In post #292, we linked Agnes Smedley to the Sixth World Congress in Moscow,1929. Here we link black communists in Chicago to the same chron for the same Sixth World Congress, which was the year of the rise of the islamoterror group, al-yad al-khadra "Green Hand".
'Born in Mobile, Alabama, Edward Doty came to Chicago in 1912 at the age of seventeen.In 1914 Doty, an African American pipe fitter's assistant working in Armour, watched in vain as the AFL organized the plant's white pipe fitters. In response, he and a number of African Americans approached the organization, but as he recalled, "They looked out and saw our faces, and they slammed the door in our faces."
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In 1926, Doty and a few fellow minority plumbers began forming organizations. By this time, Doty had been a member of the Communist party for four years.
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In 1928, he also organized the American Consolidated Trades Council (ACTC), an organization for black plumbers, steamfitters, electricians, bricklayers, plasterers, and building laborers.....The ACTC did not come under the aegis of Chicago's Communist party until 1934. By then, Doty's tenuous relationship with the city's party had come to a breaking point. In 1928, Chicago's leaders included Doty's name among a group of black leaders who would participate in the party's Sixth World Congress in Moscow.'
(Storch, Red Chicago: American Communism at its Grassroots, 1928-1935)
