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LAID a. NICHOLS.
Tel. fTi7 Greenwich, Conn.


BERKSHIRE HILLS.-Bungalow, adapted 70
permanent residence; electricity: modern
plumbing; l35 acres, suitable for farm; fine
views; brrgnin 20 close estate photographs
$: q. TENNEY. Atty. Willianstown. Mass
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Washington Heights. Above issth S..
West Of sth Az.

i92D ST, 500 w. corner OF 81. Nicholas
av.-5 rooms, elevator. WARREN A Skill
LIN. 80 Park Row
1888 ST. NICHOLAS Ay.. near Ism st.
Elegant . rooms and bath: occupancy q,
once SEQ
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From BATTERY TO i4th ST.. Inclusive.

COS (near 9th v).-House. 22xlO0. Tor SAFE
PITCHER. 500 Lexington av.
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

DUPLEX apartment. beautifully furnished
In old mahogany 10 large rooms and Q
Schuyler 6155, 1877 Riverside Drive. corner
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at least are warm and we'll fed. The
soviet government has taken its role
of parent seriously II has found that
by providing homes where the kid.
dies can live in groups of perhaps
thirty IL not only is better able 20
feed them and make them warm and
comfortable than if they we're scat;
tered in individual homes, but il has
been able to relieve mothers who worl,
of much of the drugery of home life
and permit them to perform the in.
dnslrial tasks with greater efficiency,
The organization of the communist
atotc is such that every adult especial
ly under the conditions of hunger and
economic breakdown which prevail, is
required to do his or her share of use.
fu labor.
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merely a superficial view of it, AMI
Babson like many another adviser Of
royalty, seems not to know that the
defeat of trade-unionism means the rise
Of industrial organization, that the
Clicking Of Gompers means the visa
of militant, intelligent leadership
that will truely reflect the sentiments
of the mass. 1t means change from
rule from above to rule from below.
Again, the one correct method Of
estimating the strength of any move
ment is TO Judge it by its average of
intelligence. The workers have been
acquiring knowledge in the last three
or four years that is already of and
will be of more value to them in the
struggle, and much of the education
has been forced upon them by the nc.
tion of the groups to whom Mr.. BaD-
son caters. For instance, the old con
fusing and fallacious doctrine of iden-
tity of interests between exploiter and
exploited has been almost completely
shattered The belief that modern
government was IN impartial agency,
standing between labor and capital aud
representing some mythical entity
called the public, has been replaced to
a large degree by the knowledge that
modern government is merely a crea.
ture of the financial and industrial in.
terests and that its principal function
is to assist these interests in their
work of exploitation.
Trade unionism, as exemplified by
Gompers, came into being as the re.
suit of certain needs. 1t can no lon.
ger supply human wants or induce the
class to believe that it is
supplying its wants.
Mr.. Babson may cheer his clients
With the information that Mr.. Com.
,ers has lost his influence and call it
, victory for the exploiters if he so
chooses. Actually, he is announcing
he beginning of new and glorious
ra for labor.
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mixed homes, boys and girls alike. For
the older children we have not get
adopted a rule.
No Individual Toys.
"The children grow up in an atmos.
phere which develops good citizens for
a socialist state There. is no attitude
Of master and child but a comradeship
which does the heart good to see. There
are no individual toys or property. All
IS the common possession of the home,
and the children soon drop out of the
habit of speaking of my book or my
doll, using instead 'our toys.
In religion the children are left en-
tirely to the discretion of their par.
ents. No religious training is included
in their work, but in its place they are
taught the essentials of social morals
and the fundamentals of natural his
tnrv
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At Age of 3.

"'rhe woman who works, said
Mmc. Kollontai "cannot do her duty
ms mother and nj the same time ac.
complsh efficient work unless she
gacrifices all her time TO these two
objects, or is given aid in the routine
work for her children. That Is why
We are urging mothers TO bring their
children into the state group homes
when they have attained the ago Of
three No coercion is used, however,
and indeed none is necessary, for Che
parents are in no way>cut off from
their little ones. They can see them Mt
any time. and can take them home
when and Tor as long u time as they
wph
"Those for the younger children
10 the age of fourteen-are always
The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1920-07-09

Mr.. Roger Babson, statistieian fo
'ig business, has broken out again
This time he announces the cheering
act that labor has been whipped. L
me of his latest bulletins furnished 4
Employers, Mr.. Babson says;
"There is no doui.t about it.
labor is beaten. Mr.. Gompers was
at his zenith in 1918 Since then
he has steadily lost power. He has
lost power with his own people,
because he is no longer able to
deliver the goods. He can no lon
ged deliver the goods for two
reasons. For one thing, peace ur-
gency has replaced war urgency
and We are not willing to bid for
peace labor as we had to bid for
war labor. For another thing, the
employing class is immensely
more powerful than it was in
1914.
Gle has then an organized
labor force more numerous than
ever before Relatively twice as
many workers are organized as in
1916. But this same labor force
has lost its hold on the public.
Furthermore, it is divided in its
own camp. 1t fears capital. 1t
also fears its own factions. 1t
threatens, but it does not dare.
"We said that the employing
class was immensely more power
ful than in 1914. There is more
money at its command. Eighteen
thousand new millionaires are the
wars legacy This money capaci.
ty is more throughly unified than
ever. In 1914 we had 10000
banks, functioning to a great de-
gree IN independence of each
other. Then came the Federal Re
serve Act and gave us the machin-
cry for consolidation and the
emergency of five years war
furnished the hammer blows to
weld the structure into one.
"The war taught the employing
class the secret and the power of
widespread propaganda. Imperial
Europe had been aware of this
power. It was new to the United
States Now, when we have any
thing to sell to the American
people, we know how to sell it.
We have learned. WE HAVE
THE SCHOOLS. WE HAVE THE
PULPIT. THE EMPLOYING
CLASS OWNS THE PRESS.
THERE IS PRACTICALLY NO
IMPORTANT PAPER IN THE
UNITED, STATES BUT Is
THEIRS!
a." English labor has come out of
the war with great gains. During
the war the United States work
The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1920-07-09
FOUNDATIONS OF A REBEL
By Tom Clifford.

That bunch of job seekers such as
compose the Democratic (9) Conven-
tion at San Francisco is permitted to
outline the policies of a nation of 100.
100000 people and select candidate
for President is the height of absurd
ity. There is not a single delegate at
that gathering of politicians actuated
by any other desire than to further
his own interests politically, with never
thought for the welfare of the ma.
tion at large. They have successfully
played the game so long they imagine
1T can 90 on forever. However, they
are facing condition at present that
bodies i'll for the continuance of their
autocratic rule. For Che. first time in
the history of the naGn, notwithstand.
ing the strenuous touting of the cap.
italist press, the public refuses to be
enthuscd and evince not the slightest
interest in either the platform or tho
candidate, Can it be that the truth
has at last penetrated the thick skulls
ot the working class that the declara.
tions of these politicians are mere
pre.ense and they refuse to be longer
bunkoed' Let us hope that the apathet
ic attitude of the masses indicates
some serious thinking and that they
are about ready to throw these hypo.
critical disssmblers into the discard.
We shall know more about it in Nov.
ember.
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Mr.. Babson's Error
lro] the Bntte Bulletin. J

ers fooled themselves and fooled
some acf us into thinking that
labor here and in England stood
neekf fand neck. We forgot Eng
land long generation S start of
us. There is no such labor force
in :ha. World. English labor was
readNf wiring advantage out of
the AR; United States labor
waEred to do SO, but it had not
lived the life needful to that
end.
"What, then, are we going to
do to our opponents2 When, in
1918, we gritted our teeth and
said that we were going to show
them where they got off, we had
no very definite aim in view be-
yond iust words Now that we
have indicated successfully the
point of Decentralization, the ques-
tion arises: What are we going to
do about it9'
II it were not for one thing we could
agree with Mr.. Babson, but unfor-
tunately for himself and his clients,
Mr.. Babson has confused Mr.. Gompcrs
and labor, apparently believing that
they are one and the same thing. This
is not to be wondered at in the ease
Of an individual accustomed to think
of the labor movement in terms of it's
so-called leaders, but it makes his
estimate of the real situation some-
what unreliable.
If ii is any consolation to Mr.. Bao-
son, we are quite willing to inform
him that, in the opinion of close OBJ
servers of the labor situation, the
tradeunion moveSent is not licked,
but has simply quit Old age has crept
upon it and it finds itself unable to
stand the pace set by modern economic
conditions. Mr.. Gompcrs may be lick
ed; as to that we do not know, hut
we do know that he no longer re-
presents the sentiments, views and
wishes of what has been called the
bona fide labor movement. If the
whipping of Mr.. Gompers is victor.g,
let the employers take all the comfort
to themselves that they please.
Estimates of social progress, meas
ured by the influence of certain lead
ers, are apt to be misleading. Social
move sluggishly and it is
often true that changes in the view.
point of the masses requires much time
to be reflected in 1lange of official
dom. When it does anifest itself, it
usually appears as t arbitrary action
of individuals to Use who do not
understand the mani in which social
progress comes.
This is true of American labor
Th-re az forces at work
whose strength eanhotl be gauged by
The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1920-07-09
FOOD FOR RUSSIA WATTS EN-.
TENTE CONSENT.

According to George Seldes, staff
correspondent for the Chicago Tribune
and now stationed at Hamburg, "In
the scandinavian harbors there are
today many thousands of tons of
meats and fats destined for Russia,
but little has gone to that country
on account of continued disturbed
conditions"
The "disturbed conditions" refer.
red to by the correspondent are none
other than the refusal of the Entente
powers to recognize or trade with
Soviet Russia.
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To read the scathing denunciations
OF profiteeriug i'm the newspapers ono
would naturally presume that these
conservaiors of the public welfare y
are themselves content with ordinary
profits Not so, my umsophistcated
friend. While they are vociferously
shouting "stop thief" to draw your
attention away from their own rascal.
ltN they are morcilessly gouging the
public for all the traffic will bear.
Advertising rates have been boosted
800 per cent and the retail price has
been doubled. The Sunday papers, car.
rying practically nothing but adver.
tlsements, arr foisted on the public at
the "modestn price Of Zoe. II takes
some nerve, not to say business finesse,
to hold up the advertisers for the limit
and then induce the rube readers to
come gayly cavorting across with
three times the cost of production.
Believe me, when II comes to profitcer.
ing the sugar profit mongor in his
The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1920-07-09
All For the Children.

"All for the Children has been
tle motto Of The soviet Russia govern
ment during the economic difficulty
How far II has been carried into ef.
feet can be seen from tho happy,
healthy faces of the youngsters one
meets everywhere IN Moscow.
Many arc wearing clothes which paa.
sed the beggar stage years ago but
30 is everyone in Moscow. But they
The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1920-07-09
More Than Half Children

"Tcdny more than half of The
children in The larger towns and cities
in Russia are living in state institrt.
ions. At first parents were skeptical
about our system, but our first homes
were so successful that now there is
a large waiting list of mother in all
the places where we have these homes.
] believe in time every child will be
raised in this manner We have lifted
the curse of household slavery from
the mothers of the poor.
The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1920-07-09
Soviet ChiIdren'S Homes Appeal to Mothers
BY John Clayton.

PARIS,-"The Russian soviet go-
vernment is Matchmaking the children
of Russia. We are taking the children
from their hor~s and placing them
thirty children in each group in special
homes. However, we take the children
only with the full consent of the
parents, and the children ars not de-
prived Of the parental influence" "
Nine, acknowledgements Kolontai
she is called in Russia-the first wo.
man commissar of Russia and head
Of the department of child welfare,
was speaking to me in Moscow.
The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1920-07-09

In full page advertisement Detroit
4 employers tell an anxious public about
" what they are pleased to call the AMER
ICAN plan of employment. Full of
couriousity, / perused the advertise
ment from beginning to home run and
discovered what the American Plan
really isl!
Do you really want the dopef
= Well the American Plan as conceived
- and wished and hoped for by Detroit
Employers is nothing more nor less
than plan for the open shop. Some
would call it a plan providing for or
ganized seabbery.
An optimist is proletarlan
daughter who hopes to marry in such
a manner that she may be supported III
a style different (and better) than
that to which she has been ac'
eustomed.
pessimist is one whose knowledge
4 of economies and the law of averages
teaches that she will not accomplish
her desire.
The gentlemen S Home Journal, the
conservative Sat Eve-Post in its issue
of June 26th, has some-semi editorials
headed. "In Line or Two that
need fixing, so here goes.
GA conservative is one who would
trv another dose of medicine before
irving up hope and knocking the
natient in the head" - Well, the >
+ p. is a true conservative and pre-
scribed another dose of capitalism VIA
Hoover or some cone else equally-as-
good.
"Considering what whiskers have
done to Russia, one understands why II
is called safety razor Very, very
funny. but when one considers what
czarism and capitalism have done to
Russia. and then contrasts that with
what sovietism is doing, hampered oil
course by the allied bloekade and the
allied capitalists of all the earth one
wonders why the S. E. P. tries TO lay
the blame on whiskers.
Here is real gem, "The communist
theory that one has right to take
what he has not earned has put many
poor burglar in jail Very funny
but that is not the communist theory
The communist theory is that no one
has right to take that which he has
not earned Capitalism is supported or
the theory that it is right to take
that which it did not earn. All cap
italists take profits Profits come from
surplus values. Surplus values are the
difference between the value of labor
ing power and the value of labor s
product. Very, very funny Mr.. Post
but we would really like to know
whether you were just ineTcusably
ignorant?
Many woman thinks she is high
brow when in reality she is only
low neck
Manv. man thinks he is higf
brow when in reality he is only
roughneck.
With her over here and her over
there, no wonder the Legion found tho
incentive to carry on!
An optimist:-a man with the
courage to marry.
A pessimist,-one who has tried it.
The above definitions are from the
viewpoint of the cynic. They do not
hold good in all eases. But then
exceptions prove the rule!
A eynic is one who balances the
books of life and let's them show
deficit in the hapPines column while
Others will throw in enough hope of
the future to make the books balance.
Had your vacation yet9
What is a vacation forl
The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1920-07-09

Harding and Coolidge, Republican
candidates for President and Vice Pro.
sidcnt, are working overtime in at.
tempting to convince the public that
they stand for the GLORIOUS institu.
tious of our fathers" etc. They imag.
inc that such meaningless catch.
phrases have the same potency as in
other years. What the people now de.
mand is an institution that will
"toot." These gentlemen are due for
n rude awakening. Once politician
always politician,
The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1920-07-09

] note that capitalist controlled
college down east has conferred dc.
gree upor Gen, Pershing. ] presume the
reason therefor is distinguished
services rendered to the master class of
this country in the World War. lic
did his part in saving their financial
bacon; hence the acknowledgement.
They believe, with Sammy Gompers, in
forwarding their friends and punish.
ing their enemies" Pershing, their
friend, is decorated and given degree,
AMI Debs, their enemy, is sent 10
prison. Some day when the working
class garner some sense, the exponent
of justice and humanity will receive
the laurels.
The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1920-07-09
A Fine Meal.

II was my privilege to have lunch
with the children of one of the larger
homes one day. and happier little
crew ] have never seen anywhere. As
for the food, il was the best | have
had in Moscow, got up from the
table for the first time since | arrived
there feeling that ! had all / wanted
to eat.
Nine. kollontai is one of the vcter,
ans of the Russian revolutionary move.
ment. About 35 years old, she was cdu.
Gated in the aristocratic Smolny insti-
tute in Pctrograd-Smolny, around
which so much of the history of the
revolution has been written. She is
well known in the United States, hav.
ing made two lecture tours through
America under the auspices Of the left
wing of the Socialist party in 1915 and
1916.
The social welfare work, which has
for It's aims the proper care and devcl
opment of the children, begins with
the mothers themselves before the al.
vent Of the babe and continues until
the child has attained an age of l6
years,
At this stage the work divides itself
into two divisions. The first is for
children who remain at home with
their parents, the second for those
children who live in group homes at
state expense.
Care for Children.
The working mother whose child re-
prins in her care is relieved of the re-
spousibility Of caring for IL during
working hours Kindergartens arc pro.
vided where the child is looked after /
fed, and his education begun. when
he has attained nm age of years he
enters the public schools, and there
Continued on page ~
The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1920-07-09

A writer in the Saturday Evening
Post deplores the vast differentiation
in articles in common use, and urges
standardization in the interest of
economy. What peculiar mental slant
some people have! Here is fellow
citing "A wide spread evil in present
day society, apparently ignorant of the
fact that waste is cardinal virtue
of the profit system. He appears to
labor under the deusion that articles
are made for use instead of being
produced for profit. 1t is the enorm-
ous waste in production through dupli-
cation of effort that forms the work.
ing basis of capitalism. 1t throws open
the field to unlimited competition,
with profit as the dominant incentive,
and a "go-as-youpleas," without re.
gard for the welfare of society as n
whole, is the disastrous result. | sug-
gest that the literary gentleman take
course of reading in economies.
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Column

sss<<e<sNSses<SesSsb bs>sssssSss<SSes'ss>'
? What is one supposed to "vaeate''
on a vacationl
Vacations are for our best people. The
poor can not afford them.
Much commotion in the ranks of the
Democrats. They are suffering from
hysteropsychosis.
After the shouting is all over and the
votes are counted, the wages system
will still be with us. We will still have
the wage Garner and the owner of the
tools of production and the inevitable
| class-conflict. As long as we have cap
| italism we will have class-conflicts and
the need for class conflicts. Neither of
the political parties propose to abolish
the wages.system. and until il is
abolished we will have ignorance,
! misery vice and poverty. 1t will event
ual'y come to question of reds or
ruin. IN for the reds.
An optimist,-one who would vote
for Harding.
pessimist,--one who has voted for
Harding.
One cartoonist had happy thought,
He drew a picture and labeled. it,
ooh, YOU fox-Trotsky'!
Too foxy to be caught with the lies
of capitalist-class diplomacy. A game
of all the cards on the table is a
Jonah to the man skilled in keeping
hOld-outs.
"In the house of my kinfolk, I am
on alien" writes Miss Katherine
Fisher There are many such, and Pal
mer cant deport EN-!
IT is long. step from the days Of
kite flving such as Ben Franklin ac-
complished and the latest altitude re-
cord Of the aeroplane, yet capitalism
has been with us all that time, Vow
is the time for new departure in
social economy and capitalism is doom
ed to give way to the new just as the
kite had to give way for the aeroplnne.
IF it were not for the sound of the
rattle-money you would never be able |
to hear even the echo of a political
Fboom''.
McAdoo makes much about his fin
ancial troubles. He only got 100000 90
a year from the Chaplin Pickford
Fairbanks crowd, or at least it was re
ported that that figure was mis-
earnings" per year. Gee Amt it |
hell to be poor?
How does it come that the national
prohibition provision of the constitu-
tion does not apply to Republican
convention asks our local blatter.
That IS an easy one. Prohi, is for pro.
lucer. The delegates to the conven-
lion wero non-producers so naturally
the provisions made and provided wcge
winked-at Some winkers-- some wink
ers--the present bunch of law en-
forcers
Debs is in iail, but Bergdall and
Newberry are still at large.
All hut 36 of the original one hund- |
red wobblies sent to Leavenworth from
Chicago are out on bail. The thirty |
six remaining 'there are denied their
freedom simply because they do not
have two friends apiece each of whom
can put up ten thousand dollars in
or liberty bonds as security.
Still they will keep on telling us that
there are no classes in America
Why 10 the Democrats travel all
the way TO Frisco to learn the popular
wil' If The administration will restore
free speech to the country they can
learn the popular will without travel
ing so far. Why 90 so far to fare SO
worse?
The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1920-07-09

widest dreams never gets within hail
ing distance of ye virtuous daily news
paper.
The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1920-07-09

How does it come that the national
prohibition provision of the eonsitu-
tion does not apply to Republican
conventiou?, asks our local blatter.
That s an easy one. Prohi, is for pro.
lucer. The delegates to the convon,
lion were non-producers so naturally
the provisions made and provided were
winked-at. Some winkers- some wink
ers-the present bunch of law en-
forcers.
The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1920-07-09

Why do the Democrats travel all
the way TO Frisco to learn the popular
wilI' If The administration will restore
free speech to the country they can
learn the popular will without travel
ing so far. Why go so far to fare SO
worse!
The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1920-07-09

Debs is in iail, but Bergdall an(
Newberry are still at large.