white men of the northern states, broke their chains of bondage and
ended chattel slavery, a prospect of further freedom, of Real
Freedom, should be most appealing.

"For it is a fact that the negro worker is no better off under the
freedom he has gained than the slavery from which he has escaped.
As chattel slaves we were the property of our masters, and as a
piece of valuable property our masters were considerate of us and
careful of our health and welfare. Today, as wage-workers, the boss
may work us to death at the hardest and most hazardous labor, at
the longest hours, at the lowest pay; we may quietly starve when
out of work and the boss loses nothing by it and has no interest in
us. To him the worker is but a machine for producing profits, and
when you, as a slave who sells himself to the master on the
installment plan, become old, or broken in health or strength or
should you be killed while at work, the master merely gets another
wage slave on the same terms.

"We who have worked in the south know that conditions in lumber and
turpentine camps, in the fields of cane, cotton and tobacco, in the
mills and mines of Dixie, are such that the workers suffer a more
miserable existence than ever prevailed among the chattel slaves
before the great Civil War....

"The only problem, then, which the colored worker should consider,
as a worker, is the problem of organizing with other workingmen in
the labor organization that best expresses the interest of the
whole working class against the slavery and oppression of the whole
capitalist class. Such an organization is the I. W. W., the
Industrial Workers of the World."

"The One Big Union Monthly," March 1, 1919, page 6, publishes an article
entitled, "The Chinese and the I. W. W.":

"The Chinese workers in this country have discovered the I. W.
W....

"Long enough have workers been divided along colored lines. The
old, old misunderstanding created by our masters is fading away as
we mutually discover that we are all condemned to slavery if
divided, and that freedom is ours if we unite. The accessions of
Chinese workers to our ranks fills us with great joy. May they also
succeed in soon carrying the gospel of Working Class Solidarity and
Industrial Organization to their native country. That hope t