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A BRITISH WORKER WRITES.

London, July 3rd. 1934.

Dear Comrades,

Excuse delay in writing, I have been trying to get the friends in Cardiff to send us a report on Colonial work. There is quite a [[?]] being organised by the National Union of Seamen against the colonial workers as you have noticed in the Green Paper (<> Ed.) which I sent you.

The officials of the Union continue to tell the white seamen that the colonial seamen are the cause of unemployment in the shipping industry. At Cardiff, last week, the steamship <> picked up some colonials amongst the crew. Just before signing articles, a union delegate arrived on the scene, held a long conversation with the B. O. T. Superintendent and then he ordered the coloured seamen away from the shipping office telling them that colonials are not required. Of course our comrades rose in agitation against this dirty business.

I have not received any <> yet. If you will send some I will do my best to get them sold, as we are in touch with quite a number of colonials here who may become active after a while.

With Fraternal Greetings.
P.M.

OUR REPLY.

Dear Comrade:

We have received your very interesting and important letter. We realise the role being played by the leaders of the N. U. S. among the British marine workers. You will note that in the July issue of the <> we exposed the vicious role which these labour betrayers are playing in setting up white seamen against colonial seamen. They are really no other than the bosses' agents within the ranks of the working class. They are attempting to split the ranks of the workers on the basis of race and to drive the colonial seamen from British ships. This coincides with the demands of the Fascists to employ colonials only in the tropics, and is directly in the interests of the ship owners, who, by keeping the workers divided on the basis of race and nationality, are able to lower the standards of living of both groups and keep them in continual subjection.

Their lying statement that the colonial seamen are responsible for unemployment in the shipping industry must be exposed by the class conscious workers. The Intl. T. U. Com. of Negro Workers calls upon the white seamen to defeat these treacherous acts of the reformist misleaders by joint and concerted action of white and colonial workers against the ship owners and their agents within the working class. Only in unity of

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struggle and organisation can the workers hope to better their conditions and smash the yoke of slavery which binds them to the owning interests.

Our comrades and sympathisers, within and outside of the National Union of Seamen, must demand the employment of seamen irrespective of race and nationality on the basis of full equality, equal wage, etc., on all ships.

A major and immediate task before the revolutionary seamen in Great Britain is to work among the colonial seamen, mobilising and organising them for struggle against the low wages, unemployment, and semi-slave conditions to which they are subjected by ship owners. Only the join organisation of twhite and black seamen can put a stop to the vicious policy of te shipping interests.

International Trade Union Committee
of Negro Workers

Fascist activities in Africa.

The Hitler Youth movement which has been disguised as a boy scout movement for German Children, has been banned by South West Africa. The headquarters of the organization was searched and large numbers of documents seized. Captain von Losnitzer, the leader of the movement who came to Africa as a special Nazi agent about 3 months ago, was ordred to leave the Country.

AGENT IN KENYA.

The British Union of Fascists have appointed a delegate to represent them in Kenya in the person of the Earl of Erroll. When asked about his plans for Kenya, this Blackshirt stated that he will first get in touch with various persons whom he knows to be favourably inclined towards the Blackshirt Movement and with them form a group with which to work. The plan for activities for the beginning to hold public meetings in order to spread the ideas of the Fascist movement which, they say <>

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Transcription Notes:
The unknown word in paragraph one may be Pogrom: an organized massacre of a particular ethnic group.