"Write me now to General where I am going to from here. success and that you let me know

Delivery, Wichita, Kansas,
Hoping the Pageant was a
something about it, I am,
"Fraternally yours,

"GEORGE Ross."

It is rather interesting to note that the field agent of the Rand School of Social Science, boasting a faculty of intellectuals, travels from State to State, spreading the gospel that emanates from this School of Social Science, stealing rides on the bumpers of freight trains in true hobo fashion.

CHAPTER V

Propaganda Among Negroes

The most interesting as well as one of the most important features of radical and revolutionary propaganda is the appea made to those clements of our population that have a just cause of complaint with the treatment they have received in this country.

The skill with which such complaint is employed to stimulate an interest in and gain recruits for the various revolutionary agencies is an indication of the thoroughness with which such propaganda is carried out. In recent years opportunity for employment in industry has induced large numbers of negroes to come to this State from the south as well as from the West Indies. While in general the negro in New York State has been treated well, the treatment accorded him in many parts of the country has engendered a spirit of resentment which has been capitalized by agents and agitators of the Socialist Party of America, the I. W. W. and other radical groups.

It has also been encouraged by well-to-do liberals who have taken active part in social uplift organizations, working among the negroes in this State. The marked increase of the activites of radicals in trying to recruit negro followers, makes it necessa”? for the Committee to devote its attention to the various agencies at work to stimulate race hatred in our colored population, an1 to engender so-called class consciousness in their ranks.

The very fact that the negro has many just causes of complai adds to the seriousness of the propaganda, and should encour all loyal and thoughtful negroes in this State to organize to opp the activities of such radicals, which cannot but lead to serions trouble if they are permitted to continue the propaganda whi they now disseminate in such large volume.

One of the most active groups of negro radicals is that whi publishes the "Messenger," a monthly magazine, devoted to e principles of internationalism and the stimulation of the el struggle. Its editors, Chandler Owen and A. Philip Rande';'are lecturers at the Rand School of Social Science. Contribut editors are W. A. Domingo, George Frazer Miller and WIN. N. Colson. The business manager is Victor R. Daly and main office is at 2305 Seventh avenue, New York City.

The periodical is distinctly revolutionary in tone.

It is com

mitted to the principles of the Soviet government of Russia and to the proposition of organizing the negroes for the class struggle. A brief editorial appearing in the May-June, 1919, issue, at page 8, is typical:

"THE MARCH OF SOVIET GOVERNMENT

"Still it continues! The cosmic tread of Soviet government with ceaseless step claims another nation. Russia and Germany have yielded to its human touch, and now Hungary joins the people's form of rule. Italy is standing upon a Social volcano. France is seething with social unrest. The triple alliance of Great Britain - the railroad, transport and mine workers-threaten to overthrow the economic and political bourbonism of Merry Old England.' The red tide of socialism sweeps on in America. South America is in the throes of revolution.

Soviet government proceeds apace. It bids fair to sweep over the whole world. The sooner the better. On with the dance!"

In another editorial appearing on the same page we find:

"NEGRO MASS MOVEMENT

"The time is ripe for a great mass movement among It ought to assume four distinct forms, viz., labor unions, farmers' protective unions, co-operative business, and socialism."

In the August, 1919, issue, there appears an editorial under the The General Strike."

Labor in Europe is, indeed, becoming class conscious. It, too, is becoming revolutionary. It appreciates that an injury to one is an injury to all, whether the injury be aficted upon the workers in Manchester, Paris, New York or Petrograd. Only ignorance stands between labor and the control of the world. Labor need not ever expect Congresses and Parliaments that are dominated by capital, to grant its demands. It would be suicidal to capitalism. For the triumph of labor means the death of capitalism. The lion and the lamb cannot lie down in harmony and peace together. The flea and the dog cannot fraternize. This is also true of labor and capital.

Labor is the mother of capital and

hence it must control and own it. The world is the product of labor and hence labor must, ought and will finally own it. A general strike will pull the armies of the Allies out of Russia, the first working-class government in the world. It will free the political prisoners in England, France, and also America. Because the plutocrats out of fear of a similar general strike taking place in this country will 'let our people go.' Mass action is labor's only effective weapon. So, get to it."

In an article entitled "The Awakened Oppressed and the Disturbed Oppressors," by George Fraser Miller, in the September. 1919, issue of the "Messenger," at page 31, we find the following:

"Socialism lifts him above the footstool of supplication and puts him upon the lofty pedestal of independent activity -where he can do things. It puts him where vital and intimate touch with those who are engaged in correcting fundamental wrongs not through empty sentimentality that might be cast to the winds when its force has been expended, but as an element of human need indispensable to the realiza tion of the industrial democracy-the incoming of the CO-OPERATIVE COMMONWEALTH."

In an editorial entitled "The Cause of and Remedy for Race Riots," we find the following:

"The solution will not follow the meeting of white a! negro leaders in love feasts, who pretend, like the Afric ostrich, that nothing is wrong, because their heads are buried in the sand.

"On the economic field, industry must be socialized, a land must be nationalized, which will thereby remove the motive for creating strife between the races.

"The people must organize, own and control their press "The church must be converted into an educational forum "The stage and screen must be controlled by the peop

"IMMEDIATE PROGRAM

"We recognize that the preceding remedy is a compre hensive and fundamental remedy which may take years for attainment. In the meantime, an immediate program mus be adopted to meet the demands of the transition period Hence, we offer this immediate program.

"1. Physical force in self-defense. While force is to be deplored and used only as a last resort, it is indispensable at times. The lesson of force can be taught when no other will be heeded. A bullet is sometimes more convincing than a hundred prayers, editorials, sermons, protests and petitions. (The resistance of negroes in the race riots just passed has been helpful to the white and colored people throughout the country.) It has saved us in other cities from riots. Negroes have shown that riots hereafter will be costly and unprofitable, and when you make a thing unprofitable you make it impossible. . .

"Lastly, revolution must come. By that we mean a complete change in the organization of society. Just as absence of industrial democracy is productive of riots and race clashes, so the introduction of industrial democracy will be the longest step toward removing that cause. When no profits are to be made from race friction, no one will longer be interested in stirring up race prejudice. The quickest way to stop a thing or to destroy an institution is to destroy the profitableness of that institution. The capitalist system must go and its going must be hastened by the workers themselves."

Continuous attacks are made upon the American Federation of Labor, and negroes are urged to enter the ranks of the I. W. W. d kindred organizations. "The negroes and the Industrial Workers of the World have interests not only in common, but iteres that are identical." (Page 9, October, 1919, issue of the Messenger.")

In the November, 1919, issue the general spirit of the editors of this magazine is epitomized in an editorial entitled "Thanksg." in which we find the following:

"First, we are especially thankful for the Russian Revolution the greatest achievement of the twentieth century. "Second, we are thankful for the German Revolution, the Austrian Revolution, the Hungarian Revolution and the Bulgarian Revolution.

"Third, we are thankful for the world unrest, which has manifested itself in the titanic strikes which are sweeping and have been sweeping Great Britain, France, Italy, the United States, Japan, and in fact every country in the world.

Fourth, we are thankful for the solidarity of labor, for