The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-10-21
AMONG
COLORED PEOPLE
North and South, Radicals are Work
ing Among the Negroes
New York Times)

NNS" OIh
Washington, Oct. 18.-Evidence in
the possession of the government of
tie efforts of agitators of the l. w.
W., bolshevist and radical socialist
groups to stir up discomfort among
the negroes, paralleling the agitation
that is being carried on in industrial
centers of the north and west, where
there are many alien laborers. A well
defined campaign is on to drive the
negro voters out of the old political
parties and line them up with radical
groups.
The l. w. w. is using every propa-
ganda that it possesses to win the ne
groes to that organization. The doc
trines of Lenine and Trotzky are be-
ing circulated among negroes in all
parts of the country. Those in charge
of this are negroes, and two of the
leaders, according to federal officials,
are former Harvard students now
residents of New York city. AS in the
case of propaganda among white
workers, the principal agencies used
are newspapers, magazines. and So
called NEGRO betterment" organiza-
tions.
In one of the widely circulated ne
gro publications. to the financial sup
port of which Morris Hillquit and
Scott Nearing have contributed, is in
recent issue an invitation to the ne.
groes to align themselves with the
radical elements.
cit is now recognized" the article
states, ''that the place man is fast
coming into a knowledge of the true
means of his emancipation. He is
grasping the force and value of So
cialism. He begins to discover the
value of the ownership of the services
of wealth and the tools of production
by the worker himself. He begins to
see that when the natural resources
and the public utilities are democrat
ically owned (owned by all the peo-
! ple) and are democratically manag-
ed managed by all the people) it is
then that he will be his own master,
and the mastership of the union
league pirates will have come to an
end"
! This same paper says on the bene-
fits of bolshevism:
"Will bolshevism accomplish the
full freedom of Africa, colonies in
which negroes are in the majority,
and promote human tolerance and
happiness. In the United States by
! the eradication of the causes of such
! disgraceful occurrences as the Wash
ington and Chicago race riots? The
, answer is deductable from the anal
ogy of soviet Russia, country in
which dozens of racial and lingual
types have settled their many differ
ences and found a common meeting
ground, a country which no longer
oppresses colonies, country from
which the lynch rope is banished and
i'll which racial tolerance and peace
now exist"
A negro magazine published in New
York says that "the present order of
strikes ought to impress the millions
of negro workers in the South. The
exploiting class in all parts of the
world can appreciate a blow in the
pocketbook. Negroes must form cot
ton workers unions. Southern white
capitalists know that the negroes cal
III AAS bLC NIT DOhADOA4 So6Ih ~ As
knees. So go to it."
In another negro publication was
recently published, under the caption
"Bolshevism Not Lawlessness," the
following:
"Lenine and Trotzky. despite THEN
personal ambitions. are not arch
fiends, else they would be slavishly
driving the millions under them t
death with the whip of political cor,
ruption and industrial degeneracy
Bolshevism is not an institution OF
lynching, segregation and disfran
chisement. 1t is an institution of Sc
curity, equality, giving the ballot Il
every male and female eighteen year!
of age.
"Lenine and Trotzky. judging then
fairly as all men should be judged
are not tyrannizing; they are demo
cratically eliminating all waste ant
uEproductive matter entirely or com
pressing it within spheres of commu
nifty usefulness"
This propaganda among negroes i
we'll financed and it is understood
that the authorities know the sourc
of the funds.