troops in
to Africa to shoot down defenseless
Negro women in 1929.
These agents of the white ruling
class have developed the ideas OF
ehauvinism to a very high degree,
They are to be held directly respon-
sible for the spread Of chauvinism
among the white workers. They have
made the task Of overcoming chau-
vinisin a difficult one, but it must be
fought against.
The A. F. of L. and the Socialist
leaders are the principal cause for
developing cleavage between the
Negro and white workers,
Negro Refor1nist Enemies of the
Negro People
At the opposite end Of the pole,
so to speak, are the Negro reformists.
They too are agents Of the white rul-
ers, among the Negro people. They
help to antagonize the Negro work
ers against the white workers. In
this period in which we are now
their service to the white rulers, in
addition to doing everything to fur
Their widen the gap between Negro
and white workers, is to head off the
Negro masses from Communism or
revolutionary struggle against the
principal enemy for their needs, the
white ruling class.
This Negro reformist leadership has
had a deadening effect upon the
Negro masses since the Civil War.
Since the Civil War the Negro peo-
pie have been under the scourge Of
jim-crowism and segregation and
have been misled by Negro reformist
leaders in the unequal fight for ma
tional liberation. without betterment
of their conditions. These Negro
leaders have either pointed to heaven
or to some far off distant future
where the troubles of the Negroes"
will be solved.
The post Civil War leader Of the
Negro people accepted by the white
ruling class was Booker T. Washing
ton. His philosophy was the follow
ing: the Negro can only better his
economic condition by becoming more
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BY JAMES FORD

(Crganizer Harlem Section C.P0
The pre- Convention is in full swing.
There are many problems to be dis
cusSed. But for the moment want to
discuss only one phase of our work.
1t is: The growth of Negro reformism
and It's petty bourgeois nationalist
influence in our Party, which places
dangers before us in winning the
Negro masses for our Party and for
the national liberation movement of
the Negro. people, and in establish
ing unity between Negro and white
workers.
This question has particular sig
nihcance for our work in Harlem Gas
well as other parts Of the country !,
since we have correctly characterized
Harlem as the national and interna-
tional center of Negro reformisln.
The struggle against petty bourgeois
nationalist influences at this mo-
ment OF sharpening class struggle,
fascism and war, becomes on par
with the struggle against white chau-
vinism, in the sense that great res
possibility rests upon the Negro
comrades to combat this anti-work-
ing class influence.
White lChauvinism the Main Danger
One Of the principle weapons of
the white ruling class in carrying
out its policies of jim crowism, seq
regation, and the national oppres-
sion of the Negro people, is the ideo-
logy or philosophy of white chauvin-
ism, that is, race prejudice. This idea
of race prejudice springs from the
false idea of superior" races and
develops into extreme nationalisni.
The white ruling class spreads the
idea that the achievements of mod
ern capitalism have been made be-
cause of the superiority" Of the So
called white race. The bourgeoisie
goes further and tells the white
workers that they, being members Of
the white race, are superior" beings,
superior" to Chinese, Indians and
Negroes and that they must treat
these races with contempt; that the
''colored" races are made by god to be
exploited by the white race. However,
the white ruling class has demon
strated that race" does not matter,
that white workers must be merci-
lessly exploited also. Nevertheless, the
ideas Of white chauvinisrn have taken
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root among sections of the white
workers 1t is the greater danger.
Social Fascist Enemies of the Negro
People
The principle agency for extend
ing and spreading race prejudice,
white chauvinist tendencies into the
ranks of the working class has been
the leaders of the American Fedora
ton Of Labor The A. F. Of L. leaders
bar Negroes from the trade unions;
in the South, the A. F. of L. leaders
support the Ku Klux Khan against
the Negroes; it has supported and
consistently followed the policy of
the ruling class, Of jim-crowism, seq
legation, and Of organized pogroms
against the equality OF the Blacks
can deny.
Equally blameable is the leadership
Of the Socialist Party. The Socialist
Party leaders oppose the slogan of
self determination for the Negroes
in the Black Belt of the South, the
highest expression Of equality, be-
cause the white landlords will resist
it. Then the fight for equal rights
1OI 4NCSlOCO 10 WlOll5 OCSGuoS bA4C
white landlords will resist this also.
Let the Negroes remain jin1-crowed
and segregated. Let the ideas of
white chauvinism prevail. This is the
logic of the Socialist Party leaders.
ChauviniSm is the international
policy Of the Socialist leaders. They
look upon the achievements of the
great white" race as something
above the Negro race. Looking down
upon the Negro people, the Socialist
leaders see them as the white mans
burden" that the Blacks are made
by god to be inhumanly exploited and
that the tasks of the capitalists sup
ported by them is to carry "civiliza-
ton" to the Negro people. 1t is in this
sense that Leon Blum, q leader of
the Socialist Party of France, praises
the "civilizng' influence of French
imperialism in its colonies They are
against the effuality of the Blacks
with the whites. They look down
from their mighty heights" upon
the 'untouchables," the Negroes,
Chinese and Hindus.
It Is in this sense that Karl Kaut-
sky, the leading exponent Of socialism
of the Socialist International, speaks
when he says: LET the Blacks wait
until the advent Of socialism and
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Railroad Cleaners
Speeded Up Long
Island R.R. Yards
Wages Cut So Weekly F.;
Do Twice as Much
Work
By a Railroad Worker

LONG ISLAND CITY-Two weeks
ago I quit my job in the cleaning
department at the Sunnyside and
Long Island Railroad yard because
couldn't stand it any longer.
We women have plenty to talk
about If we want to talk. I quit be-
cause I couldn't stand working like
a slave. Three years ago I worked
here and I came back last month
thinking 1t would be the same work
as before. We used to clean four
trains a day, seven days week and
make $40.
Eight Trains a Day
Now we clean 8 trains day, work
five days a week and make S14.20 a
week. We are supposed to get 40c
an hour but we only get S51ac an
hour.
We are supposed to get off at 8
o'clock but the speed-up is SO strong
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reprint IN large quantities and supply
copies through the Unemployment
Council.
Million Messages TO Congress
AS a further means Of popularizinS
the Bill and of informing the Con-
gressmen and Senators Of the mass
support which this Bill has rallied.
the Unemployment Councils have
also issued a call to every worker and
to every interested organization to
send messages to their Congressman
and Senators Of their districts and
states For this purpose a post card
has been printed and is being made
available. The post card carries q
photostatic reproduction of the front
page Of the Workers Bill and a de-
mand that the member Of Congress
to whom 1t is addressed shall actively
support and secure its immediate
enactment"
May First Slogan
The National Committee urges al
workers to carry the Bill into theil
shops and organizations for discus
sion and endorsement. These discus
sions should serve to prepare the
workers to demonstrate for enact
ment Of the Bill on May / when one
of the main slogans Will be: ENACT
THE WORKERS BILL CHR. 7598) T.
If this program is vigorously car.
ried out, the National Council pointl
out, the members Of the Houst
Committee on Labor will be forceC
to report the Bill out for fay
orable action. If they fail to do so
the pressure Of the workers in thu
various sections of the country VII
force at least 145 Congressman t.
sign a round robin" that Will servu
to take the Bill out Of the hands O.
the committee and onto the floor o
Congress.
All workers and their organization
should act on these proposals of tn,
National Unemployment Council
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This time with full support Of the
workers unemployed, and the farmers
whom they support. Congress, the
bankers, the war mongers, they all
fear this unity Of the veterans, just
as they fear the unity of the workers
in strikes and the unemployed in
their demands for immediate relief
and unemployment insurance. This
organized mass pressure Of the vet
Grams and the support Of the masses
of the people forced the present &C
ton in Congress. 1t is this power
which will give the veterans the pro-
lection against hunger and want; it
is this power that will give us our
back pay.
In the Field
This militant voice Of the vets is
heard from all parts Of the country.
The Rank and File Committee in
Washington has constant inquiries,
when do we go back to Washing
toni" The vets in the camps ask the
same question.
WEST COAST reports tri-state
veteran conference Of the WE.S.L. in
washington, California and Oregon
The rank and file vets are modifying
their forces, answer their call fall in
line.
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Negro Question Be Taken Up Earnestly in FeCo0enion Discussion

lists. 1t is not difficult for them to
influence the nationalist tendencies
among sections of the backward rank
and file Of the Negro people, espe-
cially since chauvinism has been
raised to such a high degree by the
A. F. Of L. and Socialist Party lead
ers. It is not difficult for them to
develop the hatred of the Negro peo-
pie on nationalist lines against the
white working class.
Crisis Increases Oppression
Meanwhile the economic crisis has
not let UP. The conditions Of the
Negro people become worse. The at
tacks upon the Negro people during
this crisis are severe. The whole ma
tional oppression Of the Negro peo-
pie, iirn-crowism, segregation, lower
standards, discrimination by the
MIRA. and on jobs, discrimination in
getting relief. increased lynchings are
the outstanding expressions of the
catastrophe conditions Of the Negro
people today.
The government has uSeQ all OF us
agencies not only to attack the liv-
ing standards but to tighten its grip
upon the masses in order to prepare
the way for fascism and to prepare
for war with their terrible effects
upon the Negro people, examples OF
which we find in Austria and Ger
many where fascism exists. The
Negro reformists are more and more
the willing agents Of the government
in its attacks upon the Negro masses.
These savage attacks against the
Negro people and lynch terror have
caused the widest indignation among
white and Negro workers and have
brought them into militant struggle
against oppression and lynching. The
indignation of the masses against
lynching, the reyolutionization Of the
Negroes against the whole system OF
capitalism has caused great concern
and fear in the ranks OF the white
rulers. They are therefore calling
upon their willing tools, the Negro
reforrnist leaders, to help them head
off the Negro masses from Commun-
ism, from revolutionary struggle,
This accounts for the feverlsh aetiy-
tiles Of the Negro refornists for the
fake anti-lynch bills now before
Congress.
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BickneH U.M.W.A. Local
Unanimous for
HR 1898
ALL ACTS
2 Painters and l Jewelry
Local, Indorse Bill

NEW YORK.-PiYe additional locsl
unions Of the A. ?. Of L. have ~
dorsed the Workers Unemployme,
and Social Insurance Bill CIR. 1885
and demanded It's enactment by the
present session Of congress. These
local unions include one miners local,
two painters locals, one auto and
one jewelTy workers local.
Local Union 6sOs Of the United
Mine Workers Of America, at Bick-
nell, INDIAN, have unanimously In
dorsed the Workers Bill CIR. 1898
and called for its enactment.
Largest Metal Union Endorses 4
The White Motor local in Cleve
land Of the Automobile worken
Union "a. F. Of L. unanimously in
/ 6orsed the Bill CHR. 1899, and
voted to communicate with the other
locals in favor Of the bill. This local
Is the largest local union Of the A.
F. Of L. in the metal industry in the
city Of Cleveland. The plant is 100
per cent organized.
Two local unions Nos. COS aud Sse
in New York, Of the Painters Dec
I orators and Paperhangers "a. F. Of
L., have Endorsed the Workers Bill,
Local union 49e wrote William Green
| Congressman Lundeen and Congress-
man Connery Of the House Commit
/ tee on Labor calling for action al
| the present session of congress on
| the bill. Each Of these two local
unions numbers approximately 100
members.
Farmers and CO-OpS Indorsc
The international Jewelry Workers
Union, local one, New York City
"A. F. of L. at its membership
meeting on Feb. 81, endorsed the
Workers Bill, CHR. 1899, and sent
a telegram TO the Labor Board in
Washington, urging them to speak in
favor Of the bill.
The New Cooperative Co., of Dill
Ionvale, Ohio at its last regular
meeting adopted a resolution de-
handing that the present session Of
| Congress enact the Workers Unem-
ployment Insurance Bill CHR. 1885,
as the only bill meeting the urgent
need Of the present situation"
The Dawson County Labor League
with headquarters at Mitchell, South
Dakota, at its meeting OF Feb. g.
voted to indorse the Workers Bill
CHR. 1899 and instructed its se3
rotary to wire South Dakota senators
and representatives to vote for this
bill.
The National Unemployment Coun-
ellis calls on all workers and workers
organizations to get behind the
Workers Unemployment and Social
/ Insurance Bill and to demand that
| their own Congressman, Congress
man Connery and Lundeen, fight fol
enactment Of the bill at this session
of Congress.
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Five More AL Locals Press Congress for
Immediate Enactment OF Social Insurance
National JObLeSs Councils
Call for ActiOn on HR. 1898

NEW YORK.-In answer to the
efforts Of Congress to sidestep the
demands of millions Of workers for
immediate enactment Of the Workers
Unemployment and Social Insurance
Bill (H. r. 1899 the National Unem-
ployment Council has issued a call to
all affiliated organizations, unions
and fraternal lodges to rally in a
fight to force Congress to act favor
ably on this vital measure.
The Unemployment Council points
cut that while millions of workers
are looking to Congress for action TO
relieve the suffering of the victims
Of mass unemployment, the members
Of Congress, with the help of the
A. F. of L. leadership are attempting
to bury the Workers Bill in the House
Labor Committee and substitute in
its place the fake measure introduced
by Senator Wagner.
In order to prevent this, the Ma
tional Committee of the Unemploy-
ment Councils in It's first session
outlined program intended to
pOpuldTLIS LlS WOIAeTS Dill allQ
bring pressure to bear upon Congress
for its enactment.
Bill To Be Circulated
As n first step, 100000 copies Of
the Bill as introduced by Congress
man Lundeen, have been printed.
The Council will supply Organiza-
tons and individuals interested In
the circulation of the Bill with
copies at the rate Of soc per hum
dred or 50 per thousand.
Many reports have already beer
received for copies Of the Bill. Some
Of these which were sent to Lundeer
have been forwarded by him to the
Unemployment Council. The govern.
ment printing office rate for copie;
is too high (S13 for the first Thousand
and s212 for each additional thou.
sand. Therefore it was decided tC
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that sometimes we don't finish till S
or 10 o'clock and we don't get paid
extra for this.
The foremen are terrible. They
only work for the bosses and they
don't care about the poor workers
When say to the other women why
don't we drop everything at 9 O'Clock
and go, they say they're afraid to
lose their job.
II you ask the women about some
sort OF organization, they say; if We
lose our jobs where will we go2
Note
The writer of this letter and all
railroad workers confronted with
Organizational problems and griev-
ances on the job should immedi-
ateIy get in touch with the Trade
Union Unity Council, 799 Broadway,
Room 238, where they will be given
advice on organizing the workers
in rank and file action committees
and unions, and give contact with
other workers in the industry, who
have grievances.
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w WAITS ON
(BrOoELyH)

DANCE and Play given By Mario Rapi-
sardi Br. Two at LaisVe Hall, AT Lorimer
St, 8 pm. adm. 25c.
4th ANNIVERSARY Of Unemployed Coun-
ellis, Concert and Dance at Brighton Beach
Workers Center, 1900 Coney Island Ave.
Theatre Of Action; New Dance Group.
Chamber Music. Dancing TIL dawn.
FREIHETT Gesang Farein. oratoTio on
1.-TWO Brothers" By Jacob Sohaefer; Emma
Redell Soprano soloist, assisted By SYM
phony Orchestra; New Soviet Songs; Brook
lyn Academy Of Music. Tickets soc, 75c,
$500.
CONCERT and Dance, Boro Park Unem-
ployed Council at Two. Center, 1878 =
43rd St., Brooklyn, $3.50 pm. Red Dancers,
string Orchestra, Dramatic Group and
others.
MUSICAL and Dance given by Brownsville
Youth Center los Thstford Ave-, $50 pm
Dancing till dawn.
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