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Che A JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RADICALISM , per MessengerDECEMBER 1920 . 15 cents copy $ 1.50 per year . An Open Letter to America on the Ku Klux Klan NEN RENENENENENENENE Three Schools of International Thought The Passing Show of 1920 Woodrow Wilson U2WC A British Commission to Investigate America's Negro Congo NENENENENEL . UPULUI : 4944954545454545454545454545444YYYYY41459NENES 4545454545 THE MESSENGER NATIONAL HE AND ASSOCIATION BLACKANWORKERSWHITE UNITE AMONG PROMOTION OF LABORUNIONISM CHANDLER OWEN A. PHILIP RANDOLPH PRESIDENT SECRETARY - TREASURER ADVISORY BOARD Joseph D. CANNON JAMES H. MAURER Joseph BASKIN ANDREW WEINEIS Chas . W. ERVIN JACOB PANKEN EDWARD F. CASSIDY MAX PINE M. FEINSTONE JOSEPH SCHLOSSBERG Julius GERBER Rose SCHNEIDERMAN MORRIS HILLQUIT A. I. SHIPLACOFF , OFFICES : 2305 Seventh Avenue New York City THE MESSENGER 15c. per Copy A Journal of Scientific Radicalism $1.50 per Year 20c. Outside U. S. $2 Outside U. 8. Published Monthly by the MESSENGER PUBLISHING CO ., Inc. Main Office : 2305 , Seventh Avenue New York . Telephone , Morningside 1986 VOL. II. DECEMBER , 1920 . NO . XII . -CONTENTS Phone Connection PAGE 1. EDITORIALS 163 J. P. FANNING ECONOMICS AND POLITICS 169 Manufacturer of 3. EDUCATION AND LITERATURE 172 Fine Havana Cigars 1. Who's WILO . 177 122 West 135th Street , New York 5. THE OPEN FORUM 178 Application entered for Second Class Mailing Privileges at Try Post Office, New York , N. Y., July 6th, 1920. the Old Reliable Duff's Hats Com Best Made Hats At Reasonable Prices Also Harlem Agent for the Editors : A. PHILIP RANDOLPH CHANDLER OWEN John B. Stetson Hats Contributing Editors : GEORGE FRAZIER MILLER DUFF'S HAT STORE W. A. DOMINGO 136 LENOX AVENUE (Near 116th Street Subway Station ) STUDY During the presidential campaign THE FUNDAMENTALS OF SOCIALISM don't miss reading ART YOUNG'S MAGAZINE A Correspondence Course Beginners for , Prepared by David P. Berenberg of Humor and Satire Illustrated Fee $4.00 GOOD MORNING THE RAND SCHOOL Out the 1st and 15th of each month Offers This and Five Other Correspondence A three months trial subscription is only Courses in Socialism $1.00 and the yearly rate is $3.50 Send in your subscriptions For Information Write to Room 301-7 East 15th St., New York City GOOD MORNING COMPANY Ask for Folder 7 East 15th Street New York City As IT Was , Is, and SHOULD By MARRIAGE BEBE. Annie Besant . That intensely interesting Brochure , CO -OPERATION 266 , The Scarlet Review No. 1, 25c , each . Diana , For information on organizing A Psycho-Physiological Essay on , Sexual Relations cooperative societies apply to 25C Th . Crucible (Agnostic ) , 4 samples , 10c. CO RAYMER'S OLD BOOK STORE -OPERATIVE LEAGUE OF AMERICA 1330 First Avenue Seattle , Wash , 2 West 13th Street New York Mention THE MESSENGER 160 THE MESSENGER [December, 1920 . An Appeal To Reason 1 .. The International Hotel and Restaurant Workers' Federation appeals to Negro workers to join hands. 2. It draws no race or color line . 3. The Negro hotel waiters have been , and are the cat's -paw of the hotel employers . When a strike comes, they are used as scabs ; when the strike is settled , they are thrown out. This ought to be a lesson to you , Mr. Negro Worker . 4. The International Hotel and Restaurant Workers ' Federation , will put a stop to this. 5. Mr. Negro hotel worker , do you want more wages, shorter hours and better conditions under which to work ? Then join the hotel workers ' union . 6. The Hotel Employer is not strong enough to hold the Negro hotel worker on the job . The organized hotel workers are . 7. If black and white hotel workers unite , they can control the hotel industry . 8. If they allow the hotel employers to divide them with the wedge of race prejudice , they will be robbed and exploited , underpaid and overworked . Workers , black and white, unite !. You have nothing to lose but your chains; you have all to gain ! New York Main Office : 133 WEST 51st STREET Harlem Branch Office : 2305 Seventh Avenue . BRANCHES : BROOKLYN , N. Y. NEW HAVEN , CONN . ATLANTIC CITY , N. J. 327 Livingston Street 153 Crown Street 108 S. Arkansas Ave. Telephone : Novins 2714 NEWARK , N. J. BRIDGEPORT, CONN . PHILADELPHIA , PA . 49 Bank Street Secretary , C. Barbero , Secretary , H. Chernow 333 Soundview Ave. 218 North 13th Street STRATFORD , CONN . Int. Hotel Workers 124 Eliot Street - Boston , Mass. - December , 1920. ) THE MESSENGER 161 A CO -OPERATIVE ENTERPRISE CONDUCTED BY CLOTHING WORKERS OF NEW YORK Amalgamated Clothing System High Grade Custom Clothing Made to Measure Mail Orders Filled NEW YORK CLOTHING CUTTERS' UNION BUILDING 827 Broadway New York City ( Near 12th Street ) Phono Stuyvesant 5566-3257 Subscribe for The MESSENGER You can help the Bakery Workers by demanding the Union Label when buying Bread. ORION The International Journeymen Bakers ' and Confectioners ' Union of America CENTRAL MAAI Mention THE MESSENGER 162 THE MESSENGER [December, 1920 . Greetings to the colored and white workers of the World — to all liberal and radical thinkers and workers for the World's New Day . The Editors CHANDLER OWEN A. PHILIP RANDOLPHI - - , December 1920. ] THE MESSENGER 163 Editorials PEACE ON EARTH ! FRIENDS OF NEGRO FREEDOM THE campaign is over . We have taken three weeks IN a few days you will hear much talk about , Peace of vacation . We are now ready for a winter of on earth ; good will toward men ! This despite vigorous activity . Shortly after X'mas the MESSENGER the twenty or more wars going on in the world , the editors will make a long swing around the country war to end war, the League of Nations, the burning setting up locals of the Friends of Negro Freedom . of Negroes in America the British Black and Tan re Our first effort will be confined to two things — prisals in Ireland , the massacres of Jews in Poland , the cooperative and forum . One will save money for the starvation of Hindoos in India , the murders of Negroes during the panic ; the other will supply educa Haitians by American marines and the Horthy white . writing on tion Detailed both will follow in terror in Hungary. our New Year number . So long as one man plants , plows and produces , while another plucks , plunders , and parasites on what FOUR POWER CONSORTIUM that other produces, there will be no peace on earth power is THE four consortium simply a loan made and consequently no good toward men will . by to , China four great powers - Great Britain , France United States and Japan . We know very little , it about from access to original documents but Mr. Morgan and Lamont have stated that the one impor us thing to THL OPEN SHOP tant for know is that various governments have assured them that all contracts will be supported labor wants the closed shop ; capital ORGANIZED by respective their governments . That means our wants the open shop . When labor has the power army navy be and will the collecting agencies of Amer . it enforces upon capital the closed shop in which only ican bankers and investors who are exploiting the union men may work . When capital has the power Chinese people . it enforces upon organized labor the open shop in of Negroes to be Attention needs directed to the which either union or non union- men may work . In of irrelevancy color in power this four consortium or other words each party enforces its demands when . pact , White Englishmen Americans and Frenchmen strong yields respectively too to and each when weak join yellow with Japanese in robbing and ex enforce its demands . ploiting yellow Chinese . Profit prospects are During the when jobs were plentiful and labor stronger war ties than the blood bond . Interests are com , closed shop . Now that the scarce labor enforced the so nion the alliances are advantageous . The same , , , , war is over trade has fallen off factories are closed white nations Great Britain France and the United , closing and unemployment is increasing hourly and States also Japan ( a combined with yellow nation ) , capital is reintroducing open shop . It hopes to the to exploit oppress ( a rob and Russia white nation ) . wages , and lower the con cut down increase hours The profit stimulus like politics makes strange bed . ditions under which labor will work Capital is - strange a strange fellows consorts and consortium . , ; by therefore discharging men the tens of thousands then advertising for thousands through employment THE NEW SECRETARY OF THE N. A. A. C. P. agencies at a greatly reduced rate of wages . Another opinion among Negroes forced the selec is to at a way of aiming blow labor close the factories RADICAL tion of James Weldon Johnson as the secretary of or plants for several weeks and months so as to make the National Association for the Advancement of , labor apply for work on any terms chief among which Colored People . It is unquestionably a wise selection . are the open shop with its train of disadvantages to , It recognizes three important demands - race radical the workers . tendencies and ability . Johnson merits the unique , , distinction of being the only Negro to our knowledge shop in It is regrettable that the closed America responsible whose work has been for precipitating an has frequently connoted some discreditable things . of investigation of oppres , international the methods It was sometimes closed to Negroes closed to race in the of His articles Nation peoples . , , , sion darker and color closed to foreigners closed to Jews from have borne fruit . , acquired a un which the term has bad name an pleasant social odor . This was due to the triumph of WHAT THE COOPERATIVE MEANS TO THE American race prejudice . The closed shop must here by NEGRO after close unionizing every person in the shop , , , , to regard of without race creed color nationality sex or COOPERATIVE buying could reduce the cost previous .