Warning

William Green, President of the American Federation of Labor, raised a trumpet to his lips, intoned a warning to the Negro working man :

"During the past few days, I have received a number of letters and telegrams asking if the American Federation of Labor approves of the American Negro Labor Congress called by the Workers' (Communist) Party to meet in Chicago Oct. 25.

"The American Federation of Labor has not and will not approve of such a congress. It will not be held to benefit the Negro but to instill into the lives of, that race the most pernicious doctrine--race hatred.

"Glittering phrases are used to stir the colored men, one of them being: 'Negroes did not come into the world with saddles on their backs nor the whites with spurs on their heels.' . . .

"Communism in America is comparable to the boll-weevil in the cotton fields. Both are importations and equally injurious.''