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ment which has arisen in the last two years - the Committee for Industrial Organization. The C.I.O. has already done a splendid job of organizing the unorganized workers in the mass-production industries, where the majority of our people are working. The C.I.O. has repudiated the Jim-Crow policy of discrimination which the Executive Council of the A.F. of L. has foisted upon the A.F. of L. membership. The C.I.O. knows that black and white labor can only go forward hand in hand and together.

C.I.O. Backs Real Democracy

It has been the work of the C.I.O. that has brought better wages, more security, a slackening of the speed-up - and a recognition of the status of our people as workers among workers - to the Negroes working in steel, auto, tobacco, and the other industries where our people work. 

It is only with the advent of the C.I.O. which has organized the industries in which the majority of us work, and which has admitted us on an equal plane to union membership and leadership, that we have had any kind of security at all. 
The C.I.O. has come forward as the champion of unity in the ranks of labor, unity with the unions in the American Federation of Labor, on the basis of industrial unionism and organizing the unorganized. That means that the C.I.O. today stands for the removal of all the restrictions which the reactionary labor leaders of the A.F. of L. have tried to impose in the way of the Negro becoming a free and equal citizen of the labor movement. 
The C.I.O. stands, too, for the realization of political democracy and economic democracy. Political democracy

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can only exist when the rights of the Negro people to vote, to hold office, to serve on juries, to live where they want to, are actual facts, and not mere dead letters in the Constitution. 

Negro Congress Wins White Support

A sweeping movement for the defense of the democratic rights of the American people against the threat of fascist repression is spreading throughout the country. There could be nothing of more importance for the Negro people.

Among our own people, the National Negro Congress, which is itself composed of, and receives support from, such organizations as the Urban League, the N.A.A.C.P., and scores of trade unions, churches, and lodges, has done historic work in collaboration with this movement. 

The National Negro Congress must and does work hand in hand with other movements having similar objectives. There is a growing trend within the various organizations of the Negro people for progressive thought and action. The National Negro Congress has given important help to this trend. It has helped to establish the Southern Negro Youth Congress, which has united hundreds of Negro youth groups in the heart of the South. It has won the cooperation of hundreds of white leaders from all walks of life who recognize that democracy is not safe in America so long as it is denied to one section of the American people, namely, to our people, the Negroes.

Negro Students Help Negro Unity

Among young people, vast numbers of youth organizations are uniting in the American Youth Congress for the 

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