International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers

The International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers (ITUCNW) was a section of the Profintern active during the late 1920s and 1930s that acted as a radical transnational platform for black workers in Africa and the Atlantic World.[1]

ITUCNW

1932 issue of the ITUCNW journal The Negro Worker
Full name	International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers
Founded	31 July 1928
Date dissolved	1937
Affiliation	Profintern
Key people	James W. Ford, General Secretary (1928-31) Geogre Padmore, General Secretary (1931-33)
Office location	Hamburg

History

It was launched in July 1930 at an "International Conference of Negro Workers" that took place in Hamburg. There were 17 delegates including:

• Vivian Henry: Trinidad,
• S. M. DeLeon: Jamaica,
• I. T. A. Wallace-Johnson: Sierra Leone
• Albert Nzula: South Africa
• Jomo Kenyatta: Kenya
• Frank Macaulay
• George Padmore
• James W. Ford
• I. Hawkins
• J. Reid
• Edward Francis Small: Gambia

It produced a journal, The Negro Worker, which was edited by George Padmore until 1931 and by James W. Ford until 1937 when it ceased publication.[2]

References

Footnotes

1. Weiss 2012, pp. 362-3.
2. "The Negro Worker A Comintern Publication of 1928-37". Marxists. Retrieved 24 January 2016.

Sources

• Weiss, Holger (2012). "The Road to Moscow: On Archival Sources Concerning the International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers in the Comintern Archive". History in Africa. 39: 361–393. doi:10.1353/hia.2012.0000. ISSN 0361-5413. JSTOR 23471011. S2CID 161804698.