While
the white and black dogs were fighting over the bone, they
pointed out, the yellow capitalist dog ran off with it. The
Messenger encouraged blacks to join unions, and it tried hard to
persuade the unions to eliminate discrimination. The view they
propagated was that unions could not afford to be based on the
color line; instead they should be based on a class line.
Randolph and Owen attacked Samuel Gompers and the A. F. of L. for
failing to be truly biracial. Randolph criticized DuBois and the
N.A.A.C.P. for their lack of concern with the real day-to-day
problems of the masses. He charged that the N.A.A.C.P. was led by
people who were neither blacks nor workers, and that they were
incapable, therefore, of articulating the needs of the masses. He
argued that an organization for the welfare of the Irish would
never be led by Jews. Therefore, he suggested that an
organization for the welfare of Blacks should not be led by
whites. He was especially critical of the gradualist, peaceful
policy which DuBois appeared to support during the early years of
the N.A.A.C.
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