CLEMENTS KADALIE

I am conscious of the fact that if I continue to run a series of articles in this indispensable New-Negro-Thought magazine, without making some explanation of the relations existing between white and black woekers on this continent, it is clear that I shall be committing a serious blunder, and will soon find myself in conflict with the fundamental policy of this journal. I take it to be a journalistic creed that all correspondents of a newspaper at home and abroad should at all cost preserve inviolate the policy of a nespaper. Simce my association with The Messenger, not long ago, I have learnt that it is the desire of the well-read editors of this magazine to advocate the "Mixed Unions" as between white and black labor in the United States of America, with a view to ensuring a permanent victory for all toilers irrespective of their creed, color or nationality. This is admittedly the philosophical theory of the labor movement the world over. I have decided in this article to enlighten American labor, both white and black, of the actual situation in Africa; not only for the benefit of American labor, but primarily for the good of the African native on whose behalf I have conscientiously acceded to act as the South African correspondent of The Messenger.

- Clements Kadalie, "Aristocracy Of White Labor In Africa", The Messenger, August 1924.