NEGROES HONOR LONDON
NEGROES HONOR LONDON At a meeting of Negro workers held at St. Luke's Hall, 135 West ltOth street, an audience estimated at TOO or 800 gathered. The speakers -were A. Philip Randolph,...
...As you have always loved - Stand in our praying ehawle , And tarn our grief-dried viaion Toward the East...
...theirs bo too I tea . . . tf they the beardsn and the...
...Whereupon the audience rose' until the Chairman motioned them to resume their, seats...
...You wont In the full flood tide Of all' you' really ware— Lover of man, .tori among men who love* DoopHs man's law ingrawtudea...
...Lot us rise and^ remain standing with heads bowed for two minutes' i<r -memory of our fallen oonfrade...
...darknsns BSjjpa And you^tbo atoajg IsaoHng them % From brvWWtdassjrts a honeyed leswiLl . , .' If they, forget, they have forgotten much Of godliness...
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...And .van now/a...
...with Frank P. Walsh as associate attorney lh representing the Brotherhood of djleeplng Car Porters, which win file the case of the 12,000 Pullman porters and/ maids for more wages, shorter, hours, and better working conditions with the new...
...Now that you are gone...
...Weep for.yourselves, yourselves a lens * If you oonnot sea'the way 4. " .. My short day of lists, has shown...
...And we Who loved you like a faith...
...NEGROES HONOR LONDON At a meeting of Negro workers held at St...
...that a little more sunshine may creep into, the homes of the hard-pressed workers of America and the worjd...
...Hie political philosophy is today an anathema to those who alt anugly in the seats of the migHty, while exploiting the class to which Meyer London belongs, and to which he gave his life, and, aa, is as old aa the story of mani> The ruling class being in solid control of the instruments . for moulding public opinion succeeded in poisoning the minds Of the .workers against their benefactors,, so...
...Thank God then, for our hsving ssen Elijah go, like any simpls msn Might psss to sainthood, his tssk half-done...
...noted labor attorney who represented the 20 transportation unions in framing' the Watson-Parker'bill which set Op the new Railroad* Labor Act, has Joined...
...W ana sure, too, that few of you knew this great warrior of labor during the day...
...pagan ones Who danced on Rutgers Square, tha night of "'fjMf, When bands saamsd loosened and tha...
...when he lived and wrought to the end...
...The speakers -were A. Philip Randolph, Algernon Lee 'and Ashley L. Tottert...
...stip is»tihsr*sllnSi - -. Vosr might have fame aad left ao To mhummfmk with lagmd add' deft ksfo...
...ingrate reoalteaotog Could dispe] your living glory And hide H under the iriainoorfty Of ohiaelted granite...
...that the exploitation of the many by the few may continue...
...You wont bafore our...
...W st.nd byfhe w.il These hours have roared for lamentation, Even now we hear your fine voice eoll a. ' "Weep not far elay, weep not for me, Tears will net uahsr in the world.to be...
...If they who sow and how and build Forget your leva, and oil H gave the an...
...Frank R. Crosswaith presided...
...do Witt...
...Chairman CrosBwaith called the attention of tha audience to Meyer London's death in the following remarks: "I am sure you have an read m the doily pa pass of tha untimely d*js£i 04 ex-Congressman Meyer London...
...Donald RIchberg...
...After a few -musical numbers had been rendered...
...London goes to his final resting place with the assurance that time is on hlr side, and that the day is bound to come when the enlightened workers of the world will rise in their collective might and take, control of the world, and transform it into a decent...
...place -for those who do society.'s useful work...
...But Meyer...
...Meyer London waa a. BociaJUt: so .am I. It was my good fortune to have known this great oak of the working class movement, and to have worked side by side with him* in the Socialist .movement...
...S.-A...
...Railroad Labor Board as soon as President Coolidge appoints It...
...According to a telegram to Mr.' A. Philip Randolph, general organiser of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, Mr...
...V- • ,* You want boforo tha desaajjatlng yoaroHad thinned ysur .vaulting apis J > . To a soft memory...
Vol. 3 • June 1926 • No. 22
