The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1921-04-30

England is the scene Of another
brutal betrayal Of the working class.
Led to a test of strength with the
capitalist class and the capitalist
government, living in misery far
greater than before the great war
that was to bring the world "pros-
perity," the workers at last were to
manifest class solidarity-at last, an
front against the enemy
was hoped for. But the leaders of
the transport workers and railway
men were the same traitors that
they proved to be last year. Thomas,
the hero of the railwaymen, and of
the Second International, one of the
chieftains of the Amsterdam Labor
Federation, led the railwaymen into
a betrayal of the miners. The miners
themselves, determined to fight out
this fight on the few material is
sues that were presented, were be-
trayed by Hodges, who dickered and
negotiated-till the backbone of the
strike was broken. Disorganized and
terrified, they faced the keenly or
ganized government Of Great Britain
the united front of the parliamentary
body-even the Laborites, Hender-
son and Clynes, who preferred dis
cussion, compromise and surrender
to the struggle that MUST come in
Great Britain. They faced the guns
tanks, cannon, airplanes and poison
gas amassed in the parks of London
They faced the army of volunteers
who were ready to shoulder the guns
and shoot down the fighting work
ers. They faced the treachery OF the
miners in other countries who were
ready to mine ccal to be shipped tc
England. But they learned a lesson
as the workers of the United
States and other countries may learn
that THE GOVERNMENT USES
IT'S ARMS NOT ONLY AGAINST
THE External ENEMY, BUT
ALSO AGAINST THE WORKERS
WHOM THEY CALL THE IN.
TERNAL ENEMY!
South America and Mexico present
the same aspect. The strike of har'
bor workers in Argentine, the rail-
way strike in Mexico, the same at
titude of the government, show thai
the same causes are driving the
workers in, those countries to us'
the same measures that are being
adopted in the more highly developed
capitalist countries. In each OF thu
States of South America and IL
Mexico there are being organized
Communist Parties, as a direct res
ponse to the urge to World Reyolu
tion as the only mode of labor
emancipation.
Asia is the scene of nationalistit
uprisings. The people of India, Asia
Minor and the Far East are in arms
against their imperialistic oppres
sors. Armenia has thrown off TIE
yoke of capitalism and has entered
into the dominion of Sovietism, skip
ping all the brutality and degrade
ton that the Kautsky's and Mac
Donald's demand as preliminary tt
the social revolution. Asia is the hot
bed of "sedition", from the NANTES
tation of "non-cooperation" in India
to the use of arms in Afghanistar
and Syria. The war against the i'm
perialists is being waged on al
fronts-by the workers and the op'
pressed peoples!
The United States is the seat Of
reaction! Purse-heavy as the result
of the war, filled with imperialistit
ambitions, virile and inflated with
prosperity, the capitalist class seeks
new fields of exploitation, is bent or
new expeditions. The change of adj
ministration was but the change OF
firm name. IMPERIALISM PRES
SEs ON UNCHECKED! If any
thing. the new administration has
nut more vigor into American cap
italist ambitions. With wealth con-
centrated and as the creditor Of the
world, the American capitalists are
ready to contend the sovereignty OF
the world. They are equipping them
selves with a navy "equal to any
They are providing themselves with
war equipment that is deadlier than
anything used in the last war. They
are building up their outposts, pre-
pairing for the last imperialist con-
flict! Gloating and greedy as the
capitalist class is, it is adamant to
the demands of the workers, crush
ing them and reducing them to a
status Of servility, It is employing
every means, no matter how foul
in order to attain firm hold on
the labor movement--in order to
break Il I'm. CorruptinR the leaders