Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1941-03-21
WILKINS ATTACKS HYPOCRISY
OF BOTH A. f. OF L. AND C.. |. o.
Roy wilkins in the New York Amsterdam News rs

Union labor get through Negroes
pretty tired of the old stuff Organized labor needs learn
that eoOred people think ANYBODY whether be employer union
who keeps Negroes of jobs enemy Of this
On March speakers for organized labor Albany and told
Legislative committee that they favored proposed bills which would
penaize employers discriminating Negroes but did
favor those bills which would penaze labor unions which bar Negroes
from membership.
precisely Methodist declared passiOnatey
against discrimination the Catholic Churchbut please do
anything about discrimination in the Methodist Church
The English language has word for this 1t hypocrisy The
labor unions generally regarded by the majority of Negroes
hostile the Any Negroes who preach the union do
the face of skepsm the of their fellows For
eoOred who tell good story for the unions and
himself there fifty who tell stories that don't make unions look
so good.
Albany representative employers
the real criminals They he sad the who Disseminated
against the Negro The unions he said again. could force
employer to take Chinese Negro, other nationality
Prejudice ne said once more was part of the community and
unions could not be expected fight this community evil
this employers
charge that white employees will work with Negroes That is
Sperry Company Brooklyn Moreover many
unions Negroes from membership and thus the employer
unions him the trouble by discriminating FIRST
is just plain lie that the unions could not force employer
hire Negro member. the union has closed shop
majority shop (and have least majority shop cannot
bargain with employers does it to assert without cracking
smile that force the employment of members of the union
regardless of their mere color?
prejudice being part community,
the union members of this community also? IT, town
$4,000 people, 5000 work at factory and members of
unOn not these 5000 people part of the town? Do they not
influence least 1900 popmembers of their families? Do they
question they really believed in justice for
their oored fellow citizens they could long in most
munties toward correcting community prejudice.
that white unonists not alone these faaces and
prensons National Congress addressed
the legislative committee saying he also deprecated the bills directed
against prejudice labor unions Said he eve have prejudice by
churches and na organizations but do not laws against
Of Because neither churches faena
Negroes jobs This testimony adds
proof that people who fashion
philosophy of labor and left wing really
thinking their They merely adherng to
Cline"
At present struggle between the CIO United Auto
Motor Ford employs about
his River Rouge plant Detroit but his other
ywhe The Detroit workers of $4,000
JAW the Negroes join with the union and fight
Ford the Negroes stay his side of the fence
spoken in the fight in Detroit The coord
properly kepca of promises They want do
nothing the payroll they getting from Ford
CLIO declared repeatedly against the color
matches the A. F. of L. but has beyond
F. that has unions with constitutions barring
Negroes membership But the CLIO reluctant in
fight Detroit the potent
workers would be what the CLIO has
during toward pnng Negroes into
the tough General Crysler The CLIO
bargaining with these plants that period
influence Negro opinion let them report what
they have done.
City, the Transport Workers Union has
strike of bus drivers There aren't cheers from
New Workers. however, for black bus driver
anywhere again. the union will find that they want
support Negro public opinion they had better stop talking
much labor theory and give black men some jobs.