The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1921-05-28
THE FAKE OF LAW ANDO
DER UNDER CAPITALISM.
By J. FRANKLIN.

working -class is the greatest asset
to the ruling capitalists. The capital
lists must cherish and perserve this
stupidity of the workers by all
means.
In proportion as the ruling cap
italist class will have to use force
and violence, in that proportion the
revolt of the workers will grow in
scope.
For this reason alone, the capital
lists ruling this country are extremely
careful in the open use of their
armed, uniformed mercenaries, be it
against strikers as mass, be it
against the intelligent, devoted fight
ers for the cause of the workers,
that comprise the vanguard of the
struggle.
In the uniformed man, every work.
er recognizes the mercenary, the
servant and protector Of our ex-
ploiters, the open enemy of useful
labor. Therefore the capitalist rulers
resort more and more to the use of
the secret-scrvice thug. The Plain
clothes Brute is especially more ad-
vantageous for the service of assault
and violence Of Individual intelligent
workers.
In spite of enormous numbers emi
ployed in this service, the plain
clothes men are great invisible
force, great invisible enemy of the
working-class.
They dress like workers, act
like workers in the shops, mines
| factories, public places, and play q
role in the Unions as the masters
in the Chambers of Commerce die
tate.
But there are moments when they
cannot deceive the workers as a
whole, any longer. That is in the
Courts. The Courts must deliver the
goods.
| Instinctively, the capitalists know
that the NEW GREAT ORDER
leaves no space for animalism, nc
space for people who live on the
| live-blood of their fellow-men, nc
space for all those who live on the
| toll of tubercular children working
in the cotton-mills and canneries, The
| New Great Order has no space foi
that? Damn the New Great Order!...
say the capitalists.
| The courts of this capitalist gov.
ernment are created to formally ap.
prove and justify the action of these
brutish mercenaries, to justify force
and violence against all discontented
intelligent wage slaves. Formal ap.
proval and justification of wage
slavery imposed by violence, is their
main function. Only formally they
impose degrees Of punishments, such
as Financial Combines and Cham
bers of Commerce wish and determine
| The capitalists do not tolerate any
sidestepping of this simple function
of the courts. When intelligent labor
becomes uncomfortable to them and
they decide to put them out of sight
the court simply has to carry out
the order,. -. that's all.
If there is a Magistrate, who will
not take orders, his magistering will
soon be at end, and some Lands OF
other Mountain of capitalism will be
found that is willing to perform the
service for a good reward. If all ef-
forts fail, brute force may even go
1.-THE length of shooting the
Class-War prisoner. ."while trying
to escape"
An example of plain clothes mems
brutality is furnished by the case of
three workers in New York City
who through their intellectual
strength and devotion to the cause
of the working class attracted at
tention of the Capitalist Brigands.
So they sent their uniformed and
plain clothes men after them,
| A May Day Appeal to the workers
of America was found on them.
ANARCHY! High treason against
capitalism!. -.
| Magistrate Rosenblatt dismissed
the case as lacking all evidence and
ridiculous. What? Magistrate no,