The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1925-11-07

out any legislative plums to the
bleachers, Of whom we are an humble
one And when we remembered those
halcyon legislative days Of the Over
bill' to say nothing Of the Spencer.
Ceiier, and Mclean bills, the last
named OF which, was allowed to die in
committee, we had to admit that dis
sentions had taken us a long way from
the days Of Thad Stevens and Charles
Sumner when the Civil Rights Bill
was passed BY Congress and went 10
the U. S. Supreme Court for judicial
Interpretation before it became dead
one"
Since the Rifian and Moroccan dis
asters are receiving world attention.
and inasmuch as it is rumored that
the arms Of the Communistic Inter
rationale are now endeavoring to en-
told the black people Of America. It
IS quite fitting task to ask what
is Communist"
A Communist is a member Of the
Communistic Internationale Of Russia.
the Constitution of which provides
number Of striking activities which
make articles of confederation of the
seeding southern states of pre-Civil
War days seem like a midsummer
nights dream. Chief among the pro-
visions Of the Communistic Manifesto
and Program are:
U The proletarian class struggle
is essentially a political struggle, the
object Of which is the conquest by the
Communists Of the power of the State.
(2) Participation in parliamentary
campaigns, which in the general strug-
gle Of the proletariat is of secondary
Importance, is for the purpose of revo-
lutionary propaganda only.
~ Communism does not propose
to capture the parliamentary state, but
to conquer and destroy it.
(4 In those countries where the
conditions for a workers revolution
are not yet ripe, the same process will
go on.
(5) The Pariiamentarism Of the
Communist party performs a service
in modifying the proletariat against
capitalists, emphasizing the political
character Of tine class struggle.
co. The conquest Of the State is
to be accomplished BY force and VIC
lence
% Strikes Of protest are to de-
velop into general political strikes and
then into revolutionary mass action for
the conquest of the power of the
State.
An economist with the mind of
child, or a political scientist Of meagre
knowledge knows, Of course, that since
all labor is, at some time, capital, and
that an overthrowing Of the Govern
ment in the fashion contemplated BY
the Communistic Party constitutes
nothing more nor less than the spec
tacle Of a people seeking to destroy
themselves Such doctrines form no
part Of the principles Of the repre-
sentative form Of Government, and
there is no place in America for any
one who believes in force or violence
or the destruction Of property as
agencies for the overthrow or chang
ing forms of organized human society.
Communism in America has failed
among the whites, and that it will like
wise fail among the blacks goes with
out saying. Hence, thoughtless and
disappointed human remnants Of white
communism, if they are tampering
with Americas loyal colored citizens,
are, like a drowning man, grasping at
a straw-a straw which is far too
weak to perform the Samson feat Of
pulling down the pillars Of the temple
Of freedom to the destruction Of self
and Of Government.
Steel corporations, North and South,
are reporting a tremendous swell in
the steel market, which, because steel
is such an important factor in manu-
facture, usually means a concurrent
swell in the nations business and com
merce.
Under the partially-psychological
presumption that because black skin
is superior to a white skin in the mat
ter of heat endurance, Negro labor has
enjoyed a larger participation in the
labor essential to the steel industry
than in any other single branch Of
industry. Under this weak guise,
Negro labor has been employed in
the steel plants at a good profit to