International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers

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.^[1]

ITUCNW

International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers
1932 issue of the ITUCNW journal The Negro Worker
Founded	31 July 1928 (1928-07-31)
Dissolved	1937 (1937)
Headquarters	Hamburg
Key people	James W. Ford, General Secretary (1928-31) George Padmore, General Secretary (1931-33)
Affiliations	Profintern

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]