International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers
{{short description|International trade union organisation for black workers in Africa and the Atlantic world}}
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| name = ITUCNW
| full_name = International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers
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| image = File:Cover of The Negro Worker April 1932.jpg
| caption = 1932 issue of the ITUCNW journal The Negro Worker
| founded = {{Start date|1928|07|31|df=y}}
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| dissolved = {{End date|1937||}}
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| affiliation = Profintern
| key_people = {{ubl|James W. Ford, General Secretary (1928-31)|George Padmore, General Secretary (1931-33)}}
| headquarters = Hamburg
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The International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers (ITUCNW) was a section of the Profintern that existed during the late 1920s and 1930s and acted as a radical transnational platform for black workers in Africa and the Atlantic World.{{sfn|Weiss|2012|pp=362-3}}
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.{{cite web|title=The Negro Worker A Comintern Publication of 1928-37|url=https://www.marxists.org/history/international/comintern/negro-worker/|website=Marxists.org|accessdate=24 January 2016}}
References
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- {{cite journal |last1=Weiss |first1=Holger |title=The Road to Moscow: On Archival Sources Concerning the International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers in the Comintern Archive |journal=History in Africa |date=2012 |volume=39 |pages=361–393 |doi=10.1353/hia.2012.0000 |jstor=23471011 |s2cid=161804698 |issn=0361-5413}}
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Category:Organizations for people of color