The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1921-08-20
The Farn,er-Labor Don Quixote.
By E. X. HENRY.
By E. K. HENRY.

Of dollars worth of manufactured
products from this country, but has
the raw materials and gold to pay for
them. Trade with Russia would help
to solve the unemployment here, but
the U. S. government says "NO".
But to return to the leaflet. How
about those industries which are
closed altogether? How would you
"divide the jobs" there? Or, to show
the utter absurdity of the proposition
advanced by the F. L. P, let US sup
pose the workers were able to have
the jobs divided up for time and all
the unemployed taken care Of, as
suming, for the purposes of the
F, argument, that the kind % employers
gave each worker going days wage
for the fraction of day worked,
what is there to hinder the workers
again being thrown out Of the in
dustries when the employers are not
able to dispose of their products at
a profit. The employing masters OWN
the industries, don't they? And out
the workers would go. The only thing
you would be able to divide with your
fellow workers would be the space in
the park, or a place in the bread-line,
or elbow room in side-door Pullman.
ELECT men to office" and "repeal
all laws" etc. and so on! We are
afraid that by the time you managed
! to get that little job done, all you
would be able to find would be the
skeletons Of the poor devils who had
starved in the meantime. Something
has got to be done right here and
now! Organize the unemployed over
the land. Let them DEMAND, in no
uncertain terms, the right to work,
the assurance Of shelter, food, cloth
ing and other necessities for their
families and themselves. And if, for
the time being, work can not be as
sured them, let those who profited
out of the blood and turmoil Of the
recent world madness give up their
ill-gotten gold, that the workers, who
! produce it, may not starve, and if
they should demur, sorry day for
them. 80! What say you, buddies--
! they told you to go to hell when you
asked for a bonus. 80. did you go
through shot and she'll. :. the gas.
the machine gun nests. ;. the barbed
wire. the stencil. :. the horrible
| nightmare of it all. FOR THIS?
DID YOU?
And all those other nice things,
such as "abolishing injunctions, Lever
4 Acts, anti-picketing and criminal syn.
dicalist laws,8 etc. and 50 On. What
i would the capitalist class be doing in
the meantime? WHAT ARE THEY
Il DOING NOW? They are exercising
j the almost naked dictatorship Of their
j own class. What did the puppets Of
:, the master class do down at Albany
!. with certain Of the Socialist AS
semblymen elected to the New York
Legislature? With Berger when he
wanted to take his seat in Congress?
And with many other so-called re-
representatives. of the "people?" They
kicked them out. And they will do so
again, USING FORCE IF NECES-
SARY.
THE CAPITALIST CLASS CON-
trolls ABSOLUTELY ALL THE
INSTITUTIONS OF GOVERNMENT
! AND THE INSTRUMENTS OF
THEIR ADMINISTRATION! Why be
blind to what has been and is now
going on right before our very eyes?
To abolish unemployment would not
necessarily wipe out danger of race
:, riots. We had race riots at a time
when all or nearly all were unem-
ployed. We had race troubles during
the war when worker out Of job
was aNrarity. Only the organized
. MIGHT of both black and white work.
ers, striving together in common
cause with the workers Of other
: races, will be able to stop them.
workers OF THE WORLD,
, UNITE! YOUR CHAINS TO LOSE
AND A WORLD TO CAMP
= We thoroughly agree with the in
dictment in the tenth paragraph. But,
as shown before, the remedy proposed
by the F. L. p, in the paragraph fol-
lowing, as summarized, will not at
tain the solution Of unemployment.
Does the Farmer-Labor Party really
think the problems before the work.
ers are as simple as all this. What
naivete! One thing, and one thing
: only, will bring the workers out Of
their present plight, solid organiza-
tion Of all the workers, white, black,
. or other hue, into one mighty, gigantic
u MASS, DEMANDING A SHOW
el DoWN-if the capitalist system can
e. no longer offer decent living to the
y workers, and it no, longer can, Of that
/ there is no question, DOWN 1T MUST
- GO-to be supplanted by a govern