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The Omaha Guide
Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska
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A. Phillip Randolph's address to the National Negro Congress in Chicago called for a new farm-labor political party uniting Black and white workers for economic betterment, while criticizing the New Deal, major parties, fascism threats, and social issues. Read by Atty. C. W. Burton on Feb. 20.
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Chicago, Feb. 20-(ANP)-
Bombarding the New Deal, rugged
individualism, both major
political parties, and calling attention
to the threat of fascism
and a world war, A. Phillip
Randolph, absent president of
the National Negro Congress
called for the intelligently militant
union of Negro and white
workers in a new farm-labor
political party for the economic
betterment of the masses.
His address was read Friday
night by Atty. C. W. Burton,
chairman of the congress.
Randolph also hit other current
economic and social phenomena.
He flayed discrimination
in labor unions, capitalism,
unemployment, the American
Liberty League, William Randolph
Hearst and his publications,
Father Coughlin and the
Townsend plan. Salvation can
be expected from neither the
Republicans nor the Democrats
nor from whites alone, the leader
declared, adding that Negroes
must take the initiative.
For remedies, Randolph urged
the breaking down of the
color bar in trade unions, sensible
mass demonstrations, a united
front, a new farm-labor political
party and support of
John Lewis in his industrial
unionism program.
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Chicago
Event Date
Feb. 20
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A. Phillip Randolph, absent president of the National Negro Congress, called for the intelligently militant union of Negro and white workers in a new farm-labor political party for the economic betterment of the masses. His address, read Friday night by Atty. C. W. Burton, chairman of the congress, criticized the New Deal, rugged individualism, both major political parties, the threat of fascism and world war, discrimination in labor unions, capitalism, unemployment, the American Liberty League, William Randolph Hearst and his publications, Father Coughlin, and the Townsend plan. Randolph urged breaking down the color bar in trade unions, sensible mass demonstrations, a united front, the new farm-labor political party, and support for John Lewis in his industrial unionism program.