The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1925-10-24
(Prestcn News Service)
l. Organizations Traitors.
2. Peaceful Politics.
3. Liberian Rubber.
4. Colorgrams.

Organized groups Of every declen-
sion are stalking over America for the
promotion and the protection Of their
alleged rights, or in search Of means
of concentrating some latent hope or
desire, either sincerely or selhshlv
conceived. 1t was capital which Or
ganized first for the unseen purpose Of
safeguarding its exploitation of those
human elements upon which, by force,
Capital was permitted to feed. AS the
greed for gold crept in, through the
fundamentally Of those representa-
tives OF Capital who were selfish and
dishonest, their organization frightened
its grip upon the brain and Drawn
which became Capitals fodder. FL
nally, in sheer desperation and, at
first in self-defense, Labor began to
organize. The attempt was fraught
with Universities because of Capitals
primal law of ''offense before defense"
Vet, Labor did organize, and its slow
rise into participation in the consoling
things of life is solely due to its or
ganized power.
In labor organization the black man,
as elsewhere, has been given the very
last place; and it has been more diff
cult for him than for any other group
to share in the benefits Of organized
power as a means Of se1f-protection.
II it had been theoretically possible,
organized labor would have passed the
black man up as ballast, but the creep
ing in, here and there, Of Civilization
into the great plan of Americanism
has made it impossible for either or
ganized Capital or organized Labor to
ignore entirely Americas black mill
lions. Hence it is that today finds the
black man quite ready to be innocu-
lated BY the germ Of organization.
Reviewing his past work history he
realized that Of all groups his has been
subject to the most unethical exploita-
ton; he realizes that his muscles, his
brains. and his income have piled up
interest upon interest for the other fell
low; and at last he knows that OFT
times it is best to fight fire with fire.
Hence, slowly but firmly he has be-
gun to organize. His stevedores, his
charwomen, his switchmen, his trades
men, his brawny iron and steel work
ers, his hremen, his engineers; and
last. but not least even his lowly but
honorable Pullman porter, engaged in
an occupation which a white man, be
he a laborer or a capitalist, would be
loathe to pursue, have begun to band
themselves together for the purpose
Of promoting their work welfare.
Is this Bolshevism? Is this Com
munism-this protecting Of oneself
from outside danger? No, it is not. Is
this Russia? No No, this is America,
where freemen live and toll and sing
the praises of free government And
yet we hear that even among our own
ranks there are JUDASES among us
who would slap the faces Of the valiant
Negro porters, and betray the trust OF
a struggling people for the sake OF
encouraging Capital to clamp down
more tightly the lid which has been on
our heads through all the long years
between. Benedict Arnold and treason
are still very much in evidence among
Us, just as they were when the Dyer
Anti-Lynching Bill became lost hope.
The autumn political season among
the brethren has opened with Ben. j.
Davis at the bat, Perry Howard on
deck and the brother in the hole. Ben
has just been named by the Georgia
State Central Committee as successor
to the late Henry Lincoln Johnson
national committeeman; while Perry,
according to the New York World,
May be agreed upon" as the New
Negro Party Chief" says the New
York World Of Brother Perry; He
is a cleancut man, and quiet and
sauve politician" Whether or not the
Worlds special dispatch preceded
Perry's acceptance Of the position OF
opposing counsel to the 1900 Negro
Pullman porters who are now organ
izing for better working conditions
and wages, and genuine race advance
ment does not appear as yet. Neither
does it appear anywhere in the political
record as TO who is to "agree" upon