The Omaha guide., 1937-11-06

fight for progress have their eff
orts arrested.
Millions of peoples are slaugh-
tered and property wasted. Work
ers are victims. We r also con-
cerned about the maintenance of
the institutions of democracy, be-
cause under the maintenance of the
frame work of democracy man
kind moves forward in the van of
progress. The workers are able to
fight for Liberation, and for that
reason all the people in the world,
Jews, Negroes, Catholics and the
other groups in America must fight
for the preservation of democracy.
The Negro people r essentially
the working people, and u pro-
blems are those of working people.
! In other words, we have to sell
our labor in the market from day
to day, to get the means to buy
clothing, food and shelter. When
wages are low, living is low. 1t is
the interest of the workers to fight
for higher wages because it means
life. White workers have the same
exploiters that we do, and have the
same goal. All workers want Sc
curity on the job in order that they
may not constantly face fear. The
workers want a higher standard of
living which may enable them to
enjoy the culture of our civiliza-
ton, and the work of our artists,
and writer's, and philosophers, etc.
workers need leisure, time in
which to develop the mind, spirit
and soul. Negro workers must build
power because it is obvious that in
this machine age that it is utterly
impossible for the workers to Sc
cure the things they need without
power. Business interests have po-'
wer. It is a historical fact that
groups that possess power, keep
it. All groups must build power.
The only way Negroes and whites
can build power is to form industi-
al unions.
eve have come to the point in
America where the forces that con-
troll our lives, the great trust and
holding companies, ETC., will crush
the workers unless they are we'll
organized.
Because of the rise of mass pro
duction in America today, the
march of specialization and tech
nogical advances, workers must
build structures to combat these
forces; as a result the old craft
form of unionism is now giving
away to Industrial Unionism, be-
cause it has the power to combat
the organized powers in steel, rub
Der, automobiles, and various mass
industries of the nation. It is evil
dent hat this must constitute the
new form of industrial organization
in this country. And the Negroes
are now participating in and build
these industrial organizations.
In Chicago, they have marched
in the van of industrial progress
to win economic security and free
dom. So the problem of the Negro
today is shifting. 1t is tied up with
the problem of workers in this ma
ton, with the problem of peace,
and with the problem of world
democracy.
mo Negro is safe while one
white worker is in bondage, and no
white worker is safe while one
Negro is a slave. Workers in Am
erica today know that we face a
crisis. The Liberty League, United
States Chamber of Commerce are
attempting to make an association
of American Manufacturers laws
for the incorporation of unions.
"The reasons for the 18th and
18th Amendments not being obser-
we'd comes not from outside, not
because of race or color, but be-
cause of fundamental weakness on
on the part of the Negroes them
selves. In other words, it expresses
an age old saying that whoever is
weak somebody will trample upon
him, black, white, yellow or brown,
somebody will subjugate him. He
is s~ubjugated because he is weak.
He is weak because he lacks or
ganization. Therefore, the problem
of the Negro people today, is a
problem of organization, unity to
build trade and industrial organi-
cation to achieve things. This does
not mean that Negro people should
build for themselves alone. The
trade union movement is a move
ment of white workers, and black