W. Z. Foster, organizer of the American Federation of Labor in the steel and packing industries.
A. K. Foote, Negro, vice-president of Stock Yards Labor Council and secretary-treasurer, Local 651, Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of America.
I. H. Bratton, Negro organizer for Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of America.
John Riley, Negro organizer for the American Federation of Labor in the Stock Yards district.
Max Brodsky, secretary-treasurer, Local 100, International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union.
Agnes Nestor, president, Women's Trade Union League.
Elizabeth Maloney, treasurer and organizer, Chicago Waitresses' Union.
Robert L. Mays, Negro, president of an independent Negro union, the Railway Men's International Benevolent and Industrial Association.
II. POLICY OF THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR AND OTHER FEDERATIONS
From its beginning the American Federation of Labor has declared a uniform policy of no racial discrimination, although this policy has not been carried out in practice by all the constituent autonomous bodies. At its fortieth annual convention, held at Montreal, Canada, in June, 1920, a plan was presented to "use every means in its power to have the words 'only white' members stricken out of the constitution" of the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks, an organization which exercises jurisdiction over 100,000 colored employees, although barring them from membership, and "admit the colored workers to full membership in their Brotherhood or have them relinquish jurisdiction" over these Negro employees and allow them to establish a brotherhood of their own.