ABSTRACT
White workers—both organized and unorganized have sought time and again to prohibit the employment of Negro workers, or to limit it to menial occupations or to those jobs that offered little direct competition. To effect a rapprochement between white and black labor is no simple task. But what the leadership of organized labor needs to be censured for is not its failure to effect greater harmony but its refusal to make some attempt toward a realistic understanding of the problem and the issues involved. The progressives carry to the Negro masses some realization of the causes of unemployment, low wages, and the need for labor unionism and cooperation, in general. Effective action cannot ignore the position of Negro labor if for no other reason than that organized white labor is fully protected only when Negro and white workers are equally organized.
