The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1920-01-14
Cove, ,nment Spies Wiote Planks in Communists
Palsy Platform, also Laid Bombs, is Charge
WHO IS THE DESTROYER Of
LIBERTY?

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Our cartoon has depicted the conditions of American pot
a life in striking and vd in this weeks Toler The
drawing tells the story far completely than words can de-
scribe few months the words liberty and freedom were
moving words To-day they the minds Of the
worlds oppressed Them the world was passing thru sarnaa
Of blood rayng cry necessary to lead on the peoples to
more sacrifice and slaughter An theological aspect must be put
upon the face of the struggle What better catchpase than
liberty could be sounded the of the victims Of captaisc
world imperialism?
But hypnotzed labor expect the practical application
Of the precps of liberty their every day lives and to indus
trial conditions They accepted without question the promises Of
their leaders They bed and sacrificed without end that the ideals
which were held aof by the sponsors Of might live aerwar
How bitter is the Disappointment To-day the workers Of the
world with the exception Of Russia are mpuna q hta N
non heel tespotm OF III Eati0ns rhe -~As1.e
United States ground more pttessy than any Every
single Constitutional liberty has been and being denied
them That bulwark liberties the Constitution has been
shattered bits the hand of capac interests speech
free assembly dead The workers sanchased Berger
denied the seat to which he elected clear majority Of
votes Every citizen who voted for Berger dsanchd
by the acts of the representatives of apitastc interests
ress In New York. five socialists have been denied their seats
in the state assembly The constitutional right Of the citizens to
elect representatives of their choice have been violated by cap
tasc interests The dstruconst is work every field and
aw it is the influence that stands in the BACKGROUND
Because of the work Of this achenemy of liberty nearly
half million steel workers have been forced back to their toll
depad overwoked and denied the right to form oga-
nzons for forcing concessions from their organized employers
The steel strike eloquent page the history Of the Of
American capitalist influence the historic rights Of Amer
lean workers and citizens In every steel center the heavy hand
of oppression down upon the workers with violence Every
vesge of personal and constitutional liberty ruthessey
stamped into the me Meetings of the steel workers brok
up by armed violence of uniformed thugs Men and
murdered outright and bones made of it. The steel strike
lost because slavery imposed upon the strikers by the
armed Of the state at the bhe of Gary and his associates
lin plunder
The Constitution obstruction the path of captastc
Imperialism and because has been wrecked to bits
has been cast the heap of history and marks
milestone along the path which capitalism has passed
be rebuilt 1t will never again refuge of the working
class Of America cannot be used for their defense
against the employing class In the struggle Of Labor for mastery
of the world it cannot be revived implement to further
power The Constitution dead can no longer be said
Ito exist
Capitalism knows no law but the law Of it's own will 1t will
without quver wreck its laws when they stand in its way
acknowledges but one awhe law Of force The workers must
forge weapons they would against entrenched and
full capital We know now. that never win by merely
gaining 81 percent of the ballots We know that capitalism
more respect for maortes than has for mnot Labor
must give all its activities for shorter hors and higher wages
revolutionary meaning quit qubbng over these things
merely such Labor must recognize that in order live humane
y must control the by which lives It must take out
of the hands OF capital the power to control production II must
take out Of the hands Of capital its unearned possession Of
machinery Of production To e Laber rule And to
must depending upon the rights given by dead cons
tons must by force Of itsfnvncbe numbers write Con
tuition in which only they who labor shall share