The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 15, 1924, Page 3

Friday, February 15, 1924 THE DAILY WORKER BiG ISSUES TO TEST SANHEDRIN AT TODAY'S MEET Lynching, Segregation, Disfranchisement, Up (Continued from page 1.) pretext that that Sanhedrin merely a get-together affair. Equality in Labor Unions. | Fortunately it seems likely that a! is to End Race Negro Worke rs Have Program Discrimination against the Negro is practiced by some Discrimination Page Three LABOR FIGHTS MACHINE RULE labor unions, which draw the color line; by municipalities and landlords, who segregate the Negroes into “Black Belts” and charge them excessive rents, and by boards of education, which allow Negro schools only a fraction of the funds accorded white schools. Following is the Negro workers program for dealing with these evils, as proposed by Negro delegates from the Workers Party in resolutions at the Sanhedrin: The Segregation Evil would be paid by whites, is a rene- declaration will be made against the color line in labor unions, but there! are fears that conservative forces |"J* HE SANHEDRIN Conference de- will prevent the adoption of a defi-| 4 clares itself unalterably opposed nite program for eliminating this|to the segregation of Negroes into residence districts, We discrimination against “black belt” color line. Such a program has been h the presented by Workers Party dele-| declare gates; it calls for the Sanhedrin to | Negroes in regard to which part of circularize all labor unions still dis-|@ city they may, live in and which criminating against the black work-|part they may not live in, is a politi- ers with the appeal and demand for |¢al question, and must be dealt with the elimination of the color line | just as we deal with discrimination which prevents the worker who is in voting. The time come when good enough for the employer to/ the living accommodations of the = hee acs hire from getting into the unton. This program also calls for an in-| tensive propaganda by the Negro press urging all Negro workers to join unions wherever they can do so on a! basis of equality. | The value of equality in the labor seen by the workers’ repre- tives because they realize the necessity for the uniting of all work- | ers in a common brotherhood but it is not seen clearly by men who are associated with the real estate game and chambers of commerce, nothing of other interests. The “Black Belt” Evil, Segregation into “Black Belt” dis- tricts is one of th@ most vital issues before the race. at the Sanhedrin, Negroes are crowded into the worst parts of cities and they are com- pelled to pay exhorbitant rents— above the rates charged whites. The poor people who are gouged by the rent hogs are crying out against the policy of segregation. But there are real estate men among the Ne- groes and other business men who gain by this policy. Their voice is not raised against this iniquity in compelling tones. to say| public cannot be left to the private control of a few wealthy parasites who decide where the colored man may live and where he may not live, We demand legislation by which all tenements, apartment houses and homes to Jet shall be subject to the claim of the first comer, regardless of race or color or the will of the landlord, Whereas, it is common knowledge that Negroes are customarily charged rent at a rate of 20 per cent to 100 per cent higher than is charged for the same apartments rented to white |people, we demand legislation for a fixed rental for all places to be let, with heavy penalties and damages whenever a landlord charges higher rents for one race than would be charged another race for similar ac- commodations. We declare that any Negro real estate agent who connives in charg- ing more rent to his own color than gade and a traitor to his own people. In advocating the foregoing meas- ures of relief, we do not regard them as being: permanently effective. This conference advocates taking the whole housing question out of the hands of private individuals, and ad- vocates the taking over of all rented residences by the public, to be rented without discrimination of color to the people at a fixed low rental. Whereas, it is a custom of large employers of colored and white labor, such as mine operators and mill owners, to house their employes in “company houses’ and thereby to AT SANHEDRIN Denounces Efforts to Ignore Great Issue (Continued from Page 1) racial relationships that followed a morning of speeches on religion. The problem of inter-racial co-op- eration was discussed from the stand- point of the Y. M, G. A. and the church and every other point of view but that_of Laber—altho the Negro race is pre-eminently a lavor group and its industrial welfare is bound up with the inter-racial co-operation with white workers. Four days had gone by and labor had been ignored, Chairman Against Labor. Lovett Fort-Whiteman, of the Workers Party, rose and demanded that the greatest of all issues before the Negro race be given attention, tonight. Husk O’Hare’s Wooden Soldiers Even Urge Wooden Legs to Action p There will be knocking on wood in the Ashland Auditorium next Saturday evening, when Messrs. Husk O'Hare and Company will pres- ent their ten wooden soldiers of syncopation for the consideration of the frolic seekers, revolutionists and ordinary citizens who will crowd into the famous home of conventions and labor entertainments to reveal in the joy of living and giving for and to the revolutionary press of the Work- ers Party and the Labor Defense Council. It's Hard to Believe, _ Press agents are a notoriously unre- liable and their promises on ordinary occasions are only entitled to a little more credence than the blandish- ments of an oil stock salesman, but our social experts who have on other He was ruled out of order by the |occasions participated in a Chicago. declaring there were eighteen repre- sentatives of labor whose rights must be respected. control the lives of the workers, be- ing able to throw them out of house and home whenever the bosses please and wherever there is a disagree- ment about wages or working condi- tions, we demand any legal measure that may be necessary to prevent any employer of industrial labor owning er controlling the homes rented to his employes. Pending legislative relief, and dur- ing the present period when the Ne- gro’s rights are ignored by govern- mental agencies, we call upon the residents of all Negro communities to organize colored tenants’ unions so as to be able in an organized way to refuse to pay exorbitant rents, or to consent to live in inferio» buildings or segregated districts. chairman, Red Revel are willing to wager that Otte E, Housiwould arose demand- |the forthcoming affair will have all ing attention. The chairman tried |those who went before “backed off vainly to shut him up but Housiwould | the boards” if a Shakespearean quota- could not be halted and cried out: |tion is permissible in the vicinity of “I see that labor is an outcast here |the stockyards. as it is outside.” The Costumes, Audience With Labor. _Prizes for the most artistic and The audience applauded with more bizarre costumes will be distributed enthusiasm than it has anything that |@"d the parade of entrants before had been said so far in the conven- |the judicial eyes of the committee tion. sd which is to pass out the eash will, it Housiwould denounced the conspir- |'8 confidently predicted, rival any- acy to keep Labor from betfig heard thing in that line on this side of at this great gathering of the race, |Palm Beach. He censured the leaders of the con- A United Front. vention for providing no place for| The difficulties experfenced in labor on tha program, bringing about a united front of la- At Housiwould’s insistence that | bor politically will not hold good next Labor be diseussed Friday morning |Saturday night. Under the inspira- the audience again applauded. Fort-|tion of the O’Hare boys a tendency Norway Recognizes Soviet Rule (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Feb. 14.-The Government of Norway has granted recognition to the present government in Moscow, as the “De Jure” Government of Russia, it was said here DAILY WORKER BUSINESS HEAD QUIZZES OWENS How Does He Get All Those Subs? Edgar Owens, district organizer of the Workers Party in Detroit, will not be popular with the business office of the DAILY WORKER very long unless he writes in and tells them the recipe he uses for getting subscrip- tions totaling $51.60. The business office is darn glad to get the subs but wants to know how Owens does it so they can tell the DAILY WORKER boosters in other places, Tom O’Flaherty, of the editorial staff, says that it should not be hard to boost the DAILY WORKER. He points out that the editorial office is turning out a fine paper and workers realize it. * The workers do seem to appreci- ate that the DAILY is a fine ayo Every mail contintes to bring in let- ters by the score that praise it in no uncertain terms. * ae “The DAILY WORKER is the best paper that eves came out in English,” writes L, J, of Orient, Th. * “T suppose my sub for the DAILY WORKER will run out soon, I don’t want to be without it so I renew without waiting for a notice.”—Geo, Prodanich, Milwaukee, Wis. “I was out of work and could not Whiteman and other speakers took |to get togeth i i the floor on the same demand. The fh eho diel Neha renew before so please send me al | Discrimination in Schools UR RACE in its struggle to complete its racial, political, econpmical and social emanéipations, Two effective methods of remedy- ing the housing evil are proposed by resolutions presented by the Work- ers Party delegates: 2 Colored tenant unions, to refuse to pay exorbitant rents or to live in inferior buildings or segregated dis- tricts, is one remedy. The other is a demand for legislation making housing a public utility and compell- ing landlords to let their places to the first comer, regardless of race or color. Unless the Sanhedrin urges defi- nite action of some kind against the housing evil, say the workers, it will ntiahed..nothing—in_ this direction" opportunity for lead- ership is before it. Rights of Citizenshiv. is hampered and cruelly retarded by laws and customs of Southern states in the matter of education. Negro men and women who will f- nally realize complete emancipation and equality are those children and those young men and young women who are today of school age. Their schooling or their lack of schooling is their preparation for future citi- zenship. In all parts of the South, as well as a Jarge part of the North, they are more or less discriminated against; for we declare that ed in- voluntary separation of the children of the two races in schools,is but preparation fora ‘future “Jim-Crow” life, Enforced segregation in schools is a necessary preliminary to segre- gation in street cars, railroad cars, Disfranchisement is as vital an is-|restaurants, residence districts, ho- sue as inequality in the labor unions¢tels and theaters, and create a and there is little doubt that the San-| ground of race distinction which hedrin will condemn the system that |leads to continued disfranchisement denies the black citizen the right to|at the ballot box, exercise his citizenship and allows As long as local and state author- the 14th and 15th amendments to be| ities are permitted to put colored ignored. But mere appeals for the fran- chise to the republican and demo- cratic parties which have ignored the rights of the Negro voters thru the years are of no value, say the work- ers’ representatives. The republican party is equally guilty for republi- can presidents refuse to spend one cent for the enforcement of the 14th and 15th amendments for which children in one school and’ white chil- dren in another they will give the biggest part of their support to the white schools and will let the Negro schools lie in neglect and stagna- tion for lack of funds and attention. It is often the case that for each dollar spent on the education of a white child, ten cents is spent on the “education” of a Negro child. Such brutal treatment is the direct 800,000 soldiers died in 1861-65, tho they are willing to spend millions for the 18th amendment. For Farmer-Labor Party. Both the Workers Party, and the ‘African Blood Brotherhood, and. dif- | WV PEGIee cers and. the ferent organizations, demand that Negro workers to be the same, and the Sanhedrin send delegates to the call for unity and harmony between farmer-labor convention that may be|inem. Large industrial employers called. Seeing no hope in the two} often stir up friction between the capitalistic parties they demand that workers of the two races for the the Negroes, who are nearly all) cake of dividing the workers along workers or farmers unite with white |, convenient Ine, and thus keeping workers and farmers in a OMMON|the workers of both races in weak- movement. N IY ies and subjection. Yet some Negro republicans, fabor unions to litical leaders, throw cold water on Bp tons ose wh Sous to wanes the farmer-labor movement, It en- bership in their organizations by col- dangerr the party thal helps them, ored people, and all discriminations tho it does nothing for the Race. The and distinctions of color within same interests throw cold water on |i. We are not blind to the fact E DECLARE the interests of tenant farmers’ unions, Douglas Park Br, Busy. The Douglas Park branch of the Workers Party, in Chicago, is work- ing hard to make the drive for 10,000 new subscribers for the DAILY WORKER a success. meeting the DAILY WORKER branch agent got all the members of the branch to promise to work hard on the drive, The entire membershi of the pes that the American labor movement is in a bad condition today, is getting weaker in some instances, and al- together has organized only a small fraction of the working class, The Negro is a large part of the working class of this country, and we declare At the lastltnat the labor unions owe their present weakness in a large part to their neglect of the Negro worker. Hundreds of thousands of Negroes flooding into the field of indus- labor. We demand of the branch also decided to take part, in ieee Federation of Labor, of the house to house collection for Ger- man relief Feb. 24th. The Goat Must Go. the Railroad Brotherhoods and other independent unions, that these Ne- ‘oes be welcomed into all unions WASHINGTON, Feb. 14—Dr, Otto} on a basis of equality, and point out Wiedfeldt, the German ambassador here, will end his diplomatic career in Washington in the near future, according to indications today. ASHLA AUDITORIUM that it is for the sake of the white worker as well as the black worker, We demands inheritance of slavery, in which the Negro was forbidden to have any education at all. It is a continuation of the tradition of deliberate degra- dation of the Negro. This conference declares that the American Negro cannot continue to leave the shaping.of the minds ot his children in the hands of locali- ties where all institutions are dedi- cated to the principle of “white su- premacy,” that is, teas inferiority. We protest against unequal appro- priations as between the schools of the two races; but in doing so we do not consent to school segregation. We declare that white and black children who are expected to share citizenship in the future must begin that common citizenship in common schools together. Segregation in schools is as injurious to whites as to Negroes, teaching snobbishness to the whites and race hatred to both races alike; it prevents for all after- | life any understanding between the races; it is the seed of future zace riots, bloodshed and tyranny. We therefore demand: 1. A national constitutional amend- ment placing the entire public edu- cational system in the hands of the federal government, and taking it out of the hands of local, municipal and state authorities. 2. That such constitutional amend- ‘ment shal] forbid any segregation or separation of races or creeds in any public school, and forbidding any recognition by law of any distinction of race or creed in public schools. Color Line in Labor Unions 1. That the American Federation of Labor (and all other bodies of or- ganized labor) make an intensive drive in the immediate future to chairman could not halt the tide of protest. Against Lynching. Lynching is a subject which arouses the just anger of the Negro race, The African Blood Brother- hood has a workable program against this crime of the ages. It is for the Sanhedrin to invite all labor bodies to form joint councils with Negroes to take action to stop lynching. Only interests that are opposed to labor unions can oppose such a program for effective action. The program for equal support from public school funds for the Negro schools now so grossly dis- criminated against, sometimes to the extent of providing for the Negro pupil at only one tenth the rate at which the white child is provided is another essential part of the reme- dial program. The only opposition that has shown its head is from teachers who think their jobs down South might be affected if they fight this system now. K. K. K., the Common Enemy. A resolute stand against the Ku Klux Klan, calling for an alliance with the foreign-born against the common enemy, is demanded by the African Blood ‘Brotherhood. All classes of the race hate the murder- ous Klan, tho some delegates from the South fear to voice their enmity, fearing vengeance when they return home. Friendship With Russia. Two proposals for clasping the hand of the Russian workers are presented: one by the Workers Party delegates, urging the Sanhed- rin to support the movement for the recognition of Russia and the other from the African Blood Brotherhood asking the Sanhedrin to elect a dele- gation to visit Russia for the pur- pose of making an impartial study of organize Negro workers wherever found, on a basis of equality in the same unions with the whites, 2, That all ‘such labor organiza- tions be fraternally addressed by this body, with the request that such labor bodies shall immediately con- duct among their members an offi- ¢ial propaganda against discrimina- tion of color and against racial snob- bishness in the labor unions and in favor of enrolling all Negro workers into the unions. Further, that such campaign be carried on in collabora- tion with eerie of the Negro Sanhedrin, 3. That all Negro papers be re- quested to carry on an intensive propaganda among the race for the joining of labor unions on the basis: of equality. 4. In view of the fact that the Negro in industry is as yet an un- skilled laborer as a rule, and as the industrial form of union and the breaking down of craft aristocracy in the unions are in the interest of the Negro as an unskilled worker, we therefore favor the transforma- tion of all eraft unions into indus- trial unions, However, we are op- posed to dual ‘unionism, as well as ‘Jim-Crow” unionism, and favor the Negro joining everywhere the main body ie labor organization, the situation there. The African Blood ‘Brotherhood’s resolution declares that the Russian revolution is the most drastic social change that has taken place since the American Civil War, whigh wis also a revolution in as much as it abolished slavery. It cites further the fact that the Russian people have welcomed all visiting Negroes with open arms and that the Negro visit- ors found themselves for the first time of their lives in a country where they enjoyed complete equal- ity and ect. An apostle of Russia, as a friend of the colored people, is found in Dr. C. 8. Brown, president of Lott Carey Convention and head of the Sanhe- drin’s commission on world-wide race movements. Dr. Brown visited Russia last year on a tour of inspection with a Sa. tist delegation and he declares that he and another Negro member of the delegation were received with even roar cordiality than their white thers by the representatives of the Soviet givernment whom he met. They fow the Baptist missions thriving. Today is the day that tests the convention—as a mere getting to- gether affair or as the founding of a great movement for the emancipation of the race, if the revellers are not willing to get|the back numbers I missed.”—Ed, together shoulder to shoulder on the political field it is a foregone conclu- sion that they will see eye to eye at the Red Revel, Political distinctions, sects, tendencies and divisions will have a tendency to vanish into thin air on Saturday night, Enough But—Yet. There is more to come. Those who care to eat can do so. Viands such as tables never groaned under since ‘the feudal days will entice the revel- lers to spend some of their money at the banqueting board. anatomies will send up a savory odor from the kitchen; waitresses of for dough. Last But Not Least, For those who cannot be moved by an appeal to their sociability we 4 Cooks with | to unions labels carved on their political | rs, L, K., Jacksonville, Ohio, * * *£ 8 Ziegfield calibre will exchange dough | DAILY WORK Grossen, Philadelphia, Pa. 5 ae “Another fellow and I are both interested in the DAILY WORKER but are only working part time. We have pooled our available funds and will both read the one paper till, we are working steady."—W. M. R., Niles, Mich. ; *' * * & i “I am sending you $1. Send me ag many papers as that will pay for and I will see that some workers get what all the workers need; a chance read_the DAILY WORKER.”— who get out the read scores of such letters every day they cannot Ip but resolve to do their best to get out a fine paper for the workers who believe in it so much, You can When the people will conclude this clever piece of|join the bunch that is making the publicity by stating that the purpose give the workers of Chicago the op- portunity to laugh sid make merry AILY WORKER possible and better of the Red Revel is not merely to|by getting a sab from someone for it. Do it today. but also to help the DAILY WORK- Have One Suspect, Anywa: ER and raise funds for the Labor| One suspect is in cantanly, Yo lay in Defense Council which is waging a|the hunt for the three bandits who campaign against the oil-smeared at-|stripped Gilda Gray, shimmy dancer, torney-general Daugherty and_his|of jewels she values at $150,000. The agents in Michigan who are making|man, Robert Viovanany 35, was par- an attempt to send C. E. Ruthenberg, | tially identified by Gilda, her chauf- William Z. Foster and many other|feur, and the elevator man in the leading members of, the Workers:dancer’s apartment who witnessed Party to the penitentiary. the holdup. er WORKERS PARTY WILKES-BARRE Police and Legion Do Not Interfere (Special to The Daily Worker) WILKES-BARRE, Pa. Feb. 14.— Reports that the Workers Party did not hold their Lenin memorial meet- ing here last Sunday are not true. The meeting was held but not in the place originally planned, The police prevented the use of the hall where the meeting was advertised but the people in charge of the meeting after consulting with the speakers merely moved to another place and proceed- ed with their meeting. All the news agencies and news- paper correspondents ignored the meeting that was held and_concen- trated their attention on the fact, that the meeting did not take place where it was advertised to have taken place. The Police Are Notified, The Workers Party and the speak- ers at the Lenin memorial meeting felt that it was important to hold a meeting and force the police to make arrests and thus bring the whole question of free speech into the court. The police were notified that a Lenin memorial meeting was in progress 10 minutes after it had started but they did nothing about it, The speakers at the meeting and the audience were in the hall where the meeting took place about two hours but nothing unusual happened. Police, and American Legion mem- bers drove up to the hall in autos and stopped a few minutes and then drove away. Double the Party Membership. Since the free speech fight started here the membership of the Workers Party has doubled. Alvin Olmstead a member of the American Legion in Philadelphia was a speaker at the meeting and after ll|the meeting went to the .American Legion hall and told the Legionaries what he thought of them and their brand of Americanism, He was roughly handled and escorted to_ the station and put aboard a train. Olm- stead is not a radical or even a liberal but he came to protest against the violation ef the Workers Party’s con- stitutional rights. Another mass meeting will be held in the near future and the fight for frée speech will go on in spite of the American Legion. Rose Pastor Stokes who was one of the speakers particularly objected to by the Legion read her speech so as to be able to nail any misquotation of her speech that might be made in the capitalist press. BINGHAMTON, N. Y., Feb, 14.— Binghamton local of the Workers Party held a Lenin Memorial mass meeting with Rebecca Grecht of New York City as the principal speaker. She spoke on the subject of “Lenin and the Role of the Communist Party in the Proletarian Revolutiop” and showed how his greatest service to the toiling masses of the world was in founding a centralized world party and formulating for it the realistic tactics by Which the workers will conquer, How many of your shop-mates read THE DAILY WORKER. Get one of them to subscribe today. The Daily Worker andthe Party Campaigns MEETING HELD" - ‘HE SLOGAN of the Workers Party—“‘A Workers’ and Farm- ers’ Government”—receives new im- petus and real significance thru the exposure of the gigantic thievery, bribery and graft in connection with the Teapot Dome Oil Scandal. That the government is but an instrument of the financial interests of the coun- try, that—in fact—it is but the Executive Department of this group, is shown more clearly than ever be- fore. And at the same time it proves jeonclusively that the governmental functions are adminfstered in direct contrast to the welfare of the city workers and working farmers of the United States. It further shows the most urgent need for a mass Labor Party, based on class interests, op- posed to the financial interests and their representatives. The broadcasting of the facts of the Teapot Dome mess, Pointing out the political meaning to the farm and city workers, becomes the im- mediate duty of the Workers Party. _And how can this be done better than thru the columns of the DAILY WORKER, whose interests are none other than those of the working class? Robbed of the really vital news of the capitalist press, who are either on the democratie or republi- can fence—or astraddle on both—the workers are ready to listen to what the DAILY WORKER has to say. With this fact in mind, it becomes clear that the logical conclusion is to reach these masses with the mes- ges of the DAILY WORKER each and every day. The greatest possible number of readers is the objective of the So Radically Different! The Red Revel Workers Party. Local Chicago has jon hearing that a city, with half of entered this campaign with the slogan “One Thousand New Subseri- bers by March 10th” as a minimum, a figure which with every member on the job can easily be doubled or tripled. The Boosters’ Contest. The, spirit of the campaign in Chi- cago has been greatly enlivened thru the friendly competition among branches and individual members to beat the head of the list for secur- ing the largest number of subscrip- tions and getting, in appreciation for their efforts, the prizes offered: by the DAILY WORKER for highest scoring contestants. A silife-size, framed photograph of Nicolai Lenin is the prize offered to each of the leading English and Language branches; and a small framed pic- ture for the second highest Language: branch. The Young Workers League branches have also entered the con- test and the highest scoring branch will receive a similar prize as the leading English branch and Language branch of the Party. The prizes to be given to individuals are: 1st, a Remington portable typewriter; 2nd, either a gold-filled watch or a library; 8rd, a fountain pen. Members of the Young Workers League have the same chance for individual prizes as the members of the Party. Englewood to the Front, With a smile that signified “this in next Monday’s issue, Specula- tion is rife as to the leading Branch. Let's Not Talk! One of the “active” members in 'the “One Thousand New Subscrip- ‘tions by March 10th” campaign, up- Satu Febr Chicago’s membership, is making a will hold him for a day” (meaning J. Shafir, who topped the individual point score yesterday with a score of 21 points.) Comrade John Heinrich- son of the Englewood English branch entered the office and handed in sub- scriptions entitling him to 49 points, the Englewood branch, by the way, has been only recently organized. With the campaign gaining mo- mentum and more and more mem- bers entering the contest, it is not the question now as to how many subs an individual member can se- cure, but rather how many branches will really be in the contest for leadership. With even one or two members falling dawn on the job, the chances for a branch may be very much decreased, It is expected that everyone will send’ in all the subs possible this | week, so chat the results of the first lap of the campaign can be published campaign for 3,000 new subscribers, remarked, “Well, our best wishes to them” and, reflectively, “But as for Chicago, while we say ‘1000,’ let ug make it 3000, or, let’s not talk about it, but Get Busy and Do It!” With the membership imbued with this spirit, the success of the campaign is assured. Don’t forget to register at once, either at the DAILY WORKER of- fice or at Room 807, 166 W. Wash- ington Street. Now is none too soon, with the contest progressing, any further delay will diminish the chances for the individual prizes and the branch represented, rday Eve. uary [6th * * © & « Binghamton Memorial Meeting. . ~,>-~—