The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1920-03-26

soviets, or that the Poles are defend
ing Poland. 1t is well understood here
that the soviets are on the defensive
and that their one desire is peace will
their neighbors. .
PITTSBURGH, PA.-Negro worker;
imported to break the steel strike are
now being discharged in crowds, it was
reported at a meeting of the commit
tee to organize the iron and steel in
dustry held here.
NEW YORK.-Italy is in a state
of revolutionary expectation, n. Giaco
nelli, an associate of the famous an.
archist leader, Malatesta, writes to
friend in New York.
"The situation in Italy is most pc
culiar," he said. "Fve1y day it seems
as if the revolution would breal; ont
and then everything bursts like a
soap bubble. Agitation, strikes and
riots follow one another continually
and produce a strange state Of mind
which helps to keep up abnormal social
conditions and which would make any
cataclysm that might accur seem
natural.
"1n short, We are in period of
revolutionary expectation, with the
accompanying vague, general fear.
"My opinion is that this state of
affairs will not end very soon. but
will drag itself out, because among
the leaders of the different revolu-
tionary parties and organizations, there
are not men of sufficient audacity and
ability, to meet the present historical
crisis. There is more revolutionary
spirit among the masses than among
the leaders,"
PARIS.-Newspaper workers have
adopted a resolution calling for the
establishment of Sunday holiday
over the whole country. The plan
if adopted by the government, will
mean that morning papers will come
cut Sunday but not Monday, and that
evening papers will not apprea- on
Sunday.
VANCOUVER, B. C.-Thc lumber
interests of British Columbia are start.
ing their heavy war tanks rolling
against the lines of the Lumber Work
ers' Industrial union, section of the
Canadian One Big Union.
A deftly worded notice has been
posted in every logging camp in the
dominion, announcing that hereafter
the lumber industry will be run on
the open-shop principle, but that no
discrimination viii be made against
lawful organizations, or against in.
Gividual workers.
Members of the L. w. T. U. here
declare that this is nothing mors nor
less than declaration Of war, since
the notice is so wor6ed that their
union may very well be declared un.
lawful. in spite of statements to the
contrary made by Gideon Roberts,
Of labor.
NEW YORK.'-An italian labor pa.
per is to be established here-the
first free working class organ to
represent the 100000 Italians in this
country. The paper vii be called
Avantil (Forward) after the famous
Socialist paper in italy which now
has editions in Milan, Rome and
Turin. The enterprise is being backed
by organized labor in New York,
especially by those in the textile
industry. of which 70 per cent in the
country are Italians.
PARIS.--L!oyd George is convinced
that the peace treaty is voodoo to
its trainers, according TO a story in
the Petit Parisien. Upon hearing that
that the peace treaty is hoodoo to
reported to have exclaimed to
friend:
"Who would have foreseen this9
One would almost believe that the
peace treaty is bringing misfortune
to all who have touched it."
"That it So" replied his friend.
"Orlando, Wilson, Clemenceau--of the
four there remains only you"
"And in six months" said Lloyd
George, "it will be my turn"