New-York tribune., 1919-06-28

Young man, 1T you want to see
Germany and France. you have only
one week in which to enlist.
essay, for that is what it appeared to
be, extolled the solidarity and methods
of the l. w. w., asserted that the col
leges Of the South attended by negroes
were dominated almost wholly by An
drew Carnegie and julius Rosenwald,
who had given them money; charged
that the negro newspapers lived on the
bounty of the Republican party; that
negro churches are the real source of
negro influence; that all negroes are
industrial slaves, unless they come to
a place like New York and come into
contact with the Russian Jew; that
negro preachers are "the most parasitic
celestial navfgators"; uoted Charles M
Schwab and Henry Watterson as say
ing that the negro, as an industrial
unit. would be the last to be stampeded
into Socialism or sedition.
I'VE must aim to transfer the race
consciousness by socialist propa-
ganda," said the writer. eve must
win them to socialism by giving negro
affairs more publicity, and what negro
speakers say more attention in our
newspapers. Specially prepared 2ropa-
ganda is absolutely necessary, and in
order to get the work under way there
must be few subsidized negro speak
ers, to work the year around at So
clallstic propaganda"
The writer said that the 21st As
sembly district branch of the social
ist party is made up almost exclusive
iy of negroes; that Mayor William
Hale Thompson won in Chicago be-
cause he succeeded in persuading the
negro voters that he was their friend.
The propaganda literature to capture
the negro should attempt to show, the
writer said, that socialism was the
only relief for the negro, and that
Christ, William Lloyd Garrison and
Abraham Lincoln all were shamefully
abused during their time by the
capitalists, just as the socialists now
are abused.
Mr.. Stevenson at this point read into
the record an editorial from "The New
York Call" Socialist, praising the work
and spirit of the negro, and also COM
plimenting "The Messenger" a new
Socialist paper for negroes, edited by
Chandler Owen and A. Philip Randolph.
Mr.. Stevenson read into the record q
letter from the fles of D. P. Beren-
berg, head of the lecture bureau, under
date of October 3, 1916. addressed to
M. E. Rabb, rural route 7, Xenia, Ohio,
in which the writer says:
In Connecticut the property of the
members of the Moulders' Union has
been attached by the employers for
damages to trade caused by strike.
Not only the household goods, but the
bank accounts of members have been
thus attached. What are you going to
do when the state robs you and your
union and so makes you helpless to
strike !? There is only one thing to
do: Take over the state. Are the
members of your local prepared to take
over and conduct wisely and we'll the
affairs of your town and county? Are
you ready to meet the militia when the
powers of the state and courts are
against you? Are you arming yourself
with the knowledge of the foundations
OF our society so that when these
crises come to you, you will have an
organization strong enough to have
foreseen and forestalled them? Are
you training your members in scien
tific socialism? If not, you can make
no protest when your goods are taken
from you"
Revolution by Violence
Mr.. Stevenson said that copy of
The Communist" of June ID, 1918. had
been found in the raid on the Rand
School on June 21, it being one of a
number of copies on sale in the book
store. An article in the paper said:
do we hold that the revolution must
question by yes or mo- would be
asinine. 1t may; again, it may not.
The Left Wing, all the protests of the
Right Wing to the contrary notwith-
standing, repudiates socialism bv as
sassination. The Left Wing hopes that
the proletariat will conquer its enemy.
the capitalist class, with as little
bloodshed as possible"
Mr.. Stevenson said that the paper
was on sale at the Rand School; that
it is the official organ of the Left Wing
section Of the Socialist party, owned
and controlled by Local Greater New
York. It's editor is John Reed; Fad
monn MacAlpine is associate editor,
and Benjamin Gitlow, business mana
ger.
Another find from the files of Mr.
Berenberg, in charge Of correspondence
and lectures, was read into the record
by Mr.. Converse, of Attorney General
Newton's staff. 1t carried the address
8O3 West Madison Street, Room 4O5,
Chicago, and was directed to Scott
Nearing. The letter follows:
Dear Comrade: Some time ago
wrote you about visit to Bishop Will
lam M. Brown, who resides at Gallon,
Ohio. Bishop Brown is member of
the Socialist party, Bishop of the
Episcopal Church and hereto Of the
reddest hue. Your visit to his resi-
dence was cancelled because of your
trial.
az have a letter from Comrade
Brown in which he states that he in
tends to visit New York some time
| 4 ~, Al T. D..
me to arrange one or more meetings
! for him in New York I write you to