The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1921-04-02
DECLARATION OF WAR.

War for the American workers did not on Armsce
Day. War form brutal and nsidiou since is
carried without the slightest suggestion of dea
goal has been waged to destroy the last hope OF the workers
of America that they will be freed from wage slavery without
resort to organized force.
There has not been the slightest mation that the purpose
of this campaign to keep down. unruy" elements has
been bloody ruthless attack of organized greedy capitalism
weak sections of the labor which, return have been
compelled Ito force against force-guns against gums The
HIS of West Virginia red with the blood of workers that has
een spilled open fights with hrengs of the capitalist class,
sent there to maintain peace and order And what peace
and order" they have maintained!
Organized greed satisfied declared war
abor-the closed shop must 60 There must remain only
the SHOP CLOSEDT THE UNION MANI That is the aim of
organized greedconsodaed into the big union of the
employers who have prepared throw the workers into the
Streets to starve and beg.
What the workers of America going to do about it?
Had the workers of the United States declared war on the
capitalists the government would have sent its army into action
against them The ais and petentaries would be full of
given long vacation to think their criminal acts
Capital declares and may declare the workers. it MAJ
procure rifles machine guns and poison gas ship them into
State Of the Unon and still be safe from prosecution But the
possession of single rearm the worker to long prison
sentence The armies of thugs exonvcts hoods hired by
ctye agencies to suppress workers always backed up by
Cossacks and Federal troops the workers. defending their
jobs and their rights, fight back.
The capitalists carrying the game pretty far They arc
carrying it too far for safetys sake The OF the
United States allowing them to play with fire. is supporting
them in their bloody game of crushing the workers. Labor has
given abor has been kept in the dark by its leaders and it's
friends who do not know about labors real misery
Labor has been sluggish in responding to the call for united
front-an offensive front against the common enemy.
Labor is still unorganzed In spite of the fact that there
putedy nearly 100000 workers organized in America there
is still lack of cohesive force Divided into hundreds of separate
almost autonomous organizations and Subdivisions recognizing
no single central authority cabbng another refusing
to support another when in trouble the workers of America
cannot be said to be organized To nothing of the millions
of men and still disconnected from all orgaization
But let the capitalists procure few more decisions against
organized labor let them enact few laws forcing the
workers give up the few primitive rights that they
have acquired let them continue their bobardmen of organ
lied labor just little longer perssenty, reenesyhen
LABOR WILL WAKE UP! And it will be rule awakenng-for
abor-and for capital 1t will be awakening for the
that still rule the conry 1t will show Labor in its primitive
strength intent upon efectng change will bring mil
lions into the organizations 1T will bring the organizations closer
together will open their eyes the fact that there but ONE
ENEMY unscrpuous vicious boodthsty, hesitating at moth
ing using every sraagem and rcaded and abeted by all
the powers of the capitalist State.