PAGE SIX THE WORKMAN, SATURDAY DECEMBER 20, 1930 Negro Labor Convention Starts Struggle for Negro Rites DEATH PENALTY FOR FAITH VERRUS CREDULITY LYNCHERS DEMANDED AT HEOTIC CONFERENCE 120 Negroes and White Delegates Hold fairly and unwaveringly The eye ball shows how much History making Confab Keaching Meeting Place Despite Hardships were tual one reac of masses to reHOMELY PHILOSOPHY By GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON People Being Attracted Christianity. We do not think, bom.
ever, that this should cause undue.
WHAT THE EYES REVEAL Away by Crank worry. It is only the ignorant and superficial who are led away and Look into a man eyes if you would measure him.
Religion Invented enticed, with whom no amount of The weakling shifts his glance, he cannot meet you in the argument is likely to prevail, and a is perhaps waste of spiritual energy to try to combat credulous tanatic or little of the man is at home. We reveal ourselves by NO NEED TO WORRYism. We cannot argue with cranke possessed fixed mistaker the light under the eyebrows.
Outspoken Article Ap opinions; the tenorant fanatie is be yond reach of sane By CYRIL BRIGGS the Industrial Unions of the Trade pearing in December argument, and is impervious to reaNumber of Diocesan ST. LOUIS, Mo. Dec Hiskory Union Unity League. There with son. The Church confronted was made here last week at the con also three delega. es from the Cen. The Southern Negro delegates the nature of the organization the crank religious is in much the Magazine and vention of the American Negro Committee of the Communist same position an educated were particularly militant. And they of struggle for Negro rightLabor Congress, now the League of party. They are all class struggle staunchly supported by the whice from the smallest fight against Ne.
cultured gentleman forced into con Struggle for Negro Rights.
organizations. Class against clase, delegates from the same section. gro oppression clear up to the ultiThe December number of the Dio troversy with an ignorant and un This is the unanimous verdict if in opposition to the bourgeois polc, ce in of mate liberation of the Negro asses Magazine says editorially. scrupulous person. In the eyes Death Penalty For Lynchers the 120 Negro and white delegates of race against race.
The convention demanded the We hear from time to time, and the unthinking mob the gentleman elected both Negi and white to that militant, purposeful conven The convention was in session for death penalty for all lynchers, liqui workers to its leading comittee would appear to get the worst of it with increasing frequency, that in tion and of the hundreds of visitors.
various Cures some of our Church because he cannot stoop to employ wo days, making up by night ses.
dation of debts and mortgages of States Unity of Buk Belt It is a verdict that the American sions what it lacked in length of Negro poor farmers, and called upor members are being attracted away the methods of his opponent; it is In a ringing manifiesto to the Ne.
white ruling class will be forced to time. The sessions were held in the the Negro and white workers for from their own Communion by ODE a conflict between argument based gto and white workers and poor concur in sooner or later. and hall, 2631 class violation of all Jim Crow laws or other of the crank religions on reason and unsupported ser farmers, the convention demanded Lawton boulevard At the The very act of holding the con tion backed up by abuse.
cently invented in the United States But the opening and called for mass protest againsi state unity of the Negro masses in vention in St. Louis was a challenge session Amis, a Negro labor the efforts of the Atlanta bosses to which are working hard in this coun. people who matter, who are able to the Black Belt and declared that the to the most brutal section of the leader of New York formerly from electrocute the six organilzers; for right of self determination with con try to secure credulous proselytes to understand, realise that reason wins white ruling classhe southern Chicago, acted as chairman. At the defense of the Soviet Union, as the their several aberrations; and in the long run, and that truth and fiscation of the land for the Negroes plantation owners and bankers who second session that day Mary Dalonly fatherland the workers; who work it was the only solution of doubt the exceeding plausibility with high character will ultimately pre grow fat on the bare faced robbery ton was elected chairman by acclavail, though their influence may not against the war preparations of the which they present their propagan lynching and Negro oppresion, and and oppression of Negro toilers, and mation. The main report. The imperialists; for da does delude the unlearned who be immediately perceptible. The mot support of the called upon the Negro and white who resort, to the most vicious terPolttical and Economie Situation struggles of the colonial cannot distinguish between faith and will always applaud a noisily unmasses to fight for full equality of rorism lynching, the chain success gang was made by Otto Huiswould, a and for commemoration of Novem. Negroes with other nationalities credulity, and we can well under scrupulous and apparently eteto cruth the rising struggles member of the Council of Directors ber 11, 1921, as the centenary of for the abolition of all forms of dis. stand the aux ety of some of the tul controversialist, but people with of the Negro masses, and especially of the organization Merbert Newton Nat Turner execution by the slave crimination, disfranchisement, clergy who see their people descoy. snoere religious difficulties will turr anti.
to wipe out all tendencies towards national organizer, and one of the mere ed away by travesties United marriage of to the quiet, thoughtful and honest owners supported by the laws segregation, Jimunity on the part of Negro and two Negro workers who with Mary man for help and guidance.
States government. And it decided Crow laws, etc, and to fight for white workers, as witness the At Dalton and three other white work adopt the name of the League the right of self determination of tablishing the state unity of the SENSATIONAL STAND UP lanta case, in which six organiz ers are facing the death penalty in of Struggle for Negro Rights as the Negroes in the Black Belt where Black Belt and by securing the NoFIGHT ers, four white, two Negroes, are Atlanta, made the organization more tymbolie than the old name of they are the majority of the popu. gro majority the right and possibi between truth and error, and RC facing the electric chair for merely port. Delegates expressed themselves its membership of both Negro and lation by securing the land to the lity of deciding its relations to other calling a meeting of white and Ne freely and militantly from the floor dramatic victory for truth. Church white workers and sympathizers of Negroes who work the land, by es governments.
men ought never to employ the sword gro workers of rhetoric or the bludgeon of abuse The convention was attended by 72 Negro and 47 white delegates, 45FYLLERY ALDERAL PLAFOLLS LLLLLLL LTK against unreasoning and unreason able cranks. Truth has neves coming from 18 states and represent ing 17 organizations. Many deletriumphed in that way. But food deal may be effected by the quiet in.
gates actually fought their way to fluence of those who go on steadily the convention Some came by broken down Fords, others by bueca doing their duty and teaching pa some even by riding the rods, as in tiently with long suffering the truth the care of young Braxton, who Christianity and the reasonableGIVE SOMETHING THAT WILL BE USED ness of the Church expression rode a freight from Youngstown, of and of 18 year old Joe Burton, that truth.
who, defying his conservative famAnd here we would make a further ily, traveled from Birmingham te plea for clear instruction on the Chattanooga by freight to attend Fans 00 To 52, 50 Desk Lamps 95 To 12. 00 teaching of our Church and tbe the Southern Anti Lynching! Percolators 00 To 55. 00 Refrigerators 200. 00 To 000. 00 meaning of uniforms of worsh. Conference, at which he was elect. Gas Ranges 00 To 105. 00 Table Lamps 00 To 15. 00 Many of our people err only through ed a delegate to the convention. On. Waffle Irons 12. 00 Το 18. 00 Toasters 00 10. 50 12. 50 ignorance and lack of instruction their way to St. Louis the delegates We wonder whether all of our clergy faced every obstacle that a panic realise what a help the Book 01 cken ruling class could place in Common Prayer might become id their way. But most of them made only our members were taught how it. They came from as far south as to use it; and we respectfully sug Alabama and from as far apart as gest that a course of object lesson: California and Massachusetts. In SEE OUR DISPLAYS OF on the Prayer book, its meaning and an Ohio town a group from New use, given occasionally instead ot York was held up the olice at ordinary sermons; might prove of the point of a gun and forced to real value both to clergy and laity.
submit to a search of their persuns.
To very many of our people in the Three delegations came from the pews the classical and beautiful South by Forda, Negro and white English of the Prayer book is praeworkers together in the same cars.
tically a foreign language; and We There were 16 Southern delegates should therefore take particular altogether. These had the delegates pains to render the Services intellit me of it. fourth delegattion was ELECTRIC gibly, to read the prayers slowly forced to turn back. The Alabama distinctly, clearly articulating every delegation was headed by Mary ELECTRIC BURNER word so that the congregation may Dalton, one of the Atlanta defenREFRIGERATORS have a reasonable chance of followRANGES WITH dans, who INCH FAN was given a rousing ing intelligently; whereas too ofter welcome by the convention ONLY OVEN BROILER FAMILY SIZE the people have been taught nothing Most of the d:lagates came from about the Prayer book, and prayONLY the district organizations of the ers and lessons are rab American Negro Labor Congress bled and hurriedly numbled and the Anti Lynching Conference that the congregation have little held by that organization throughidea of what the Service is all about out the country during the past six and people who don know what months. Many organizations sent their own Church torches and what delegates to these conferences Deleir Services mean are likely to fal!
ates from these conferenes to the easy victims to religious chalatane St. Louis convention represented, who are able to put their case plain therefore, all the organizations sup.
ly so that the simplest can under porting and talking part in them.
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