St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1941-03-21
WILKINS ATTACKS HYPOCRISY
OF BOTH A. f. OF L. AND C. l. O.
Roy Wilkins in the NJ

OF BOTH A. F. OF L. AND C. /. O..
Roy Wilkins in the New York Amsterdam News
Union labor through its head that Negroes
pretty old Organized labor
that people ANYBODY whether he be employer
who of jobs, of this
speakers organized Albany told
Legislative committee that they favored proposed bills which would
favor those bills which would penaze labor which Negroes
from membership.
precisely passonatel
against discrimination in the Catholic Churcbu please do
say anything about Church.
The English language has word for this It is hypocrisy The
labor generally great majority Negroes
hostile the Any Negroes who preach the
who tell the unions
himself there fifty who tell stories that don't make unions look
so good
Albany, CIo said employers
the They the who Disseminated
against the Negro The unions he said could force
employer to take Chinese Negro other nationality
Prejudice he said part Of the community
could expected to fight this community evil.
There all this The employers
white employees will with Negroes That
the of the Company Brooklyn Moreover of
give employer Negroes;
bar Negroes membership and thus the employer
faced with the problem whether he shall hire colored workers The
him the trouble by discriminating FIRST.
just plain lie that the unions could force employer
to Negro the closed shop
majority shop and must majority shop
bargain employers without cracking
SMILE that cannot force the employment of members the uno
regardless of color?
AS for prejudice being of the community is But
the members of this community also? IT, in
10000 5000 work factory and members of
influence peopmebers of their families? Do they
help elect other officials? they acted straight
question their unions they really believed justice for
their coored fellow citizens they could long most
munities toward correcting community prejudice.
white alone these falacies and
representative the National Negro Congress addressed
legislative committee saying also deprecated the bills directed
against prejudice labor Said he eve have prejudice by
organizations but do laws against
Of neither churches fraenal
organizations between Negroes and jobs This testimony adds
the that people who repeat parrot fashion
slogans philosophy left really
thinking of their first They merely adherng to
Cline"
At present great struggle is between the CLIO United Auto
Ford Motor Company Ford employs about
plants ywhte The Detroit workers minimum of 100000
day. Negroes with the and fight
Negroes his side of the fence
spoken in the fight in Detroit The cooed
skepa promises They to do
nothing the payroll they getting from Ford
CLIO has declared repeatedly against the color
this matches the A. F. Of L. but beyond
the with constitutions barring
Negroes membership the CLIO reluctant
fight In Detroit the most potent argument
would be what the CLIO has
during toward prnkng Negroes
tough plants General Motors and Crysler The CLIO
bargaining with these plants that period
they really Negro opinion let them report what
they have done
And here in New City, Transport Workers Union has
Negro New Workers. however, black bus driver
the union will find that they want
public opinion they had better stop talking
lahor theory give lack Jobs.