The Negro Worker 1928-1937: Table of Contents (original) (raw)
The International Negro Workers' Review
Vol. I, No. 1 (Jan 1931)
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3-6
Our Aims
6-13
A. Losovsky
Greetings to Negro Workers
Alexander Losovsky was General Secretary of the Red International of Labour Unions (RILU) aka the PROFINTERN
13-16
Thomas Ring
Revolutionary Forces of Africa
16-20
George Padmore
Imperialism in the West Indies
20-22
Appeal to the Black Soldiers of France
22-24
E.F. Small
Situation of Workers and Peasants in Gambia, West Africa
Speech at the First international Congress of Negro Workers, Hamburg, July 1930
25-27
Our Study Corner - The Rise and History of the Trade Union Movement [pt. 1] & Organization and Functions of a Strike Committee
28-30
Workers Correspondence
From the U.S. and Guadeloupe
Executive Committee, International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers
From the U.S. and Guadeloupe
Vol. I, No. 2 (Feb. 1931)
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Author
Headline
Description
3
White Terror in South Africa
On Dingaan's Day (16 Dec.) arrestees
4-5
The International Day of Struggle Against Unemployment
To be held on 25 Feb.
5-11
J.W. Ford
The International Labour Office and Forced Labour
Ford was the most prominent African-American member of the U.S. Communist Party
11-13
W.Z. Foster
The Fight of the American CP Against Unemployment: Significance to Negro Workers
Foster was General Secretary of the U.S. CP
14-15
Albert Nzula, Johannesburg
Native Workers Make Organizational Advances in South Africa
Nzula was a member of the Executive Committee of the International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers (ITUCNW) of RILU
15-18
Down with Racial and National Chauvinism
Declaration of the 'Negro Delegation' to the Fifth RILU Congress
18-19
Special Resolution on World among Negroes in the U.S. and the Colonies [pt. 1]
Adopted by the Fifth RILU Congress
20-22
Our Study Corner - The Rise and History of the Trade Union Movement [pt. 2] & How to Organize for Mass Action
From the U.S. and Guadeloupe
23
Workers' Correspondence
From the U.S., West Africa, and Albert Nzula (South Africa)
Vol. I, No. 3 (March 1931)
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Author
Headline
Description
2
The Change in the Name of Our Journal
This is the first issue to be called The Negro Worker
3
M.M. Kotane, Durban
Coming Struggles in South Africa
4-6
Shapurji Saklatvala
Who is this Gandhi
Reprinted from The Labour Monthly
7-9
J.W. Ford
The War Drive Against the Soviet Union - the 'Anti'-Slavery Society, London
9-12
Maxim Gorky
Crimes Against the Workers' Republic of Soviet Russia
12-14
Wang, Canton
Development of the Chinese Workers' Movement
14-16
Special Resolution on Work Amongst Negroes in the U.S. and the Colonies [pt. 2]
17-20
Our Study Corner - The Organization of Workers' Defence Corps
20-21
Slavery - A Book Review
Book by Kathleen Simon
21-22
Workers' Correspondence
From the U.S. and South Africa
Vol. I, Nos. 3-4 (April-May 1931)
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Author
Headline
Description
3-5
Foster Jones, a seaman, Freetown
Situation of Native Workers in Sierra Leone
5-6
A. Nzula, Johannesburg
Conference of the African Federation of Trade Unions
To be held 3-5 April in Bloemfontein
6-7
Moreau, Havana
White Terror in Cuba
7-10
J.W. Ford
Negro Seamen and the Revolutionary Movement in Africa (some lessons from Chinese seamen)
10-12
R.A. Duman, South Africa
South African Native Farm Tenants
12-18
A. Losovsky
Fifth World Congress of the RILU
18-22
Summary of the Report of Comrade Ford to the Fifth World Congress of the RILU on Work among Negroes (pt. 1)
23-29
What is the RILU (A Short Record of the Fifth World Congress)
29-30
Workers' Correspondence
From the U.S., Australia, and Japan
31
May Day and the Negro Toilers
The Negro Worker
Vol. I, No. 6 (June 1931)
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3-5
G. Padmore
The Revolutionary Movement in Africa
5-6
J.P. Sepeng (Johannesburg)
May 1st Struggles in South Africa
7-8
Negro Revolutionary Martyrs
J. W. Nkosi - African Revolutionary Martyr
Murdered South African Communist
Death of Gilbert Lewis
An African-American Communist, died of T.B. at Yalta
8-11
Smash the Lynching of Eight Young Negroes
In March 1931 nine African-American youths were arrested in Alabama on rape charges. Although within three weeks all except the youngest had been sentenced to the electric chair, thanks largely to the efforts of the International Labor Defence and other Communist and leftist groups, all were eventually acquitted.
12-14
Margaret Clyde, London
Race Prejudice in "Democratic" England
14-18
RILU Executive Bureau
To the South African Federation of Trade Unions
Signed by A. Losovsky
19-21
Our Study Corner - Rise and History of the Trade Union Movement [pt. 3]
21-22
William Patterson
"Race Hatred on Trial", A Book Review
On a pamphlet published by the U.S. Communist Party. Patterson (1890-1980) was a lawyer and leading African-American member of the U.S. Communist Party
22-23
Workers' Correspondence
From South Africa
The Negro Worker
Vol. I, No. 7 (July 1931)
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Headline
Description
2
Introduction to a Pamphlet: ("ABC of Trade Unionism for Negro Workers")
3-4
Increase and Spread the Scottsboro Defense
4-6
August First
International Day of Struggle Against Imperialist War
7
Hands off the Scottsboro Prisoners
Leading article from the Leningrad daily Krasnaya Gazetta of July 6, 1931
8-10
J.W. Ford
The International Conference on African Children
Geneva, 22-25 June 1931
11-13
A. Losovsky
ABC of Trade Unionism for Negro Workers (Preface)
14-16
Facts About the Soviet Union
Rising purchasing power; use of convict labour; reconstruction of agriculture; the Five Year Plan; extracts from a speech by Stalin
16-18
Alexei Tolstoy
History has a Long Memory (The Scottsboro Case)
Poem
18
Workers' Correspondence
From South Africa
The Negro Worker
Vol. I, No. 8 (Aug. 1931)
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2
Liberia and the Dirty Work of the Negro Reformists
3-5
O. Huiswood
Imperialist Rule in British Guiana
Otto Huiswoud (1893-1961), from Dutch Guiana, was a very early member of the U.S. Communist Party. At around this time he visited Trinidad, Jamaica, elsewhere in the colonized Caribbean
5-8
Mansy
Bloody Suppression of Native Rising in the Belgian Congo
8-9
Arthur S. Gray
Capitalism a Menace
Reprinted from Marcus Garvey's Negro World
9-13
ITUCNW
What Must Be Done in British Guiana. An Open Letter
13-14
Against White Terror
On the 1 Aug. 1931 arrest, in Marseilles, of Tiemoko Garan Kouyat� (1902-1942)
15
Workers' Correspondence
From South Africa
Vol. I, No. 9 (Sept. 1931)
Pages
Author
Headline
Description
3-5
Eugene Jordan
After Scottsboro, Camp Hill (The Alabama Massacre)
Reprinted from The New Masses of Aug. 1931
5-8
ITUCNW
An Appeal to the Black Soldiers of France
9-10
P.G. Moloinyane, African Federation of Trade Unions, Johannesburg
Vuka Afrika (Rise, Africa), Serfdom Strangles Black Masses
10-11
Harold Williams, New York
Socialists Spread Race Hatred - Communists Fight for Unity of the Working Class
9-13
ITUCNW
What Must Be Done in British Guiana (An Open Letter)
Geneva, 22-25 June 1931
12-14
George Padmore
Lynch Law: the Class Weapon of the American Bourgeoisie
14-16
Facts About Soviet Russia & the Declaration of the Rights of Working and Exploited Peoples
As accepted by the Jan. 1918 Third Congress of Soviets
17-19
ITUCNW
What the Workers of Sierra Leone Should Do (An Open Letter)
The Negro Worker
Vol. I, Nos. 10-11 (Oct.-Nov. 1931)
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2-4
The War Danger - War in the East
5-11
George Padmore
Under the War Yoke of Imperialism. Hands Off Liberia!
12-13
Forced Labour Under the British Flag
13-16
Colonial Masses in Revolt - the End of the Labour Government
The Aug. 1931 collapse of Britain's Second Labour government
16-18
Huiswood
The Congo Uprising
18-19
Charles Alexander (Trinidad)
Negro Workers Starving in Cuba
20-22
The Anti-Imperialist Movement: Resolution of the League Against Imperialism (pt. 1)
Adopted in Berlin, 2 June 1931
23-25
Hermann Remmele
The Land of Socialist Construction. Two Worlds: Socialism & Capitalist
25-30
International News in Brief . Facts Worth Knowing
Hunger demos in the U.S., strikes in Texas; the position of migrant workers in Cuba; an anti-tax demo. in Grenada
31
Capitalist Terror
31-37
Under the Banner of The Red Aid
37-38
Voices from the Colonies
Inviting letters to The Negro Worker
38-42
Workers' Correspondence
From Guadeloupe, South Africa and Nigeria
42-43
Death of Comrade Macaulay
On the news of the death of Frank Macauley
43-44
Workers' Bookshelf
45
What is the International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers?
46
What We Fight For:
Vol. I, No. 12 (Dec. 1931)
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Author
Headline
Description
3-4
Workers, Defend Your Colonial Brothers!
4-7
G. Padmore
Bankruptcy of Negro Leadership
Denouncing, inter alia, W.E.B. DuBois and the leader of the Trinidad Workingmen's Association, Captain A.A. Cipriani
8-9
T. Jackson (an alias of Albert Nzula)
South African Negro Workers and Dingaan's Day
9-10
Soviet Movement in China
10
New Revolt in India
Tax strikes in Bengal, Kashmir, and the United Provinces
10-13
B.J.
Belgian Imperialist Rule in Ruanda
13-15
J.B.
Land of Socialist Construction: the Union of Free Soviet Republics
15-17
O.E. Huiswoud
Starving Workers Demonstrate in Demerara
17-19
Mansey
How to Organize the Unemployed
19-20
G. Kouyat�
Black and White Seaman Organize for Struggle
France
20-24
A correspondent
British Oppression in West Africa
24-27
The Crises in Africa
28-29
Workers' Correspondence
A letter from H. Williams on the position of migrant workers in Cuba and elsewhere
29
J.B.
Press Review
Of the African Federation of Trade Unions publication The Hammer and the League Against Imperialism's Anti-Imperialist Review
Vol. II, Nos. 1-2 (Jan.-Feb. 1932)
Pages
Author
Headline
Description
2-3
Our First Anniversary
3-4
G.P.
Workers, Defend Liberia!
4-10
G. Padmore
The War Is Here
11-13
Lenin - Our Greatest Leader
13-16
Maxim Gorky
Capitalist Terror in America
16-19
O. Huiswood
The Fight Against Starvation in Dutch Guiana
19-21
R. Bishop
The Fight for Indian Independence
22-25
I. Amter
What is Taking Place in Soviet Russia?
25-28
Negro Workers, Fight Against the War!
Resolution adopted in July 1930 by the ITUCNW
28-32
Workers' Correspondence
An African sailor describes his visit to the USSR
The Negro Worker
Vol. II, No. 3 (March 1932)
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What is the International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers?3e
2-3
Race Prejudice in England
4-9
G.P.
War in the East
9-11
Imperialist Orgies in Africa
11-14
G. Padmore
How the Imperialists are "Civilizing" Africa
14-18
Charles Alexander
For a Revolutionary Trade Uni<o<
on Movement in the West Indies
</o<
19-26
O.E. Huiswood
The Labor Movement: The Economic Crisis and the Negro Workers [pt. 1]
27-28
G. Kouyatte
Solidarity Between White and Coloured Sailors
In France
28
The World Congress of Seamen
To begin 20 May 1932 in Hamburg
29-32
Workers Correspondence
From Liberia and the U.S., and from Reginald Bridgeman, Secretary of the British section of the League Against Imperialism.
Reginald Francis Orlando Bridgeman (1884-1968) had risen smoothly from one diplomatic position to another, to be posted to Teheran at about the time Reza Shah seized power, Bridgeman became so friendly with Soviet Ambassador Feodor Rothstein that the Foreign Office began to distrust him and in 1923 retired him from the Service. Bridgeman's first interest in anti-colonial work was connected with the London Chinese Information Bureau.
The Negro Worker
Vol. II, No. 4 (April 1932)
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What is the International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers?
2-3
The Scottsboro Boys Shall Not Be Murdered!
Joint statement of Exec. Committee of Red Aid, Exec. of the ITUCNW
4-6
War in the East
7-9
Child Labour in China
10-12
H.I.M.
Native Peoples Under the Union Jack
On the treatment of Aboriginal Australians
13-15
Bransley R. Ndobe, Secretary of the Independent African National Congress
Capitalist Terror in South Africa
15-19
T. Jackson (South Africa)
Negro Misleaders in South Africa
On the role of Prof. D. Jabavu; also Thaele, Abdurahman and Kadalie
19
Self-Determination for the West Indies
Report of a 25 Feb. 1932 meeting of the Negro Welfare Association, London
20-24
Appeal to Negro Seamen and Dockers!
25-27
O. E. Huiswood
The Economic Crisis and the Negro Workers [pt. 2]
28-29
Capitalists Gone Crazy
On the destruction of foodstuffs in the midst of semi-starvation
30-31
O. Huiswood
Stop the Scottsboro Murder
32
Solidarity Between Black and White Workers
In the U.S., on the Scottsboro and other issues
The Negro Worker
Vol. II, No. 5 (May 1932)
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1-6
G.P.
Soviets for Peace - Capitalists for War
Editorial
6-8
Cyril Briggs
War in the East: Negro Workers, Fight Against Imperialism
Briggs (1888-1966), from Nevis, was a very early member of the U.S. Communist Party
8-9
The Scottsboro Campaign: Boys Appeal from Death Cells to the Toilers of the World
Letter from the defendants in the Scottsboro case: Andy Wright, Olen Montgomery, Ozie Powell, Charlie Weems, Clarence Norris, Haywood Patterson, Eugene Williams, Willie Robertson
9-10
The Origins of Lynch Law in America
11
Burn the "Nigger!"
Report of the lynching of Henry Lowry, reprinted from Padmore's The Life and Struggles of Negro Toilers
12-14
T. Albert Marryshow
Appeal to West Indians Overseas
Editor of The West Indian, President of the Grenada Workers' Association, and an elected member of the Legislative Council of Grenada, Marryshow mentions a demo. by 10,000 against a proposed customs bill
14-15, 18-20
B. Jan
How the French Imperialists Are "Civilizing" Madagascar
16-17
Bradman
How Britain Exploits India
20
To Our Readers
Introducing an up-coming series of articles by Cyril Briggs
21-22
Believe It or Not
On, among other things, the South African Service Contract Bill, racial discrimination in Britain, and the execution of two African-Americans for petty theft
23-25
James Warren
Negro Miners in South Africa
26-27
Aug. J. Egyir-Benyarku
Socialism is Only a Matter of Time
Reprinted from The Gold Coast Spectator
27-28
They Shall Not Die!
Scottsboro case
29
In the Land of Socialism
Pictorial on the USSR
30-32
Our Study Corner - Capitalist War, Imperialist War, and the Workers' Way Out
What is the International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers?
The Negro Worker
Vol. II, No. 6 (June 15, 1932)
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1-3
Geo. Padmore
What is Empire Day?
3-4
T. Jackson (Johannesburg)
South Africa and the Imperialist War
5-8
Kolliselleh Tamba, Secretary of the Liberian Workers' Progressive Association
Liberia and the Labour Problem
9-11
B.J. (Hamburg)
Scottsboro Campaign in Europe
12-14
How the British Empire was Built
14-15
A.R. (Trinidad) (this was Adrian Cola-Rienzi)
"Negro Worker" Banned by Imperialists
15-16
Colonial Dictators
On British Conservative Secretary of State for the Colonies Sir P. Cunliffe-Lister
16-17
A Reply
Account of a London NWA meeting on the banning of the Negro Worker from Trinidad
18-19
How Negroes Live in America
20-22
J.M. Olgin
In the Land of Socialism: A Brotherhood of Nationalities
23-25
World Congress of Seaman
Hamburg, 20-23 May 1932
25-27
Negro Worker Nominated for Vice-President
The CP U.S. candidate for vice-president was James W. Ford
27-29
Cyril Briggs (New York)
The World Situation and the Negro (pt. 1)
30-31
L. Volinsky
International News: Twelve Years of the League of Nations
What is the International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers?
The Negro Worker
Vol. II, No. 7 (July 1932)
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1-6
Geo. Padmore
How the Empire is Governed
6
ITUCNW, George Padmore
An Open Letter to the I.L.D. (U.S.A.)
To the U.S. section of the International Labour Defence
7-9
Lukuta te
Atrocities in the Congo
10-11
Mr. Vandervelde "Discovers" the Congo
Vandervelde was President of the Second International
12-15
Charles Alexander (Trinidad)
Against Illusions in the West Indian Masses
Garveyism and false hopes of aid from the British Colonial Office
16
A Worker Correspondent
Slave Labour in African Mines
16-18
"West African"
Reactionary Methods in Nigeria
18-19
Jim Headley
Let Us Close Ranks
On a class rather than 'race' basis. Headley was a seaman who spent most of his life in the U.S.
20-22
A Correspondent
Lynch Justice in America
22-23
Letter from a Son to his Mother
American Tom Mooney, imprisoned since 1916
24-28
In the Land of Socialism - A Challenge to the War Mongers
28-30
J. Bil�, Secretary, League for the Defence of Cameroon workers
How the Workers Live in Cameroon
31
Revolutionary Poems
"An Open Letter to the South" by Langston Hughes and "If We Must Die" by Claude McKay
What is the International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers?
The Negro Worker
Vol. II, No. 8 (Aug. 1932)
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1-4
George Padmore
The World Today
5-8
T. A. Jackson
Ireland Fights for Freedom
Reprinted from The Daily Worker
9-10
Charles Alexander (Trinidad)
Free Speech and Press for West Indian Masses
11-13
J. E.
The Situation, Kenya
14-17
Cyril Briggs
How Garvey Betrayed the Negroes
18-20
J. Louis Engdahl
Scottsboro Campaign in England
21-22
S. P. R. (Grenada)
Misery in the West Indies
22-24
A Garveyite Offended
An exchange between Padmore and a British Guiana Garveyite
24-2820
J. Komfeder
Where Terror Reigns
Re. Venezuela
29-31
Cyril Briggs (New York)
The World Situation and the Negro [pt. 2]
32
Romain Rolland
Romain Rolland Denounces Imperialism
What is the International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers?
Vol. II, Nos. 9-10 (Sept.-Oct. 1932)
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Author
Headline
Description
1-6
Looking the World Over: Congress Against War; British "Justice" in India; Negro Victories at the Olympics; World Congress of the ILD
7-9
Special Correspondent
Oppression in Nigeria
Hut taxes
9-12
Yuraba
Religion in the Service of Imperialism
In Nigeria
12-14
Ottawa - Conference of Imperialist Exploiters
14-16
Under the Banner of the Red Aid: Terror in Madagascar and the Scottsboro Case
17-18
Believe It or Not
On South Africa's pass system
19-21
In the Land of Socialism - Education in the Soviet Union
22
Arnold Ward
A Letter from London
On a outing for 130 children to Southend-on-Sea sponsored by the Negro Welfare Association
23-25
Voices from the Colonies
Letters from Liberian and British Guiana
26
Africa at Work
On African skilled workers
27-28
B. Jan
The Struggles of Seamen and Harbour Workers in British Guiana
28-30
Open Letter to Gandhi's Agent
To Vitalbai Patel from Reginald Bridgeman, Secretary of the British section of the LAI
31-32
Langston Hughes
The Same
A poem
Vol. II, Nos. 11-12 (Nov.-Dec. 1932)
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Author
Headline
Description
1-3
New Slave Law in South Africa
The Native Contract Service Act
4-5
Hands Off Ovamboland!
Southwest Africa, a League of Nations mandate under South African control
6-17
O.H.
Labour Movement in South Africa - Problems and Tasks of the Revolutionary Trade Unions
This was Otto Huiswoud, who the COMINTERN had sent to work with the CP of South Africa
17-24
Potechin
How to Build the Unemployed Movement
Re. South Africa, by I.I. Potekhin
25-27
A. Dombowski
Under the Banner of the Red Aid - the Scottsboro Case
28-31
George Padmore
The Land of Socialist Construction - Fifteen Years of Soviet Russia
32
Langston Hughes
Good-bye Christ
One of his most controversial poems
Vol. III, No. 1 (Jan. 1933)
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Headline
Description
2-3
Free Tom Mann
Mann was a 76 year-old Communist arrested in an 'anti-means test' demo.
3-4
Huang Ping Must Be Saved!
Huang Ping was Chair of the Chinese Federation of Trade Unions
5-6
Imperialist Rule in Jamaica
Concerning a riot involving the 1st Northumberland Fusiliers in Kingston
6-7
G. Padmore
Nationalist Movement in West Indies
Also mentions the London Negro Welfare Association
8-10
Cyril Briggs
We Honor the Memory of an African Fighter
Zulu leader Dingaan, finally subdued by the Boers on 16 Dec. 1838
11-12
Africa in Revolt: Natives Storm Jail in Rhodesia
Also contains a section on events in French-colonized west Africa
12-14
Raoul Marquez
Africa in Revolt: Portuguese Guinea
14-18
R. Doonping
In Japan the Protector of the Coloured Races?
18-25
J. Kenyatta, General Secretary of the Kikuku Central Association
An African Looks at British Imperialism
26-28
Wal. Daniels
Unemployment in Sierra Leone and the Way Out
Daniels was a nom de guerre of I.T.A. Wallace-Johnson
28
Negro Longshoremen in New Orleans
Efforts to bar African-American workers from the docks being fought by the Marine Workers' Industrial Union
30-31
Our Study Corner - What is Imperialism?
32
Langston Hughes
"Song of the Revolution" and "The End of War"
Vol. III, Nos. 2-3 (Feb.-March 1933)
Pages
Author
Headline
Description
1-6
George Padmore
Negro Toilers Speak at the World Congress of the International Labour Defense
Padmore's speech on this occasion
6-8
W. Taylor
Conditions of Negroes in the U.S.A.
Excerpts from his speech at the ILD Congress
9-12
T. Jackson, South Africa
The ILD and the Negro Peoples
13-15
South African Imperialism Institutes New Terror Actions Against Natives
15-16
A Wave of Terror is Sweeping Over Haiti
Ligue des Ouvriers en General d'Haiti made illegal; author Jacques Roumain arrested
16
Mass Protest Saves Working-Class Leader
Huang Ping
16-19
Edgar Owens
What is the ILD?
20
America's "Honour" Role
List of 37 people, including 2 'whites', lynched during 1932
21-24
Vivian E. Henry
Class War in the West Indies
A speech to the ILD Congress by a Trinidadian
24-25
Stop Murder of Workers
Scottsboro case
25-26
Chairman of the ILD Engdahl - Symbol of International Solidarity
27-28
T. Jackson
Under the Banner of the ILD in Africa
Speech by Nzula to the ILD Congress
29-30
Letters from Delegates
From V.E. Henry (Trinidad) and Hubert Critchlow (British Guiana)
31
Langston Hughes
Free Tom Mooney
Vol. III, Nos. 4-5 (April-May 1933)
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Author
Headline
Description
1-3
Fascist Terror Against Negroes in Germany
3-4
British Hypocrisy Exposed
In South Africa and the Meerut case in India
4-7
Mob Rule in Germany
A summary of information culled from the Manchester Guardian
8-15
The Scottsboro Case
15-16
Land Robbery in Africa
Kenya
17-18
British Refugees in Liberia
People who had fled Sierra Leone
19-21
A Colonial Worker
Anti-Imperialism Movement in the West Indies
22-23
Sydney and Beatrice Webb (Lord and Lady Passfield)
Russia Today
24-26
Race Prejudice in England
A letter from Cardiff, Wales
25-26
S.M.D.
Peasant Distress in Jamaica
A letter
27-28
Believe It or Not
On various topics including Gandhi, literacy in the USSR, and Soviet plans for a film on the life of Toussaint l'Ouverture
28-31
Report of Negro Workers' Leader on the Soviet Republic
Speech by Hubert Critchlow in Georgetown, British Guiana
31-32
Successful Fisherman's Strike in Africa
South Africa
Vol. III, Nos. 6-7 (June-July 1933)
Pages
Author
Headline
Description
1-4
George Padmore
The Fight for Bread
5-6
Land Robbery in Africa
7-9
Terror Over Germany
10-12
League Against Imperialism
What is Empire Day?
13-18
John L. Spivak
The Scottsboro Trial
19-21, 26
D.N. Pritt, K.C.
Justice in Soviet Russia
22-26
Believe It or Not
Slavery in the contemporary world; illiteracy in India; abuse of Aboriginal Australians
27-29
E.R. Roux, Johannesburg
Black Traitors Exposed
30-31
ITUCNW
United Front Against Fascism
32
An Appeal
For funds to aid the London NWA's children's program
Vol. III, Nos. 8-9 (Aug.-Sept. 1933)
Pages
Author
Headline
Description
1-2
Harold Williams
Toussaint L'Ouverture
3-4
The White Men's Civilizing Mission in Africa
4-5
Bravo, British Guiana!
Demo. by 1,000 on May Day
6-8
Religion in the Service of Imperialism
9-17
George Padmore
Notes and Comments
On British Imperialism in India; slavery in the contemporary world; American "democracy"; the visit of a South African cabinet minister to Hitler: "Uncle Tom" Moody
18
George Padmore
Au Revoir
19-25
To Our Brothers in Kenya
26
London Negroes Support West Indian Freedom
The London NWA had adopted a resolution opposing the Trinidad Trade Union Ordinance of 1932, advocating refusal to register
27
A Voice from the Colonies
A letter from Nigeria
29-31
Romain Rolland
British "Justice" in India
32
Nancy Cunard
Lincoln's Grinding Verbiage
A poem
(Oct. 1933-April 1934 - publication suspended)
Vol. IV, No. 1 (May 1934)
Pages
Author
Headline
Description
1-2
We Resume Publication
From Copenhagen, under the editorship of Charles Woodson
3-4
May Day
5-8
E. Owens
Lynch Terror in the U.S.A.
In 1933, there had been more than 40 recorded lynchings
9
Albert Nzula
Died, 7 Jan. 1934, in Moscow
10-16
ITUCNW
To the Workers and Peasants of Liberia
17-19
B.D. Amis
National Recovery Act in U.S.A. means Negro Repressive Act
20-26
Albert Nzula
The Fusion Movement in South Africa
27-29
Helen Davis
The Negro Workers and the Cuban Revolution
'Helen Davis' was Hermina Dumont-Huiswoud (1905-98), originally from British Guiana
30-32
Notes and Comments
Feb. 1934 execution of 9 African-Americans; the colonial government of Trinidad's Seditious Publications Ordinance banned 30 foreign publications including The Negro Worker
32
ITUCNW
Expulsion of Kouyat�
The Negro Worker
Vol. IV, No. 2 (June 1934)
Full Issue in PDF
Pages
Author
Headline
Description
1-4
Editorial
On South African control of Swaziland, Basutoland, and Bechuanaland
5-8
An Appeal to the Negro Workers: Support the Chinese People in their Struggle Against Japanese Imperialism
8, 15, 31-32
Gravest Danger for Thaelman's Life. Statement of Saar Delegation who spoke with Thaelmann
Ernst Th�lmann (1886-1944) was Chair of the German Communist Party
9-13
The Struggle for the Independence of Liberia
14
International Control Commission
The Expulsion of George Padmore from the Revolutionary Movement
As of 23 Feb. 1934, the COMINTERN expelled Padmore for "contacts with a provocateur [Garan Kouyat�], for contacts with bourgeois organizations on the question of Liberia, for an incorrect attitude to the national question".
14-15
Charles Woodson (Secretary of the ITUCNW)
Statement of the International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers
Statement on the expulsion of George Padmore
16-18, 22-23
The Second Five Year Plan in the Soviet Union
19-20
A. De Kom
Starvation, Misery and Terror in Dutch Guyana
Due to his politics, Anton De Kom (1896-1945) was exiled from Dutch Guiana to the Netherlands
21-22
Helen Davis
Stop the Disruptive Tactics of the Negro "Leaders"
24
Scottsboro Case on Appeal May 24
25-26
Nandi Noliwe
The Native Revolt in Togoland (pt. 1)
27-31
Notes and Comments
On Liberia, the Congo, South Africa, and the Gold Coast
Our Aims:
Vol. IV, No. 3 (July 1934)
Pages
Author
Headline
Description
1-5
Smash the Attack on Colonial Seamen
5
Smash U.S. Fascist Terror - Rescue Herndon from Chain-gang
Angelo Herndon (1913-1997) was an African-American Communist organizer of the unemployed
6-10
A Betrayer of the Negro Liberation Struggle
Against Padmore and Kouyat�
11-13
Regime of Terror in Nigeria
13-15
D.T.
Education in Jamaica, British West Indies
16-17
J.G.
South Africa Greets the Negro Worker
18
British Guiana Labour Union Reports
19-21
M. Nelson, Liberia
Liberia and Imperialism
21
Virgin Islanders Fear U.S. Million Dollar Offer
23-30
Notes and Comments
Britain, France, and the U.S. talk disarmament while preparing for war; veterans march in the U.S.; German Jewish villages subjected to 'ethnic cleansing'; U.S.S.R. establishes a Jewish Soviet Region; Scottsboro defence outlawed in Haiti; in the U.S., a strike involving 25,000 Pacific and Gulf port-workers; U.S. postal workers display inter-racial solidarity; new forced labour laws in French-colonized Africa; spreading revolt in Angola; worsening conditions of Africans in South Africa, Kenya, and the Congo; Cuban workers organize
31-32
H.D.
Stevedore
Review of a play
32
Langston Hughes
Union
A poem
The Negro Worker
Vol. IV, No. 4 (Aug. 1934)
Full Issue in PDF
Pages
Author
Headline
Description
1-2
ITUCNW
To the Negro Peoples of the World!
Editorial
2-3
A Century of "Emancipation"
On 1 Aug. 1834, slavery had been abolished across the British Empire. It was followed by four years of 'apprenticeship' before true emancipation on 1 Aug. 1838.
3-4
The 143rd Anniversary of the Haitian Revolution
5-8
Herman W. MacKawain, Assistant General Secretary, U.S. League of Struggle for Negro Rights
The Negro Thinks of War
8-9
Proposed Bill for Negro Rights in the U.S.A.
10-11
Langston Hughes
Negroes Speak of War
11-12
B.
The Soviets for Peace
13-14
Greetings to the "Negro Liberator"
Under the editorship of Ben Davis Jr., this was the new name of The Harlem Liberator
14
9 Years of Struggle
The U.S. section of the ILD had been established in June 1925
15-17, 21
Helen Davis
The Rise and Fall of George Padmore as a Revolutionary Fighter
18
A Conference on "The Negro in the World Today"
Held in London, 14-15 July 1934. Represented were the League of Coloured Peoples, the LAI, the NWA, and the Bus Workers' Rank and File Movement. Some colonial students were also present.
19-21
Nandi Noliwe
The Native Revolt in Togoland (pt. 2)
22
P.M.
A British Worker Writes
From Cardiff, on the National Union of Seamen's non-defence of the rights of colonial workers.
22-23
ITUCNW
Our Reply
23
Fascist Activities in Africa
In Southwest Africa and Kenya
26-27
Notes and Comments: The program fro human destruction
On arms bought by the imperialist powers
27
Bloody June 30th in Germany
On Nazism's 'Night of the Long Knives' elimination of Ernst R�hm and his Sturmabteilung
28
South African Party Fusion
29
Prohibition of German War Film in Kenya
Prohibition of the making of a pro-German film on the First World War in Kenya
29
Intensified Repression of Kenya Natives
30
Confiscation of Native Arms in Tanganyika
30
Longshoremen's Strike
The San Francisco General Strike
30
Scottsboro Decision Upheld - ILD Appeals
31
War Film on Negroes
About film on African-Americans in World War I
31
Portugal's Colonial Exposition
3
Situation in Belgian Congo
32
The Congo - Ocean Railway Completed
32
French Medical "care" in Equatorial Guinea
32
Profits of the Colonial Exploters
Our Aims
The Negro Worker
Vol. IV, No. 5 (Sept. 1934)
Full Issue in PDF
Pages
Author
Headline
Description
1-2
This "Foul and Obnoxious" Tract
Editorial on British Secretary of State for the Colonies Cunliffe-Lister statements on The Negro Workerq
3
"Democracy" and "Equality" in Britain
On 1 Aug. 1834, slavery had been abolished across the British Empire
4-7
W. Daniels
Development of Fascist Terror in the Gold Coast
Daniels was I.T.A. Wallace-Johnson
7-8
Youth Anti-War Congress Supports Colonials
8
Women's Congress Against War
9-13
J.S.
Fight for the Freedom of Abyssinia
14-15, 22
H.D.
Is Imperialist Japan the Friend of Negro Toilers?
Referring to an article by Harry Haywood in the C.P.U.S. Daily Worker
16-19
Organizational Tasks Among the Water Transport Workers
Section titled "Organizational Points"
20-22
Resolutions Adopted at the London Conference
14-15 July, resolutions presented by the League of Coloured Peoples and the NWA
23-26
M.G.
A Letter from South Africa: Fusion and "Die Bureger's" Attitude Toward the Natives
26-27
Wallace-Johnson
A Letter from the Gold Coast: The Criminal Code Ammendment Bill of the Goald Coast
On the Criminal Code Amendment (Sedition) Bill
28
Excerpts from letter from Trinidad, Br. W. Indies
On organizing the unemployed
29
Mombassa Dock Strike
29-30
Negroes active in Strikes
In the U.S.
30
Herndon Out on Bail
30
British Fascist Touring West Indies
A representative of Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists
31-32
U.S. Government Sends Agent to Liberia
32
Japan's Provocations Against Soviet Russia
32
Indian Communist Party made Illegal
Our Aims
Vol. IV, Nos. 6-7 (Oct.-Nov. 1934)
Pages
Author
Headline
Description
1-2
TUCNW
The Negro Worker Shall Not Be Silenced
Publication prohibited by the Belgian government
2
World Congress of Students
To be held 29-31 Dec. in Geneva
3
Wal. Daniels
Nigeria Again - Another Wave of Atrocity
3
To the Readers and Supporters of The Negro Worker
An appeal for articles and letters
4-6
J.H. - this was Trinidadian seaman Jim Headley
Jobless Trinidad Toilers Demand Bread
7-9
A. Ward, Secretary of the NWA, London
The Negro Situation in England
9-11
Myra Page, author of The Gathering Storm and Soviet Main Street
In the Black Belt of the U.S.
12-14
J. Kenyatta
British Slave Rule in Kenya
His speech to the July 1934 London 'Negro' Conference
15
W. Daniels
Das sdrarstwuiet
A poem reprinted from The Gold Coast Spectator
16-17
Rescue the Scottsboro Boys from the Hangman
18, 24
Samuel Weinman
Roosevelt Goes Slumming in the Virgin Islands
Reprinted from the C.P.U.S. Daily Worker
19-20
Our Letter Box
Letters from England and South Africa
21-24
Notes and Comments
On British colonial 'justice' in Kenya; continuing revolt in the Congo; revolution in Spain; solidarity victory of South African 'Bantu' miners; other South African trade union activity
Vol. IV, No. 8 (Dec. 1934)
Pages
Author
Headline
Description
1-2
Dingann's Day
In South Africa
3
On the Anti-Imperialist Front: Conference of the LAI in London
3-4
Indian Conference in London
4
Italian Imperialism Attacks Abyssinia
5-6
Helen Davis
The Approaching War of "Defence"
10
Barney Conal
War is Murder of the Masses
A song
11, 15
John Reed Club of New York
Another Scottsboro Victory
12-15
Organizing Tasks Among the Mine Workers
16-17
Do You Know That
On the British Incitement to Disaffection Bill; British inflation; the arms race; arrest of 350,000 annually in South Africa; the Duke of Kent's �25,000 annual "dole"
18-19, 24
A Negro Delegate to the Soviet Union
Seventeen Years After
17 years since the Bolshevik Revolution
20-21
South African Events
22-24
Notes and Comments
Re. South Africa's 'poor whites'; Alfred Rosenberg's The Myth of the Twentieth Century; Japanese budget for 1935-36; government outrages in Spain; la Cri des n�gres in the Belgian Congo; Chinese Red Army battles foes
Vol. V, No. 1 (Jan. 1935)
Pages
Author
Headline
Description
1-2
Italian Imperialists Grab at Abyssinia
2-4
To the Toiling Masses of Basutoland, Bechuanaland and Swaziland
5-6
Charles Woodson
The United Front of the White and Native Workers in South Africa
7-9
J.Q.
Fusion in South Africa
10-16
H. Jordan (a pseudo-name of I.I. Potekhin)
What is the Independent Native Republic?
16
Mayibuye (Give Us Bank Our Land)
A song from South Africa
16
Albert Nzula
Commemorating his death, a year earlier, age 29
17-20
Organizational Points
Concerning agricultural workers
21-23
J. Mansey
Strikes in South Africa
23-26
John Izotla - another nom de guerre of I.I. Potekhin
On the Question of the Native Cooperative Societies in South Africa
27-28
Do You Know That?
On Ceylon's new constitution; Britain's arms budget; the fall of palm-oil prices in Cameroon; Japanese versus British trade with Morocco
29-31
Notes and Comments
On recent strikes and demonstrations in Mombassa, Kenya; Road workers' strike in Jamaica; demonstrations in the Virgin Islands; election of West Indian Robert Robinson to the Moscow city Soviet
Vol. V, Nos. 2-3 (Feb.-March 1935)
Pages
Author
Headline
Description
1-2
"They Sell Us and Our Children"
Re. Bechuanaland
2
London Theatres Ban Scottsboro Aid
3-5
Charles Woodson
Italy's Grab for Africa
5-6
Central Committee of the Italian Communist Party and Young Communist League
Hands Off Abyssinia!
6
Italian Troops Sail to Make War on Abyssinia
7-8
Lester Hutchinson
The New Constitutional Straight-jacket for India
10-12
The Struggle Against Fascism in South Africa
12-13
D.I., South Africa
What the A.C.C. Mean
The African Congress Clubs
13-15
Helen Davis
Supporters of Colonial Rule
Against missionaries
16-19, 15
Albert Nzula
The Struggles of the Negro Toilers in South Africa (pt. 1)
20-21
Akim
The Handicrafts Men of Africa Belong in the Fighting Front of the Workers
22-24, 28
M. Nelson
The Situation in Liberia (pt. 1)
25-28
Our Letter Box
Letters from South Africa and A. Ward of the London NWA
29-31
Notes and Comments
On a 'Race Museum' in Moscow; victory by the Chinese Red Army; strike in St. Kitts; Germany's colonial ambitions
32
W. Daniels
The Declaration of Capitalism
A poem reprinted from the Gold Coast Provincial Pioneer
Vol. V, No. 4 (April 1935)
Pages
Author
Headline
Description
1-3
Slave Rule in the Belgian Congo
3-4
Imperialist Apologists
On Charles Roden Buxton's visit to east Africa
4-5
"Europe is Dying" - Mussolini
6-10, 24
Charles Woodson
Italian Troops Pour into Africa
11-14
Albert Nzula
The Struggles of the Negro Toilers in South Africa (pt. 2)
15
Colonial Program of the British Communist Party
As adopted in Feb. 1935
16-20
Organizational Points - How to Organize the Unemployed
21-24
M. Nelson
The Situation in Liberia (pt 2)
25-26
H.F.
Our Letter Box: Gold Coast - Why Farmers Get So Little for Their Cocoa
26
Our of Their Own Mouths
Quotes from Lord Curzon and G.M. Huggins, Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia
27-? (pp. 28-30 missing)
Notes and Comments
On the plight of West Indians; Congress of U.S. unemployed workers; jailing of Haitian revolutionary writer Jacques Roumain; strike in Natal coalmines; South African importation of workers from Mozambique
31-32
Helen Davis
Rakosi Stands Before His Judges
Mathias Rakosi had been a leader of the 1919 Hungarian Soviet, sentenced to life imprisonment
Vol. V, No. 5 (May 1935)
Pages
Author
Headline
Description
1-3
May Day
3-4
Jubilation and Thanks-giving for Profits
Why Lever Brothers, the United Africa Co., Ashanti Goldfields, etc., should celebrate the 25th anniversary of George V's coronation
5-7
James W. Ford
For Defence of Ethiopia
Extracts from a speech, 7 March 1935, in New York
7, 24
Italy Continues War Preparations
8-9
Hermann Eugene
The Fight for Bread - A General Strike of Agricultural Workers
Martinique
10-11
RILU Executive Bureau
Letter to the International Trade Union Federation
12-14
Letter from Tom Mann to the South African Trade Unions and to all Working Men and Women in South Africa
15
Victory for Scottsboro Boys
16-17
Slavery: 100 Years Ago [and] Today
18-19, 22
A.Z.
Is There a Class of Native Capitalists in South Africa?
20-22
Albert Nzula
The Struggles of the Negro Toilers in South Africa (pt. 3)
23-24
M. Nelson
The Situation in Liberia (pt. 3)
25-27
Our Letter Box
From R. Bridgeman on Roden Buxton's African visit
27
Imperialism the Enemy
A quote from Lenin on British imperialism
28-31
Notes and Comments
On a riot in Harlem; a U.S. anti-sedition bill; anti-war demos. In New York, Philadelphia, and Chicago; unemployed demo. in the Gold Coast; malaria epidemic in Ceylon; 19 March 1935 massacre in Karachi, India; protests by British farmers
32
Chinese Reds Reap Victories
Vol. V, No. 6 (June 1935)
Pages
Author
Headline
Description
1
Impending Conflicts in West Africa
2
Tightening the Shackles
South Africa
3-5
ITUCNW
To the Gold Coast Trade Unions
6-9
Akim
The Struggles of the Workers in West Africa
10-13
Kofi Kwessi
Struggle of the Workers of Sierra Leone and Gambia
14-15
Soukt
The Gold Coast Delegation and the Anti-Imperialist Movement
16-19
William L. Patterson
The Abyssinian Situation and the Negro World
19, 25
War Menace Hangs Over Abyssinia
20-22
Albert Nzula
The Struggles of the Negro Toilers in South Africa (pt. 4)
23-24
The Ashanti Confederacy
26-28
Workers Shot in the West Indies
St. Kitts sugar strike, Jan. 1935
29
Dockers Strike in Jamaica
29
Gold Coast Mine Strike
30
Nazis Persecute Negro
African-born wrestler Jim Wango
31
British Colonial Seamen Face Destitution and Deportation
32
Another Strike in Jamaica
Vol. V, Nos. 7-8 (July-Aug. 1935)
Pages
Author
Headline
Description
1-3
Five Years of Struggle
The fifth anniversary of the formation of the ITUCNW
3-5
ITUCNW
Hands Off Abyssinia
6-10
The Anti-Imperialist Struggle in Northern Rhodesia
11-12
The Rhodesian Mine Strike
On the copper-fields of Northern Rhodesia
15
"God Save the King"
On the fatigue of King George V
16-19, 34
Watt Nolan
Preparing New Land Expropriations in Kenya
20-22
Fifth Anniversary Greetings
From R. Bridgeman, the African Federation of Trade Unions, the U.S. branch of the ILD, the London NWA, and H.E. O'Connell representing Black workers in Cardiff
24-27
William L. Patterson
Negro Harlem Awakes
28
Monster May Day Rally in British Guiana
With emphasis on the defence of Abyssinia
29
Negro Worker Elected in Paris
Felix Merlin, from Martinique
29
Workers Sentenced
Martinique
30-31
Organizational Points: A Few Hints on How to Carry on a Strike
32-34
"I am Among My Own People in My Own Land"
From African-American Margaret Glascow, living in the Soviet Union
35-3830
Our Letter Box
From Hubert Critchlow (British Guiana); from London, giving extracts of a speech by S. Saklatvala to the Coloured Nationals Mutual Social Club
38
Trade Union Unity in Dutch Guiana
39-40
Notes and Comments
The Divide-and-rule tactics of South African capital; U.S. relations with Liberia; Japan's invasion of China
Vol. V, No. 9 (July-Aug. 1935)
Pages
Author
Headline
Description
1-2
ITUCNW
An Appeal - Stop this Fascist Robber's War
Ethiopia
3-5
International Conference in Paris in Defence of Abyssinia
5-6
Durban Committee of the South African Communist Party
Refuse to Ship Goods to East Africa (an appeal to the Harbour Workers of South Africa)
7-9
Lorenzo Gault
An End to Empire-Building
10-11, 18
Cardiff Coloured Seamen's Committee
Coloured Seamen's Struggle Against De-Nationalization
12-14
International Actions in Support of Abyssinia
In the U.S., Europe, St. Lucia, Trinidad, British Guiana, India, Egypt, and South Africa
15, 24
Call for a United Front
India
16-17
Nationalities in the Soviet Union
17-18
Nomad
Gypsies
19-20
Workers' Victory
In a Johannesburg strike, reprinted from Umsebenzi
20
"Sedition Craze"
Reprint of an editorial in The Gold Coast Provincial Pioneer of 18 May 1935
21
Henri Barbusse - Friend of Oppressed Colonials Dead
22-23
Notes and Comments
Cardiff port-workers threatened with deportation; a colonial seamen's organization formed in London; African-American L.A. Walton appointed to Liberia; Polish investment in Liberia; ILD efforts to save Anglo Herndon; riot in Kenya; Henderson, an African-American woman, represents the C.P.U.S. in Moscow for the Seventh Congress of the COMINTERN; union growth in Dutch Guiana
Vol. V, No. 10 (Oct. 1935)
Pages
Author
Headline
Description
1-2
Editorial: End the Bloody Slaughter in Abyssinia
2-3
To the Negro People
Defend Abyssinia
4-5, 26-27
E. Varga
Italy and the Struggle for Abyssinia
Abridgement reprinted from the British Daily Worker
6-7
ITUCNW
An Open Letter to the Negro Workers and Toilers of [Northern] Rhodesia, to the Watch Tower Movement and to the Members of the Watch Tower Organization
8-11
The Struggle Against Fascism in South Africa
12-13
New Anti-Native Bills!
Reprinted from Umsebenzi
14-15
German Imperialism Seeks Colonies in East Africa
16, 27
An E. African
Gold in East Africa
17-18
Aid Your Journal
20-21
"Loin Cloth"
On Japanese versus European competition in selling textiles to Africa
22-23, 25
Albert Nzula
The Struggles of the Negro Toilers in South Africa (pt. 5)
28-31
Notes and Comments
20th birthday of Umsebenzi ("the South African Worker"); Trade union unity in France; Haiti condemns Italy in the League of Nations; most Italian-Argentinians are anti-fascist; British CP demonstrates in support of Ethiopia; events on India's northwest frontier; whites split in Kenya (settlers versus the colonial government); Nazi Germany bans jazz; four South African CP members on trial; sugar-workers revolt in British Guiana
32
Langston Hughes
The Same
A poem
Vol. V, No. 11 (Dec. 1935)
Pages
Author
Headline
Description
1-2
Editorial: Defeat the Imperialist Sell-Out!
Of Ethiopia by the League of Nations
2
Dingaan's Day
3, 28
G.R.
Johannes Nkosi
Commemorating his death, 16 Dec. 1930
4-5
The Robber "Peace" Project
An Anglo-French plan to dismember Ethiopia
6-7
Ethiopia's Protest
At the League of Nations
7-8
Red Cross Protests Italian Murder
Bombing of the Tafari Makonnen Hospital in Dessie, Ethiopia
8-9
Conference of the Negro Welfare Association
London, 20 Oct. 1935
9
NWA, London
Resolution on Abyssinia
10
The New English parliament
Results of the Nov. 1935 election
11-13
Communist Parties of Canada, Ireland, England, Iraq, Palestine, Egypt, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand
An Appeal to the people of all part of the Empire against war
13, 20-21
Harry Pollitt
How the "Jolly George" was Stopped
In 1920, London dockworkers had refused to load munitions intended for use against the USSR
14-16
Charles Woodson
Peoples' Candidate Victor in the Gold Coast
A.W. Kojo-Thompson elected to the Legislative Council
16
Indian Opinion on the Italo-Ethiopian Conflict
16
European Deported from Africa
A representative of the Watch Tower (Jehovah's Witnesses) society
17
Soviet China Hails Abyssinia
17
West African Youth League Growing Rapidly in the Gold Coast
Its leader was I.T.A. Wallace-Johnson
18-19, 24
Helen Davis
Egypt Awakes
Opposition to British policy on Ethiopia
21
Mutiny on Italian Ship
21
Anti-Fascist Balloons
Carry leaflets into northwest Italy
22
Saratu Kaidun
Liberia Greets Soviet Russia
23
British Congress on Peace and Soviet Russia
23
Statement of the World Youth Committee (Paris) against Italian Aggression in Ethiopia
25-28
Notes and Comments
Angelo Herndon released on bail; Japanese advance further into China; Cardiff worker Harry O'Connell arrested; racist policies in Southern Rhodesia; further segregation of South African Cape 'coloureds'; San Pietro, Italy, anti-war/ unemployed demo; Trinidad dockworkers refuse to unload Italian ship 'Virgilio'
Vol. VI, No. 1 (March 1936)
Pages
Author
Headline
Description
1-2
Editorial: The Geneva Proposal
Selling-out Ethiopia
2-3
A South African "Compromise"
Creating separate voters roles in Cape Province
5-6
Shapurji Saklatvala
British General Election
In Nov. 1935, creation of a second coalition "National" government
7-9
Sidelights on the Italo-Abyssinian Conflict
Increases in draft-evasion and desertion; Vatican supports invasion of Abyssinia
9
The First French Field Hospital Goes to Abyssinia
9-10
Maritime Federation of the Pacific Votes to Stop all Transport of War Material to Italy
10
Conference of Negro and Arabs to take place in Paris, 12-13 April
International Committee for the Defence of the Ethiopian People
12
London Scottsboro Resolution
13-15
R. Bridgeman
Fight Against Colonial Oppression: Election Methods in the Gold Coast
15-16
Conference of the LAI
Fifth annual conference held in London, 25-26 Jan.
16
Stop This, English Workers!
Harassment of a distributor of The Negro Worker
17-18
Aid Your Journal
19
National Negro Congress in the U.S.
Chicago, 14-16 Dec. 1935
19-20
Chinese Soviet Greetings to the U.S. Negro Congress
Sent by Mao
20-21
China's Students Arise
Reprinted from China Today
22-23
Resolution Adopted by the All-Africa National Convention
Bloemfontein, 16 Dec. 1935
24-26
Our Letter Box
A letter from British Guiana, and a letter and poem from 'Charlie' in Liberia
26-27
A white seaman
Exploitation of Indian Labourers
28
Saklatvala - Kipling
Their deaths, 16th and 18th Jan. respectively
28-29
Helen Davis
Two Epitaphs in an English Graveyard
Contrasting the role of Saklatvala with that of arch-imperialist Kipling
30-32
Notes and Comments
The 16 Feb. Spanish election; Twenty African-American prisoners burned to death in the U.S.; the Franco-Soviet Pact; Gold Coast railway workers protest; tax-resistance in Kenya
Vol. VI, No. 2 (April 1936)
Pages
Author
Headline
Description
1-2
Editorial: The Great Betrayal!
Of Abyssinia by the League of Nations
3-4
The Struggle for Colonies
4, 30
Tom Mann is Eighty Years Old!
5-8
Who Rules British Africa and the West Indies
9
Colonies - For Whose Benefit?
9-10
The Plight of the Poor Peasants and Oppressive Taxation
In the face of falling prices for exported raw materials
12-15, 22
Helen Davis
Hitler Germany Demands Colonies
16-17, 36
The "Haves" Reply to the "Have-nots"
British, French, Portuguese, Dutch and other colonials reply to German demands
18-20
ITUCNW
An Appeal to the Negro Workers and Toilers
21-22
Do You Know That:
The British Empire covers a quarter of the earth; the extent of white-settler occupation in South Africa and Kenya; the extent of illiteracy in India; the state of education in Britain's African colonies
23, 36
Native Labour in the Colonies
By colony and economic sector
24-26
Henri Morice
The Marine Workers' Fight Against the Fascist Italian War in Ethiopia
27
Rotten Sardines for the Ethiopian Army
An English company at fault
27
Doctors boycott German goods
In India
28-29
I. Richter
The Coloured Workers in South Africa
30
Ernst Thaelman
His 50th birthday
31-34
Vivien Jackson
Shapurji Saklatvala
An obituary
35
British Fascist Propaganda
35
Youth Peace Conference
Brussels, 29 Feb. to 1 March
35
Why Hitler Got 99%
On recent German 'election'
Vol. VI, Nos. 3-4 (May-June 1936)
Pages
Author
Headline
Description
1-2
Editorial: Mussolini Occupies Ethiopia
3
ITUCNW
An Appeal to the Negro Workers and Toilers
3-5
International Conference on Abyssinia
Paris, 9-10 May
6-9, 34
R. Bridgeman
Britain and the System of Colonial Mandates (pt. 1)
10-12, 35-36
Notes and Comments
New Registration of Natives legislation in S. Rhodesia; Land Question in Kenya; Gold Coast election case re. Kojo-Thompson; labour migration from Nyasaland; N. Rhodesia government 'native' newspaper; struggles in the Belgian Congo; National Congress Convention in India; Subhas Chandra Bose imprisoned without trial
13-16
A Friend of South Africa
A Memo. on South Africa with Special Reference to Native Conditions (pt. 1)
17
British Guiana Labour Union
May Day Message
18-19
Reaction Beaten in Cape Town
Charges against Minnie Gool and John Gomas dropped
20-21
John Marks
Native Oppression in S. Africa
22-27
Herbert Newton
The National Negro Congress
Chicago, 14-16 Feb., attended by some 900 delegates
28-29
Our Letter Box
Letters from Hubert Critchlow (British Guiana); John Marks (South Africa) and H. O'Connell (Wales)
30-34
News About Abyssinia
36
The Woman Today
New York: A new monthly for women workers begins publication
Vol. VI, No. 5 (July 1936)
Pages
Author
Headline
Description
1-2
Editorial: Britain Turns Tail
Withdraws sanctions against Italy
2-3, 7
First Steps in Roman "Civilization"
In Ethiopia
4-5
The People's Front
Spain and France
5
Accra Election Results
Kojo-Thompson defeats his opponent 1,022 to 867
6-7
K.B., Jerusalem
An Appeal from Palestine
8-11
Helen Davis
Palestine Arabs Revolt
12
Sixth Anniversary of the ITUCNW
13-16
A friend of South Africa
A Memo. on South Africa with Special Reference to Native Conditions (pt. 2)
17
Alex Gossip, General Secretary, U.S. National Amalgamated Furnishing Trades Association
A letter
About the union, formed in 1865
18-19, 35
John Marks, Johannesburg
Transvaal Native Teachers and their Conditions
20-21
Our English Correspondent
Arrival of Ethiopian Emperor
Haile Selassie I in London, 2 June
22-24
Our English Correspondent
Gold Coast Levy Bill Passed
Extending indirect rule
25, 35
German Colonial Campaign
26-32
Notes and Comments
Poisoned in Prison? (Jolibois, Haiti); Gold Coast arrest of I.T.A. Wallace-Johnson and detention without trial of the former Dadiasuabehene of Kumasi, Kofi Sechere
18-21, 32
Robertson, London
For Equal Rights and Freedom in South Africa
22-23, 36
John Gomas
All-African Convention to be Permanent - Make it a Mass Liberation Movement
24-26
Harold Preece
Negro Disfranchisement in Texas
27-29
Charles Alexander, West Indies
Emancipation Day and the Struggle for Real Freedom
29-30
D.R.
Slavery in the Colony of Trinidad and Tobago
31
Negro for Vice Presidency
James W. Ford again running as CP U.S. candidate
32
Native Trade Union Conference
Johannesburg, 5 July 1936
33-36
Our Letter Box
Letters from South Africa, Jamaica, and Boston
Vol. VI, No. 8 (Oct. 1936)
Pages
Author
Headline
Description
1-2
Editorial: The Menace of Fascism
2-3
The New Soviet Constitution
4-6, 15
Ray Alexander, Cape Town
The Fight for Trade Union Unity in South Africa
7-14, 22
Non-European Railway Workers' Conference
Cape Town, 3-4 Aug. 1936
15
Aubrey Lowe
Need for a United Front with Natives
Reprinted from The South African Worker
16-19
A. Mathews, South Africa
For a Peoples' Front in South Africa - For Bread, Work and Land
20-22
Frank O'Brien
Harlem Shows the Way
Abridged article reprinted from The New Masses
23-24, 32
Harold Preece
Negro Slaves and Mexican Solidarity
Against efforts to victimize Mexican migrant workers
25-26
D.R., Trinidad
British Imperialisms' Hunger Drive in Trinidad
Against the colonial government's Cocoa Relief Scheme, Shop Closing Hours and Minimum Wage Ordinances
27-28
Notes and Comments
Eight Puerto Rican nationalists sentenced to 2 to 6 years imprisonment; Sharecroppers Union Convention of delegates from Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi; Herndon wins Stay of Appeal; Haitian writer Jacques Roumain released from jail; Arrests of 300 Jehovah's Witnesses in the Belgian Congo
29-30
The Struggle in Abyssinia
30
D. Matini, South Africa
National Liberation League formed in Port Elizabeth
31-32
Our Letter Box
Letters from the South African Railway and Harbour Workers' Union, Cape Town, and the Dock Workers' Union of Dutch Guiana
Vol. VI, No. 9 (Nov. 1936)
1-2
Editorial: Nineteen Years of Soviet Rule
2
On Going to Press
German recognition of the Italian empire
3-4
Ray Alexander, Cape Town
The League Decision on Abyssinia
5-10
Charles Woodson
No Colonies for Hitler
11-13, 16
Henri Morice
Italian Fascism Has Installed its Regime of Terror and Slavery in Ethiopia
14-16
Leo Wanner
Fascist Danger in N. Africa
17-19
Charles Alexander, West Indies
The Struggle of the Unemployed in St. Vincent
20-21
The Fascist Rebellion in Spain
21-22
Declaration of French Minister of Colonies
Marius Moutet: "... we shall seriously carry on our role of civilizers and emancipators"
22
How to Fight Against the Anti-French Propaganda of Germany in Our Colonies
Moutet statement reprinted from Le Petit Parisien of 9 Sept. 1936
23-24
Speech of Cypril Philip
Black delegate to Brussels International Peace Congress
24-25
Resolutions Concerning Colonial Peoples Introduced at the Brussels International Peace Congress
26, 31
Nandi
Review of Should Colonies Be Given Back to Hitler? by Francis Jourdin
27-29
Notes and Comments
Native 'stay-in' strike of some 100 members of the South African Laundry Workers' Union; Miami strike by 250 African-American dock-workers; Martinique workers organize; plans to curb Black population growth in Bermuda; tragic condition of labour migrants from Nyasaland; taxation in Nigeria; education in Southern Rhodesia; Trinidad in the Vanguard - letter from T. Harris (President of the southern section of the Trinidad Labour Party) to The People newspaper, opposing anti-communist propaganda and urging anti-fascist unity re. Spain
32
Aid Your Journal
Vol. VI, No. 9 (Dec. 1936)
Pages
Author
Headline
Description
1-2
Editorial: The Fascist Front
3
Hail The Dawn
Published by the Gold Coast West African Youth League
4-5, 11
Transvaal All-African Convention
6
The Peoples' Front in S. Africa
7-11
Wm. L. Patterson
Helping Britain to Rule Africa
Pt. 1 of an attack on George Padmore's book How Britain Rules Africa
12
How They Rule!
British rule in Malaya
13-18, 22
Notes and Comments
ID cards in Nyasaland; Cape Town African voter challenges the National Republic Act in the Supreme Court; South Africa Native Trust and Land Act of 1936; in memory of Zulu King Chaka; Johannesburg mine strike; Austria, Hungary, and Yugoslavia recognize the Italian empire; taxation methods in Kenya; Prof. H.J. Fleure and Sir Cyril Fox denounce theories of racial superiority at a conference of the British Association for the Advancement of Science; Dr. Van Broekhuizen (S. African ambassador to Belgium) promotes apartheid; representatives of the Gold Coast Aborigines Rights Protection Society return home; an Arkansas cotton-planter is indicted for slavery
19-20
Wm. L. Patterson
Who Are the War Makers?
Letter reprinted from the Baltimore Afro-American
23-28
Our Letter Box
A Letter from Garveyite J.R. Ralph Casimir (Dominica) and a reply; a letter from Dutch Guiana
29-32
Monte
Review of two books: The Preparation and First Operations by Marshal de Bono and The Ethiopian War by Marshal Bodoglio
Vol. VII, No. 1 (Jan. 1937)
Pages
Author
Headline
Description
1-2
Editorials: 1937 - Japan Recognizes Italian Conquest
3
The Fate of Ethiopia
4
Sovereign or Slave?
On the Gold Coast sedition trial of I.T.A. Wallace-Johnson
4, 10 11
Two Worlds
Adoption of the new Soviet Constitution contrasted with the Edward VIII abdication 'crisis'
5-7
Helen Davis
Who Really Rules Britain
7
English Popular Front Campaign
8-9, 15
Wm. L. Patterson
Helping Britain Rule Africa (pt. 2)
Continuing the attack on Padmore
10
West African Youth League
27 Nov. 1935 telegram to the LAI, London, on the 114-day detention-without-trial of four WAYL
10
R. Bridgeman, representing the LAI
30 Nov. 1936 letter to the Colonial Office
11, 16
Culled From the Press
What is Detribalization (from The Gold Coast Spectator); The Issues of War or Peace Are in Our Hands (Daily Worker); Unjust Taxation of Native (South African Worker)
12-14
Notes and Comments
British punitive expedition on India's northwest frontier; Nehru re-elected Congress President; 11,000 Chinese street-sweepers strike, Singapore; Chief Tshekedi Khama of Bechuanaland loses his claim; Jamaicans reject tariff bill; Italy's other victims - North Africa; death of Italian writer Luigi Pirandello; Angelo Herndon victory; Spain promises Morocco self-government
15-16
Our Letter Box
From W.A. Domingo of the Jamaica Progressive League (New York); from P.K. (North Shields, England), a "colonial able seaman with an international outlook"
Vol. VII, No. 2 (Feb. 1937)
Pages
Author
Headline
Description
1-2
Editorials: Support the Spanish People; German Foothold in Morocco; Spread the Negro Worker Campaign
3
ITUCNW
An Appeal to All Negro Organizations
To keep Germany imperialism out of Africa
4
British Left-Wing Unity: Support for Colonial People
Declaration by the British CP, the LAI, and the Socialist League
4
Colonial Seamen Conference
London, 29 Nov. 1936
5-6
Negro-Blooded Pushkin to be Honoured by Soviet Toilers with Great Jubilee
Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) honoured on the centenary of his death
6
Helen Davis
Frederick Douglass
On the 120th anniversary of his birth (12 Feb. 1817)
7, 10
Charles Alexander, West Indies
Bermuda Government Plans to Sterilize Negroes
8-9
Wm. L. Patterson
The Negro Spirituals and the Robeson Concerts
Paul Robeson visiting the USSR
11, 15
Culled From the Press
In Defence of Soviet Russia (News Chronicle, 9 Jan. 1937)
12-13, 16
Wm. L. Patterson
Helping Britain to Rule Africa (p. 3)
Again, against Padmore
14
Monte
Soviet Film: Circus
An anti-racist film
14, 16
Ben Davis Jr.
Soviet documentary: Abyssinia
15
Two Conference of European Youth on Spain
15
Our Letter Box
A message from Basutoland
Vol. VII, No. 3 (March 1937)
Pages
Author
Headline
Description
1
Editorial: An Ethiopian Fights for Spain
Ghvet, son of Ras Imru
1, 7
No Colonies to Hitler
Resolution adopted by the Colonial Seamens Association, London
2-3
A Pole
Fascist Poland - Prison of Peoples
3
A Progressive Parson
African-American Baptist minister Marshall Shepard
4
Two Ethiopians: Father [Ras Imru] Italian Captive - Son Fighting for Spain
5
Bermuda Bosses Ban Births, to Solve Unemployment they Say
In reality, to prevent the Black population from becoming a majority
6-7
Charles Alexander
Frederick Douglass: Great Negro Abolitionist
8-9, 13
Wm. L. Patterson
West African Youth and the Peoples' Front
10-11
Charles Alexander, West Indies
1937 - A New Year of Struggle for the West Indian Masses
11, 15
Culled from the Press
South African Native Affairs Minister's New Year's 'gift'
12-13
Paul Robeson Speaks
Over Radio Moscow
14-15
Nandi
Some Results of the French Peoples' Front Government in Favour of the Colonies
15
Two Conference of European Youth on Spain
16
Notes and Comments
South African Native doctor and curfew regulations; slave conceptions in South Africa; All-African Convention wins a case against tram-car segregation; transit strike in Nigeria; West African Youth League protests; Cuba deporting 50,000 Haitians and Jamaicans
Vol. VII, No. 4 (April 1937)
Pages
Author
Headline
Description
1
Editorial: Atrocious Massacre in Abyssinia
Of some 6,000 people in Addis Ababa
2
World Commission Against War and Fascism
Save the Spanish Republic, the Bulwark of Liberty and Peace!
3-4
Wallace-Johnson
"No Sir! No Colonies Back" for Germany
5-6
Ben Bradley
India Goes to the Polls: Election Under the New Constitution
6
Share-croppers' Union Presents Proposals: 40 acres and a mule
7, 14-15
Wm. L. Patterson
The Negro and the Centenary of Alexander Pushkin
8-10
Civil Liberties for Colonial Peoples
Sixth annual conference of the LAI, London, 27-28 Feb. 1937
10, 16
Minimum Wages in the Windward Islands [Caribbean]
From ILO publication Industrial and Labour Information
11
Culled From the Press
Soviet Ambassador to Britain M. Maisky warns the aggressors; "Negroes Pledge Aid to Steel Drive" (from U.S. Sunday Worker)
12-13, 15
Our Letter Box
A letter from and a reply to J.R. Ralph Casimir (Dominica); a letter from the U.S. replying to Casimir's Dec. 1936 letter to The Negro Worker
16
Notes and Comments
Native Court in South Rhodesia; Gold Coast representative to the coronation of George VI
Vol. VII, No. 5 (May 1937)
Pages
Author
Headline
Description
1
Editorials: May Day, 1937; Terror in Abyssinia
1
The Negro Worker Confiscated
In Cape Town, South Africa
2
Negroes on the Spanish Front
Ethiopian Ahmed din Joseph, and African-American nurse from Harlem, Salaria Kee
3-5
South African News
4
W.D.L. Matini
National Liberation League of South Africa Active in Port Elizabeth
6-7
African Workers on the March
On recent strikes
7
W. Driver
Suid Afriknanse Spoorweg En Hawer Werkers Unie
8
Edward E. Strong, U.S. National Negro Congress
The Negro Youth Offensive
9, 13-14
Wallace-Johnson
The W. African Youth League: its Origins, Aims and Objectives
10-12
Voices from South Africa
Letters
14-15, 19
Jacques Roumain
Haiti a Dictatorship - Lessons and Results
16
Concerning Sterilization in Bermuda
16
No Colonies for Germany
Statement to the League of Nations by two Trinidad groups - the Negro Welfare and Cultural Association and the Amalgamated Building and Woodworkers' Union
16
Negro Expert Heads Soviet Farm
He was George W. Tynes
16-17
Helen Davis
Book Review: W. Adolphe Roberts' pamphlet Self-Government for Jamaica
17, 19
Austin Worth
How Religion and the Church Mislead the Negro People
20
Our Letter Box
Letters from Trinidad, Haiti, and Dutch Guiana
Vol. VII, No. 6 (June 1937)
Pages
Author
Headline
Description
1
Editorials: Aid for Negro Fighters [support from Paul Robeson]; Herndon Lives!; Free the Scottsboro Boys!; Keep Ethiopia at Geneva
2
Paul Robeson
He calls for Aid to Negroes Defending Democracy in Spain
2
Abyssinian [Ahmed din Joseph] killed in Spain
2
James For in Stirring Appeal [to aid Spain]
3
L.P.
Angelo Herndon is Free!
4
John Gomas
2000 Protest Against New Anti-Colour Legislation, Spirit of Unity Grows
Cape Town, 22 March
5, 15
Charles Alexander (W. Indies)
The New King [George VI] and the W. Indian Masses
6
Helen Davis
Abyssinia - A Year After [the Italian victory]
6
May Day Celebrations
In the U.S., France, London, the USSR, and Spain
7
Congress of the National Liberation League [of South Africa]: Resolution
7
Native Delegation for Geneva
South African Trades and Labour Council asks to attend an international labour conference
7
Nazis checked in S.W. Africa
8-9
Ray Alexander (Cape Town)
One More the Fight for Trade Union Unity in S. Africa
10-11
Austin Worth
Some Negro Workers in the Soviet Union
12
Robert Warren
"Follow the Drinkin' Gourd"
A story about the Underground Railway
12
African chiefs at Coronation
Ademola II, Alake of Abeokuta (southern Nigeria) and Yeta III of Barotseland
13
With the Paul Robeson family
Paris interview
14-15
Wallace-Johnson
Great Britain and the Bond of 1844
A British treaty with kinds and elders of the Gold Coast
16
Notes and Comments: No equality for natives [re. South African Minister of Defence Pirow]; Stay-in Strike in Salvation Army [by 100 junior officers in Tokyo]; Two young New Zealanders jailed in London as stow-aways; Some Britons Are Slaves [British seamen sentenced to 3 months hard labour for mutiny]; Peaceful use for Soviet Planes [spraying to eradicate malarial mosquitoes]
16
Our Letter Box
From Dutch Guiana and South Africa, the latter opposing return of colonies to Germany
Vol. VII, Nos. 7-8 (Sept.-Oct. 1937)
Pages
Author
Headline
Description
1
Editorial: Japanese Imperialists invade China
1
A donation from Spain
From a 'white' American fighting in Spain
2-3
ITUCNW
Statement ... To all our Supporters! To all readers of The Negro Worker
2-4, 16
Charles Alexander (W. Indies)
The Fighters for Emancipation
Cudjoe and the Jamaica Maroons
5-6
William L. Patterson
The Scottsboro Case
6-7
H.
A Story of the Great Strike
On the oilfields of Trinidad, June 1937
7, 14
Helen Davis
"Black Dogs Only Bark - They Cannot Bite"
Contravening this idea from the experience in Trinidad
Copy of a Leaflet which Encouraged the Workers in the Strike
Issued by the Trinidad British Empire Workers' and Citizens' Home Rule Party
8-9, 11
Wallace-Johnson
British Armaments and the West African Colonies as I See Them
10-11
Langston Hughes
Speech
To the second International Writers' Congress, Paris, July 1937
12-13, 16
Call for National Convention
Issued by Cape Province organizations
14
Revolt in "Little England"
Barbados uprising of July 1937
15
T. Harris (a colonial worker)
What is Fascism?
15
A Trinidadian Writes on Fascism
A poem reprinted from The Barbados Observer of 12 June 1937
16
Sugar Strike in Mauritius
16
Jamaica Banana workers strike
16
Inquiry Commission Sails for Trinidad
Commission headed by Forster