George Samuel Schuyler

From The Autobiography of George Samuel Schuyler, 1966

In 1946, Alfred Kohlberg began publication of the important anti-Communist monthly magazine, Plain Talk, with Isaac Don Levine as editor, Ralph de Toledano as managing editor, and as contributing editors, Christopher Emmett, Jr. and Karl Baarslag. It was the first post-war magazine to ruthlessly expose the Communist conspiracy in America and abroad. Mabel Travis Wood succeeded de Toledano, and Eugene Lyons, Suzanne LaFollette, and I became contributing editors in September, 1947, after I had written a scathing exposé of the Communist conspiracy against Negroes. I remained a contributing editor . . . The files of Plain Talk make extremely valuable reading today for those seeking background material on the Red conspiracy in the United States and all over the world.

Plain Talk attracted a galaxy of some of the best writers on Red subversion, and I met and talked with many of them. They included such as Leon Dennen, Joseph Zack, Alfred Kohlberg, Rebecca West, Julius Epstein, General Patrick J. Hurley, Ann Su Cardwell, E. von Hofmannsthal, Kurt Singer, Senator Jack B. Tenney, Freda Utley, Leopold Schwarzschild, Edna Lonigan, Eugen Richter, Bogdan Raditsa, John Chamberlain, Howard Rushmore, Robert Buchanan, Victor Lasky, Henry Hazlitt, H. R. Knickerbocker, Suzanne LaFollette, James H. R. Cromwell, Ruth Fischer, James Rorty, George Hamilton Combs, J. Anthony Marcus, Stanislaus Mikolajczyk, Guenther Reinhardt, Frank Chodorov, Siegfried Wagener, Ludwig von Mises, Helen Woodward, Alexander Kerensky, Zugmund Dobbs, Max Eastman, Martin Ebon, and other less well-known.

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The Communists and fellow travelers became increasingly bitter and hysterical in their denunciations of me, and their letters were gems of smearing and billingsgate which I shall long cherish and preserve. I was virtually the only person writing in the Negro press regularly who understood what they were up to and felt obliged to criticize and expose them. After all, the Pittsburgh Courier circulation was around 300,000 weekly, exceeding that of any other such newspaper, and the Reds would have been delighted to silence me, but could not.

My views were as those expressed at the time by Lewis Schwellenbach, the Secretary of Labor; by several congressmen who introduced bills to suppress the Communist Party; by Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid, commander of the Eastern sea frontier; by William C. Bullitt, former ambassador to Russia, who told a Congressional committee that the Red movement was �composed of potential traitors� dedicated to a �conspiracy to commit murder� through mass liquidation; by the heads of the American Legion and the American Federation of Labor; by J. Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI; and inferentially by President Truman. But the fellow travelers continued to sign petitions and their names appeared in full-page advertisements for which the signers did not pay.

I had to take y colleague, P. L. Prattis, to task for defending a Russian-born woman, Mrs. Shura Lewis, who regaled a Washington, D.C.. high school assembly on the �glories� of education in the Soviet Union. He was mad because three of the students walked out on her pro-Communist speech. I rebutted by quoting extensively from House Document 574, entitle, �Communism in Action,� prepared under the direction of Representative Everett M. Dirksen (R., Illinois) by the Legislative Reference Service of the Library of Congress, and sold by the Government Printing Office. My colleague was madder that a wet hen but the readers were delighted.

Representatives Adam Clayton Powell and Vito Marcantonio again stood alone in the House citation of contempt against another of Stalin�s agents, one Leon Josephson, brother of Barney Josephson of Café Society in New York. Barney had won over several Negro �artists� to the Party line by giving them jobs, and probably Powell could not forget that Barney let him hold his wedding party on a Sunday in Café Society Uptown where the liquor was reported �on the house.� Powell is pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, largest Baptist Church in the nation.

Shirley Graham (later wife of Dr. W. E. B. DuBois) held that Eisler and Josephson were being �persecuted.� Paul Robeson, long a darling of the Reds, who sang from the Communist trenches in Spain, agreed with Miss Graham, adding a denunciation of capitalism. There was something ironic about that, for I can think of no one who received more favors from the hands of the rich and powerful despite mediocre talents, as any capable and honest music or drama critic would admit. Naturally he received the Stalin Prize for services rendered, as, indeed, did Dr. DuBois.

I observed at the time (May 10, 1947) that:

The Communist Party not only has nothing to do with democracy, but everywhere despises and seeks to destroy it. Fascism came to power in Germany because it was helped to power by Communists. Indeed, the Communists helped build the German war machine and for nearly two years was [were?] allied with it. The Luftwaffe was trained on Russian soil with the approval of Stalin.

The above-mentioned Shirley Graham shared the platform with Eisler at a meeting at Webster Hall in New York City after he was released on bail from Federal confinement. Mary Lou Williams, the jazz pianist, whipped the keyboard on that memorable occasion.

Walter Garland, the national adjutant of the United Negro and Allied Veterans of America (whose honorary president was Joe Luis, the heavyweight boxing champion) was one of the witnesses for Gerhard Eisler at his trail for passport fraud.

Although middle- and upper-class white people were being similarly caught up in the post-war Communist web as their non-white opposite numbers were. I felt that the danger was greater for Negroes because they already had trouble enough being black without going Red. While the generality of Negroes had no interest in Communism and paid scant attention to the Red propaganda, the danger lay in the control the black bourgeoisie exercised over the various organizations and institutions that were the backbone of the national Negro community, thus enabling them to speak for the masses, whether or not they were authorized to do so. . . .

There was but one other writer in the Negro press who was outspokenly opposing the Communist conspiracy against Negroes. That was Willard S. Townsend, college-trained and able president of the United Transport Service Employees Union, who wrote a column for the Courier. Later in 1947 he was bitterly attacked by Earl Conrad, white leftist editor of the Negro-owned newspaper, the Chicago Defender, which by that time, in my judgment, had become almost as Red as the Daily Worker. Conrad called Townsend a Red-baiter, which the latter admitted with relish, and of course I joined him. It was quite a fray. I extract a few lines from one of my columns:

Like all of his ilk, Comrade Conrad strives to confuse the readers� minds by identifying communism with the Russians. These people use Russia and Communist and the Soviet Union as synonyms. The bulk of Russians loathe communist which has forced them to the lowest level of degradation. The so-called Soviet Union is neither Soviet nor union because there are tolerated no opinions contrary to the glorified goons in the Kremlin and no voice whatever in the Government, nor dare anyone try in any way to influence it.

I was delighted when in May, 1947, my friend Leopold Schwarzschild had published by Scribner�s his The Red Prussian : The Life and Legend of Karl Marx.. . . .

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Black and Conservative; the autobiography of George S. Schuyler.
New Rochelle, New York : Arlington House 1966.

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Publisher New Rochelle, N.Y., Arlington House [1966] Description 362 p. 22 cm. Language English Format Book Library UCLA SRLF UCD UCB NRLF UCR CSL UCSB UCSD 23 Details/Locations Author Schuyler, George Samuel, 1895- Title Black and conservative: autobiography. Publisher New Rochelle, N.Y., Arlington House [1966] Description 362 p. Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964. Title Nigger heaven / by Carl Van Vechten, with A note by the author, and A critical commentary by George S. Schuyler. Publisher New York : Avon Pub. Co., c1951. Description 186 p. ; 17 cm. Series Avon pocket size books ; 314 Language English Format Book Library NRLF 25 Details/Locations Author Schuyler, George Samuel, 1895- Title Slaves today : a story of Liberia / by George S. Schuyler. Publisher New York : Brewer, Warren & Putnam, 1931. Description 290 p. ; 19 cm. Language English Subject Slaves -- Liberia -- Fiction. 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