PART I: ECONOMIC CONDITION OF THE BLACK WORKER
2. The Hosts of Black Labor, by W. E. B. Du Bois
3. Industrial Relations and Labor Conditions
4. Edward Kiefhaber to Robesonia Iron Co.
5. John Gocher to Interstate Employment Agency
6. John Gocher to A. F. Woodward
7. Recent Northward Migration of the Negro
8. An Experiment with Negro Labor
9. The Negro in Chicago Industries
10. Negroes at Work in Baltimore
12. Industrial Employment of the Negro in Pennsylvania
13. Negro Labor and Public Utilities, I, by George S. Schuyler
14. Negro Labor and Public Utilities, II, by George S. Schuyler
15. Negro Labor and Public Utilities, III, by George S. Schuyler
16. Reid Tells of Fight for Skilled Workers
17. Youth Told to Get Into the Trades
18. Lack of Race Consciousness
19. Negro Worker O.K. If Handled Right
21. Present Status of Negro Labor, by T. Arnold Hill
22. Present Trends in Employment of Negro Labor, by Charles S. Johnson
23. Negro in the Industrial South, by Broadus Mitchell
24. Industrial and Labor Conditions
25. The Economic Crisis of the Negro, by A. Philip Randolph
26. Industrial and Labor Conditions
28. New Frontier of Negro Labor, by Charles S. Johnson
29. An Emergency is On! by T. Arnold Hill
30. Frances Perkins to Eugene Kinkle Jones
31. Industrial and Labor Conditions
32. Impacts of Depression Upon Negro in Philadelphia
33. New Fields for Negro Labor in Texas, by Henry Allen Bullock
34. Wage Differential Based on Race, by Robert C. Weaver
35. Black Wages for Black Men, by Ira De A. Reid
36. Negro in Industry and Urban Life, by Eugene Kinkle Jones
37. Negro Worker and N.R.A., by Gustav Peck
38. N.R.A. Codifies Wage Slavery, by John P. Davis
39. National Recovery Act in U.S.A., by B. D. Amis
40. Black Inventory of the New Deal, by John P. Davis
41. To Boycott or—Not to Boycott? by Vere E. Johns
42. The Negro in Pittsburgh’s Industries, by R. Maurice Moss
43. Relative Efficiency of Negro and White Workers
45. Life of Negroes in the Automobile Industry, by Bill Smedley
46. Negro Seamen in the U.S.A.
47. Social-Economic Status of Negroes in the District of Columbia
1. Colored Women as Industrial Workers in Philadelphia
2. Making Over Poor Workers, by Helen Sayre
3. The Negro Working Woman, by Mary Louise Williams
4. Negro Woman in the Trade Union Movement, by Nora Newsome
5. Bootleggers Welcome on the North Side
6. Strike of Negro Nurses at New Orleans
8. Start Campaign to Help Negro Women’s Strike
9. Two More Women Jailed by Cops in Date Strike
10. Something New—Negro Women Strikers
11. Police Jail Two Negro Women in Chicago Strike
13. Must Organize Negro Women to Stop Scabbing
14. Women Day Workers League, by Fannie Austin
15. Eva, The Black Working Girl
16. Pay for Negro Laundry Slaves, by Mary Adams
17. Negro Woman Cigar Slaves in Walkout
19. No Race Prejudice in Needle Trades Union, by Henry Rosemond
22. Starving Negro Woman Worker
23. Slavery in Atlanta Laundry
24. Negro Women Slave for $4 Weekly in Charleston
25. 50-Year-Old Negro Woman Set for Fight
26. Unorganized Domestic Toilers are Prey to Rich
27. Garment Union Comes to the Negro Worker, by Edith Kine
28. A Labor Study (South), by Ernest Hays Calloway
29. Negro Labor Committee in Drive to Aid Women
30. Newspaper Guild Indorses Domestic Workers’ Union
31. Disadvantage of Being Female and Black
PART III: THE BROTHERHOOD OF SLEEPING CAR PORTERS AND OTHER BLACK UNIONS IN THE TRAIN SERVICE
THE PORTERS’ STRUGGLE FOR RECOGNITION
1. A Message to the Slacker Porter, by W. R. Shields
2. Truth About the Brotherhood, by A. Philip Randolph
4. Pullman Company and the Pullman Porter, by A. Philip Randolph
5. Company Unions A La Pullman, by R. W. Dunn
6. Pullman Porters Break All Records, by Frank R. Crosswaith
8. Pullman “Company Union” Slavery, by Robert W. Dunn
9. New Pullman Porter, by A. Philip Randolph
10. To the Organizing Committees
11. Find Negroes Can be Organized
13. Crusading for the Brotherhood, by Frank R. Crosswaith
14. Toward the Home Stretch, by Frank R. Crosswaith
15. Our Next Step, by A. Philip Randolph
16. Pullman Porters Voting Solidly
17. Voice of Negro Labor, Frank R. Crosswaith
18. Answer Wall Street Fiction About Porters, by Esther Lowell
19. The Brotherhood’s Anniversary, by A. Philip Randolph
20. Porters Ditch Company Union
21. Porter Asserts His Manhood
22. Open Letter to the Pullman Company
23. Porters’ Union Goes South, by Frank R. Crosswaith
24. Pullman Porters’ Organization
25. Porters Get Inside Data on Wage Tilt
26. Status of Pullman Porters’ Case, by A. Philip Randolph
27. Before the Interstate Commerce Commission
28. Press Opinion on Porters’ Case
30. Our Next Step, by A. Philip Randolph
31. Pullman Porters Win Pot of Gold, by G. James Fleming
THE BROTHERHOOD OF SLEEPING CAR PORTERS AT AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR CONVENTIONS
32. A. Philip Randolph to Milton P. Webster
SELECTED CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN A. PHILIP RANDOLPH AND MILTON P. WEBSTER
35. Webster to Randolph, March 15, 1928
36. Randolph to Webster, March 19, 1928
37. Randolph to Webster, March 24, 1928
38. Webster to Randolph, March 24, 1928
39. Randolph to Webster, March 26, 1928
40. Webster to Randolph, March 27, 1928
41. Randolph to Webster, April 2, 1928
42. Randolph to Webster, April 5, 1928
43. Webster to Randolph, June 9, 1928
44. Randolph to Webster, June 11, 1928
45. Webster to Dad Moore, June 11, 1928
46. Randolph to Webster, June 14, 1928
47. Webster to Dad Moore, June 26, 1928
48. Randolph to Webster, June 27, 1928
49. Randolph to Webster, June 28, 1928
50. Randolph to Webster, June 28, 1928
51. Randolph to Webster, August 8, 1928
52. Randolph to Webster, August 9, 1928
53. Randolph to Webster, August 30, 1928
OTHER BLACK UNIONS IN THE TRAIN SERVICE
54. Railway Men’s International Benevolent Industrial Assn.
55. Negro Railroad Men Hold Session in Birmingham
56. E. F. Roberts Explains Work of Colored Firemen’s Organization
57. R. L. Mays Busy With His Men
58. Successful Meeting of Rail Men
59. Colored Trainmen Will Not Take Part in Strike
60. Negro Firemen Are Organized
61. Colored Workmen Threatened and Leave Job
62. My Attitude Toward Negro Labor, by William N. Doak
63. Union Styles, by Floyd C. Covington
64. A Successful Negro Labor Union, by Rienzi B. Lemus
67. Murder for the Jobs, by Hilton Butler
69. Railway Employees Rally to Save Their Jobs, by T. Arnold Hill
PART IV: THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR AND THE BLACK WORKER
1. Whites Withdraw from Federation
2. A.F. of L. Wipes Out Color Line
3. “No Colored Line,” Says Federation of Labor
5. Message to Negro Workers, by Samuel Gompers
6. To the American Federation of Labor
8. The Freight Handlers, by Esther Lowell
9. A.F. of L. Unions Admit Colored Workers
11. Negroes Asked to Join Unions
12. The A.F. of L. and the Negro
13. A.F. of L. is Openly Against Negro Labor
14. Solving America’s Race Problem, by Walter White
16. Attempts to Organize Negro Workers
17. American Federation of Labor and the Negro
19. Organization of Negro Labor, by Elmer Anderson Carter
21. Industrial Unions and the Negro Worker
WILLIAM GREEN AND BLACK WORKERS
22. Organizing the Negro Workers
23. Our Negro Worker, by William Green
24. Negro Wage Earners, by William Green.
25. American Federation of Labor Convention
26. National Unions Admit Race Workers
27. The A.F. of L. and the Negro, by Elmer Anderson Carter
28. William Green to Elmer Anderson Carter
29. National Negro Labor Conference, by William Green
31. Open Letter to William Green
32. Negro Wage-Earners and Trade Unions, by William Green
33. An Open Letter to William Green
SELECTED A.F. OF L. CONVENTION RESOLUTIONS ON BLACK LABOR
1. Eugene V. Debs to the Editors of the Messenger, April 9, 1923
2. The Messenger and Its Mission, by Eugene V. Debs
5. Meddling in the Porters Union
6. Communism and the Negro, I, by Frank R. Crosswaith
7. Communism and the Negro, II, by Frank R. Crosswaith
8. A Negro Looks at the 1932 Presidential Race, by Frank R. Crosswaith
9. Political Future of the Negro, by Frank R. Crosswaith
10. Negro’s Road to Freedom, by Ernest Rice Mc Kinney
12. True Freedom, by Frank R. Crosswaith and Alfred Baker Lewis
BEN FLETCHER AND THE INTERNATIONAL WORKERS OF THE WORLD
13. I. W. W. Means “I Won’t Work”
14. Colored and White Workers Solving the Race Problem for Philadelphia
19. Longshoremen Fighting for Life
20. Philadelphia Waterfront’s Unionism
21. Negro and Organized Labor, by Ben Fletcher
23. Likes Lecture of Ben J. Fletcher
OTTO HALL AND THE TRADE UNION EDUCATION LEAGUE
24. Call Negro Workers to Meet
25. Abolish Race Discrimination
26. T.U.E.L. Negro Department in Campaign for Unity
27. Organize Negro Workers, by William Z. Foster
28. Negro Trade Union Militants Show A.F.L. Sellout of Porters
29. Negro Workers in Northern Industry, by Otto Hall
THE AMERICAN NEGRO LABOR CONGRESS AND THE NATIONAL NEGRO CONGRESS
31. Negroes Warned Not to be Caught in Trap
32. American Negro Labor Congress
35. A.F. of L. and the Negro Worker
36. Equality Demanded by Workers
37. Negroes Seek “Full Social Equality”
39. Negroes Strike Back at Unions
40. Plot to Make Our Blacks Red
41. Editorial: Negro Labor and Communism
44. National Negro Congress, by Lester B. Granger
45. National Negro Labor Congress (U.S.A.), by Herbert Newton
THE COMMUNIST PARTY, THE TRADE UNION UNITY LEAGUE, AND THE BLACK WORKER
47. Solidarity of Labor in the South
48. The African Blood Brotherhood
49. Color Line in Labor Unions
50. Communists Boring into Negro Labor
51. Striker Approaches Negro Problem With Intelligent Outlook, by Rachel Weinstein
52. Problems and Struggles of Negro Workers, by Richard B. Moore
53. Negro Workers Play Vital Role in Charlotte T.U.U.L. Conference
54. Negro Workers and the Cleveland Unity Convention, by Henry C. Rosemond
55. Negro Miners Must Organize, by Isaiah Hawkins
56. Why Every Negro Miner Should Join the N.M.U., by William A. Boyce
57. Labor Enters National Drive to Save Atlanta Organizers
58. Trade Union Program for Negro Workers
59. Some Experiences in Organizing Negro Workers, by Earl Browder
60. Investigation of Communist Propaganda, 1930; Testimony of A. Philip Randolph
61. 400 Fight Lynch Law at Meeting in South
64. The Jobless Negro, by Elizabeth Lawson
65. An Appeal to Negro Workers and Toilers
66. Georgia Imprisons Negro Red
67. Appeal for Negro in Red Conviction
69. Angelo Herndon’s Speech to the Jury
70. Angelo Herndon v. State of Georgia
PART VI: BLACK LABOR AT THE CROSSROADS
1. An Open Letter to the South, by Langston Hughes
3. Warning to Colored Laborers
4. Negro Workers Refuse Pittance to Labor
6. White Supremacy in Organized Labor, by Chandler Owen
7. The Mixed Union, by William D. Jones
8. Equal Division of Labor on the Wharf
9. J. H. Walker to Ben F. Ferris, April 1, 1925
10. The Negro in Industry, by T. Arnold Hill
11. Textile Strikers Welcome Negroes, by Roland A. Gibson
12. Negro Workers at the Crossroads, by Thomas L. Dabney
13. Decline of the Negro Strikebreaker, by Ira De A. Reid
14. Negro Workers and the Unions, by Charles S. Johnson
15. Shall Negro Worker Turn to Labor or to Capital? by Will Herberg
16. Whites Oust Negro Under N.R.A. in South, by Julian Harris
17. White Textile Workers of South Learning to Unite With Negro Brothers
18. Peter A. Carmichael to H. L. Kerwin, March 26, 1935
19. Peter A. Carmichael to H. L. Kerwin, April 29, 1935
21. Trade Unionism, by Frank Crosswaith
22. Trade Union Committee for Organizing Negroes, by Frank R. Crosswaith
23. Greatest Labor Meeting in the History of Harlem
24. Call for the First Negro Labor Conference
25. Proceedings of the First Negro Labor Conference, 1935
THE COMMITTEE FOR INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION AND THE BLACK WORKER
26. C.I.O. and Negro Labor, by Ernest Calloway
27. Industrial Unionism and the Negro, by Lester B. Granger
28. “Plan Eleven”—Jim Crow in Steel, by John P. Davis
29. Labor, by T. Arnold Hill