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Bert Williams he MessengerFIFTEEN CENTS A COPY . 00.000,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,000,0 A Voice From The Dead X Bert Williams An Interpretation ODHOHOHODODO - O ODCHOCHCHOCHDHOODHO THE MESSENGER [April, 1922 . Royal Theatre 15th & SOUTH STS . PHILADELPHIA WHEN IN PHILADELPHIA The Most Handsome Colored Photoplay House in Go to the America . Olympia Philadelphia Stands in a class by itself in . Prominent for the high class Photoplays shown here and the high grado music fur. Organ Theatre by our $ 30,000 Moller . nished CO-OPERATION FOR For information on organistas cooperative spelaties apply to CO -OPERATIVE LEAGUE OF AMERICA 2 Weet 13th Street New York the finest, most gripping THE MESSENGER Published Monthly by the MESSENGER PUBLISHING CO ., Inc , York . Main Office : 2305 Seventh Avenue New Telephone , Morningside 1996 Largest Motion Picture 16e. per Copy $1.50 per Year 446 TOAD ) U. S. U. S. 20. Outoldo House of its kind in $2 Outside , . No. 4. VOL . IV . APRIL 1922 South Philadelphia . CO N T E N TS I. EDITORIALS 385 388 2. EcoxOMICS AND POLITICS STS . 389 BROAD & BAINBRIDGE 3 . EDUCATION AND LITERATURE 394 4 . Who's Who 394 5. OPEN FORUM , July , , at the Entered as Second Class Mail 27 1919 , of March 3, 1879 . Post Office at New York , N.Y. under Act Editors : OWEN A. PHILIP RANDOLPH CHANDLER Contributing editor : GEORGE FRAZIER MILLER W. A. DOMINGO 385 April , 1922. ) THE MESSENGER Editorials ANTI LYNCHING LEGISLATION AND LABOR RUSSIAN CHILDREN STARVING . , Lynching labor , , THE Dyer Anti- Bill should interest WHILE the farmers in the West use corn for fuel , Out of the four thousand or more persons who millions of innocent helpless Russian children , country , be . have been lynched in this it would difficult starve With the warehouses in America literally , indeed , to name a capitalist . The fury of the mob is bursting open with food stuffs , the babies aged and excep spent , . the , on the worker black and white It's infirm in the Volga region of Russia are dying for , by tion that a capitalist like Leo Frank is victimized . It bread . The American capitalists led Herbert , , , is invariably the workers like Frank Little of Butte Hoover are doing all within their power to cripple Montana . Over a thousand white workers have the work of relief agencies trying to carry succor to lynched country thoroughly been ! in this since 1883. So the stricken Russian people . They yell Communism , of has the virus of capitalist propaganda seeped through to drown the piteous and bitter cries famished they lynch the souls of the workers that each other children . Think of government officials trying to play and think nothing of it . upon the petty prejudices of a people at the expense of millions of starving babies ! This is proof beyond This thing must stop , and labor must stop . It s the question of a doubt of the crying need of labor a blow at the very heart of working class solidarity . , solidarity . With the workers awakened and aroused In the coming workers ' conventions in May , June and the Russian children can be saved . Let all workers July , lynching should be roundly and unequivocably , rally with their dollars to the Russian relief agencies condemned , the Dyer Anti - Lynching Bill endorsed , especially to the Friends of Soviet Russia . Let every resolutions adopted and sent to the Senate and the , , ! to at one of us decide save least our child President , urging them to pass this measure . This will do much toward drawing together , in a bond of brotherhood , the black and white workers . Let the EMMA GOLDMAN ON BOLSHEVISM . American Federation of Labor , the Industrial Work ers of the World and the independent labor organiza WE read with interest and no surprise Emma Gold tions show their class -conscious colors by dealing on a man's attack Soviet Russia . To one conver mortal blow to greatest lynching America's , crime - . , sant with Miss Goldman's philosophy anarchism he The Negro workers should urge the necessity of this knows that it was the most natural thing for her to do . measure upon their unions . to is No kind of government admissible the Anarchist ; if no Thus Russia had had Tcheka if her school sys ; running tem were perfect the railroads and factories , , of all if possible faultlessly in short she had the best STYGIAN TEXAS ! , , governments Emma Goldman would according to her , , it . , , creed have damned Hence we need not take her of THE Houston Post March 31st reminds us that . is . is ravings against seriously the on verge of Soviet Russia She old Governor the calling a special , , is peeved longs to to of Besides she and return session the legislature “ in order that some means America . might be whereby found the teachers would be paid . , , It is of stated course that the situation in the rural districts is that the teachers have been paid only one THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE JEWISH month's salary year . " this DAILY FORWARD by is a oil . Texas rich and cotton state It is far the , is the largest daily newspaper in largest in state the Union . Yet these gentlemen who THIS Jewish the , , . it is a world Moreover Socialist organ with a grow so chivalrous over the protection of white wom of nearly a . , circulation half million Twenty - five years to anhood allow all white women teach the year on , , ago amidst the most discouraging beginnings it struck one month's pay . This means inefficient teachers since , out in the name of the workers defending them in no efficient persons will stay under such conditions . their every struggle . It is a veritable Gibraltar to the , It further means poorly equipped children since the , , Jewish workers valiantly fighting off with signal suc pupils cannot rise far above their teachers , , cess the savage assaults of frenzied capitalists . But Is it any wonder that the has such ; Ku Klux Klan not alone does it fight for the Jewish workers it fights , a , in of all of ! Is the cause fertile field the soil Texas it a surprise workers white and black Jew and , is king of ? that the hook worm the the rural districts Gentile native and foreign . It has also given hun of we of of de see cynic dreds to Once more the wisdom the who thousands dollars the movements of the , clared : “ If I owned , Hell and . Texas I'd rent out it upward Texas workers We bid onward and forward . and live in ! " Hell Long live the Forward ! 386 THE MESSENGER [ April , 1922 . THE SOUTH'S TRIUMPH ! Civil War may again be made necessary to save the Union from the menace of the old South triumphant . THE South has triumphed ! The spirit of Dixie its holds the nation in grip . The slave states have RUSSIA AT GENOA , lost nothing since the Civil War . Rather have they . gained at every hand AT last the Genoa Economic Conference was called , , If a goes he and as Soviet an Northener South returns with the Russia was invited equal . Poin of point on . Southern view the Negro question If a caré fumed and furiously ; to Barthou shrieked but no , he , goes . Southerner North innoculates the wily , Northern avail The little Welshman as usual went over point of . top ers with the Southern view the with his bag of schemes and makeshifts for up a patching nigh- The author is ending nearly nine thousand miles of well shattered Europe . Whatever might be He has said of Lloyd George's travel over Northern and Western States . superficial opportun , ism it be he must admitted is possessed that an spent from three to twenty - two days in such cities as with faculty sensing , , , , , inimitable of for things . Chicago Indianapolis St. Louis Denver Los Angeles the trend ; an , , , San Francisco Oakland Sacramento California , Ta With unstable ministry his Irish Free State gam , , , facing days coma Seattle and Spokane Washington St. Paul and ble fortuitous under the relentless ham ; mering of , De rearing Minneapolis Minnesota . In practically all these cities Valera and India aloft an ugly , head of Lloyd George the Ku Klux Klan has openly advertised organizations revolt saw in Genoa another , prop , and offices papers for his crumbling cabinet on the one hand and about which the write daily . , , , collapsing Europe on . willy - the other Thus nilly he What are the signs of such influences ? Echoes of to it . went We view the whole thing doubtfully ; , for separate schools could be heard throughout Illinois of , , the crux Europe's , , , , Ohio , Indiana Colorado , California Oregon Wash illness debts reparations the , , Treaty is Versailles camouflaged , fearing ington and Minnesota . evaded lest France and , the United States stir uneasily . However In none of these places can Negroes get service , the Conference is not uninteresting since Russia and freely in . white restaurants Practically all the theatres Germany , for the first time since the war , are invited Negroes , or either refuse orchestra seats if they sell to gather green around the to board talk things over . , anywhere they - . By them seats are Jim Crowed that , so So far good . , , we mean through a sort of premeditated coincidence , harmony Of course was not expected to reign any , when one gets inside the theatre he finds all the Ne longer than the Russian and French delegations faced groes have bought tickets together . So they could be . each , other enough it And sure didn't . , Barthou the , , with their friends doncha know ? Portland Oregon of leader the French delegation , proceeded to at , object the instance of the Mayor has recently passed reso to everything about the group , seeking to against Negroes Russian re lutions whites and intermingling at duce them to virtual in nonentities the Conference .
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