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For the South this calls for a determined struggle to: 1) Secure the right to vote and political participation for all; 2) to secure equal pay for equal work without North-South or Negro-white differentials; 3) to raise the social security and welfare and unemployment benefits in the South to the rest of the nation; 4) to secure the repeal of so-called right-to-work laws and other repressive statutes; 5) to secure the full enforcement and application of the U.S. Constitution (especially the First Amendment) for all Southerners, Negro and white and 6) to secure to southern workers their just share of industrial jobs.

To organize the South, labor must once and for all break with all tendencies toward appeasing or accommodating itself to Jim Crow practices in the South. Courageous, clear-cut leadership in this historic battle to give the death-blow to Jim Crow would unite the southern workers and the Negro people into an invincible combination. Before it, no citadel of open shop could hold out.

NEGRO-LABOR ALLIANCE
The labor-Negro alliance, which has proved of immense benefit to both and reached anew high level with the Supreme Court's decision on desegregation now faces new and greater tests arising from the present economic situation. From its outcome can emerge either a vastly strengthened unity or a severe set-back frought with disastrous consequences to labor as well as the Negro people.

If unity of employed and unemployed now assumes such urgency, then that is doubly so as regards the unity of Negro and white trade union brothers in joint struggle for mutual aid in the fight for jobs and relief from the ravages of unemployment. Already twice as many Negro workers are unemployed as white workers.

Negro workers are barred by discrimination from white collar and professional jobs, those sections of industry hit less by depression. They are being displaced from steel, auto and other basic industries.

Those in labor's leadership who display insensitivity to the particular plight of the Negro workers and are complacently prepared to write them off upon their displacement from industry and exodus from unions, perform a great disservice to both labor and the Negro people. Organized labor in the interest of the entire labor movement needs to more aggressively implement its own ban on discrimination as well as conduct a more vigorous campaign for the abolition of all job discrimination as well as through negotiations, ending hiring discrimination and bias in promotion. Failure on the part of labor to conduct a vigorous drive to organize the South has objectively placed additional burdens upon the Negro people in their heroic fight for freedom.

INDEPENDENT POLITICAL ACTION
The Hoover-like attitude of the Eisenhower Administration, the un-New Deal-like approach of the Democratic-controlled Congress and the rising threat of the Dixiecrat-Republican alliance emphasizes the need for greater independent action of labor. If under more advanced conditions a New Deal is to arise, it can only come about to the extent that the trade unions recognize and play their independent role. Trade unionist Congressmen and Senators would give labor a direct voice in fighting for an effective anti-depression program. The struggle for Labor, Negro, Farmer representation can be successful to the benefit of all, provided a powerful coalition is formed.

Communists will strive for labor's complete independence, "for in the long run the working class and its allies will have their own anti-monopoly coalition party capable of bringing about the eventual election of a people's anti-monopoly government." (Main Political Resolution adopted at the 16th National Convention, CPUSA). An important step towards that goal would be still greater independence by labor within the present political framework, including the building of labor's own political action machinery in communities from the election district up, much along the lines already advocated by the UAW. Through such machinery labor can endorse and work more effectively for ANY candidates - its own, independents, or any party labor may endorse.

Political cooperation based upon mutual economic interests and interdependence between labor and farmers has helped register the big gains in the past period. Wisconsin is the most dramatic example. The main joint effort has been to fight the "right-to-work" laws menacing labor and to support the farmers' demand for full parity. In such industries as farm equipment and meat packing, labor and farmers have made common cause against the squeeze of the trusts.