The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1921-05-21
HITTING THE
BULLS EYE.
FROM LEAvENwORTH.

That is in the goth century, not in
The days of the Roman Empire, or
when the slaves of Egypt made the
Pyramids, cementing the huge stones
with their own blood. The venal press
whines that certain number Of the
did not return and afford
the "kept husbands Of their wives"
-as Marx called the likes of our
masters few short years ago--the
joy of contemplating the modern
yalley slaves crushing stones behind
prison walls, so that the masters can
safely ride over the roads built by
other slaves of less courage and
intelligence than the wobblies, who
are tied to their hard tasks only by I
fear, and not by prison walls. Z.
And still, the same press that =
bemoans the escape of one prisoner
in their own plutocratic Empire. l.
RACES and foams at the mouth when :
the Russian workers sentence some
of the soft Drained and murderous
counter Revolutionary conspirators to
few months of compulsory hard
labor. But there is a great difference:
the wobblies are only simple work.
srs, while the Kept Mobiles. -. oh,
what's the use, the workers ought
10 have guessed without our aid.
More power to the workers in Amer
ica, so that some day the editors
of the leading prostituted papers OF
Plutocracia could assume the task
they regret that Bill Haywood chose
not to pursue for the next few years.
| On the jacket of one of the finest
i books written about Russia--Brails-
ford's "The Russian Workers Re-
public"-there is an advertisement
hat reads:-
"JOHN SPARGO
THE GREATEST FAILURE IN ALL
HISTORY"
We knew that much ourselves, but
no one would listen to US. Now comes
Spargo's own publisher branding him
l,for what he really Il, besides being
the chtApsss scsddai mon ever
! known to have crawled upon the
!, face of the earth.
A few days ago the "New York
Times" published story on the new
't exploits of the Department of JUS
}, tice thugs and the New York Bum
q SQUAD. Parallel with that story was
another, which said that, according
to government statistics, there were
about 100000 unemployed in the
y u. S. Reading the two stories, one
k. after the other, the thinluing worker
{. cannot fail to notice that the causes
: of unrest and raison d'etre for the
militant organization and the ulti-
= mate action Of the Communists, are
sc indeed, very deeply rooted in the de-
le caying Capitalist regime. So we can
at safely say that as long as there are
h. millions of unemployed workers. we
can find enough intelligent and
brave workers to fill the place Of
Is those arrested by the tools of the
ly uncrowned Emperors of America.
y, The same "New York Times" and
he its fellow prostitutes wonder that
,ir the Communists are counting upon
ut few millions Of negro slaves to aid
lw the cause of the revolution when
We the day comes to settle our accounts
he with Gary's civilization. True enough,
o. we do count upon the Negro work
lid ers' for only workers government
mt can and will free them from peonage
th and murder, from lynching and bru-
H., talization, which is their lot today
tc. and has been ever since the Black
lat people were brought from Africa tc
to cultivate the cotton Of the planta-
mt tion owners.
ey The colored workers must see that
I'VE the black and white workers are the
a victims Of the same system and come
i've with us under the folds Of the rex
lif- flag to make this country free from
ro- lynchers, murder farmers" and nj
ow others who oppress and exploit us
rn- Naturalization Of women"-tha
gal was the battle cry against the Rus
Idi- sian Communists but few month
xE ago. OF course It was invented Il
the "news factories" at Copenhage
or and Stockholm.
emf How about this: In New Yorl
in two "pillars Of society,", Mr.. Jane
rhe Stillman and Mr.. w. E. d. Stokes
De- are furnishing ample proof ths
Ian right here in America, Christian nj
ing ton, leading bankers and financiey
rn- are having the times Of their 1--WE
with as many wives and concubins
the as they choose. But they objecte
and to their wives doing the same thinl
en- 50 we are now having revelatic
heir Of the inside doings Of captains {
the industry and great financial MAJ
aku nates' IN the U. s.
pos. And these are the sort Of peop
who pay the "Now York Times"
ter lie about the Russian and Americu