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RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED AT THE LONDON CONFERENCE 

EDITORS NOTE:

We publish below the two resolutionsl adopted at the London Conference  on <<The Negro in the World Today>>. The first resolution was presented by the Resolutions Committee. - The other is a special resolution presented by the Negro Welfare Association, an organization of Negro and white workers in England. As stated, this resolution was adopted at the Conference by 33 votes to 10. 

A reading of the two resolutions clearly reveals the difference in the class position of those who composed the conference The resolution presented by the Negro Welfare Association. calls for joint struggle of the Negro and white toilers as the only way out of imperialist exploitation and oppression and for the complete national independence and freedom of the Negro masses. 

The official resolution on the other hand does not indicate a solution to the burning question ofslave exploitation, lynching, discrimination, etc., it does not call for any struggle against imperialist subjugation and for national independence.

It is a typical statement of middle class <<leaders>> who play with words about freedom and independence, but who are not willing to risk their social <<status>> to fight to attain them. 

They are not willing to aid in the organization because of the workers to smash the slave system because their interests are not the same as that of the toiling masses. They try to divert the struggle of the Negro masses against their real enemy, the capitalist - imperialist ruling class by speaking of <<domination of the white races>>. In this way they seek to prevent the growing united front struggles between the black and white workers. 

Their's is not the road of struggle. They only want to petition for the crumbs from the master's table. 

The Negro workers will have no hesitation in choosing the resolution of the Negro Welfare Asociation as the real guide in their struggles against imperialist domination and for complete national independence. 

We regret not having the material of the Conference and Dr. Moody's Programm which would enable us to make a complete analysis of the Conference work. 

<< A Conference representing organisations of Africans living 
 
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in London, and political religious missionary societies interested in Negro affairs, was held in London (the Memorial Hall) on July 13-15, 1934.

The following is the official Resolution of the Conference. 

HAROLD A. MOODY, ) Joint
JOHN P. FLETCHER, ) Chairmen. 

<<In our Conference we have made a survey of the Negro in the world to-day. As we have considered the position of the Negro in Africa, the American Continent, and in Great Britain, we find that the race is under political and social domination of the white races which is harmful and dangerous to world peace.

<<In South Africa there are Colour bar acts, threats to deprive the Africans of their limited franchises, the movement to absorb the Protectorates into the Union, and to create a united African policy based on the subjection of the Negro. We regard this as an alarming reversal of the British policy of the paramountcy of African interests.

<<The expropriation of land in Kenya; taxation which compels Africans to work for the European settlers; the Kipandi system of fingerprint registration and identification, and the prohibition of public meetings, are practices which are entirely opposed to democratic principles and will lead to very dangerous consequences.

<<There is increasing exploitation of labour in West Africa and strong feeling has been aroused by the promulgation of Sedition ordinances in the Gold Coast.

<< We are impressed by the woeful lack of educational facilities over the whole of Africa, and the disparity of expenditure on the education of white and black. 

<<In the United States of America the lynching of Negroes increases and the Scottsboro and other trials show how justice is distorted to secure the condemnation of Negroes.

<< In Britain hotels and restaurants frequently refuse their services to Negroes, and a colour bar exists in British ships. In Cardiff unemployed Negroes are discriminated against by public relief and transitional benefits benefits being fixed at a lower rate than that given to white workers. Many Coloured British born subjects are compelled to carry alien registration certificates bearing their finger print impressions. In London hospitals, Negro doctors have very great difficulty in securing house appointments while Negro nurses are excluded from most of the main teaching hospitals.

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