The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1920-03-19

| der a serious handicap too, as he had
Z. S. Congressmen for students.
We are technically at war with
Germany, Austria and Turkey, vet the
state department will issue passport
t3 those contries. We are not at wal
with Russia, Lithuania or the Ukraine,
but the state department will issue nc
passports to those countries. "!There s
q reasonl The interests of capitalism!
A report recently made public by
Miss Helen Todd a prominent social
worker says that the assistants of the
department of Justice justified their
red raids by saying, "It made the
victims believe in God".
God must be pretty badly up.agaiDst
the department of justice for aid in
making converts.
Was it not Esau who traded his
birthright for a mess of pottage? We
in this generation have traded ours
for poverty and respectability.
Bernard Shaw said that in his day
a clerk never expected to long re-
main a clerk, but move on up into the
employing class. Now the days of OPP
portunity are over Once a clerk, al
ways a clerk or other wage-laborer.
Now the only hope for clerks is to
join with others of their class.
That is good advice. Either get out
of the working class or else join Il
working.class organization.
They are redoubling their efforts 10
get in communication with the dead
and / am amxiouslv awaiting the
outcome, for if ever they DO establish
Il line of communication | want to
get the opinion of Franklin Patrick
Henry and Thomas Jefferson on pres
ont day claimants of acknowledgements
Americanism.
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With immigration almost nil and the
foreign-born population leaving in
droves the American manufacturers
are beginning to see new light. Open
disapproval Of the activities of the
Attorney General are to be found in
various papers. Likewise those same
causes are the forces back of the agi.
tation for a repeal of the prohibition
amendment.
\ writer in the PUBLIC LEDGER
speaking Of Russian affairs SAYS "any
peace established now between soviet
authority and governments of the
bourgeois cannot be more than a
brief truce, because socialism and cap
itaism can not exist side by side.
lie goes on to state that "neither
can be suppressed without warfare"
lie might have gone one step further
and said that experience had demon.
stratad to the bourgeois of the world
that socialism can not be suppressed
with or without warfare!
The Bolshcviki are reported as ear.
rying on two vi ally important camp.
aigns. Here is hoping that they are
successful in both, even ii I do risk
n charge of scdition or treason in 50
stating my hopes. The two vitally
important campaigns are one against
disease and the other against ignor-
ance,
What n glorious world it will be
when all campaigns will be conducted
not with armies against other armies
for the purpose of asccrtaining which
nation has the superior killing equip.
mcnt here could only he cussin' for the
and iguOraneel
seven universities under the ear
and seventeen under the soviets. Com.
ment here could only be cussin for the
opponents of soviet rule.
Education in Sovietlmd is compul.
sorry. All children from eight to sixteen
are not only taught hut fed clothed
and housed at the expense of the
state. Are not those Bolshevists the
backward people tho'
Well, somebody is.
LONDON,-Retumed soldiers would
literally rather starve than dig graves
for II living, it has been discovered